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, @12:51AM (3 children)
I thought I did but it was probably rejected.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:51AM (2 children)
Get used to it. A lot of stories are auto-rejected due to timeout.
Unless you're anti-christ in which case DIE! DIE! DIE IN A HOLE! DIE!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:55AM
or obviously alt-right
DIE ALT-RIGHT DIE!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 12 2019, @03:07PM
Especially on busy news cycles, yep. Subs only stay in the queue for two weeks I think. If no editor thinks "hey, that could lead to better discussion than all these others" during that time, it goes poof even if it would have been a decent story at another time. You can always resub if you think that was the case.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.