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People who think they know everything greatly annoy those of us who do.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2023, @06:43AM (25 children)
Runaway has learned the janrinok lesson. Censorship works! Just ban everyone who might say bad things about your murder-advocating post, and it will be fine!
But I am here to say, it is not fine! Such posts, anywhere on SN are a detriment and a pox! We need to no longer allow snuff posts here on SoylentNews! I know that janrinok gets off on them, having been in the "chair force", and Runaway as well, having been a swabie on a ship, but we need to keep these pervert veterans from polluting out forum. No more ammosexual ground-standing posts. We should spam mod them, mercilessly. Until they bleed out of their eyes, and the true nature of their souls is apparent. That is all I want.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2023, @07:23AM (5 children)
I wish that moderations were public. I suspect that it is the enraged janrinok that is spam modding all the posts that his "hashes" tell him are aristarchusish, but I have no way of telling where the mods come from. They could equally come from the Runaway right-wing nutjob caucus, due to content, but janrinok says we cannot do the "I disagree" spam mods, so it would seem that the straight from the janrinok himself theory is more apt. Can we get some confirmation on this, one way or the other? Seems to be an awful lot so spam mods around lately, and none of them are rescinded, which is compatible with the lone janrinok theory. Evidence? Please. For the survival of SN.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Tork on Tuesday October 31 2023, @07:18PM (1 child)
For the record- I've felt this way since I was messing around on the green-site on dial-up. I thought about proposing that when talk of an ownership change of this site started, but figured it might be impractical to implement.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2023, @09:36AM
The situation is a bit different on /. because editors have unlimited mod points. It makes sense to want to know if you've been modded down by your fellow users or if an editor is using some of their infinite mod points. That's not the case here. The community is also smaller here, so disclosing who moderated a post is more likely to result in petty retaliation.
I would be interested in having the ability to moderate journals. I don't mean to moderate comments in journals, but the actual journals. For users with a karma of +10 or greater, start the journal's score at 10. Otherwise, start it at 0. Have a minimum score of -10 and a maximum score of 20. If the journal's score is +5 or greater, it can be displayed in the recent journals slashbox. If the score is less, it's hidden. For every five times a journal is modded up, increment the author's karma by 1. Likewise, every five times a journal is modded down, decrement the author's karma by 1. Hopefully this would favor displaying interesting journals on the front page while decreasing the visibility of journals that mostly just incite arguments. Users can still post political flamebait in their journals, but they might burn some karma in the process.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2023, @07:49AM (2 children)
It is more the ENGORGED janrinok that one must worry about. Very angry, very hard, out for revenge and making soylentils toe the fucking line!! Is he the only one who respects the rules? (For fans of "The Big Lebowski", janrinok is a Continental version of Walter Sobchack, and it is fucking Shomer Shabbot, everyday on SoylentNews.)
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday November 15 2023, @09:19AM (1 child)
Your biggest mistake is to assume that I am the only person moderating your comments.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2023, @08:30PM
Mistake? How could it be a mistake? New information has fucking come to light, man!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2023, @08:52AM (13 children)
If history is any indication, this poll will have several off-topic threads just like this one within a few days. They contain nothing of substance that hasn't already been posted ad nauseum. Repetitive off-topic posting for the purpose of disrupting the site is spam. It's always been spam, regardless of who is posting it. The one or two users posting this have made it clear they have no intention of abiding by community moderation, using Tor and VPNs to circumvent any posting restrictions.
When you reply to these threads at +2 to dispute some of what has been posted, your posts are expanded in the default view for users who aren't logged in. This increases the visibility of the spam threads and helps them disrupt on-topic discussion.
Regardless of who posts these threads, they qualify as spam. I don't believe the site's code allows for you to block AC posting in polls, otherwise you'd have done so. Community moderation is ineffective because any IP bans are just circumvented with Tor or VPNs. However, you have another tool available to you that can prevent these polls from being filled with spam threads. As you've stated many, site policy allows for spam to be deleted. This would not censor the ideas from being expressed because they have already been posted hundreds of times before in journals and other polls. We don't need to see them yet again.
I am asking you to please enforce existing site policy and just delete these spam threads. Don't respond to them and increase their visibility. Just delete them and move on.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2023, @09:02AM
No, it is not. It is the heart and sole of SoylentNews, and if you think otherwise, you are welcome to leave! Hoser!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2023, @09:07AM (1 child)
Oh, but yes you do, since you have not understood the essence of right-wing dominance of SoylentNews, and the purpose of the censorship. You need to wake up, so you can be "woke". Or, go back to the stupified state of the somnulent public who thinks racism is just fine.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2023, @10:01AM
I am only posting this comment so that janrinok has something to spam mod. I can only imagine it makes him happy, like he has accomplished something. Well done, old chap!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2023, @02:02PM (4 children)
Someone needs to give this +insightfu!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2023, @10:09AM (3 children)
No one can. Only downmods allowed on SoylentNews, anymore. Sad husk of a discussion site that was. Your comment is off topic, and disruptive. Prepare to be spam modded.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2023, @06:37AM (2 children)
I would down mod, with double secret special probation, that no one could know about [soylentnews.org], and only janrinok could offer a super secret remission deal, to, someone, whose name is not to be mentioned, or invoked, lest the whole house of pfards come combubulating down..
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2023, @08:34PM (1 child)
Super double secret amnesty, so that the one forgiven could never reveal it, no one could ever know that it was granted. Kind of like the deal Satan got.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2023, @11:29AM
If janrinok offers enough deals, just maybe SoylentNews can continue on! As a crippled, compromised, censored, and stifled news site, but at least as a site. For a while.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2023, @06:49AM
Do you think janrinok capable of such? I have my doubts. And, the questions about admin abuse have not been addressed. Like, WTF is up with all the Spam Mods? Seriously.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2023, @01:39AM (2 children)
That's how us old fogies roll! Hey, did I ever tell you about the days when phones actually had dials?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 31 2023, @09:50PM (1 child)
That fisher price toy and Toy Story may be the only reason why kids nowadays even know what a rotary dial is.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Touché) by chromas on Wednesday November 08 2023, @06:15AM
Assuming they're old enough to remember Toy Story :D
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2023, @07:32PM
What do you expect when you have a poll like this one, presented to a community of geezer nerds? They are not repeating, they seriously do not remember. And calling age-related dementia "disruptive" is cruel, and adds nothing to the discussion. Young whippersnappers down modding their elders is no way to run a website. Now, get off my lawn!
[Take a look at the anonymous data story on the front page. It is telling. ]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2023, @08:59AM (4 children)
So, no mention that the perp was a Mormon? Coulda been worse, coulda been a Scientologist, or a Catholic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2023, @12:06PM (3 children)
Citation? No, I've seen no mention of the guy's religion. Are you just making stuff up?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2023, @03:54AM (2 children)
Are you saying you have evidence he was NOT a Mormon?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2023, @04:24PM (1 child)
The Maine shooter's religion has not been publicly disclosed: [vizaca.com]
Show a better reference or stop making unfounded allegations.
Oh, wait, I forgot who I was talking to.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2023, @08:09PM
Was he a Shooter of the House? Young-earth Creationist? Super stupid crazy evangelican American Christian? May the FSM have marinara upon his sole fillet.