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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 1) by dalek on Saturday May 27 2023, @03:41AM (3 children)
I'm the person who posted the comment at https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=55584&page=1&cid=1308382#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] that you're now whinging about. I'll put my user name on this comment so you who I am. I knew who you were all along, but I wanted to see if you were honest enough to say so. The fact that you posted https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=55584&page=1&cid=1308377#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] but couldn't give me a straight answer tells me you're not here to have a serious discussion. If you had been forthcoming about your past actions, I would have respected the honesty.
I've also spam modded a lot of AC comments from aristarchus, though it's very possible I've misidentified a few of your comments as being from aristarchus. That's what happens when you repeatedly post the same drivel to disrupt the site. Even if you're not aristarchus, I maintain the spam mods are justified. You post the same garbage over and over where it's off-topic, repeatedly disrupting the discussion. When I have an objection to something on the site, I email the admins or janrinok, put my real name on the email, and tell them what I think. If you don't like me spam modding you, grow some stones, email the admins, and request that the spam mods be overturned. Instead of actually emailing the people who can actually overturn the spam mods, you just whinge about it with off-topic comments. Why is that?
If you look at my posting history, you'll see that I've repeatedly complained about things Runaway1956 and khallow post. In fact, I wrote a journal condemning people who want to start a second civil war. I also repeatedly criticized APK for his disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, which is the primary reason for him posting spam about me. I'm hardly the alt-right commenter you've claimed I am.
I don't always agree with the staff. I've had many discussions with janrinok, and I know for sure that I pissed him off at least one time. Before I created this account, I had arguments with TMB. But I also know that staff like janrinok, TMB, mechanicjay, hubie, Fnord666, and many others work hard as volunteers to keep this site running. While I don't always agree with them, I damn well appreciate their hard work. And you bet I have a problem with it when someone decides to shit all over their hard work, spam this site, and try to tear down what they've invested a lot of time and effort in trying to build.
I sent an email to janrinok today with my real name on it volunteering to help this site should it continue in something resembling its current form. They work their asses off, and I'd like to help them by editing a few stories and helping to keep this place running. Have you done anything to help this site? Or are you only here to cower behind a troll account and AC comments while you trash other people's hard work?
I don't like bullies. I'd posted as an AC for a couple of years, but I created this account to call out APK because I saw him directing violent threats toward DeathMonkey and wanted to stand up against APK. I have friends and family members who chose not to get vaccinated for COVID-19 because of disinformation like what APK posted, so I stood up to him and called out his nonsense. He didn't like that very much, as you're well aware. I call out Runaway1956 when he posts reprehensible comments wishing for the death of 50 million progressives. And I have a problem when you and aristarchus post AC comments to satisfy personal grudges, disrupt this site, and tear down other people's hard work. You're a bully, and I'm standing up to you. If you don't like it, feel free to email admin@soylentnews.org [mailto], tell them that you don't like standing up to your bullying, and request that I be investigated.
We're done here. Either email the admins to complain about me, or move on.
THIS ACCOUNT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2023, @01:12PM (2 children)
So you want criticism silenced? You want bad behavior by admins covered up with lies, and you are trying to use the civility defense with a "think of the volunteers" line of reasoning? I think you are emotionally mixing up at least three separate people and making judgments against them all. I also think you are a liar based on how you accuse me of creating a harrassing troll account when I was very clear about not being the creator, but you insist that I am and somehow not giving you straight answers.
To me this just shows you are a stodgy jerk, or actually one of the trolls playing more sock puppet games. Most of my complaints would stop if the site updated the privacy information and explained clearly what staff are able to access. Do you think every user is aware that using the checkbox for "post as AC" still ties their comment to their username in perpetuity? And other misleading bits. Why do they refuse?
Heh, just realized as a lowly AC I am just posting words but you are the one taking all the bullying actions because you don't like my content. The correct moderations are offtopic or troll, that is what staff always said about other offtopic repetitive garbage.
I hope you are just a jerk and not apk using another sock puppet to push a narrative game. With a username like dalek chances of you being evil seem high!
PS: you should stop whinging about SN, makes your brain shrink. Me? Just giving constructive feedback and responding to whingey questions.
(Score: 1) by dalek on Sunday May 28 2023, @05:16AM (1 child)
I have no sock puppets. I acknowledged creating an account prior to the dalek account, using the sarcastic name realDonaldTroll. I haven't logged into it since months before I created this account, though I don't remember how long it's been. I don't remember the password, nor do I even remember what email address I used to sign up. I will not use that account in the future.
You've probably seen my comment about helping to edit stories. This evening, I unchecked the "willing to moderate" box, because if I'm going to be a staff member, it avoids the appearance that I have any moderator power to misuse. When I unchecked that box this evening, my 10 mod points disappeared.
Of course, I have no way to prove any of this to you other than giving you my word.
As I said, my issue is not with the content of your messages but with your methods. I disagree with posting off-topic comments repeatedly, which interferes with attempts to have on-topic discussion. That's what happens in polls and quite a few journals.
A lot of the privacy decisions are influenced by the design of Rehash. The IP hashes were a design decision made ~20 years ago by Rob Malda. A lot of the things you disagree with actually predate Rehash by over a decade. When there were Perl programmers on the staff, there were many other priorities that had to be addressed just to keep Rehash running. From reading over the comments, it looks like Rehash is going to be replaced. If you don't like the privacy decisions in Rehash, join in the discussions about the future of the site and encourage different privacy practices in the future. You might need to create an account, but your thoughts would be on-topic instead of disrupting other discussions. That would be a positive action that could affect real change.
Why not join in the discussions where this would be on-topic and express your views on improving privacy?
THIS ACCOUNT IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 29 2023, @09:08AM
Dalek is starting to be really annoying. Is there some way, I dunno, we could, exterminate?