Surak's Journal: Jamie's comment: I just figured something out

Remember Jamie's comment about the changes to Slashdot?

I just realized something. Why do we see so many people 'altruistically' posting 'karma-free' article cut-and-paste for supposedly Slashdotted sites?

Yep! That's right. Jamie said it. If your posts get modded up, then this also increases your 10 AC/day limit. I'll bet this *includes* stuff you posted, while logged into an account, but you posted it AC. After all, these posts are still associated with your IP address, and still affect whether or not your IP gets banned, why not the other way around -- affect whether or not you can post anonymously?

Okay, let's look at the code:

# New check (July 2002): there is a max number of posts per 24-hour

# period, either based on IPID for anonymous users, or on UID for
# logged-in users. Logged-in users get a max number of posts that
# is related to their karma. The comments_perday_bykarma var
# controls it (that var is turned into a hashref in MySQL.pm when
# the vars table is read in, whose keys we loop over to find the
# appropriate level).
  if ($user->{is_anon} && constants->{comments_perday_anon}) {
                        my $num_comm_posted = slashdb->getNumCommPostedAnonByIPID(
                        $user->{ipid}, 24);
                        if ($num_comm_posted >= constants->{comments_perday_anon}) {
                                    $$error_message = getError('comments post limit daily', {
                                            limit => constants->{comments_perday_anon}
              });
                        $form_success = 0;
                          return;
}

I guess it depends on what that getNumCommPostedAnonByIPID() function returns. Jamie says that comments moderated up affect the ratio, I guess it would have to happen there? Or not? I confess, I'm not real familiar with the slash code.

Just looked through the code...

[Surakrout]

Anonymously karma whoring won't benefit the karma whore in any way. At best, the anonymous posting won't count towards the IP addresses' 10 postings. More clearly, if an anonymous posting gets moderated to +5 Intestesting, then the IP address still only gets 10 more postings for the day (not 11 or 12 or 13, etc).

Here is something more interesting to discuss. Does this FAQ entry [slashdot.org] really matter anymore? Even if you use your Karma bonus, the worst that could happen is that you'll lose 2 Karma point (2 mo

Re:Just looked through the code...

[Surak]

A, loser. Scared yet?

Re:Just looked through the code...

[$$$$$exyKrout]

No, he has it right. Stop lying to him.

Re:Just looked through the code...

[Surak]

WTF is this? Are you talking to yourself now?!

Damn. I'm starting to think you work for SCO.

Re:Just looked through the code...

[$$$$$exyKrout]

Shit. Poop. Crap. Shit.

Re:Just looked through the code...

[$$$$$exyKrout]

Oh, please. Tell us all about it. I am SUCH a skat freak!

Eh, probably

[jamie]

There are some people who troll AC and do this. But, having looked at many examples of it, and the IPIDs that try it, I can tell you they aren't getting much benefit from it.

Maybe we need a "+1, Mirror" moderation that doesn't help the poster in this way, and wears off after 24 hours :)

Re:Eh, probably

[helix400]

But, having looked at many examples of it, and the IPIDs that try it, I can tell you they aren't getting much benefit from it.

That sounds about right to me. Besides, if I wanted to get more than 10 AC trolls per day, I'd just reconnect to the internet via dial-up modem. New IP address each time...and that way...I can do 10 more AC trolls. This makes a lot more sense than waiting for a new story to appear and then hurrying and posting a copy of the article in comments. I doubt any troller would take

Information that /. doesn't want *you* to know!!!

[Surakrout]

The information is in CmdrTaco's Journal [slashdot.org].

In summary, Cmdr wants *you* (you) to read the FAQ and not be an ass.

Re:Information that /. doesn't want *you* to know!

[$$$$$exyKrout]

Yeah. He likes trolls. He just doesn't like you. You know the package you got. I was there when you opened it. It had white powder all over it.