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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, @08:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2020, @08:16PM (#1046513)

    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.