Maybe because of the simultaneously deleted post that I made even after the spam button is gone (with different username). The mods have to be the one doing that. My concern is if this site really anonymous or not, or if there are certain keyword that get automatically deleted. I just want to know the rules/guidelines to be honest. I'm not complaining about the spam button here.
Attention: New nuking rules
I think DL trolling is fine and gives me a laugh. I'm sure people are bored of it, but I'm not. OTOH I would rather not read people's math-unrelated political gripes, especially when the posts are indistinguishable from Twitter or 4chan fights. Why post them here?
Other questions, is this site really anonymous? If it isn't anonymous, then I would stop the trolling completely.
anonymous: not identified by name; of unknown name.
How can this website know more about you than what you input into it?
Quite easily. Suppose you write that you're an assistant professor in one thread, then in another thread you show expert knowledge in complex geometry. If your IP locates you in a specific small town in Senegal, that would be enough to identify you as the unique complex geometry AP in that town (and if it locates you in Berkeley, then perhaps it will identify you with a 1/3 probability, depending on how many complex geometry AP's are there).
Thank you sir/ma'am, God bless you too. I just want to know if this site store some of your information (IP address or other information) or not (if yes then maybe I'll always use VPN next time)
According to the privacy policy the website does not keep logs. But you should never trust anybody on the internet and instead always use VPNs or even TOR. In the long run this benefits you and everybody else by making the internet more anonymous.
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anonymous: not identified by name; of unknown name.
How can this website know more about you than what you input into it?
Quite easily. Suppose you write that you're an assistant professor in one thread, then in another thread you show expert knowledge in complex geometry. If your IP locates you in a specific small town in Senegal, that would be enough to identify you as the unique complex geometry AP in that town (and if it locates you in Berkeley, then perhaps it will identify you with a 1/3 probability, depending on how many complex geometry AP's are there).
All irrelevant because of plausible deniability. Maybe some rando LARPs as an AP and works in a startup in Berkeley after flunking out from a PhD in complex geometry?
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Quite easily. Suppose you write that you're an assistant professor in one thread, then in another thread you show expert knowledge in complex geometry. If your IP locates you in a specific small town in Senegal, that would be enough to identify you as the unique complex geometry AP in that town (and if it locates you in Berkeley, then perhaps it will identify you with a 1/3 probability, depending on how many complex geometry AP's are there).
All irrelevant because of plausible deniability. Maybe some rando LARPs as an AP and works in a startup in Berkeley after flunking out from a PhD in complex geometry?
You have a point. I guess that it suffices to avoid a scenario where you reveal information that can be both verified as true and proven not to be previously known to anyone other than you.
Do not nuke those with whom you disagree!
There's an interesting situation in the last couple of pages of the "nicest bigshot" thread, in which what looks like one person or maybe two, have managed to nuke MJR-worthy factual disclosures, simply because they put their hero (Terence T) in a less than perfect light. A lot of hiding behind words that don't apply such as "libel" and "slander". This is standard wumao stuff in other contexts.
Do not nuke those with whom you disagree!
There's an interesting situation in the last couple of pages of the "nicest bigshot" thread, in which what looks like one person or maybe two, have managed to nuke MJR-worthy factual disclosures, simply because they put their hero (Terence T) in a less than perfect light. A lot of hiding behind words that don't apply such as "libel" and "slander". This is standard wumao stuff in other contexts.
The nuking system at its current state simply doesn't work. Some revision is needed. My two suggestions:
Switch to the EJMR mode where a user ID is fixed throughout the thread, this will already prevent most reasonable people from nuking a post multiple times (sure, you can always go SF and use VPN, but most reasonable people won't do that).
Add some anti-nuke mechanism. For example, if 3 different users vote "don't nuke", then the post becomes permanently protected (unless you report it and the mod decides to delete it).
As one of the people sort-of-under-fire in that thread (davz, earlier idbe) I have concerns that option 2 might be a cure worse than the disease - I predict it would just lead to the hentai troll(s) running riot, since the 'benefit' from spreading crap using VPN would outweight the cost. Personally, I'd rather stick with the same user ID throughout the thread, I just haven't figured out how to do that myself.
The nuking system at its current state simply doesn't work. Some revision is needed. My two suggestions:
Switch to the EJMR mode where a user ID is fixed throughout the thread, this will already prevent most reasonable people from nuking a post multiple times (sure, you can always go SF and use VPN, but most reasonable people won't do that).
I tried this at some point and it doesn’t work. For example, try nuking this post by generating distinct IDs, it won’t work.
Add some anti-nuke mechanism. For example, if 3 different users vote "don't nuke", then the post becomes permanently protected (unless you report it and the mod decides to delete it).
AFAIK this used to be in place until the incest troll showed up.
Your screen is so tiny that we decided to disable the captcha and posting feature