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You will give someone a piece of your mind, which you can ill afford.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05, @11:09AM (10 children)
This is getting ridiculous. It is not me, janrinok, it is the other AC who is complaining. I never complain. Once again you fall prey to the Dunning-Koeger syndrome, you are not smart enough to know that you don't know. If I were to tell you who I am, I would say, "Hey, janrinok, its me! You know, this AC!" and you would say,"Hey, unique and peculiar AC, how's it hanging?" And we would be friends forever. But this is not what is happening. You are leaping to conclusions without being introduced, and deleting and censoring based on your own illicit presumption. This is a very bad way to manage a discussion site. And now we are enemies forever! It did not have to be this way. And you can still mend your ways. And apology for mistaking me for a different AC would be a good place to start.
(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday April 05, @11:35AM (2 children)
Previously post 26 times. Spam
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05, @08:04PM (1 child)
This is getting ridiculous. It is not me, janrinok, it is the other AC who is complaining. I never complain. Once again you fall prey to the Dunning-Koeger syndrome, you are not smart enough to know that you don't know. If I were to tell you who I am, I would say, "Hey, janrinok, its me! You know, this AC!" and you would say,"Hey, unique and peculiar AC, how's it hanging?" And we would be friends forever. But this is not what is happening. You are leaping to conclusions without being introduced, and deleting and censoring based on your own illicit presumption. This is a very bad way to manage a discussion site. And now we are enemies forever! It did not have to be this way. And you can still mend your ways. And apology for mistaking me for a different AC would be a good place to start.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05, @08:54PM
You are the Great Cornholio [youtube.com] and I claim my $5.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 06, @05:08PM (6 children)
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 06, @08:52PM (5 children)
"Sometimes in politics, and in history, a malignant force must simply be defeated, and then defeated again, and then defeated again. That is where we are."
Dr. David P. Gushee, a Christian ethics professor
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday April 06, @10:51PM (1 child)
When will you defeat yourself as a malignant force and do something interesting with your life? It's a nuisance for us, but it must really suck for you.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07, @10:06AM
My least favorite stories are the ones where khallow takes an interest, and feels compelled to give us his "take" on it. Usually political, but endlessly boring, almost like he owned a company, and was on the spectrum. Science stories are good, even though they do not get a lot of comments, especially from khallow.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday April 07, @04:12AM (2 children)
Posted multiple times previously.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07, @08:13PM (1 child)
Parent posted multiple times. Such pathetic and tiresome Spam!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 12, @08:12PM
This! [rawstory.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by turgid on Saturday April 05, @11:34AM (7 children)
My favourites here are the really interesting science stories, particularly when there's something new in Physics and Astronomy. Next would be FOSS topics and programming languages. It's difficult to keep on top of all the things I'm interested in and I really appreciate when people submit good stories and journal discussions here. The ability to discuss the topics below the line is great. There are some very knowledgeable, helpful people here and I really appreciate their input. Which reminds me, I must try to renew my subscription again.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 5, Insightful) by zocalo on Saturday April 05, @12:25PM (1 child)
That said, I'd much prefer a decent mix of stories across all the poll options than a heavy bias towards any one in particular, including a few randoms and even political/financial/current affairs/creative arts type topics if there's a reasonable angle or it's just something that feels important enough to discuss. I'm quite happy with the current mix, really - you can always skip a story if it doesn't interest you.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 07, @10:47PM
Like most, I voted for Science, but really I'm here for the variety. I like the fact that we get a variety of stories, and presumably a more refined selection from each category.
I'd much rather see one good Cybersecurity story per day, mixed with a good Software, a good Hardware, a good Science story, instead of 15 Cybersecurity stories.
🌻🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Touché) by VLM on Saturday April 05, @05:37PM (4 children)
Huh good reminder, subscription reminders would be a funny future poll topic. I have also renewed as of this morning
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07, @05:11AM (1 child)
How long does it take for you to notice when your subscription to SN expires?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday April 07, @08:00AM
You can opt to have an email warning you of the need to renew the subscription by selecting the appropriate option on your personal page ('Messages' - 'Subscription Running Low' or 'Subscription Expired').
However, while a lapsed subscription prevents a few remaining perks from being available, there is no obligation to subscribe if all you wish to do is participate in discussions. That is entirely free and will remain so.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 09, @10:42PM (1 child)
There, FTFY
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday April 10, @03:29PM
I had been drinking beer and typed that without wearing my glasses. That's my excuse.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Vocal Minority on Sunday April 06, @04:57AM (5 children)
Articles have topics?!
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday April 06, @06:04AM (4 children)
Assuming this is a genuine surprise, each story has an icon attached to it which indicates under which topic it is published. You can also filter stories by topic (in your personal settings) so you do not see the ones that you do not want to see.
Part of the editors role is to ensure that we have a mix of topics and we try not to publish stories from the same topic next to each other. It isn't always possible but most of the time it is.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 2) by The Vocal Minority on Sunday April 06, @09:24AM (3 children)
Hmmm, fascinating :P
What I meant to say was that even though the topics are there, I barely even notice them.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday April 06, @01:58PM (2 children)
I thought that you couldn't have gone 11 years without noticing them - but I have been asked some rather surprising questions in the last 2 years or so, things that I thought everyone knew.
I will accept the whoosh but my defence is as stated above!
Enjoy what remains of your weekend! (It is Sunday afternoon here.)
