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[Kagus]

Brave New World for two dollars?

That's a two-buck Hux.

[Akura]

About to move the first load of my things into the new house.

Probably going to be without internet for a few days once we start settling in; I haven't even called my internet provider to make the transfer.

[NJW2000]

About to move the first load of my things into the new house.

Probably going to be without internet for a few days once we start settling in; I haven't even called my internet provider to make the transfer.

Congrats! You're the guy with the insane stepdad, and this constitutes a movement away from him, right?

Great news! Well done for getting out of there!

[Akura]

Uh, no. Still living with them, but it's a house the we actually own instead of one formerly owned(foreclosed) by a rat-bastard who owes tens of thousands in back taxes and mortgage that's actually in the process of being sold.

Still a significant improvement.

[Reelya]

Slashdot *finally* removed the anonymous coward posting thing. And good riddance. Most anon posts consisted of gay-bashing of named users, and various racist spam.

[overseer05-15]

Slashdot *finally* removed the anonymous coward posting thing. And good riddance. Most anon posts consisted of gay-bashing of named users, and various racist spam.

Now there's going to be burner account cowards.

[wierd]

Yes and no... Slashdot does track IPs.

[Yoink]

I dunno what Slashdot is but I'm sure these folks could get themselves a VPN if they really wanted to.

[wierd]

Slashdot is one of the oldest news aggregators on the internet, having been in continuous operation since the 90s. (early 90s at that.)  It caters principally to technology nerds, hence the tagline: "News for Nerds; Stuff that matters."

As part of its long time tradition, it has allowed anonymous comments, but initially placed at visibility threshold of 0. (It only goes one lower, -1, for really offensive content.)  the intention, was that occasionally an industry insider might comment, and wish to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.

However, Eternal September finally caught up with slashdot after the whole "No, we will no longer host 8chan, because of how inflammatory it is" from cloudflare.  Slashdot decided that allowing anonymous comments, which as Reelya points out, had become 99% race-hate bait, and alt-sexual user bashing, needed to finally be done away with.

Part of me is happy that all those swastika ascii-art flood posts, and worthless shit from APK (a notorious troll) are finally dead.  Another part feels sorrow that anon posting has been killed to accomplish it, because anon posting is required for true free speech.  (Part of having free speech, is accepting speech you find disfavorable.)

[KittyTac]

Between that and crushing 8chan, good riddance.

[Reelya]

Slashdot *finally* removed the anonymous coward posting thing. And good riddance. Most anon posts consisted of gay-bashing of named users, and various racist spam.

Now there's going to be burner account cowards.

No there won't be, or it'll be literally 0.01% as bad as it was. Every single story was being spammed by trolls repeating the same cut-and-paste offensive stuff. Now that they have to sign in, that stuff has just disappeared.

trolling is about minimum effort for maximum mayhem. Posting costs themselves time, but the payoff is that it inconveniences someone else, who has to try and read past the spam, and it inconveniences the moderator who must delete it. All while costing the spammer mere seconds.

If you make it require an account they have two choices: first, make a separate email and account for literally every post they do (which ensures not all posts can be deleted at once). This would inconvenience the troll far more than their victims, who merely have to click a "report" button and the post is deleted. Or, they can make one account and use it for multiple troll spam posts. The disadvantage of this choice is that trolls are also trying to inconvenience the moderators, and re-using the account means they can just delete all your posts at the account level with a single click.

[wierd]

Considering that 99% of it was copy-pasta, A simple ruleset against anonymous cowards, coupled with a post cooldown (which they already have) if an anon tried to post that shit, frustrating any further attempts, would have fixed the problem without resorting to hard-core "No more anon posts" as the solution.  (EG, train a simple filter against the offensive flood posts in question, since they ALWAYS followed the exact same formulae, structure, and verbiage. Literally copy-pasta in the case of swastika asshole.)

As stated, I feel anon posts are required for proper discussion, and killing them as fallout from 8chan is a chilling effect I find very disfavorable. 

I am not sad do see APK finally shut the fuck up, and for the GNAA asshole to likewise, shut the fuck up.  Those two had it a long time coming.  I am just miffed that they broke an important part of free discussion in the process of being assholes.

Slashdot *finally* removed the anonymous coward posting thing. And good riddance. Most anon posts consisted of gay-bashing of named users, and various racist spam.

Now there's going to be burner account cowards.

No there won't be, or it'll be literally 0.01% as bad as it was. Every single story was being spammed by trolls repeating the same cut-and-paste offensive stuff. Now that they have to sign in, that stuff has just disappeared.

trolling is about minimum effort for maximum mayhem. Posting costs themselves time, but the payoff is that it inconveniences someone else, who has to try and read past the spam, and it inconveniences the moderator who must delete it. All while costing the spammer mere seconds.

If you make it require an account they have two choices: first, make a separate email and account for literally every post they do (which ensures not all posts can be deleted at once). This would inconvenience the troll far more than their victims, who merely have to click a "report" button and the post is deleted. Or, they can make one account and use it for multiple troll spam posts. The disadvantage of this choice is that trolls are also trying to inconvenience the moderators, and re-using the account means they can just delete all your posts at the account level with a single click.

There's also the point of fact about how slashdot moderation works;  Each user has a "Karma" score, based on how other registered users have received that user's comments.  This score can be either positive, or negative.  Positive karma results in a user's postings getting an immediate visibility of +1 or +2, and negative karma results in it getting 0 or -1, depending on just how bad that karma is.

Reusing a troll account would QUICKLY get to -1 levels of karma, and IIRC-- there are consequences for that happening.

[Hanslanda]

I have upgraded to 40 pushups at a time and did 400 today. I'm gettin fit

[KateyKitsune]

Hello everyone, Max introduced me to here

[TD1]

Hello, and welcome!

As for Max introducing you.... we have just finished having a discussion about how many Maxs there are on this forum