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The Mighty Buzzard writes:
Congrats to the wannabe APK noobtard for advancing the site's codebase despite me having extremely limited time to play. I added three lines of code and now Spam modded comments (and comment trees) auto-collapse and you can still moderate a comment as Spam even if it's already at the minimum score. Honestly, the folks using any other downmod on obvious Spam annoy me more than the noobtard does but that annoyance at least is now history. Changes are to hot code only, I'll put them in the repo as part of my next pull request.
Suck it, noob. --TMB
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(Score: 5, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:08PM (16 children)
Soylent is censoring alternative viewpoints! Making editorial decisions about what comments shall be posted!
So long CDA 230 protection if the conservatives get their way!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:17PM (4 children)
Logic not your thing? It looks to me like Soylent News is giving the logged-in users the power to downmod what they feel is wasting everyone else's time. If you want to call downmods "censorship", that's your prerogative, but it's not "Soylent News" proper doing the downmodding, and it's certainly not censorship.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:24PM (3 children)
I don't. I was making fun of the people here who regularly do.
(Score: 3, Touché) by barbara hudson on Thursday September 03 2020, @09:30PM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday September 03 2020, @11:36PM
That particular A/C is a flat-earther. Don't expect him to understand your excellent joke.
Whoosh! is a phrase invented for him.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2020, @01:03AM
Well alright alright alright!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:18PM
Yes, Soylent, the community, can. And if they step outside the unchanged Spam mod guidelines today, they'll get the same smack they would have yesterday.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:26PM
Fair troll by the way. I kinda had to answer but you hooked an AC too.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday September 03 2020, @11:42PM (8 children)
This is what I have always liked about TMB: his unbridled professionalism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2020, @01:38AM
His professionalism is still lower than his modesty and level of consciousness on his intellectual limits.
(Score: 2, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 04 2020, @03:58AM (6 children)
Partially intentional. Making it abundantly clear that us staff are not ever going to be some magical paragons of virtue or whatnot keeps you lot from being able to hold me to some higher standard than yourselves. You want to beat me in an argument, you're going to have to earn it; dragging it into the mud ain't gonna cut it here.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday September 04 2020, @05:10AM (3 children)
Not clear about what you're saying, Buzz? You are just a Arkansas version asshole, since moving to the "Mother of Arkansas" Tennessee? Or that your idea of professionalism is reducing yourself to the level of an apk, which I can totally see you doing. But, my point was, as a professional code-monkey, you should never take it personally. And never lobby for the suppression of aristarchus submissions, as you have in the past. Professionalism, Busstard, there are Codes of Conducts for professionals, that do not apple to mere mortals. You are above this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2020, @10:09AM
[Grabbing bucket of popcorn and propping feet up]
No, no. Don't mind me. I'm just enjoying the show between you two.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday September 04 2020, @03:21PM
How about an unprofessional code-monkey? Is taking it personally ok then?
I agree with TMB. He has taken this discussion beyond the professional level. And Codes of Conducts is dog whistle for turning the site over to SJWs. Never!!!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 05 2020, @03:23PM
Nope. Not happening. And my N, O, P, and E keys are in no danger of wearing out, so don't expect a different answer any time soon.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by nsa on Friday September 04 2020, @05:29PM (1 child)
I don't know if TMB has been clinically diagnosed as mentally retarded, but it wouldn't surprise me. I for one certainly had higher hopes for this site when it launched. Whatever.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday September 05 2020, @03:28PM
You expected staff to not be ordinary human beings? You expected us to act like opinionless automatons and stay out of any discussion? Or maybe you just wanted us to have to censor ourselves to be considered professional so we can either be forced to lose any heated disagreement or not have said disagreement in the first place and get our petty tyrant on?
No, thanks. I'm not special and I refuse your pedestal.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.