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Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts

posted by janrinok on Saturday August 10 2019, @05:09PM   
from the I-love-the-smell-of-burning-trolls-in-the-morning dept.

barbara hudson writes:

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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Original Submission

• I go there to see what soylentnews will post 2days I go there to see what soylentnews will post 2days (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @02:39AM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @02:39AM (#878650)

  I go to slashdot to see what soylentnews will post in a few days (slashdot posts stories only a day or two after ars tecknica so it's close enough) - soylentnews wants $$$ for what they do so maybe I'll add $5 to this effort someday

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• Re:I go there to see what soylentnews will post 2d Re:I go there to see what soylentnews will post 2d (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday August 11 2019, @06:09AM (2 children)

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday August 11 2019, @06:09AM (#878722) Journal

  We beat them to the "Epstein and tech" story by several days. Too bad they ran their Epstein story on the day he snuffed it, that was good timing.

  You can find plenty of examples of stories that appeared here before Slashdot. But they will usually get to them faster because they post stories with as little as 30 minute spacing, whereas we target 100 minutes on weekdays, or 140 minutes on weekends (roughly).

  Mystery solved, you can stop bringing it up every time like it's a gotcha.

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  [SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]

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  • Re:I go there to see what soylentnews will post 2d Re:I go there to see what soylentnews will post 2d (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:44AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:44AM (#878781)

    I don't come here, or anywhere else really, for recent news. I come here for interesting news.

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    • Re:I go there to see what soylentnews will post 2d (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 12 2019, @02:51PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday August 12 2019, @02:51PM (#879213) Homepage Journal

      I come here to discuss news. I can consume it anywhere but the people are the value of this site.

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      My rights don't end where your fear begins.

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