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You will likely notice a variety of changes in the comments system if you
are logged in.
Most of these changes surround the new 'Zoo' system which implements (among
other things) a sort of killfile function, and much more. Logged in
users have the ability to flag each other as Friends or Foes, and
assign bonuses and penalties appropriately. So if a user annoys you,
you can easily not read their comments any more. If you notice any
bugs, feel free to submit them or let krow or me know.
In English : "Better is Good's foe".
:
See that grey pearl besides your comment's details ?
click on it
Slashdot Friend/Foe System
So how do you perceive Cmdr Taco ?
So how do you perceive cyborg_monkey ?
So how do you perceive Klerck ?
So how do you perceive Jon Katz ?
...
Friend
Neutral
Foe
Note: Who you like and dislike is not private; it can and will be used against you.
Do you mean I may get sacked if I happen to feel some sympathy for some of the trolls ?
I believe this is a little dangerous unless we have the guarantee that you are trustworthy enough to use this.
Until then, well... Everybody is my friend.
Trolling using another account since 2005.
You've always been able to exclude story authors, its been in the preferences for a long time. Making timothy your foe won't do much since it seems to be an unwritten rule that Slashdot editors post comments on the site no more often than once every six months or something...
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http://slashdot.org/~cmdrtaco/friends
http://slashdot.org/~cmdrtaco/foes
http://slashdot.org/~cmdrtaco/fans
Nah... all you have to do is change op=addcheck to op=do in the query string.
"Freedom in cyberspace'd be fine and dandy if we happened to live there."
which makes each /. article appear as a newsgroup, with the comments being the messages in the group.
/. changes format.
Unfortunately, one has to run the CVS version of Gnus for this to work, since it does it by parsing the html, and need to be updated each time
Impossible.
Seriously, think about it. There are about 3 million registered users on slashdot (shocking to think that you and I have user id's below 2000!). There are probably 20 new stories a day. Each story gets on average about 150 posts. So for each post you need to store one entry in a database per user.
That's 9 billion new rows a day.
Of course you could do some compression or bit-twiddling to reduce that, but not by a significant enough amount.
The best you can do is what LinuxToday does - mark stories as "new" since you last refreshed the page.
Usenet doesn't have this problem because all the "What I've read" stuff is stored client-side, and there's not enough room in cookies to do that.
Matt. Want XML + Apache + Stylesheets? Get AxKit.
Slash 2.2.2 was just released (actually, the friend/foe stuff has been live for some time, though hidden because the icons weren't on comments). Slash 2.3 is likely to be released before Linuxworld (end of January).
Secure login - we're thinking about that. Expect to see it sooner or later.
Browser sniffing - not likely.
It occurs to me that this new feature could potential lead to the desire for two others.
First, if we can individually mark someone as
a foe then the next trend might be to create a
list of individuals that the community regards
as foes. The individuals could then choose to
subscribe to this list if they feel they have
common ground with the list maintainers. Thus
community blacklisting would arrive on the
internet (anyone intersted in copyrighting this?).
Of course today anyone who has a desire to attack
and defame the thoughts of others is going to post
as an Anonymous Coward. Thus the second desire could be to make everyone accountable for their
posts. This would, of course, require a "Forced
Login" feature.
I personally doubt that there are many members of
this online community that would sanction features
like these. Trends, however, start out as seemingly innocuous and small changes that over
time turn into something that is bigger and larger
than their meager beginnnings.
The question then would be: Are we heading down a path that diverges from the original intent of
a collaborative forum where there can be a free
exchange of ideas unencumbered by that hideous
beast called "censorship"?
>against posting.
It's generally necessary to correctly spell *both* a name and a password to log in before posting. THus, about every six months, Taco succeeds
[*duck*]
hawk
For user agents that cannot display images, forms, or applets, this attribute specifies alternate text.
Where as the TITLE attribute is for:
This attribute offers advisory information about the element for which it is set.
Not that I can blame you for thinking otherwise, as most of the web is filled with horrible examples of HTML being abused.
The above was from http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#h-1 3.2
The Doctor What (KF6VNC)
In your options you are able to automatically set AC posts to -1, and as long as your threshold is 0 or above, you won't see AC posts anymore.