joshmillard

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1. 31.▲
   by joshmillard 15y ago

   Heartbreaker!
2. 32.▲
   by joshmillard 15y ago

   As far as mefi's guildlines go and my job responsibilities go, morality doesn't really come into it. I don't consider it my mandate to ensure or enforce moral correctness or any such thing. That what he did was against the site's rules and
3. 33.▲
   by joshmillard 15y ago

   Hi, this is cortex. How it played out, very short version: I got up in the morning and checked the new signups, part of my morning routine. We have to check for spammers and shills on a daily basis to keep mefi free from linkfarming and bu
4. 34.▲
   by joshmillard 16y ago

   Notably, the main function of the signup fee is to throttle growth of the userbase by eliminating most of the lazy driveby traffic, not to generate cash. In that respect, we could be charging $1, or in theory even "charging" some non-fee a
5. 35.▲
   by joshmillard 16y ago

   Heya, I'm one of the other two mods at mefi, along with Matt Haughey and Jessamyn West. I go by "cortex" over there. A saner way to do this will be to trust people to do the right thing, but verify that they are not doing anything malicio