SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Some of you may have seen the claims in certain journals that SoylentNews is blocking new accounts. I have been looking at the actual figures for accounts created during December 2022.
A total of 2198 accounts have been successfully created during December. Unfortunately the vast majority of these were created by a bot and they will never become active because the bot does not have access to the email addresses being quoted. The email address is required so that the initial password can be issued. The site is designed to handle a much larger number of accounts and at a far greater rate than the bot is using. This causes us no problems whatsoever. It must be keeping somebody amused though. I think it would be nice to have some form of 'captcha' (NOT Google's fire hydrant, bicycle, bus and pedestrian crossing counter!!!) to prevent bots such as these.
It is possible, indeed likely, that there will be a small number of genuine accounts buried in there somewhere but it is difficult to identify them until they become active.
In those accounts we have successfully identified 28 attempts at creating sock-puppets which have been disabled automatically. This gives 1.27% of all attempts to create an new account are blocked, which is significantly less that the the claim that 'all new accounts' are being blocked.
The latest UID to be created is 22820.
(Score: 4, Informative) by janrinok on Monday January 02 2023, @03:59PM (4 children)
It is the same for us all - but the journals are still there:
https://soylentnews.org/~insertnamehere/journal/ [soylentnews.org]
Insert the name of the journal that you are interested in and it will take you to their page. Until we can get down to some serious bug squashing this is the best that I can suggest.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday January 02 2023, @04:54PM (1 child)
I wasn't expecting a 'Funny' moderation - it is what I have been doing for several weeks now. It works.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Reziac on Tuesday January 03 2023, @02:46AM
Speaking of things that work, I have mod points back again, so thank you for fixing whatever got fixed!
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by cmdrklarg on Monday January 02 2023, @10:37PM
I figured that would work, but I use it by clicking on a topic, rather than a certain user's journal. I can wait!
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Thursday January 05 2023, @07:00PM
Today I see that they are back! Thank you!
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.