The entire membership of shitreadditsays would be first in line for the chopping block if this were applied in any fair and reasonable manner. Yet... somehow I suspect it will be overlooked.
Reddit: Gonna SCRUB these TROLLS right outa my hair
Vast forum site Reddit has added new policies that it hopes will help rein in harassment of its users by its other, not-so-nice, users. The meme-trading portal said it would crack down on online harassment of individuals with the goal of ending it, for the good of the site. "The number one reason Redditors do not recommend …
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Saturday 16th May 2015 01:37 GMT Chozo
<cough> You could use TOR with a proxy chain over your neighbours hacked WiFi and still be uniquely identified by a site. Persistent cookies & simple IP banning are kinda old school these days when it comes to the management of minor cyber miscreants. The techniques have moved on and become truly Machiavellian to the point some of the more unstable ones will believe admin is standing behind them and that all their friends are double agents.
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Monday 18th May 2015 23:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
"as Chozo said, this doesn't help for canvas fingerprinting"
Canvas finger fingerprinting doesn't anything like uniquely identify users, and just upgrading graphics driver will change it.. There are other things like Ever Cookies, but a good cleaner deals with those too....All pretty trivially avoidable...
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Friday 15th May 2015 14:49 GMT Matt Bryant
Re: Crazy Operations Guy Re: "users who want their nude photos scrubbed from the site"
"....Half that site is either strange porn or pure hate." Apparently that's "free speech" in action! Personally, I'm ROFLMAO at how they've suddenly realized how their highbrow, "kumbyah" attitude to free speech (even when defending paedos - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/15/reddit-free-speech-gawker - and creeps - http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/8/6121363/reddit-is-a-failed-state) has been destroyed by the realities of the Web.
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Friday 15th May 2015 23:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Trolls are a minor issue
"Reddit has much, much bigger problems ranging from hate speech "
Free speech is a good thing. That we don't have it sucks. What we currently have is a mild version of North Korea, China, etc.
If you have it and you don't like what it is used for, then you can speak your own views...
If you don't have it, and you have a banned view, then you can't legally express it!
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Friday 15th May 2015 15:21 GMT d3vy
Yes
I thought it was just me!
The meaning of the word is being twisted it used to be someone who took the piss in the most annoying (note ANNOYING not offensive) way possible, it was a bit of an art form...
A great example of the meaning of "trolling" being twisted in the news is this BBC report from last year : https://goo.gl/NAMtKe
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Friday 15th May 2015 21:00 GMT Adrian 4
I agree with you. Trolling is not simple abuse or harrassment. it's a specific type of practical joke.
But you're confusing trolling with trolls. Although the people who perform trolling (as described above) are referred to as trolls, so may many other, more abusive people. So it's perfectly reasonable to describe the sad losers who harass via social media as trolls, even though they're incapable of anything more inventive than name-calling.
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Friday 15th May 2015 14:49 GMT deconstructionist
this parrot is a dead parrot
For me I have left reddit as have a lot of friends , add shadow bans because you happen to downvote something you dislike because of how linked to that thread is mental, it is like a trip to a some backward mid west puritanical backwater where anything consider negative ..like an opinion is frowned apon ...goodbye reddit.
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Saturday 16th May 2015 09:31 GMT ElReg!comments!Pierre
Re: Cameron
You're a bit unfair there. He was considerably less slimy than that. He flat out declared "free speech is not someting we can tolerate anymore" which is quite ballsy. Even with the accompanying "because terrorists, duh" thrown in to placate the sheep. I think he attended the same training workshop as Kim Jong-un.
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Saturday 16th May 2015 15:47 GMT Jim 59
Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that Reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their safety or the safety of those around them
Sounds like a reasonable policy. But beware the repeated use of "safe" and "safety" - here used as in the loony lexicon of US campus madness - where "safe" means "safe from being exposed to new ideas, facts or anything outside my comfort zone". Urgh.
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Saturday 16th May 2015 16:30 GMT Tim Worstal
"Sounds like a reasonable policy. But beware the repeated use of "safe" and "safety" - here used as in the loony lexicon of US campus madness - where "safe" means "safe from being exposed to new ideas, facts or anything outside my comfort zone". Urgh."
Yeah, don't forget this is being brought in by Ellen Pao. You know, the lady who sued the VC firm because they were sexist and didn't promote her. And then lost the case on all and every count? Pao that is, not the VCs?
It's going to veer a lot closer to that university definition than it does to actual incitement to violence, that's fer sure.
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Thursday 11th June 2015 17:23 GMT stringyfloppy
Who the hell cares? It's a privately owned site that the owners let people use for free. They can control it however they want. This (and the more recent shuttering of certain sub-Reddits) is only "news" because Reddit wants to try to rein this in without losing users. Since they don't charge users, the only reason they don't want to lose users is that they exist to sell advertising, or are somehow hoping to sell Reddit.