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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 10 2019, @10:17PM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday August 10 2019, @10:17PM (#878498) Homepage Journal

    I skim the headlines on the crapper. Seems fitting.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:42AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:42AM (#878780)

    It's worth reading the slashdot RSS to pick up on some good things they have in their news feed. Pipedot is my RSS of choice. What do you use?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @03:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @03:41PM (#878875)

      For me I personally skim hackernews. The feed is a bit more furious and usually not political.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 12 2019, @02:48PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday August 12 2019, @02:48PM (#879212) Homepage Journal

      The browser on my phone. Not as lightweight in code or network transfer but significantly lighter weight in ounces.

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    • (Score: 2) by iWantToKeepAnon on Monday August 12 2019, @07:51PM

      by iWantToKeepAnon (686) on Monday August 12 2019, @07:51PM (#879348) Homepage Journal
      zenbi? Is that you?!
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