down with downvoting
posted by max on June 10, 2006 at 02:38:49 AM
esteemed members of ytmnd, general public,
Users can no longer vote on sites they haven't viewed. No more blind voting.
I have compiled a list of users with dupe accounts. There are around 3500, including some fairly well known users.
I have added a feature to allow people to delete their accounts through the user options. This is mainly for people to delete their multiple alts before they get deleted. You have two weeks.
Following in the footsteps of SomethingAwful , the Church of Scientology has sent me a fun cease and desist.
To avoid blind voting of an entire user profiles, YTMND now keeps track of the last 25 sites you've viewed and ignores your votes if you try to vote on a site you haven't recently seen. Hopefully this should help curb the recent tide of down and upvoting.
UPDATE: check out the spiffy new about page.
Users can no longer vote on sites they haven't viewed. No more blind voting.
I have compiled a list of users with dupe accounts. There are around 3500, including some fairly well known users.
I have added a feature to allow people to delete their accounts through the user options. This is mainly for people to delete their multiple alts before they get deleted. You have two weeks.
Following in the footsteps of SomethingAwful , the Church of Scientology has sent me a fun cease and desist.
To avoid blind voting of an entire user profiles, YTMND now keeps track of the last 25 sites you've viewed and ignores your votes if you try to vote on a site you haven't recently seen. Hopefully this should help curb the recent tide of down and upvoting.
ALSO EXPECT A MAGICAL UPDATE IN THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS FROM SYNCAN
UPDATE: check out the spiffy new about page.
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Max, the only downside to the new voting thing is the sites you can plainly see are offensive/graphic/porn/ screamers/ect, FROM THE PROFILE & ThUMBNAIL PAGE, You are forced to open & view it in order to kill the site... where as before, these sites could be easily killed before they got anywhere. Since this isn't an option anymore, PLEASE impose tougher penalties/deletions/banishments to the users who post such stuff.
thats great and all but what happend to actually deleting sh*tty sites.
this is quoted from you max
"Expect your site to be deleted if it lacks humor and includes any of the following: anime, extreme racism, hardcore pornography, anything illegal, pictures of your friends, inside jokes, etc"
why not start deleting sh*tty sites that take up space on the server *caugh* joshcubes sites *caugh* it would make the servers that much faster.
"there should be something that prompts them to vote before it lets them comment." - For the record, I think this is a bad idea because some people just don't like to vote. I'd rather leave a comment than a vote. Also, how do you determine what is a dupe account? My cousin has logged on from my IP a few times - would that get flagged as a dupe acct?
A movie company used a photo of a naked pregnant woman and superimposed the head of actor Leslie Nielsen. The photo was a parody using similar lighting and body positioning of a famous photograph taken by Annie Leibovitz of the actress Demi Moore for the cover of Vanity Fair magazine. Important factors: The movie company's use was transformative because it imitated the photographer's style for comic effect or ridicule. (Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp., 137 F.3d 109 (2d Cir. N.Y. 1998).
"Is this what those pricks [The Church of Scientology] do? Scour every corner of
the internet searching for anyone who pokes fun at them?"
Yeah, pretty much. They sue anyone who makes fun of them. Find and download the South Park episode where they make fun of Scientology. Also, can't wait to see what Syncan has up his sleves.
lol, i bet if i said something bad or funny about Scientology (and I better put it in caps because they may have a big fit about that) I'd get a letter from them. Proof enough that all religions get made fun of or whatnot and the CSI cannot take a joke. Isn't CSI trademarked anyway? Copyright voilation LOL
"I have a very bad masturbatory history. I was taught when I was 11 and, despite guilt, fear of insanity, etc. etc. I persisted. At a physical examination at a Y when I was about 13, the examiner and the people with him called me out of the line because my testicles hung low and cautioned me about what would happen if I kept on masturbating. This "discovery" was a bad shock to me. " - guess who said that?