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Meta: Loser Noobs and Their Contributions to the Site

posted by on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the silver-linings dept.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2020, @07:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2020, @07:15PM (#1046459)

    If that hash is deleted after about two weeks, I feel better about actually being anonymous. I remember CmdrTaco justifying AC posts on Slashdot saying that it's sometimes necessary to be able to say things anonymously, even if it allows trolls to abuse the feature.

    Where I work, I get the feeling a lot of faculty are frustrated with how the administration is handling the COVID-19 situation. As someone who is junior/temporary faculty, I'm reluctant to speak up too much because, despite being protected by the first amendment, it's still possible for people to make my life difficult. I'm pretty sure I'm far from the only person who feels this way. It's not quite as severe as the University of Alabama saying they would punish faculty who told students about COVID-19 cases in their classes, but I still feel pressure to not speak up too much. We haven't been threatened to not tell students about positive tests but the administration has a policy of not telling faculty if anyone in their class tests positive, provided that masks were worn and seats were spaced six feet apart in the classroom. It's frustrating and I think people deserve to know what's going on -- there's not anywhere close to enough transparency from the administration. So there's definitely value for me to being able to vent about it as an AC here.