Journal: Waging the War Against Hypocrisy

Friends,

I've fought against Anti-Slash in the past, even to the point of creating an account to blacklist their accounts. After careful consideration, I've decided to join their cause.

The forums on the site seem to be down, but I've got some things that need to be said. I've decided I'm posting my ideas for tactics in the house of the enemy, so they might be read by all.

The idea of a low-percentage goatse redirect is a good one. Unfortunately it also places a limit on how many people will actually be directed to a disgusting image. Clearly this tactic needs to be refined, and so I've got a better idea.

I'm suggesting a variable-percentage goatse redirect. This ought to be done by an automated system, instead of being done manually. When a link is posted, it starts out with a low percentage of redirects to goatse. Upon being modded up, the percentage of redirects increases greatly, and upon being modded to a low score, the link never redirects to goatse. The result is when the link is modded up higher, when more people will click, more people are redirected to goatse. When the link is modded down, the percentage drops. As a result, people will think it's a legitimate link and mod it back up. It serves the purpose of redirecting a few people to goatse while appearing to be a legitimate link. It also wastes mod points by tricking moderators. If usage of this tactic was limited to a few posts per day, maybe 10 or so, and multiple hosts ran scripts to check the score of the comment to update the percentage to avoid bans, it could be extremely effective.

Harvesting mod points is another excellent idea. A large number of accounts are created to post legitimate comments and only get mod points. The Anti-Slash system gains access to them. Selected comments are chosen, from other accounts, to be automatically moderated. As necessary, these comments can be automatically moderated with points from this large pool of mod points. The system ought to reserve some mod points for legitimate moderation, however.

I welcome suggestions and comments on these ideas. Hopefully Anti-Slash will adopt these tactics into their arsenal of methods for civil disobedience.

Thank you for reading my journal.