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Well I'm still here... Hang on, there's somebody at the door and I can hear helicopters...... <NO CARRIER>

• icey 17y ago
  I don't suppose there's any way we can nip the "registering throwaway accounts to make a joke" thing in the bud before it gets out of hand, is there?
  • noonespecial 17y ago
    I think a short waiting period before being able to post might solve a lot of problems at once. If you had to wait 24 hours after registering an account before your could post a comment, how many spam, joke posts, and throwaway accounts wouldn't happen?
    • RobGR 17y ago
      Yeah, but a lot of really interesting posts wouldn't happen either. I once had this conversation via email with one of the slashdot guys. He was considering banning AnnoymousCoward back then, and asked if I could point to any worthy posts that might have been posted by a signed account, and I pointed him to a thread in which an AC who claimed to be ex-FBI had some pretty insightful and thoughtful comments on police corruption and warrantless searches and such. He acknowledged it was a good example but said it was the only one he had seen thus far.
      • jacquesm 17y ago
        in spite of all the trolling some of the very best stuff on /. is by ac posters. It's the one reason I still read it at -1 but I make sure I don't read it while I'm eating.
• dpcan 17y ago
  How about the ability to FLAG a comment as "supposed to be funny", then we can opt to show the funny comments or not individually.
  • mahmud 17y ago
    Decline of great online communities starts with "funny". Reddit is hilarious and I couldn't spend 10 minutes there.