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The proposal to enforce AC posting for logged in members only on the main page was promulgated to all staff and members of the board 7 days ago. Thank you to all those who contributed to the earlier discussions and clearly expressed their own views, suggestions and potential enhancements. All are being studied for implementation, if feasible, when staffing and resources permit.
There has been unanimous agreement from all responses received in favour of the proposed restriction. However, it was also apparent that there was a wish that this will be only until other alternative methods of restricting spamming, abuse and other disruptions to discussions can be identified and implemented. This is unlikely to be achievable in the short to medium term; other sites are struggling unsuccessfully with the same problem. The long-term aim remains to include AC posting in all discussions if at all possible
Therefore, beginning immediately, all AC posting on the main site will be limited to registered members who have logged in to their account. We regret that this leaves a number of AC community members unable to contribute as they once did, but anonymity remains a personal choice.
This will not affect discussions in journals which will have no limits and will be open to all.
If there is a demand for it, I will look at alternative methods of publishing a small number of stories each day into a journal.
On a more positive note, there is evidence that because of the recent restrictions on AC posting a significant number of existing accounts have returned and are commenting in the discussions. The quality of discussions (i.e. signal-to-noise ratio) is significantly better than it was several weeks ago. Although we have lost overall numbers of comments, the value of many of those lost comments appears to have been quite low. There has also been a noticeable improvement in moderations being awarded with more positive moderations being given when compared to negative ones. It is too early yet to draw any firm conclusions from other site statistics.
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(Score: 4, Touché) by coolgopher on Wednesday July 27 2022, @03:42AM (5 children)
You're originally a Windows user, aren't you ;)
(Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Wednesday July 27 2022, @01:45PM
He posted correctly, it's just the second 'l' went prematurely into /dev/null. Better known as C: drive on Windows.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday July 27 2022, @03:12PM (3 children)
I use Windows at work. Where I am not responsible for maintaining it.
I have personally never ever not once owned a Windows PC. (I've bought two Windows PCs at separate times many years ago which then immediately got Linux installed.)
I was a long time classic Mac developer. Co-author of Timbuktu 1.0 and author of Timbuktu/Remote. I was a card carrying classic Mac fanboy. Until Jobs and OS X.
At about that same time (June 1999) I got my first Linux machine and have never looked back.
So please forgive the /dev/nul, I just typed it without thinking. It didn't mean anything.
The people who rely on government handouts and refuse to work should be kicked out of congress.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday July 28 2022, @12:52AM (2 children)
Ah, sorry if my comment was interpreted as an attack - I was genuinely aiming for Funny, or a counter-post saying "takes one to know one!"
I, sadly, have had more exposure exposure to Windows than one might consider ideal. Even if FreeBSD and by now Linux are my preferred choices, I still run Windows (for gaming) and a Mac laptop (for work - it makes an excellent "thin" client to SSH into real systems from).
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 28 2022, @02:12PM (1 child)
No big deal. I just wanted to be clear that the /dev/nul with one "l" wasn't meant to be offensive as it could easily be perceived.
The people who rely on government handouts and refuse to work should be kicked out of congress.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Friday July 29 2022, @12:29AM
Eh, I was reaching for it with that one, and it fell flat. Definitely not on you :)