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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2023, @09:05AM (47 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 30 2023, @09:05AM (#1289259)

    Somehow, pure AC's posting prevents others from posting, so we stopped the pure AC posting, but then almost all the posting stopped, too, which was strange. Perhaps things are not in reality the way they appear to some editors.

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday January 30 2023, @09:26AM (46 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 30 2023, @09:26AM (#1289260) Journal

    Perhaps things are not in reality the way they appear to some editors.

    It seems to me that the people who are confused are the ACs.

    We haven't stopped anyone from posting. You are posting comments now. So my obvious reply is:

    So, once again, wtf is seriously wrong with your brain?

    You can discuss any topic that you wish. You are free to write comments. The only things that you cannot do are as a result of your own choices.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2023, @01:08AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2023, @01:08AM (#1289407)

      Perhaps things are not in reality the way they appear to some editors.

      It seems to me that the people who are confused are the ACs.

      Hypothesis confirmed?

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2023, @10:42PM (44 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2023, @10:42PM (#1289554)

      Janrinok said: "If only a small number of 'pure AC' s wouldn't abuse that privilege by not allowing others the same rights that they demand for themselves."

      So ACs are magically able to stop other people from commenting? Your brain is turning into swiss cheese ya wanker!

      • (Score: 4, Interesting) by janrinok on Wednesday February 01 2023, @06:37AM (43 children)

        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 01 2023, @06:37AM (#1289593) Journal

        There was nothing 'magic' about it. A small number of ACs harass certain users by personal attacks and spamming in an effort to dissuade them from commenting. It continues today and is widespread in the journals. It is the reason why ACs are no longer able to comment on the front page unless they are logged in.

        And using childish insults is not going to help your case either.

        • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2023, @06:57PM (20 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2023, @06:57PM (#1289903)

          How the standards have changed. From free speech to censorship, who knew childish namesare worse than racism and promotion of political terrorism? You throw around false accusations and insults, but as usual the conservative brain says RULES FOR THEE NOT FOR ME!

          I enjoy these small reminders of how badly you fail the sites original purpose. Maybe that was all a lie and the site was only ever about alt-right shit posting while grifting for beer money and supporter paid hosting?

          I will agree that discussions look a little better now that comments have a little more accountability. Sadly you still have priorities all screwy like being mad at people pointing out reality and your mistakes instead of those pushing fascism. Churchill would hang his head in shame.

          • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday February 03 2023, @07:00AM (19 children)

            by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 03 2023, @07:00AM (#1289985) Journal

            From free speech to censorship

            Who has been censored? It cannot be you because you are posting now. You are still free to express yourself. So please, give me an example. People disagreeing with you and moderating you as they see fit is not censorship.

            reminders of how badly you fail the sites original purpose

            The sites original purpose (Feb 2014) was to discuss topics related primarily to STEM, but not exclusively so. That is exactly what we are doing today.

            • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2023, @06:02PM (18 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2023, @06:02PM (#1290063)

              Clearly you have switched to alt-reality where users and ACs were never banned not due to site rules but arbitrary rules staff decided upon. Paired with your false accusations your invisible Code of Conduct is what is typically labeled fascism. You along with other users get to insult others freely, but when you or other puds are insulted suddenly you mount your high horse. Same issues with the types of deplorable speech you tolerate, and that which earns someone a ban. Humanity has codified laws for a reason, to stop petty tyrants from having an easy time abusing their power. You are like a child that hovers their finger in front of someone's face saying "I'm not touching you!" except you did and want to sweep it under the rug. Let us be clear, doxxing has no validity and users should get banned for it, but so should the nazi-lites around here. Or did you brits not learn anything from ww2?

              Just codify your CoC already, you've already caved and admitted the site requires user management and strict rules against some of the worst behavior. Or go back to full freedom of speech and let community moderation, you know that excuse you use to avoid responsibility, do its thing even as broken and easily gamed as it is.

              Just stop the lies and hypocrisy! Will check back in a while, give the alt-righters some time to calm down and come to grips with the fact the GOP is the party of traitors selling out the country to foreign interests while demolishing further the middle class. Har har like the middle class even exists anymore.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2023, @07:07PM (7 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2023, @07:07PM (#1290075)

                Let us be clear, doxxing has no validity and users should get banned for it, but so should the nazi-lites around here.

                Speaking of possible bans on "nazi-lites", when was the last time Ethanol-fueled [soylentnews.org] posted? He posted a few spam comments about Jews and hasn't been heard from since. I don't know if he's actually banned, but his antisemitism has been conspicuously absent from the site.

