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Kuro5hin is Dying

posted by janrinok on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the RIP dept.

ghost writes:

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 CRCulver on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:59PM

    by CRCulver (4390) on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:59PM (#213941) Homepage

    The best we can hope for is enough weight from others that he can't tip this boat over.

    He sort of already has. Have you noticed that he posts to very nearly every story on SN? I’ve added him to my Foes list and configured SN to mod him down automatically to -1, but that still keeps his presence here quasi-visible. I'd love it if SN had a real killfile feature. There are some people I've added to my foes list because I don't want to see most of their posts, but I don't care if I occasionally come across one. Crawford, however, is a whole other degree of bad.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:02PM (#213975)

    I did this. [soylentnews.org]

    It isn't too hard to tweak that to completely zero out his entire posts. But sometimes, sometimes people say something worthwhile (upmodded) in response to his bullshit and I want to read the context.

  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Monday July 27 2015, @09:17AM

    by anubi (2828) on Monday July 27 2015, @09:17AM (#214191) Journal

    I'd love it if SN had a real killfile feature. There are some people I've added to my foes list because I don't want to see most of their posts

    Actually, that sounds like a good idea... you never see your foes anymore.

    I have yet to foe anybody here, but one never knows when some royal asshat signs up and annoys the crap out of people.

    So far, I have been very impressed with the clientele that hang out around here.

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    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]