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Meta: Loser Noobs and Their Contributions to the Site

posted by on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the silver-linings dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Congrats to the wannabe APK noobtard for advancing the site's codebase despite me having extremely limited time to play. I added three lines of code and now Spam modded comments (and comment trees) auto-collapse and you can still moderate a comment as Spam even if it's already at the minimum score. Honestly, the folks using any other downmod on obvious Spam annoy me more than the noobtard does but that annoyance at least is now history. Changes are to hot code only, I'll put them in the repo as part of my next pull request.

Suck it, noob. --TMB

 
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:17PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:17PM (#1046038)

    Logic not your thing? It looks to me like Soylent News is giving the logged-in users the power to downmod what they feel is wasting everyone else's time. If you want to call downmods "censorship", that's your prerogative, but it's not "Soylent News" proper doing the downmodding, and it's certainly not censorship.

    Starting Score:    0  points
    Moderation   +1  
       Insightful=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Total Score:   1  

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:24PM (3 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:24PM (#1046048) Journal

    If you want to call downmods "censorship"

    I don't. I was making fun of the people here who regularly do.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by barbara hudson on Thursday September 03 2020, @09:30PM

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday September 03 2020, @09:30PM (#1046074) Journal
      And just because a comment is sitting at -1 doesn't mean it's been removed. Mods are an expression of opinion. Freedom of expression means being able to downmod to MINUS_INFINITY
      --
      SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.

    • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday September 03 2020, @11:36PM

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday September 03 2020, @11:36PM (#1046115)

      That particular A/C is a flat-earther. Don't expect him to understand your excellent joke.

      Whoosh! is a phrase invented for him.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2020, @01:03AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2020, @01:03AM (#1046140)

      I don't. I was making fun of the people here who regularly do.

      Well alright alright alright!