                I do know for a fact that the site admins would like to start deleting racist and antisemitic comments. But the admins hesitate to do more because people like you will accuse them of censorship. However, you can see for yourself that janrinok publicly told Runaway to keep his warped politics in his journal [soylentnews.org], not on the front page.

                • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2023, @10:46PM (5 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2023, @10:46PM (#1290127)

                  Oh good, staff doing their jobs! Too bad they abrogated that responsibility until now.

                  My only complaint now is the hypocrisy and tolerance of racism, though as you say ef has been gone a while and the few frequent racists around have been toning it down supposedly. Runaway should be banned for racism and terrorist threats, otherwise the supposed doxxing ban should be lifted off aristarchus because runaway's is the more serious threat to free society by promoting political terrorism.

                  As I say repeatedly, ban both users. They'll come back with new names but at least they will suffer some vanity punishment. This little drama is a microcosm of US and UK politics. Rightwing baddies get a pass or slap on the wrist, leftwing baddies get beaten and murdered. The actions demonstrate the values, and janrinoks repetetive explanations do not change anything, they just make it seem like no big deal. Which fair enough it is not a big deal, tiny website with small readership, who really cares? Sad to see such apathy and acceptance of political and social terrorizing #NotHyperbole

                  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 04 2023, @07:34AM (4 children)

                    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 04 2023, @07:34AM (#1290198) Journal

                    Runaway should be banned for racism and terrorist threats, otherwise the supposed doxxing ban should be lifted off aristarchus because runaway's is the more serious threat to free society by promoting political terrorism.

                    What was the police response when you reported this to them? I cannot - I am neither an American citizen nor a resident there. Nor am I obliged to do so because I am not bound by US law. I have raised it with my local police, because we have different laws here and I socialise with them fairly often, and they asked 'is it illegal?". Well, is it?

                    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2023, @04:59PM (3 children)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2023, @04:59PM (#1290262)

                      Thanks again for confirming how fascist friendly you are. Please report aristarchus' doxxing. Oh wait, you don't live in the US!

                      Seehow easy it is to unmask your hypocrisy? SN is pro-fascist conservative propaganda promoters pretending to be high idealism freedom fighters. What a joke you are.

                      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 04 2023, @06:11PM (2 children)

                        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 04 2023, @06:11PM (#1290281) Journal

                        Too bad they abrogated that responsibility until now.

                        I only stepped into the role in the middle of last year; before that it was Bytram and earlier still it was TMB. I don't think any of us have abrogated our responsibilities.

                        The problem is that if we take temporary banning action we get accused of censorship or preventing freedom of speech, and if we take the opposite then we are accused of abrogating our responsibilities. And we get accused of both things by the same ACs - you want to pick and choose who can comment and who cannot. You are picking on a specific person for the point of view that he holds. Why do you even bother to read what he writes? I don't agree with him nor with you.

                        There will be NO code of conduct because people will simply try to find loopholes in it and then say that we can do nothing because it isn't in the CoC. Bytram stated the main rule - Don't be a dick. We are here to have discussions. Not to verbally assault specific individuals who might not share your point of view. We encourage robust arguments and debate, but that doesn't mean that you should direct your insults personally. If you do not like having discussions then you are in the wrong place.

                        NCommander invited people to volunteer to lead the team in December - I am prepared to bet that you did not submit a bid. I did. I stated that I was not the best person for the job, I do not have the technical skills required in all the areas of support that require people, but I would rather try to keep the site alive than see it disappear. What are you prepared to do to support the site?

                        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2023, @03:04PM

                          by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2023, @03:04PM (#1290460)

                          Nice hypocriting plus more false accusations, as expected. Get off the Cross, we need the wood.

                        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2023, @11:07AM

                          by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2023, @11:07AM (#1291526)

                          Nine years, and aristarchus has been here for all of them. Too bad the site has lost sight of the need to cite. Sources, that is. The Star Chamber is alive and functioning on SN.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2023, @10:23AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2023, @10:23AM (#1290442)

                  Last Ethanol was herd of, he was being stampeded into jail for some anti-semitic crime he did. I don't think he was banned.

              • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday February 03 2023, @08:24PM (9 children)

                by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 03 2023, @08:24PM (#1290086) Journal

                Clearly you have switched to alt-reality where users and ACs were never banned not due to site rules but arbitrary rules staff decided upon.

                Only 1 user has been banned, and that was for unacceptable behaviour in our community i.e. doxing. It doesn't matter where the information comes from, doxing a member of our own community is simply unacceptable.

