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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:25PM (13 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:25PM (#1046049)

    Not clear on what defines "spam". I always thought it was someone trying to sell something...

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:31PM (12 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:31PM (#1046055) Homepage Journal

    Here ya go [soylentnews.org]. That should clarify some. The definition comes from a Monty Python skit though and I've never understood it to be necessarily commercial.

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    • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday September 03 2020, @09:34PM (8 children)

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday September 03 2020, @09:34PM (#1046076) Journal
      Political spam is an example of non-commercial spam. Get ready for a boatload in the next couple of months.
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      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2020, @09:45PM (4 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday September 03 2020, @09:45PM (#1046080) Homepage Journal

        Eh, I really can't tell the difference between politics and goatse most days.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2020, @01:08AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2020, @01:08AM (#1046142)

          One is horrific and the other, uh, nevermind.

        • (Score: 3, Touché) by barbara hudson on Friday September 04 2020, @03:04AM (1 child)

          by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday September 04 2020, @03:04AM (#1046182) Journal

          With goatse, there's only one giver and one receiver. :-)

          And participation is by mutual agreement (I hope).

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @07:54AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @07:54AM (#1046705)

            ...what?

            I'm not sure you've ever truly played goatse, in-person live nor 'hot potato' online...

        • (Score: 3, Touché) by DavePolaschek on Friday September 04 2020, @12:59PM

          by DavePolaschek (6129) on Friday September 04 2020, @12:59PM (#1046293) Homepage Journal

          It’s all a matter of what’s inside the ring.

      • (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @11:43PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @11:43PM (#1046121)

        How is politics non-commercial when there's so much money involved?

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by PiMuNu on Friday September 04 2020, @09:21AM (2 children)

      by PiMuNu (3823) on Friday September 04 2020, @09:21AM (#1046255)

      > the folks using any other downmod on obvious Spam

      As a noobtard... the spam was trollish and flamey so I clicked the first mod that got rid of it from my screen. I didn't realise there was a technical difference. Sorry bout that.

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Osamabobama on Friday September 04 2020, @08:00PM (1 child)

        by Osamabobama (5842) on Friday September 04 2020, @08:00PM (#1046494)

        Also, according to the linked definition of spam, if you incorrectly apply it, you will suffer mild personal consequences. In contrast, troll mods can be given out without consequences.

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        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 05 2020, @03:34PM

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday September 05 2020, @03:34PM (#1046787) Homepage Journal

          If there is a reasonable argument to be made for something being modded Spam, no mod ban is ever issued. We only issue them when it's very clearly, intentionally used inappropriately. Except to me. I take my lumps even if I think I had a very strong case for something deserving the mod.

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