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Audioguy was one of the original team who created the existing SoylentNews site. He has stayed with us since that time and has served the community as a sys-admin for over 10 years. It is no exaggeration to say that over the last year or two he has played an almost single-handed role in keeping this site working.
Audioguy has suffered a series of significant personal and medical events over the last 6 months or so. He is now about to commence ophthalmic surgery tomorrow (Wednesday) and is facing other potentially life changing medical issues in the near future. He has, quite understandably and reluctantly, been forced to stand down from his role which was effective from late last week. Unfortunately that has meant that we have lost the ability to correct the current certificates problem. Access to the Linode servers is still controlled by the existing Board and we have experienced additional problems accessing one of our servers by the usual methods. This appears to be common to many staff and has further exacerbated the current problem.
I have written an email to NCommander requesting his assistance in updating the certificates so that the site becomes fully operational again. Your patience is appreciated. What might appear to many in the community to be a relatively minor issue is, behind the scenes, a major blow to the existing team. We have other sys-admins who are ready to pick up the challenge but they do not yet have the necessary access, nor are they yet experienced in managing the beast that that is Slashd.
Returning to audioguy, I am sure that the entire community would wish to join me in thanking him for a decade of support to the site, and to wish him well for the upcoming surgery. He remains one of this community and evidence of his past contributions can be found in numerous bits of code and associated documentation. He has also, for example, been the manager of the technical wiki which has been vital to the support team for all of that period. We are indebted to him.
Good luck for the future, audioguy. Take it easy. Best wishes to you and your family.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Tuesday May 07 2024, @06:28PM (7 children)
No-one is being censored. Deleting comments (which often contain marginally disguised doxxing material) only applies to a single individual. The fact that the information as been compromised by the same person each time does not mean that it is no longer treated as doxxing.
Moderation is an individual thing. If several people decide that your comments are worth up-modding they can do so, likewise if they think that your comments are worthless then they can moderate them appropriately too. Mod bombing is detected by software. There is nobody who appears to be abusing the moderation rules on AC comments.
Anonymous Cowards don't have a preferences page so if you want to be coy and hide your ID then so be it. My comments preference page is working fine.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2024, @07:12PM (6 children)
HA! Look who's being coy.Your charade fails to impress. I'm logged in and you know it (because this thread is for "logged in users only"), but apparently pretend not to. This page [soylentnews.org] comes up without any options at all, can't set karma bias, thresholds, nothing. All other tabs on the prefs page work fine. It's okay, no pressure, it's just an observation
"Often"?, but clearly not always. Regardless, I already proved to you that is a lie, with a link to my deleted comment and everything. I don't care that you do it, only that you lie about it.
And your partisan "mod squads" are abusing the system
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by janrinok on Tuesday May 07 2024, @07:43PM (2 children)
You are falling for ari's propaganda. If you are posting as AC, even if you are logged in, we do not know who you are unless you compromise yourself. If you have changed your IP address then we do NOT know who you are. We have actually described this procedure in the Wiki and it has been there since 2014. I can make a guess, but it is no more than that. If however, you keep using the same set of IPs then it does give an administrator a good steer.
However, this is off-topic by miles. We have a way of reporting defects, feel free to use it please.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2024, @10:05PM (1 child)
That's odd. How can I? You delete all comments you believe are from him, whether they are or not
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Wednesday May 08 2024, @01:06AM
I find it interesting how few people are allegedly affected by this mean policy. I suggest going elsewhere, if you have problems with your stuff being identified with Aristarchus and deleted.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by janrinok on Tuesday May 07 2024, @07:59PM (2 children)
Not a very useful link - it does not tell me who you are. I get a blank comment preferences page (which confirms you have a problem) but no clue as to who it belongs to. In fact it says "This page was generated by a Group of Psycho Geeks for janrinok (52)" but it isn't my page.
I can reproduce the fault on other pages, but my page is displaying correctly. There is a fault - that is now confirmed.
What 'Mod Squad' ? Perhaps people don't like your posts? You seem to think I have far more power and control than is actually the case.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2024, @09:32PM (1 child)
That's all I needed to hear, considering the staffing issues, I'm not really anxious to have it fixed right away.. Who I am is is irrelevant, I'm just assuming everybody sees the same thing I do on their own comments prefs page. If you get the correct page, then something weird is happening.
(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Tuesday May 07 2024, @09:35PM
Agreed - but if you don't raise it as a bug it will never get looked at.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]