Saidit's 'free speech' is under attack from the new admin, who is of course a tranny. Check the moderation logs and see individual user posts to see what is being removed and ask yourself "is this level of censorship in line with saidit's rules, or are they serving a personal agenda'.

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[–]magnora7 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (33 children)

It is on all users, I already said that twice

It's like you're deliberately not paying attention to what I'm saying, and instead just want to cause trouble.

[–]christnmusicreleases 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (32 children)

If that is indeed the case, then it should be hardcoded into the system, lest some users "be more equal" than others.

Selective enforcement is the problem: if it's not coded in, potential for discrimination is unlimited, which is exactly the problem with Reddit. Admins are not going to impartially police the limit of free speech of users they agree with.

Also it should be stated clearly into the rules of the site. I had no such issue with you before.

This is clearly lazy coding, IMHO. You could simply limit the maximum number of posts per user featured on the front, and let them post to their heart's content without interfering with your diversity quota. I don't care if I'm not on your featured list, but I think my posts all have a right to be seen.

Why should I have to wait 3 hours to post breaking news that's really important for a particular sub?

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (31 children)

You can write the code then and we'll gladly use it.

You realize we're doing all this stuff for free, right? I don't have infinite time to be re-writing code for edge-cases to accomplish things we can already easily do.

[–]christnmusicreleases 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (30 children)

You've already branded me as the perjorative "shill," do you really want a "shill" hijacking your glorious algorithm?

Are you really that inept a coder? You have created and maintain a site, you set an informal rule that nobody knows, and you can't just code it in? Or perhaps you're afraid if people know the rules, they wouldn't be your userbase anymore.

The very least you could do, if you're too lazy to limit code to 1 post per 3 hours per user, which is super easy, is to write it up in the rules, and enforce it among the entire userbase equally (which in the end you claim to be doing the last point, I think that is much harder than coding it, as the code only needs to be written once, enforcement is infinite potentially).

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (29 children)

I never called you a shill. I said these are things shills do, which is a true statement.

You think it's "super easy" but you've obviously never looked at the codebase. If you could code it, we will use it. But of course you won't, because it's actually not easy at all.

You call me lazy, but I do hours of work a day for this website.

[–]christnmusicreleases 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (28 children)

You do realize that code injection is a risk here? You've labeled me the bad guy here. Why don't you step up and fill in the hole, thus preventing these arguments and a lot of unnecessary moderation?

It's pretty easy, put in a variable for each user called postnumber, increment it after each post. When postnumber = 9, deny the next post, resetting it every 24 hours. And perhaps put in a special case to deny simultaneous posts by using a flag, postingpost=on. It's not rocket science here.

Or you could manually moderate every user with an Iron Fist, stirring up dissent and a toxic environment. Time consuming for all admins and bad for the site mood as a whole. Which is what you claim to be doing as of now. A little coding goes a long way for PR.

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (27 children)

You do realize that we review all our code before adding it to the main branch?

What is this, amateur hour? Wake up dude.

[–]christnmusicreleases 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (26 children)

Well the coding to rate limit posts to 1 per 3 hours is so easy an amateur could do it, so in that sense, yes, it is amateur hour and if it took you more than an hour I'd call you the amateur here.

You can review the code, but I've hacked forums before by editing site code (a little user privilege escalation as a moderator because the admin was AWOL indefinitely). It doesn't take much to make an exploit if you're motivated.

You still haven't answered me why you don't publicize your secret rule on the site somewhere visible for all users to easily spot. I doubt I would have invested the time I did on this Reddit replacement when I could have done it without free speech limitation on the others. Which is a shame, because the site code here is otherwise not too shabby. Just needs a tweak. And admins need to BTFO a bit to let the well-intentioned users breathe.

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (25 children)

Well the coding to rate limit posts to 1 per 3 hours is so easy an amateur could do it, so in that sense, yes!

This is what you don't understand. You think it's a 5-hour project, but because of how complex our codebase is, it's probably more like a 30-hour project. You're welcome to do this 30+ hours of work. Go for it.

You aren't allowed to edit site code, but you can submit code that we would review. You don't seem to understand this either.

[–]christnmusicreleases 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (24 children)

Then you don't understand trojan code injection (obfuscated code helps here). You're a security risk for your own site by being ignorant of that.