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You might be surprised to find out that kuro5hin -- k5 -- is still around. Well, not for much longer. Absentee landlord Rusty Foster (temporarily?) blocked new user sign ups and in the process somehow managed to block existing users from logging in.
Dedicated users can edit the HTML to add back the login box (or use a query string). Though once popular, K5 never recovered from the last time Rusty blocked new users (eventually relenting and adding a $5 sign up fee). RIP. Truly a Web 1.0 icon.
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(Score: 2) by Francis on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:49PM
The fact that we actually have a "-1 I disagree" mod option is a much needed improvement over the /. system. I don't think anybody really thinks that all those -1 posts over there are just because somebody is wrong and spouting useless BS. I've watched at times as people waste 10 or more points using the mod system to argue with each other.
Getting a -1 because the person with points disagrees isn't great, but at least there is some honesty about why the mod was made rather than a contrivance.
What killed /. more than anything was when politics moved in on basically every topic and people stopped even reading the summaries or other posts.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:50PM
It's even better than that: the Disagree mod is -0 unless I've missed a change :) and Funny is +1 as it ought to be IMHO.
I think a lot of people here realize that everybody else are perfectly able to write both things one agrees a lot with or finds interesting or insightful or funny as well as not, and that calms things down for the most part. If anything I think SoylentNews is improving and moderation to +3 and +4 is becoming more common.
Quite a lot has happened during the last years giving everybody a lot to think about. I have no idea what's going on over at /. any longer but if (only if) it's the “same old same old” re:politics in the comments then that's just completely weird in my opinion.
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(Score: 2) by Francis on Monday July 27 2015, @09:56PM
Unlike /. you can change the values for the various mods. So a disagree defaults to 0, but sometimes it's -1 if somebody has changed the value. Unless I'm misunderstanding, I just started getting mod points recently.