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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: 1) by RandomFactor on Friday September 04 2020, @06:02PM (6 children)
"Donald Trump is GREAT! Possibly the best president ever!" is not controversial to something like 200 Million people in the USA.
100 Million agree strongly with it.
100 Million consider the statement vicious, inciteful, and clearly and obviously without value.
100 million just want the 200 million above to STFU.
There would need to be a check/balance to ensure the determinations made were more generally acceptable and not a reflection of personal animus.
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(yes yes - all numbers vague and imprecise and obviously much more weighted towards the reader's particular view of reality, but the point remains)
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2020, @08:16PM
My take on your example is that it's something that would be inflammatory. Unless the poster tried to support that statement, it's obviously flamebait or trolling. But if it's on-topic and relevant in any way to the thread or the article, it's not spam. However inane, it's plausible that people could reply and eventually produce a useful discussion, even if the initial post is a low effort troll. I think the difference is that APK's repeated posts are, well, repeated and are also extremely unlikely to produce a useful on-topic discussion. If APK posted his drivel in a thread where he had previously been having a heated argument with Azuma Hazuki and posted it just once, the post would be flamebait and batshit crazy but not spam. But when he's starting thread after thread with that, it really isn't controversial at all to call it spam. Perhaps editors should only use unlimited spam mods for repetitive posts, because that really is unambiguous -- and that's the one place where unlimited mod points would be useful.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday September 06 2020, @03:08PM (4 children)
And you need to bear in mind that this ISN'T an American site. It is manned by volunteers from around the world. The common link is that it is an English language site. Many of us don't give a damn what Trump says or doesn't say but we still have several months of US 'politics' being discussed daily.
It is currently hosted in the USA because that allows us to register it as a specific type of site and gives us several protections that aren't available in every other country. But make no mistake, the servers could be located anywhere if there was a good enough reason to justify it. Currently there isn't.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Sunday September 06 2020, @04:22PM (3 children)
So if the line of excessive annoyance is crossed (Fidonet reference if anyone cares), the red lights flash hot and the copper comes calling, the site sort of yawns and gets a new hoster? Or maybe even entire TLD?
If so, I vote for: SoylentNews.ni (News that goes ni!)
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday September 07 2020, @07:18AM (1 child)
Why change to TLD? .com, .org, .net etc are used all over the world. Theyt might be managed by the USA but they are not solely a US asset. I am a European and have 3 sites, all hosted outside the USA, and all with a TLD (.org/.net) without a national identifier.
But if US law changes and demands, for example, a private feed of all the data we process or information on all of our subscribers we can move the site relatively easily to somewhere less restrictive.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Monday September 07 2020, @02:16PM
Ni.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday September 07 2020, @12:39PM
If we ever do change domains, I'm sold.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.