                ACs post on the front pages and in the journals. That hardly amounts to a ban when ACs are still free to post. Remember that being an AC is a choice that you have made.

                Or go back to full freedom of speech

                You have freedom of speech - you are exercising it now. You could have an account and still exercise your freedom of speech as an AC. Your choice again.

                As a website we are free to impose whatever rules the community wishes. They do not want unaccountable ACs on the front page stories. We asked the community, listened to their replies and then acted upon them. You can't get any more democratic than that.

                • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2023, @10:37PM (5 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2023, @10:37PM (#1290126)

                  *yawn*

                  Thanks for confirming your stance.

                  Doxxing bad, domestic terrorism OK! Juvenile insults bad, dangerous medical advice GREAT!

                  As for democratic, I read the threads and there was no democracy, just a variety of stances that you decided was enough to make a decision. As long as you keep lying like this no one will trust you. Well, not exactly lie, more of a PR spin. Worse than lying really, slimier. You should have stuck to "STEM article discussions" back when ethanolpuked was busy spamming racist slurs on every story, but at this point your reputation speaks for itself. At least you've toned down some of your false accusations so there is that /shrug

                  TMB was right that him leaving would lead to censorship. Not that I mind, it just needs to be paired with actual rules of conduct and enforced. You can't declare something wrong after the fact and expect people to then trust your leadership.

                  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 04 2023, @07:24AM (4 children)

                    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 04 2023, @07:24AM (#1290197) Journal

                    And if by any chance you are the same AC who keeps submitting the same story ("With Microsoft we can work together without competing,” says Rouffineau [at Canonical] ") - it is a DUPE. We covered this story in early December!

                    • https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=58383
                    • https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=57981
                    • https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=58098
                    • https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=58130
                    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2023, @03:10PM (3 children)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2023, @03:10PM (#1290462)

                      Nope, and when will you drop your obsession with identifying ACs as you keep professing? Are all old christians so full of shit? Is it the religion that does it, normalizing bad behavior because being christian == good person?

                      Honestly I'm curious how you can continue lying and deceiving people with half truths and outright lies while thinking you are in the right.

                      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday February 06 2023, @04:06PM (2 children)

                        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 06 2023, @04:06PM (#1290474) Journal

                        And if by any chance you are the same AC

                        I didn't attempt to identify any particular AC. I have highlighted a vital word which you seem to have overlooked. But you are an AC, so it seemed to be reasonable place to put the request.

                        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2023, @01:37AM (1 child)

                          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2023, @01:37AM (#1290547)

                          C'mon, janrinok! It is obvious to everyone that you think it is aristarchus, again.

                          • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2023, @07:28AM

                            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2023, @07:28AM (#1290576)

                            Unless, it is not aristarchus. But what are the odds here? Either it is aristarchus, or it is not. I put that at a 50/50 chance. Then there is the fact that we have someone actually posting on SoylentNews, and SOYLENTNEWS IS ARISTARCHUS!!! So the odds are now 99.9% I honestly do not know how janrinok can live with this. Aristarchuses under the bed, in the closet (double entendre, zut alors!), and aristarchoi in the agora! I am now putting the odds at Five 9's, just to be safe. Unless aristarchus has died. He was rather exceptionally old, and it would not be the first time a Soylentil has passed. RIP, MDC!

                • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2023, @11:02AM (2 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2023, @11:02AM (#1290724)

                  Only 1 user has been banned,

                  OMG! Who was banned? What did they do? Are the rest of the bannings secret?

                  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2023, @08:15AM

                    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2023, @08:15AM (#1291502)

                    aristarchus was banned. We all miss him sorely. Except for the Right-wing Nut-jobs, janrinok, and Runsaway. Would be nice if we had some fair and balanced discussion here, and having aristarchus around grately contributed to that.

                  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2023, @07:13PM

                    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2023, @07:13PM (#1292416)

                    Oh! Look! It is an unrescinded Spam mod, that is in no way abusive! Good thing janrinok is on patrol!

        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2023, @10:25PM (21 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2023, @10:25PM (#1290976)

          A small number of ACs harass certain users by personal attacks and spamming in an effort to dissuade them from commenting.

          I am SOOOO sorry that racists are not feeling welcome on SoylentNews. It seems that janrinok want's us to be nice to them, and treat their hatred and insanity as just "a different point of view". Sorry, again, not going to happen.

          • (Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Friday February 10 2023, @06:47AM (5 children)

            by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 10 2023, @06:47AM (#1291056) Journal

            That is what the moderation system is for - you have simply chosen not to be able to moderate. Don't blame the world for your choices.

            • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2023, @11:16PM (4 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2023, @11:16PM (#1291447)

              The og aristarchus was shadow modbanned, you never do want to let people know that. Now you allow a user account to stay yet deny some privileges? You are a fascist, but we all knew that about the UK with its pedo monarchy.

              • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday February 13 2023, @07:45AM (3 children)

                by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 13 2023, @07:45AM (#1291491) Journal

                Every account is treated in exactly the same way.

                If the account breaks the rules then they receive a warning - everyone makes a mistake now and then. If they continue to break the rules on a regular basis they will be given a temporary ban, and bans grow each time they are applied. If the behaviour is continued still further then the account could be banned permanently. As far as I am aware, this has only happened in once during our 9 years of operation.

                Sock puppets are specifically forbidden. They can be disabled immediately - usually the user still gets to keep one account which is sufficient for most purposes, at our discretion.

                Silly name calling is simply childish.

                • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2023, @08:17AM (2 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2023, @08:17AM (#1291503)

                  Fuck you, janrinok! Your British imperialism is not lost on the Celts here about. Not upon the rest of the Soylentils. Accounts? You ban all ACs, and say because of "accounts"? What a queer way of thinking.

                  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday February 13 2023, @08:49AM (1 child)

                    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 13 2023, @08:49AM (#1291505) Journal

                    There are ACs posting in the front page stories, in the journals, and here too. You are an AC. ACs are obviously not banned.

                    I think we have already discussed name-calling.

                    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2023, @05:52PM

                      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2023, @05:52PM (#1291584)

                      Yeah but how many users know that their AC comments on front page articles are forever tied to their user account? That their comments can be deanonymized by staff who have a history of doing so?

                      Right, you refuse to update any of the SN pages to accurately reflect reality. Cracks me up that you still try and insist it costs $7k per year to host the site. Just $3k to go for the last 6 months!

          • (Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Friday February 10 2023, @08:01AM (14 children)

            by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 10 2023, @08:01AM (#1291065) Journal

            I have now had some time to research your claims further.

            You have never adversely moderated any posts by Ethanol-fueled when he posted any of his racist comments, nor did you make any critical replies. Likewise you did nothing when he made his antisemitic claims.

            I have looked at many other racist and antisemitic comments by a variety of people and your response to them is noticeable by its absence.

            You do not stand against racism or antisemitism - you are simply targeting a specific individual. Furthermore, you do not attack his arguments but his character, or you make wild and unsubstantiated accusations about him. That is the perfect example of a personal attack - which is not what this site is for. It is also why you are stuck trying to create discussions in an out-of-date poll.

            But it appears that you are incapable of winning an argument by debate alone so you have to resort to tactics that you hope will win you support. I detest all of the comments that we are discussing and neither I nor the site support them. But demanding that we remove the right to freedom of expression from one specific community member for comments that are made by many different commentators is unacceptable. You have provided no convincing argument that we should consider such action against a single individual. Unless what you are suggesting is that we do the same for anyone making racist or antisemitic statements - but of course you would then claim that that is censorship by a right-wing fascist site, wouldn't you?.

            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2023, @10:11AM (2 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2023, @10:11AM (#1291069)

              Who ya talking to, janrinok? ACs cain't mod, ya know.

              • (Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Friday February 10 2023, @11:23AM (1 child)

                by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 10 2023, @11:23AM (#1291071) Journal

                You haven't always been AC though.

                • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2023, @08:09PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2023, @08:09PM (#1291144)

                  And you haven't always been janrinok, either. But I suspect you have always been a racist supporter. Now go away, before I taunt you a second tyme!

            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2023, @02:05AM (2 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2023, @02:05AM (#1291198)

              Runaway is going off on gender studies, and guns, and the gender of guns, like a true ammosexual would. I expect that janrinok will have some stiff words to insert into chamber comments of Runaway's journal.

              • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2023, @08:53AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2023, @08:53AM (#1291241)

                Runnyways at least has enough higher education to block pure ACs, and his nemesoi Captain America and aristarchus from commenting on his journal. If anyone really would like to know the full, and shocking, educational attainment of said Supply Puke Navy Vet, I am sure any kind of an inquiry here on SoylentNews would produce the sought after information. I mean, everything else about Runawaying's personal data has been posted here, by his own self, including his divorce, bouts of gonnerhea, Covid-19 vaccinations, and adult children moving back in. Sarah Huckabee Clinton is now his First Lady, again. Man is a complete coward. And ignoramous. Not to mention, "Arkansas normal".

              • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2023, @07:51PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2023, @07:51PM (#1291427)

                And, janrinok did! He noted that Runaway is very afraid of sex, and crime, and sex-crime. Evidently he has been groomed by Faux News and Cucker Tarlson. But janrinok failed to point out the quite real grounds for Runaway's fear. This is Arkansas we are talking about, home to the Duggars, and No. 2 in number of registered sex offenders [allongeorgia.com], Fourth in overall violent crime [usatoday.com], near the bottom among states for education [nationsreportcard.gov]. No wonder Runaway is so afraid, and posts crazy and stupid things that he gets mostly from The Truth about Dumbs [amazon.com].

            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2023, @08:38AM (6 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2023, @08:38AM (#1291239)

              It is also why you are stuck trying to create discussions in an out-of-date poll.

              I wonder why that would be? Better than trying to create discussions on the lame front page articles of late! Really, janrinok, it is time to admit defeat, and resign, turn the helm over to someone younger, smarter, and better looking. Someone who can get Ncommander to do more than drive-by maitenance. Someone who has not banned users in contradiction of everything BuckFeta stood for. Someone who is not you.

              And if that, perchance, is no one? So be it.

              • (Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday February 11 2023, @02:29PM (5 children)

                by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 11 2023, @02:29PM (#1291260) Journal

                Better than trying to create discussions on the lame front page articles of late!

                Lets look at the last 3 days shall we. 8th Feb - 81% (out of 130 comments) came from the front page, 9th Feb - 94% (out of 191 comments) came from the front page, and on 10th Feb, 58% (out of 176 comments) came from the front page. The comment counts are slowly climbing, month on month, not falling. We are still getting new members from time-to-time, and they are posting.

                If we look at comment content - most of the comments in the journals are from AC making sarcastic remarks, attacking other community members, or complaining about how they cannot do something because they are AC!

                If you want any more figures I am sure that you can count them yourself.

                someone who has not banned users

                Only 1 person has been permanently banned. One account is on a temporary ban for moderation abuse. EF is NOT banned - although I think he might be a little bit preoccupied elsewhere at present.

                • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2023, @10:03AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2023, @10:03AM (#1291385)

                  Only 1 person has been permanently banned. One account is on a temporary ban for moderation abuse. EF is NOT banned - although I think he might be a little bit preoccupied elsewhere at present.

                  Only one person has permanently banned a Soylentil. Jmorris went missing, showed up in January 6th. Ethanol_Funneled is a valued member of SoylentNews, just like Kowalski, but it would be better if he was not such a racist asshole and raging anti-semite. If only he could be more like Runaway, an imbecile racist and unwitting anti-semite.

                  Nice that we have the Polls to discuss important issues of the Day about the future of SoylentNews. I have seen the future, and it is fucked.

                • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2023, @11:13PM (3 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2023, @11:13PM (#1291446)

                  Good luck with new members, eventually they see the racism that never gets down modded now that so few non-racists remain and will likely bail. Or the white supremacists will just take over and NCommander will shut it down. Or not, hard to tell where staff actually are on the whole racism thing. Lots of denials paired with conflicting actions, lots of abuse targeting liberal users and lots of ehining from staff about rightwing users being criticized. After a while the patterns become clear, janrinok defends rightwing fuckery and makes false accusations, really not a good look.

                  As long as you defend domestic terrorism and political propaganda from rightwingers as "not illegal" while prohibiting legal "doxxing" done by runaway his own dumb self, well the hypocrisy says everything that needs to be said. Now bury this with another downmod, don't want the regulars actually catching on to your lying ways.

                  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2023, @07:59AM (2 children)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2023, @07:59AM (#1291497)

                    Runaway is doubling down with the ammosexual groomer's handbook! I guess he is not aware that Arkansas has one of the highest amounts of sex crimes, and that most sex crimes are not done by liberals, but by family members, or devout Christains (Duggars). If I were him, I would be very afraid, and maybe even keep a pistol close by, in case Gramps tried it again.

                    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2023, @10:05AM (1 child)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2023, @10:05AM (#1291864)

                      On IRC, Runaway seems to have gone the full cabbage. His mind has turned to mulch. He is sharing way too much personal information on-line.

                      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2023, @05:53AM

                        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2023, @05:53AM (#1292825)

                        Shouldn't these comments be modded Spam, since they are derogatory of the SoylentNews, not to mention comparing Runaway to vegetables. Whether deserved or not.