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Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts

posted by janrinok on Saturday August 10 2019, @05:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-love-the-smell-of-burning-trolls-in-the-morning dept.

barbara hudson writes:

Things finally came to a head on slashdot last night, and now anonymous posts are banned. No more anonymous nazi ASCII art, no anonymous racism, and no APK. More in this journal entry [Ed's Comment: And lots of interesting comments too ...].

It's one way to combat anonymous hate speech and forum spam.

[Editor (JR) We've looked at the site but we cannot find an announcement that anonymous posts are actually banned; it might simply be a case that the software is not working correctly, although it would seem to be an unlikely cause. Does anyone in our community have any additional information to categorically prove or disprove that anonymous comments are disabled?

Furthermore, as there are many more comments in the journal entry than there are here, I would recommend making any new comments on BarbaraHudson's journal entry rather than splitting the discussion into two.]

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @06:31PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @06:31PM (#878383)

    I still go there and post. But AC only. I picked up a stalker a few years ago.

    The AC comments usually create the best stuff there. But if they want to jump up and down on their own dicks more power to them. The determined 'trolls' will just create an account and post from there. Not like it is terribly hard...

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday August 10 2019, @06:40PM (7 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Saturday August 10 2019, @06:40PM (#878389) Journal

    But what if AC signs up with his or her real name?

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @06:56PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @06:56PM (#878400)

      AC is my real name, fool.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @09:53PM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @09:53PM (#878483)

        I thought that was only for cold air...

        • (Score: 2) by Farmer Tim on Sunday August 11 2019, @07:04AM (1 child)

          by Farmer Tim (6490) on Sunday August 11 2019, @07:04AM (#878739)
          Which raises the question: how can getting rid of ACs have a chilling effect?
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          Came for the news, stayed for the soap opera.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:47AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:47AM (#878782)

          Hot air, you mean. Like politicians. Full of it.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 12 2019, @07:17PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 12 2019, @07:17PM (#879334)

            That was the joke, thanks for explaining it.

    • (Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Saturday August 10 2019, @09:11PM

      by SpockLogic (2762) on Saturday August 10 2019, @09:11PM (#878472)

      But what if AC signs up with his or her real name?

       

      Then we will have Moscow Mitch posting here, woo hoo !!!

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      Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII

  • (Score: 2) by Aighearach on Sunday August 11 2019, @03:12AM (2 children)

    by Aighearach (2621) on Sunday August 11 2019, @03:12AM (#878664)

    The way to defeat stalkers is to turn off message notifications.

    Also, at that point, just don't even read replies. Then it is about the same as posting AC.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Sunday August 11 2019, @10:02AM (1 child)

      by TheRaven (270) on Sunday August 11 2019, @10:02AM (#878807) Journal
      Slashdot turned off the Message Center a few months back. I didn't see any notification about it and if you go to the URL you just get an error, not any kind of informative message about why it isn't working. The quality of discussion went way down after that, because no one ever saw replies to their posts. Filtering out the trolls (particularly when APK decides to stalk you and shout about how he 'won' a thread) can be annoying, but not seeing the intelligent and interesting replies to your posts and responding absolutely kills discussion.
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      sudo mod me up

      • (Score: 2) by Aighearach on Friday August 23 2019, @06:58AM

        by Aighearach (2621) on Friday August 23 2019, @06:58AM (#883956)

        They only removed the link, you can and could always still go to https://slashdot.org/messages.pl?op=list [slashdot.org]
        You just have to find it.

        For me it improved the conversation; I already didn't get message notifications offline, but now I don't even get the sidebar so I don't see replies until I choose to.

        Maybe there was some other entry point that had an error?