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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: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday September 05 2020, @04:05AM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday September 05 2020, @04:05AM (#1046673) Journal

    The Obvious khallow is, we used to have more limited mods, five per user per day. And we changed to 10 because, better? I don't think going back would solve the whining AC's problems, unless they are trying Make SoylentNews Great Again!! (MSNGA? Not quite the right ring to it!)

    Starting Score:    1  point
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @08:30AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @08:30AM (#1046711)

    To be clear, the change from five to ten mod points was to provide users greater ability to mod down shitposting [soylentnews.org]. I'm proposing that editors use unlimited spam mod points to eliminate the worst of the repetitive spam. If editors are modding the worst of the garbage like APK spam, that might obviate the need for the extra five mod points. And I admittedly have a bit of nostalgia which makes me want to retain as much of the old Slashdot feel as possible.

    • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday September 05 2020, @03:06PM

      by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 05 2020, @03:06PM (#1046774) Journal

      Heh, it didn't work on me.
       
      I run out of up-mods often enough, but I haven't dropped a downmod in something like two years at this point, not even for emordnilap KiloPascal. (Yes, yes, dowmods exist for a reason, i get it, but if my daughter can flip a switch and be vegan i can flip one and not downmod. Downmod if you disagree!)

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