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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:07AM (3 children)
I have a few comments to your post:
1) You are correct that the quality of the articles on Slashdot has fallen. I used to love the quality of the articles but as you say, it seems to lean way more on the political now. I am sick of the constant stream of them.
2) The signal to noise from spammers has fluctuated in the past. The past few weeks have been really bad but it's been this bad before. APK's pissing contest with Barbara Hudson seems to be the worst of it, but the Nazi stuff is annoying too.
3) I suspected something was up a week or so ago when I suddenly started receiving 15 mod points each and every day. I spent most of them modding down the APK and Nazi crap along with a few other spammers. I'd run out pretty quick but it seemed that the worst of it got modded eventually.
4) Although I have a long term user account, I most often just posted as AC since I would check in from different machines throughout the day. I doubt very much I will bother looking at the comments anymore if this continues. I'm sure it will devolve into an echo chamber.
5) Slashdot seems to be on a path of self destruction. Beta nearly killed them before. Failing to remove posts by obvious trolls like AspiePK and now disabling AC seems like nails in the coffin to me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:42AM
I was just about to say FUCK BETA but you mentioned it before me...high 5 bro :)
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:45AM (1 child)
I'm going to put my dick in the mashed potatoes and suggest some unpopular views. The last time I visited Slashdot was 6 months-ish ago, and only reading 1 or 2 discussions, but from that small sample size and particular situation I determined that:
- Slashdot kicked SN's ass at posting more relevant articles, and they posted them in a timely manner. That's a big deal in today's short-attention-span world where bright autists have really good things to say but only if the article is less than a few days old and the autists are still in a motivated headspace to participate.
- The comments of Slashdot AC's were greater than or equal to the non-anonymous posters.
Yeah, yeah, I know -- "Don't be a lazy fuck and submit your stories." But that's hard to do with all this nice weed in California. Maybe it's better that I don't anyway, we might see some refugees from Slashdot or 8ch. Hopefully they will each balance each other out.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday August 11 2019, @06:18AM
"I'm going to put my dick in the mashed potatoes"
And this is why you spend the holidays alone.......
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