I really, really hope this is good news. I miss the actual "News for nerds" ethos that brought me here, and I've waded through a lot of sponsored "posts" and clickbait to sift out the kernels of actual news that remain.
New/. overlords? Get this site back to "News for nerds" and news that matters, and you'll keep me here.
I don't believe it. Is Slashdot going to stop those ridiculous paid links to forbes.com? What about the relentless left-wing social justice stories that blame nerds for everything wrong in the world? What about constant news-today-gone-tomorrow political stories that are general news, at best? I don't see any of those going away under any kind of new management. Irritating as fuck content has been around since the Jon Katz stories wouldn't stop appearing.
The deal closed less than 24 hours ago. We're going to look at all options in order to improve the experience. And, no, that doesn't mean we're going to roll out a crappy new interface without listening to user feedback. We want to make sure we get it right.
My own leading suggestion: no more AC posting, including from registered users. Let us all be known by our posting histories. Next, modding and posting in replies to the same article should be allowable, so long as it's not in the same thread.
An Edit button, usable until a post is replied to or modded, would also be nice.
My suggestion is to look at the posting history of people who make suggestions while logged in, so you'll see when they're nutters who need to be ignored. QED.
AC's dont want to make a reputation for themselves, so they can be judged on their own merits.
ACs also don't want to be mass down moderated just because someone had to be the adult in the room and state the obvious or wanted to play devil's advocate in order to explore different ends of a position.
If that annoys you, I suggest you get over it else face a boring echo chamber.
Oh, please. If you really fear mass moderation then just register a throw-away account. You're not gaining anonyminity by posting as AC, you're just making it possible for someone to speak on your behalf.
What's the difference between an AC and a throw away account other than the throw away account can be tracked back to someone easier so 8 years from now someone can bring up something that you have long ago changed your mind about and use that to get you fired from your job?
Hell, there are a lot of insightful AC comments made in every story by people just browsing and wanting to add something who otherwise would never create an account.
Do you understand what 'throw away account' means? There is no way for anyone to connect your discarded account to your active one. There's nothing special about AC posting.
Creating a throw away account ties your IP to the posts you write among other things.
That's already happening. AC doesn't mean "We don't record any of that".
The posting IP is not visible to anybody except the Slashdot admins and everybody Snowden has finger-pointed. In fact, if you just use the 'post anonymously' button, as opposed to just not logging in, the account that was used to post that is recorded. They can just flip a switch and, boom, your logged in account is displayed with your comment. In that regard you're actually better off obfuscating that with another account.
The fact that you think AC and a throw away account are the same tells me otherwise.
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"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who *suffers*
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New /. overlords? Get this site back to "News for nerds" and news that matters, and you'll keep me here.
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My own leading suggestion: no more AC posting, including from registered users. Let us all be known by our posting histories. Next, modding and posting in replies to the same article should be allowable, so long as it's not in the same thread.
An Edit button, usable until a post is replied to or modded, would also be nice.
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My suggestion is to look at the posting history of people who make suggestions while logged in, so you'll see when they're nutters who need to be ignored. QED.
AC's dont want to make a reputation for themselves, so they can be judged on their own merits.
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ACs also don't want to be mass down moderated just because someone had to be the adult in the room and state the obvious or wanted to play devil's advocate in order to explore different ends of a position.
If that annoys you, I suggest you get over it else face a boring echo chamber.
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What's the difference between an AC and a throw away account other than the throw away account can be tracked back to someone easier so 8 years from now someone can bring up something that you have long ago changed your mind about and use that to get you fired from your job?
Hell, there are a lot of insightful AC comments made in every story by people just browsing and wanting to add something who otherwise would never create an account.
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Do you understand what 'throw away account' means? There is no way for anyone to connect your discarded account to your active one. There's nothing special about AC posting.
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Creating a throw away account ties your IP to the posts you write among other things.
Wtf, are you even nerds? The fact that you think AC and a throw away account are the same tells me otherwise.
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Creating a throw away account ties your IP to the posts you write among other things.
That's already happening. AC doesn't mean "We don't record any of that".
The posting IP is not visible to anybody except the Slashdot admins and everybody Snowden has finger-pointed. In fact, if you just use the 'post anonymously' button, as opposed to just not logging in, the account that was used to post that is recorded. They can just flip a switch and, boom, your logged in account is displayed with your comment. In that regard you're actually better off obfuscating that with another account.
The fact that you think AC and a throw away account are the same tells me otherwise.
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