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New features (Site News)
By janra Tue Oct 18th, 2005 at 03:42:59 AM EST
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Account anonymization on Kuro5hin is a blunt tool at best with which to enforce community standards. It doesn't let the user know what behaviour crossed the line, and it doesn't let the other admins know what behaviour crossed the line either. (The admin that did the anonymization can leave a note, if they choose.) It also doesn't let the admins see what accounts the other admins think are worth watching.
Some time ago, rusty wrote the backend portions of a warning and abuse reporting system, and I got bored at work one day last month and wrote the final interface bits.
Update [2005-10-20 2:27:27 by janra]: A few clarifications seem to be in order... see inside.
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New Users Re-opened (Site News)
By rusty Tue Jul 13th, 2004 at 01:14:07 PM EST
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Well, tmenezes stern demands in the queue cowed me.* And the general opinion, amongst both users and staff here, was that sponsorship was a stupid idea. In principle, I don't agree (though it did need some changes from the original concept), but I'm willing to go along with the tide. Hopefully I will get a chance to try out sponsorship somewhere else in the future. So new user accounts are open again, without any changes.
We've had a bit of a cooling off period, I've kicked out a pretty hefty number of idiots (who I expect to have to kick out again and again, but what the hell). There are a few more people with the powers and mandate to keep an eye on new users and nip the annoying ones in the bud. There are also a couple features coming to help the rest of you let us know who is being a jerk.
Meanwhile, those of you who've emailed me asking when you could get an account, the time is now. Enjoy.
* No, not really. Actually they would have been open before he posted that, but I had to get Voxel to fix a problem with our mail server.
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K5 Monthly Update, November 2003 (Site News)
By rusty Wed Dec 3rd, 2003 at 11:56:43 PM EST
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Pay no attention to that timestamp above.
To be perfectly honest, I have little to say about K5 for November. Besides the fiction contest, which I'm sure you're all aware of already, nothing very interesting happened here behind the scenes.
So instead I'm going to use this bully pulpit to call for a vote on an issue which has come up with increasing frequency and which I do not know the right answer to. The short question is, should people be given the tools to delete everything they ever posted here if and when they decide to leave, and if so, how? Read on for more background, and please vote. I will hold to what the vote shows two weeks from today.
Update [2003-12-4 0:39:38 by rusty]: See update at the bottom of the story for an additonal point.
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I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords (Site News)
By rusty Wed Nov 5th, 2003 at 11:24:31 PM EST
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Just a note about the new story ads. I used to have a "default" story ad in the rotation, padding out the paid ad impressions so they didn't all run through in a day. You know, "Advertise here...". You've all seen it a billion times. I decided that was kind of silly, and also noticed the fact that there are, right now, no user-submitted story page ads in rotation. So I set up an account with Google's adsense, and those will now be the "default" ads. You can still buy story ads, and they'll show up like they used to, but when there aren't any, Google's adsense ads will run instead. They're not very different from what we already had so it shouldn't be a huge shock. I just thought I should mention it. The index page ads are unaffected.
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Comment Rating Changes (Site News)
By rusty Mon Oct 6th, 2003 at 05:27:38 PM EST
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It's been pretty clear for a while that the comment ratings system isn't entirely working the way we'd intended it to. I know some of you have the impression that I'm the type to say "It's perfect! There is nothing wrong! You are a scurrilous troll for suggesting there might be!" but that's actually not true. I just don't usually change things unless I think I've got something better to change it to, and for a long time, I didn't have much in the way of good ideas for what to do.
I think I've finally come up with some changes that might do more good than harm, though. They're at least worth a try. If you're reading this, then the new system should be currently running, so read on for a description of what's different and why.
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