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Which won't young people believe when you tell them?
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I think my career is ruined!
(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. ]