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While your theory is interesting, if deeply cynical, the thing I find most interesting is that it's the top comment on an 800+ comment discussion when it was le
by skygazer 9y ago
While your theory is interesting, if deeply cynical, the thing I find most interesting is that it's the top comment on an 800+ comment discussion when it was less than a minute old. Do new comments start at the top? I've never noticed that before.
Edit: By the way, regarding the vulnerability, ANY password you use when you first attempt to login as root BECOMES root's new password. (Blank is a red herring.)
So if you're going to test this, maybe use something non-obvious. In a terminal, setting a strong password for root with "sudo passwd" is the quickest mitigation.
Ill-advised, but in a pinch, you can apparently 'secure' a machine you don't otherwise have access to by attempting to log in as root with a long random password you fail to remember. An admin on that machine can later change root's password with a "sudo passwd".
Also, it appears the "dseneableroot -d" command suggested elsewhere here fails in preventing root login.
- JonCox 9y agoI think new comments do get a slight boost initially. But I also think people are venting their frustrations at the very noticeable decline in software quality from Apple over the last 3 years.
- manmal 9y agoThe higher the poster's karma, the higher her comment will be upon posting. This user has almost 6k karma, so it can rise high. Once the comment is at the top for a minute or so, it can stay there if enough people keep upvoting it. Try it and post a top level comment now. I'm pretty sure it won't be at the top initially because you don't have enough karma for that.
- dep_b 9y agoAh thanks, now it makes sense. I always wondered why sometimes my comments went straight to the top. I've lost too much productivity here, clearly! ;)
- manmal 9y agoYeah I only know because I‘ve watched my posts gain better positions when I hit 1k karma (iirc).
- Dangeranger 9y agoI have also seen new comments spring to the top of the conversation, but always assumed they were selected randomly, as some of them were from posters who were fairly new or had a low karma count.
- manmal 9y agoI guess this happens if the other posters are of low karma, or if the other comments are quite old.
- thinkloop 9y agoYes new comments get a bit of time near the top. The amount of time varies based on the amount and quality of other comments.