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Sunday May 12, 19
05:20 PM
A reminder of why we're here., my comments on the infamous Beta.
Feel free to post your motives for bailing on "that other site" below.
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I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 12 2019, @06:12PM
Dicking around with a Good Thing™ is always a Bad Thing™. In this case, Dice was trying hard to monetize /. and SourceForge, and damn whatever the community wanted. I saw no future, and obviously, eventually Dice saw no future either. They sold it all when they fianally realized that.
It's good that /. has survived, and continues today. I didn't expect it to, is why I left.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 12 2019, @08:40PM (20 children)
I had been on the green site since 1997 and liked its format of registered and unregistered users both being allowed to comment. Yes, it attracted abuse like GNAA, hot grits and the penis bird, but it enabled frank and free discussions on every subject matter.
The green site had become more javascripty and commercial over the years, so I limited myself to cursory reading, but I joined the slashcott when it was clear that the users were only the "audience".
This site is great, I support it monetarily and thank the wonderful volunteers that run it. The comment load is small enough that I read every comment. I detect that there is a mod bombing troupe that studiously up votes comments of users on the SJW side and down votes opposing comments. Conversely the non-SJW side isn't as organized here. Yet they can't censor any voice from us browsing at -1.
I never post except as AC. In this day and age, associating your identity with a post on a "relaxed" site like SN can't give you much benefit, but can lead to much grief IRL. That's why I am strongly opposed to any measures that get brought up from time to time of reducing the voice of anonymous posters. Such a regimen will lead to uniformity of opinion, the bounds of which will be dictated by self-appointed guardians of propriety.
(Score: 4, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday May 12 2019, @09:37PM (2 children)
Magnificent vocabulary, you sound very well "educated." That's OK, we love the well educated. But, you're wrong about one thing. When you say, "they can't censor any voice." They can. And, they do. Look at story about The Great Replacement. And the headline of that one, they don't call it The Great Replacement. They call it, The US White Majority Will Soon Disappear Forever. Look at, the tweets to that one by The Mighty Buzzard. This is someone that is very powerful in the Soylent News Administration. Who has a lot of experience with that. And he saw someone tweeting as Anomalous Coward -- like you -- he didn't like the Tweets. Because it was too many Tweets -- all from one person. And he wanted to shut that person up, he didn't press the Ban Button. He pressed, SPAM Mod -- many times. And said about the other person, "he lost AC posting privs." Meaning, that other person couldn't tweet as Anomalous Coward. Because The Mighty Buzzard put the Algorithm on him. Something they also did to me. Because, I assume, they hate what I say. And, what I do. I call it, Draining the Swamp and Making America Great Again. They call it, SPAM. And possibly you'll be the last one they ban -- you sound so Elite and they think their Aristocrats. Or possibly you'll be the next one that's banned. Who knows? But, they can do it. And, they do it. Don't kid yourself. And, don't try to kid us!!!!
(Score: 4, Informative) by Snow on Monday May 13 2019, @04:03PM (1 child)
TMB admitted to his error and publicly apologized.
We all make mistakes, but how we handle them is what makes a person's character.
As I recall, special accommodations were also made towards you when you were spam bombed.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday May 13 2019, @08:13PM
They gave me the special treatment, that's true. When they left a SPAM Mod -- or 2 -- on me for many months. And that was over a year. Until the different person from the Administration looked into it and said, "oh yes, that(or those) is unfair." And finally reversed it. But long after that, I wanted to tweet something as Anomalurus Coward. I love getting my name out there, sometimes it's a problem when we put our name out there. It's known as DISCREET, right? This was maybe a week ago. And I wasn't allowed. Why, I don't know. Few days later and I'm allowed -- why, I don't know. And I don't know how long the "Unban" will last.
The Mighty Buzzard, do you want to call it an apology? He's punishing himself. For doing something that's not "allowed." It's going to be allowed -- for everybody. He's doing, the Rule that says it's OK. So interesting that, here's the guy that, so many times decides about the SPAM Mods. Whether to leave them, or take them away. And he decided to put on a bunch of them. The same guy putting them on and deciding about the keeping. Little bit of a conflict of interest there, right? That was very special and that, by the way is allowed. The Administration has always been allowed to put on SPAM Mods. That's not what he's punishing himself for. He's punishing himself for going against the Rule about the putting on. But very soon the Rule will say what he wants it too say.
