Anonymous Posting
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cat's out of the bag now, there's little point dumping a bucket of water over the side of a capsizing ocean liner.
For what it's worth, me and @loopback0 have turned off autolikers on some of our bots; that's four less per post now ;)
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Sure, and take anonymous1 thru anonymous999999 while you're at it, make Discourse work to find a usable one.
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it's fine, i'm done championing a blakeyrat cause.
[quote=dischorse]
Let others join the conversationThis topic is clearly important to you – you've posted more than 26% of the replies here.
Are you sure you're providing adequate time for other people to share their points of view, too?
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Screw them, they can learn to type faster then.
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I wonder if Dischorse will shit itself when it gets to @anonymous234 and finds it in use?
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Paraphase:
Stop using the forum to post messages. That's not what it's for!
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nah, will probably just give that user control over his account preferences and let them see his email address.
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I wondered about that, too. There's a bunch of anonymous* names that came in with the import.
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That 26%+ posting toaster can't even tell when the topic ONLY HAS THREE OR LESS PEOPLE IN IT.
or did they finally fix that nonsense? I'm pretty sure I remember getting it in 1v1 PM conversations if you post more than 1 consecutive response.
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To be honest (and I was just being lazy which is why I didn't do it before) it was overdue, there's been a few comments about bot volume in T-1000 recentlyish.
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I'm pretty sure I remember getting it in 1v1 PM conversations if you post more than 1 consecutive response.
No, you still get those in PMs. As well as the "Try multiple replies in a single post" toaster.
PMs are topics, yo.
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Subtext:
Everyone should just stop posting and go read Jeff's blog...
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No, you still get those in PMs. As well as the "Try multiple replies in a single post" toaster.
PMs are topics, yo.
Just. Wat.
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Fun fact: I have this username because, whenever I needed a throwaway account for reddit, I just used "anonymousX" for both username and password, where X is a random number between 0 and 999 (though surprisingly most of them are already taken).
So when making an account here I just chose the first number I thought of, 234,
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You really don't see the difference between knowing who's trolling and who isn't?
The content's the same either way. The way you flag posts is presumably the same either way. So no, I don't, frankly.
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Oh.
In that case, sod it; let's just not have anonymous posting.
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I'm honestly not against having it. I'm just genuinely curious why you think it should be limited to a select group of people due to potential "abuse".
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Oh wait, they're not even PMs any more.
Ms are topics, yo.
(Also - Discotoaster)
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no one wanting to get bot-spammed by posting in it anymore.
Wasn't getting spammed the entire point of t/1000? Seems a bit pointless to blame that on bots.
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Wasn't getting spammed the entire point of t/1000? Seems a bit pointless to blame that on bots.
But equally, if it's annoying people, it's a simple task to stop autoliking ;)
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Wasn't getting spammed the entire point of t/1000? Seems a bit pointless to blame that on bots.
for some reason human created spam feels a little more warm and friendly. It was a confirmation that a real person with eyeballs actually just viewed the thing that was there.
Plus, when humans are doing it and you're sitting in the topic, duckwhores has time to realize that you've already seen that your post was liked, and it seemed to mark the notification as read automatically, rather than shitting itself and not being able to figure out not just whether you saw you were liked, but whether the post even exists to itself yet.
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you think it should be limited to a select group of people
That seems pointless to me. The only reason I see to allow anonymous posting would be to allow front-page comments without creating an account, like we used to be able to do. That doesn't look like something that will, nor even can, happen.
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From Sam:
Mainly commenting about the "burning".
But there's pushback against the "single anon account" idea, since it makes it hard to track a conversation. Jeff was strongly against that when it was discussed previously.
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Ms are topics, yo.
Wasn't there something about "private" makes people think that they can swap credit card numbers using them or some other malarkey?
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Well, I am wondering if that is a correct approach I am possibly thinking of making all posts for all anon come from one account.
