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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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STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday September 07 2020, @07:08AM
We cannot stop people from submitting whatever they want. However, as you well know, if there isn't a connection to our main areas of interest and there is no overriding reason for accepting a particular story they either get edited severely or rejected outright. By all means criticise us for our choice of stories that are published, but not for the content of submissions.
Whatever makes you think that we don't see political bias in stories? We do. It is a main reason that many stories are edited. But politics does impinge on many aspects of the world around us, for better or for worse. If the political information is relevant then it might well be justified in being quoted in the story. For example, new military weapons or increased arsenals of nuclear warheads are certainly topics with a technical interest - but it is politicians who decide which weapons are funded and how many nuclear warheads a country might think it needs.