SPAM Mod, if you think about it. The only reason they have that one is so folks can be banned very quickly. They have so many Down, or negative Mods. But that one, they say it's "special." And they say "Our goal is to put a spammer in Karma Hell and for them to not be able to get out of it easily." Karma Hell being a nice way to say, banned -- or Semi Banned. Where somebody's Tweets show up with a very low, or negative Score. And they can only do a few tweets, like one every other day. Something like that. Hasn't happened to me -- yet. Because, I assume, I'm the President. But it's happened to a lot of people. It happened to XivLacuna. And, it happened to Fakefuck39. A lot of people.
NPC-131072, I think you saw Little Baker Girl's journal about that one. Where she's crusading to get that person banned -- along with me and some others. Look at story about, I Made a Smart Watch from Scratch. And NPC-131072 tweeted something very Politically Correct on that one. Saying, "oh, end white supremacy." SPAM Mod on that and the Administration has left that one for now, almost 2 weeks. Because, possibly it wasn't Politically Correct enough.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 12 2019, @09:41PM (11 children)
Big fat LAWL over here, you must be one of the libcon circlejerkers that downmods anything critical of the bigot brigade. Classic projection as always, and I would wager you're one of the ACs trying to make Aristarchus look bad by false flagging him all over the comment sections.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday May 12 2019, @11:30PM (10 children)
Ugh, now someone is pretending to be Ari-as-AC to discredit him? That's low.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @01:44AM (2 children)
Most of the time I just ignore the name of the poster and assume everything is from ACs. Saves me a lot of time trying to dope out who-said-what. If I think a post is good/interesting, them I might look back up to see if there is a named author.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @06:21PM (1 child)
It is sadder when you do that and realize just how many of the terrible posts on this site match Aristarchus' typing style exactly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @08:13AM
But some of the AC posts by aristarchus, are not actually by aristarchus, which is exactly aristarchus' intent behind posting as the AC aristarchus, because, then, we are all aristarchus! I am aristarchus! Are you aristarchus! We are all aristarchus! #FreeAristarchus! And send Britanny back home.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 13 2019, @04:22AM (6 children)
Or maybe it's Ari pretending to be Ari-as-AC? The possibilities are endless and deliciously vague!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 13 2019, @04:36AM (5 children)
Shit like this is why I refuse to post AC. Unlikely someone could precisely mimic my style either. I'm surprised people don't consider this a risk if they post AC in such a way that it's obvious it's them.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Sulla on Monday May 13 2019, @07:05PM (4 children)
Thomas Paine, Common Sense
The only posts that matter are AC posts, they are the only posts that can truly rise or fall only on the merit of the idea without influence of who wrote them
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday May 14 2019, @03:38AM (3 children)
Then why do we have accounts?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @06:10AM (2 children)
Nonsense question.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday May 14 2019, @06:40AM (1 child)
Oh, not at all. If AC posts are the "only ones that count," it follows that non-AC posts don't count for anything, which raises the question, why then have accounts?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @06:16PM
Been thinking about that. I think its primarily because people like to form cliques and like continuity. It can be useful to know that all EF type posts are made by EF. The issue is that when EF makes a post that is insightful (happens in a blue moon) it is likely to be discounted because it is by EF and the idea cannot stand on its own.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @06:50PM (4 children)
It is not as bad as it was a year ago. It also depends on the age of the article. In the first eight or so hours of an article the comment load leans SJW but after that things tend to level back out and go in a more libertarian direction. But in general I think the moderation of a post doesn't matter much because it seems like most people surf at 0 or -1 to catch the AC posts.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday May 13 2019, @08:20PM (2 children)
It matters for the ban. Which they don't call the ban, they call it the Algorithm. And AC -- Anomalurus Coward -- can get banned. By getting enough Negative, or Down Mods.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @02:15AM (1 child)
And AC -- Anomalurus Coward -- can get banned. By getting enough Negative, or Down Mods.
Yes, this is what *the girl* does to us. She's very abusive with her privileges.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 14 2019, @08:19AM
Oh, dear, my tiny handed Donald! You have no idea! If you are IP banned, it is because you are not too bright about the cyber. I think you should be, for not being so smart about the cyber. In fact, I think you should be banned from the cyber, just for being such an incompetent troll. Impeach now! Impeach later! Just fucking impeach the incompetent stupid idiotic bastard with the tiny hands and no money, Brokahontus! Fake Wealth! Fake Republican! Fake Father! No wish the Mother's in his life a Happy Mother's Day? If this was the Mafia, some one would do the honors.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 19 2019, @09:25AM
There is no "libertarian" direction. Libertarianism is empty and directionless. Do you mean conservative? Which means Republican? Or alt-right bat-shit John Bolton cray-cray!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 13 2019, @04:29AM