Message Automatically Removed?
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Fisticuffs wrote:
One can't be too careful in these times of crisis! :-D
Never let a good crisis go to waste, after all.
A practice begun by Paulson, and raised to high art by the current administration (actually, I think it is an old art, rediscovered recently).
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I suspect you are correct. I would appear this is an administrative decision. It would be nice to have an explanation...
73Zeppelin wrote:
I suspect you are correct.
Of course I'm correct in what I said. I certainly ought to know whether I've hacked the site, don't you think? And I certainly ought to know whether I am the sort of person who creates sock-puppets. Those were, after all, the "suggestions" being bandied about.
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Oakman wrote:
Or, especially if it is Troy as I suspect, Chris gets pissed enough to keep deleting him every time he reregisters.
How utterly strange is it that our very own Dryrot *boasts* of his ability to help censor me? Yet, here he is spinning strange conspiracy theories and/or accusing me of possessing extraordinary hacker skills [edit: recall, I am the epitome of stupidity] Is it not strange that to collusively censor me, and laugh about it, is not abusive of the site and its terms [and yet, when for whatever reason, Dryrot is experiencing the same, it *is* abusive of the site and its terms]? How odd life is.
modified on Saturday, February 28, 2009 2:04 PM
The difference between censoring your posts and wiping out posts indiscriminately is that the censorship was done by the agreement of multiple members of the community (I won't go into whether those multiple members can accurately represent the community), but wiping out posts with a single vote is bypassing the normal operation of the site (with an exception being that the owner of the site has made the change) Furthermore, the problem is not just with one member. It appears to be spread across several members. When one member, who is not precisely popular, has messages removed it is censorship. When multiple members have messages removed without the characteristic one-votes, it becomes suspicious
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73Zeppelin wrote:
I suspect you are correct.
Of course I'm correct in what I said. I certainly ought to know whether I've hacked the site, don't you think? And I certainly ought to know whether I am the sort of person who creates sock-puppets. Those were, after all, the "suggestions" being bandied about.
Ilíon wrote:
Of course I'm correct in what I said. I certainly ought to know whether I've hacked the site, don't you think? And I certainly ought to know whether I am the sort of person who creates sock-puppets.
And given how much respect you have shown for this website and the rest of the people who post here, it is not hard to imagine you lying through your teeth about any and or all of that.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.
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The difference between censoring your posts and wiping out posts indiscriminately is that the censorship was done by the agreement of multiple members of the community (I won't go into whether those multiple members can accurately represent the community), but wiping out posts with a single vote is bypassing the normal operation of the site (with an exception being that the owner of the site has made the change) Furthermore, the problem is not just with one member. It appears to be spread across several members. When one member, who is not precisely popular, has messages removed it is censorship. When multiple members have messages removed without the characteristic one-votes, it becomes suspicious
Out of curiousity: did you remove your message to me? I suspect you did, so I won't say anything except I think you hit the nail on the head. Probably should pass it on the Chris. And good thinking!
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.
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Out of curiousity: did you remove your message to me? I suspect you did, so I won't say anything except I think you hit the nail on the head. Probably should pass it on the Chris. And good thinking!
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.
Yes; but after a little research I found out how to access the voting form, but I tried to vote a 3 on my own post, and it wouldn't let me. Besides that, the method looked completely different to how it would need to for such an attack to work (the checking for the number of votes is done inside the same method that applies the votes; unless someone used a memory editor, that approach wouldn't work)