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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.

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 Pslytely Psycho on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:27AM (2 children)

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:27AM (#878581)

    Doesn't work, just tried it. That particular comment does appear to be a legit AC, further up the page there's an AC that seems to be a registered account called Anonymous Coward.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 11 2019, @05:45AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday August 11 2019, @05:45AM (#878718) Journal

    But did it already not work at the time that post was created? Maybe originally it was only logged-out posting that was blocked, then spammers/trolls started to use the post anon checkbox, then that got blocked, too.

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    • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday August 11 2019, @06:07AM

      by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Sunday August 11 2019, @06:07AM (#878721)

      Unfortunately I can't say. I never actually tried it until shortly after the story first broke, and then again when I saw this comment. Both times were signed in and the first attempt was about fifteen minutes after the story first posted so it appears that it was universal at least from that time on.

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