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 16, @11:07PM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness [wikipedia.org] (an aspect of selective attention) is a very powerful "defect" in our perception of the visual world. It has caused a number of serious incidents and accidents even in situations where they are actively looking for the thing they just can't see because they aren't looking in the right way. In fact, my friend is a pilot and they teach them specific techniques both to activate and recheck items to prevent this sort of inattention causing an accident. The reason why they do that is because of an accident (Lot flight 16) where a missed breaker caused the landing gear to fail to deploy. It shouldn't be a surprise that someone scanning textual headlines and bodies misses otherwise "obvious" graphical cues.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday April 17, @05:57AM
As former military aircrew myself I am fully aware of this phenomenon. We are taught several techniques to confirm data that we 'think' we have read or which we might have missed completely is correct. I, along with many others, don't seem to use them on the internet. I must practice it more often.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by pTamok on Sunday April 06, @01:44PM
It's probably Meta - information about the running of the site itself. I'm interested in making sure that SN sticks around.
For the topics I'm most interested in, I have more focussed sites - SN is great for me sticking my head out of the echo chamber and seeing new interesting stuff. Doomscrolling on Mastodon is not nearly as effective use of my time as far as Signal/Noise ratio is concerned.
So, for me, the most interesting topic on SN is about SN itself. Which is either meta, or recursive, or both.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by KritonK on Tuesday April 08, @04:46AM
Um... all of the above? I wouldn't be visiting SN on a daily basis, if only some articles were interesting.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 12, @01:36AM
I love the articles where janrinok starts smack talking the Yanks, calling them names, and starting the War of 1812 all over again. Can we have more of those?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 12, @10:39PM (4 children)
Why is IRC locked down? No one can report problems, or ask for help? Abandon Hope, indeed!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 15, @01:36AM (3 children)
IRC is broken. Appears to be deliberate. All discussion is disruptive, it appears.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday April 15, @05:43AM (2 children)
It is not broken. Other people are using it everyday. Your attempts to create new accounts may be having problems though.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 16, @09:28PM (1 child)
Why are you banning new accounts, janrinok? What are you afraid of? Has Trump put a 1000% tariff on new SN accounts?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday April 17, @10:22AM
We are not banning new accounts. New accounts are being created regularly.
However, when someone creates a sock-puppet account with an email address that does not exist then there is no reason to assume that they wish to participate in our site, which includes IRC. You know, the sort of accounts that nanobeezulbub, postmortuum, and phaeton are, and that is only the last few days.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 13, @07:53PM (8 children)
Once again spam mods are being abused against anyone critical of janrinok because he just can't tell who is ari and who is not. Thankfully the site rules are so vague the admins have plausible excusability for their personal bias. Too blunt criticism with mean words? spam! Someone pushing racism, genocide, and hatred? Free speech! Someone telling Murricans to "do something" while everything non-viilent is being done? Totally fine opinions with plausible deniability of instigating violence. Do note that this is not a call to censor anyone, quite the opposite. Though some staffers seem to accuse others of silencing while they literally do so themselves.
Can't handle criticisms? Maybe get off a public forum. Criticize back, don't resort to censorship like giant snowflakes.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 13, @07:57PM
At least they are aware enough to know that yes, it is the weekend even if near the end for those in the EU. Replied to myself because that was the style at the time.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 14, @11:14AM (6 children)
Abuse? Think of it as more of a service, wherein janrinok corrects our wrongthing, and helps us unremember. How many lights?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 14, @01:30PM (5 children)
It has been wild seeing the progression, and so much effort pretending the obvious is not happening. My favorite was the months long study of mod abuse derailed by a disk full database wipe. Such stunning incompetence of server management and backup systems. Worst part is it is plausible enough, but when you view the larger patterns at work on the site it becomes hard to ignore how discussions are controlled and bad actors promoted. Even the resident centrist Who keeps making personas has had to take sanity leave, the burden of defending the indefensible takes a toll, more so if a person does not realize what they are truly doing.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday April 14, @01:52PM (4 children)
So you will be making a formal complaint at last? No, I guess not. You make think others have forgotten your past - I haven't.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 14, @08:59PM
To repeat, in case you missed it, Fuck you, janrinok! That is all.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 15, @01:40AM (2 children)
This is getting ridiculous. It is not me, janrinok, it is the other AC who is complaining. I never complain. Once again you fall prey to the Dunning-Koeger syndrome, you are not smart enough to know that you don't know. If I were to tell you who I am, I would say, "Hey, janrinok, its me! You know, this AC!" and you would say,"Hey, unique and peculiar AC, how's it hanging?" And we would be friends forever. But this is not what is happening. You are leaping to conclusions without being introduced, and deleting and censoring based on your own illicit presumption. This is a very bad way to manage a discussion site. And now we are enemies forever! It did not have to be this way. And you can still mend your ways. An apology for mistaking me for a different AC would be a good place to start.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday April 15, @05:45AM (1 child)
Posted 9 times in the last 3 months. Spam.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 16, @12:43AM
This is getting ridiculous. It is not me, janrinok, it is the other AC who is/are complaining. I never complain. Once again you fall prey to the Dunning-Kroeger syndrome, you are too smart enough to know that you don't know.
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If I were to tell you who I am, I would say, "Hey, janrinok, its me! You know, this AC!" and you would say,"Hey, unique and peculiar AC, how's it hanging?" And we would be friends forever. But this is not what is happening. You are leaping to conclusions without being introduced, and deleting and censoring based on your own illicit presumption. This is a very bad way to manage a discussion site. And now we are enemies forever! It did not have to be this way. And you can still mend your ways. And apology for mistaking me for a different AC would be a good place to start.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Put your faith in a higher editor, and just do it, janrinok! Apologize.