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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday December 07 2023, @07:48AM (14 children)
The truth is quite the opposite. Since 2021 we have removed over 800 sock puppet accounts from the full spectrum of different views and opinions. I was not an Admin before 2021 so I cannot be blamed for whatever went before that time.
I have no wish to ban the use of TOR. This is entirely in your imagination. I do not know which connections are via TOR or by VPN unless you tell me, nor do I care. They can be used anywhere on the site. There is a slightly modified procedure for creating new accounts if you use secure email but that is to prevent the creation of new sock puppet accounts. Nevertheless, new genuine accounts are created regularly using secure email addresses. All that is required is that you contact the administration by email - by secure email is perfectly acceptable.
How you connect to the site and from where is of no interest to me. Stopping spam abuse in discussions on the site is, however, part of my remit.
Go look at all of the front page stories. Show me where moderation is being used unfairly, or where anyone is trying to control the narrative. The problem is those who abuse other people's journals or Polls to have off-topic rants or ignore the site's pollcies despite the fact that they have personally chosen to be ACs which restricts their access to the site.
I surmise that ari prefers the use of VPNs but that you are a TOR user - based entirely on what both of you have written in 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 Thursday December 07 2023, @10:25AM (12 children)
WTF is a "secure email address"? One with a phone number and billing address attached to it? No one is fooled by your attempts to turn SN into a MI6 honeypot, janrinok. You are banning all new users who wish to not be doxxed.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday December 07 2023, @10:45AM (10 children)
Which new users have been banned?
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 Thursday December 07 2023, @08:15PM (9 children)
Nearly all of them? Did you not say more than 20,000? There never will be a SoylentNews effect.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday December 07 2023, @09:15PM (8 children)
You are referring to the fake accounts - not sock puppets. All the fake accounts are active but have no real user. See, you don't know what you are talking about so you just spout lies.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2023, @01:11AM (7 children)
Few months ago I tried creating an account, had to try a few email providers before one finally worked. When logging in it sort of worked but I could not post or up/down vote anything. Next time I tried it said account was disabled, thanks for explaining in this thread.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday December 08 2023, @06:56AM (2 children)
What account name did you use? Which account do you expect us to investigate?
Did you report that bug. You could either log in or you couldn't - what does 'it sort of worked' mean? Where did you try to post? Journals can restrict who can post in them. What error messages did you see? Did you receive any emails? If you did, did you respond to them?
If you help us we can help you but, as it stands, this is simply a comment by an AC who has provided no evidence at all that he/she ever successfully created an account.
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 Saturday December 09 2023, @07:05AM
janrinok is the bug. He is the authoritarian of SoylentNews, and will brook no criticism, or attacks on Nazis, Racists, Mass Murders, Coupon Clippers, Pedophiles, jmorris, or Runaway1956. We need to fix this bug. Purge the janrinok, to save SN. Quickly.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 09 2023, @11:51PM
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as it stands, this is simply a comment by an AC who has provided no evidence at all that he/she ever successfully created an account.
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You answer your own questions with such an attitude. Simple account creation should not be difficult, and dealing with hostile admins is a big red flag.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2023, @09:28PM (3 children)
I tried creating a new account a while ago, too. The admin answering emails kept shouting, "You're aristarchus! I know you are! Access denied!" Strange fellow, rather obsessed. One star, would not attempt to subscribe again.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2023, @05:33AM (2 children)
Similiar experience have I. And, I am not even aristarchus! That guy really has them all spooked, don't he?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2023, @05:39AM (1 child)
Doctor's orders, jan. They may be in French, but you need to step back from the SN wars, and just admit that aristarchus has won. It will be much better for you, health-wise, and really not give the craven Greek philosopher any advantage. Your interventions have only served to heighten the drama, and drive away all but the most right-wing idiots. VLM, and Dadafoody, swarth in the mire you have left. Please, seek a dignified end, Janrinok. Repudiate the deplorables. It is the least you can do.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 20 2023, @05:03AM
I hope janrinok follows his doctor's orders, and detaches himself from the Brexit and MAGA crowd. Would be a shame if he kicked the bucket in a plexiconorum of hatred against non-white Britains. Peace, janrinok.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 07 2023, @03:45PM
Maybe you should not feed the troll thread then? I know, personal responsibility, your kryptonite! Also stop defending the deplorable murderous conservatives, we already know you have a soft spot for their lies and will only allow spam mods against the offtopic rants you don't like. You can stop defending them every time someone calls them stupid.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 18 2023, @06:38AM
Once again, janrinok surmises incorrectly. Makes one wonder how often this occurs? Aristarchus appears to be everywhere, and SN has no ability to ban him, so the attempted censorship has failed? Oh, go ahead and spam mod my speculation, like that will help anything. Janrinok has no idea about the efficacy of his policies, other than it is killing SoylentNews. Kind of like chemotherapy, no?