that is a rather provincial attitude

i notice you provided nothing substantive to back up your claim

Just look at

http://www.apple.com/xserve/cluster/wgcluster.html and try to tell me Apple is producing shit hardware.

Maybe the reason there is so much Apple stuff on /. lately is becuase at this moment they are making the coolest stuff available in the computing world bar none, and /. editors *might* be able to tell when a company has turned itself around and react accordingly with increased coverage of thats company's offerings??

Or do you think they should still be pissing down a rope at Apples products of 3 or 4 years ago, like the asshats who give lame outdated reasons to bash Apple. Wake up. Things are different now.

/. editors are getting this - some of you other people need to.

When this blacklist was created, the proof required to add an account to the list was lower than it is now. You were accused of reposting and by the standard then, you were added to the blacklist. Upon checking your history, it seems that it may indeed have been in error that you were added. You will be removed from the blacklist. I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this.

Also, to add a user to the blacklist now for reposting, one must provide a link to the original comment to prove that it is indeed a repost. If this cannot be provided, there is not enough evidence to add the user to the blacklist and the complaint will be ignored. That's the system for now.

A project that I am developing is to create my own database tool by which to check comments against that are supposed reposts. It would appear that the Anti-Slash trolls have a feature to hide a post in the search once it has been reposted. While the database tool will not be brought online publicly because of concerns of a possible DDoS attack, posts will be verified and if there is doubt, I will be able to provide a link to the original comment and the reposted comment.

Hopefully that clears everything up, and once again, I apologize for you being falsely added to the blacklist.