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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 pbnjoe on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:08AM (2 children)
He was actually already here near the beginning: https://soylentnews.org/~APK [soylentnews.org]
I seem to remember him quitting in a hissy fit AC post not long after his last comment on the account. Something to do with people yelling at him and/or being banned on IRC. Might be blending that with someone else, it's been five years(!).
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:48AM (1 child)
It's really funny how on Slashdot we saw 2 glimpses into the future - APK (Android) and Twitter (Twitter) before both of those actually became part of the tech world. When you're discussing Slashdot trolls, APK gets all the love here but Twitter was also one of the worst sockpuppet trolls.
I guess the tech industry does have a sense of humor. Pity to see what it eventually became.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @03:51AM
Someone should let EF know his account got hacked by some self-reflective white hatter!