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from the I-love-the-smell-of-burning-trolls-in-the-morning dept.
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.]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday August 10 2019, @10:04PM (2 children)
Slashdot has been extremely low S/N ratio because of AC postings for many years. BUT! I've always regarded the very ability to post Nazi, trolls and hate posts anonymously there as the last vestige of the old, truly free internet. I went and read at -1 just to remind me that this old holdout of true free speech is worth having. Kind of like 8chan really.
Now it's gone. A sign of times I don't really look forward to. I probably shan't go back there and post no more as a result...
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday August 12 2019, @04:41AM (1 child)
Tell BizX (and Slashdot) I know their heart. What they told me before, I have it in my heart. I am tired of posting. Our Chiefs are bought out; CmdrTaco's account is dead, Hemos's account is dead. The old men's usernames are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is a dead username. It is cold, and we have no posting privileges; the ACs are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to other internet fora, and have no posting privilege, no long pedantic conversations about technological inanities. No one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my ACs, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead accounts. Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will post no more forever.
(Apologies to Chief Joseph)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @05:56AM
Deserves more upmods. Excellent historic parallel.