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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: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:45AM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:45AM (#878589) Homepage

    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.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday August 11 2019, @06:18AM

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Sunday August 11 2019, @06:18AM (#878725)

    "I'm going to put my dick in the mashed potatoes"

    And this is why you spend the holidays alone.......

    --
    Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.