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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: 2) by qzm on Saturday August 10 2019, @10:27PM (2 children)
Thats now quite how I remember it, and I have been here a bit longer than that.
The big difference these days are the obviously political attempts to derail discussions by high posting obviously pure inflammatory and straw man BS.
Now, the question of 'should those topics have ever been on /.' is different, however it will be interesting to see if there is any change.
Perhaps you would like to say why you think doind a recapcha once is such a bad thing? I know its suddenly become part of the 'OMG this is so evil' worldview for a few right now, but really? try and come up with a valid reason why.
And while I certainly agree on the last bit, the current type of trolls seem to like to spread their BS over all articles.. so...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @11:33PM
Because I don't want to be spied on by Google, ever. I don't use any of their disservices and actively block them, so sites that use these disservices are defective by design. If they want a captcha, they should roll their own or find something they can use locally, without relying on third party surveillance monstrosities like Google.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @09:44AM
Outside of Google tracking via reCaptcha, it's purposefully designed to deliver a worse experience (as in, more captchas) to non-Chromium browsers and people not logged into Google accounts. It often also flat out doesn't work in niche or properly secured browsers at all. It also gives Google free labor since they use it to train their "AI."