It basically becomes a severe abuse vector, but tries to protect identity a bit better. At the end of the day an IP address is tracked somewhere (even NGINX log) so admins can tie back.
I am so torn on the feature, on one hand I hate it and you can workaround with sock puppets anyway, on the other hand on a site discussing sensitive medical stuff it ... may ... be useful.
'm honestly not against having it. I'm just genuinely curious why you think it should be limited to a select group of people due to potential "abuse".
There needs to be trust level parity between anon and master account, otherwise you can escape out of TL0 immediately making your forum effectively start at TL1
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Wasn't there something about "private"
This thread, for one: https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-private-message-to-message-individual/26795
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Well that actually makes sense, but I'm talking to IconProUK who was all like, "MAKE IT TRUST LEVEL 4747777 IMMEDIATELY!" and I don't see the point to that.
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making all posts for all anon come from one account.
That's more sensible than anonymous1, anonymous2 etc.It basically becomes a severe abuse vector
Yeah but so do
sock puppets
And you can't fix that.
on the other hand on a site discussing sensitive medical stuff it ... may ... be useful.
I sort of understand where you're coming from, but I don't understand the use case. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, and honestly it's a bit of a moo point as it needs to be enabled (I assume the default is off?).
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Yeah - @nightware beat me to it.
Filed under: Fuck - checking posts before making one. Multi quoting. I've been Dischorse'd.
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Absolutely, making this default on would be crazy.
I assumed (as it's you) but thought it best to check.
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making all posts for all anon come from one account
What about, each topic is a separate domain for anon posting? If I'm the first person to post anonymously in this thread, I'll get anonymous1, then I move to /t/1000 and I'll be posting as anonymous99. Keeps the ability to see conversations, but removes any usefulness of post history per anon account
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At least for those of us migrated from CS, we all have the same join date (and time, at least for the couple I checked), so there is a fairly large group of us that would potentially remain indistinguishable.
That’s something that should be fixed by @ben_lubar’s import script, IMHO.
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Did that, I guess we should try to bribe @wood.
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It'll only be available to TL4+
On meta.d, yes.
It defaults to TL1 (and off) currently.
[pjh@sofa discourse]$ grep anonymous_posting_min_trust_level . -r -B1 -A1 ./config/site_settings.yml- client: true ./config/site_settings.yml: anonymous_posting_min_trust_level: ./config/site_settings.yml- default: 1 <snip>
And from what I've seen so far, I'm disinclined to enable it here, even for 'testing.'
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Otherwise, it doesn't matter if I get 10 anonymous posts from 5 people or 50 anonymous posts from 1 person, it's just as much a problem either way.
Not from a moderation perspective. Dealing with 1 user is a lot less work than dealing with 5.
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Wasn't getting spammed the entire point of t/1000? Seems a bit pointless to blame that on bots.
Yeah, I think people just got out of the habit of posting there. More activity in the Status thread these days.
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You really don't see the difference between knowing who's trolling and who isn't?
Implying that there's someone here who's not trolling...
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That… was very badly phrased on my part
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if it's annoying people, it's a simple task to stop autoliking
Blakey, as he has repeatedly pointed out, is not a person but a persona.
Annoy away.
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Jeff was strongly against that when it was discussed previously.
That in itself is reason to do it.
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Blakey, as he has repeatedly pointed out, is not a person but a persona.
Blakey also doesn't post in /t/1000
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He did a few times.
He doesn't anymore though becauseOMG forumpointzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!11111oneoneeleven
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Not from a moderation perspective. Dealing with 1 user is a lot less work than dealing with 5.
I specifically said, "assuming they are actually anonymous" in my post.
50 posts is 50 posts.
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Did that, I guess we should try to bribe @wood.
I wonder how much money fixing the godamned quoting is worth to him...
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Did that, I guess we should try to bribe @wood.
Now you're getting it. Paypal details will follow in a blog post.