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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2023, @07:36AM (20 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2023, @07:36AM (#1288670)

    Maybe it's my bad eyesight or font kerning...

    What's a 'fuster duck'?

  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2023, @10:07AM (19 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2023, @10:07AM (#1288883)

    Obviously, it is something to be spam modded. Immediately. On site. For no discernable reason.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2023, @07:15AM (18 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2023, @07:15AM (#1292340)

      Clearly, the admin have weaponized Spam mods. Originally, they were meant for actual spam, and you should look at the raw journal feed for some idea of what any website is up against. By now, it think I need a Rock Crusher. But that is neither here, nor there. We had the debate over whether the Spam Mod could be used on spammish racist and right wing stupid posts, and the decision was, yes it could. TMB left immediately after that, for some reason, despite him being a siwash pill-boddie. And then we were left with the pure Alt-white-right, like Ncommander and janrinock, oh, and chromas. (Somehow, our SN Nazis always seem to hang behind the scenes, in IRC and nearly no where else.) So now anyone can Spam Mod anyone they disagree with, as long as that person might be aristarchus, or slightly left and anti-racist, like aristarchus, or flat-out anti-fascist, like the 101st Airborne, or aristarchus. Spam pile on the aristarchus.

      Well, that is working out so well that hardly anyone posts here anymore, because of the censorship. Dead internet zone, they are calling it. Former discussion website, they denominate it. Janrinok is talking to ACs that he thinks he has identified, when to the rest of us, it looks like he is talking to a figment of his own imagination. And then he Spam Mods it. This is not healthy.

      So, my suggestion, entire new admin and editorial crew. Remove the Spam mod. Institute a meta-moderation scheme, not under control of any self-appointed tyrants. Oh, and, quit trying to identify aristarchus. We are people of internet conversation, and lies do not become us.

      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 18 2023, @04:20PM (17 children)

        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 18 2023, @04:20PM (#1292387) Journal

        So, my suggestion, entire new admin and editorial crew

        Yes! A completely new site. Of you go then and create it. Perhaps we will come and marvel at your l33t skills when you finally get it going. Did you volunteer to help out, or even to do the routine admin when NCommander asked for volunteers in December?

        So now anyone can Spam Mod anyone they disagree with

        I have undone 7 spam moderations in about the last week or so. We actually have a special page that displays all of the spam and troll mods so that we can undo them if necessary and check if anyone is abusing the moderation system. They are not.

        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2023, @11:08AM (10 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2023, @11:08AM (#1292545)

          You have also deleted almost 20 comments today. What are you afraid of?

          • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 19 2023, @11:15AM (3 children)

            by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 19 2023, @11:15AM (#1292547) Journal

            I am not afraid of anything that you might do. Why do you ask?

            Can you show me the posts by apk? We announced many months ago that we would delete Spam if we wished to do so. But you haven't shown that I have deleted anything.

            You are banned. And if you have posted almost 20 identical posts - that would certainly be Spam. It would be repetitious, off-topic, and designed to disrupt the purpose of the discussions. It would be Spam.

            Our site - our rules.

            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2023, @11:25AM (2 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2023, @11:25AM (#1292548)

              How can I show you comments that have been deleted? They don't exist anymore.

              Will you also be deleting journals [soylentnews.org]?

              • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 19 2023, @11:29AM (1 child)

                by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 19 2023, @11:29AM (#1292549) Journal

                How can I show you comments that have been deleted? They don't exist anymore.

                Exactly the point that I was trying to make. Deleting Spam is nothing new - it has been done for several years, and certainly since before TMB left us.

                • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2023, @09:51PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2023, @09:51PM (#1292778)

                  Plausible janrinok deniability: it is what he learned in British Military Intelligence. God knows he is lacking any other kind.

          • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 19 2023, @11:47AM (5 children)

            by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 19 2023, @11:47AM (#1292550) Journal

            And, of course, you would know this because you are posting them. After all, you cannot have counted them, because you are telling me that they aren't there....

            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2023, @12:47PM (4 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2023, @12:47PM (#1292554)

              You aren't deleting spam. You're deleting comments that make you and Runaway look bad. Don't lie.

              • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 19 2023, @01:59PM (3 children)

                by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 19 2023, @01:59PM (#1292561) Journal

                And what truth was there in the comments you have been posting recently? You have never been a member of our staff. There was no such email. You posted your unsubstantiated claims last week.

                I am not telling lies - but I know that you are.

                I cannot see what you hope to achieve by your actions. If you wanted to rejoin our community you could have used one of your mulitple accounts that we left open for a while to see how you used them. But that didn't appear to be your reason for staying as you only used them to continue your abuse - much like you have been doing recently. You are doing nothing to make us reconsider your ban.

                I am not going to be driven away by your silly claims. We are not going to disappear.

                But you seem to be unsatisfied with your actions that caused the removal of ACs from the front pages and now it appears you want ACs banned from the journals too. You seem determined to force us to consider that as a possible option. You do not care who is inconvenienced by your own behaviour - no matter what moral high-ground you once claimed that you held (but, in fact, that you never did hold). Go on - try to explain what you hope to achieve so that others can stand behind you in support. But at least try to be truthful about it.

                • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2023, @07:42PM (2 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2023, @07:42PM (#1292591)

                  “Only please, Brer Fox janrinok, please don't throw us into the briar patch.”

                  The Admin, much like in higher education, seems to think things would run much more smoothly if we could just dispense with the troublesome students and faculty, and only keep the administration and groundskeepers.

                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2023, @12:25AM (1 child)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2023, @12:25AM (#1292633)

                    No university is going to tolerate you interrupting calculus class to protest that the professor isn't willing to discuss the alt-right during class time. They also won't tolerate you creating 70 FYN accounts on the university computer system. Your behavior here would have led to you being expelled from any respectable university long ago.