| Posted on 02-Jan-2002 22:39 GMT by Christian Kemp | 174 comments
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Today, I tracked over one hundred attempts of abuse on ANN. I've been working on the filters and editing mechanisms for over four hours. Maintaining ANN is turning into real work, and all I see are tasks that I despise. This one individual, and the general attitude on ANN lately, is alienating visitors and making this site a horrible place to be. Most of what I see is insults and blind advocacy... I'm tired... And I can just see the negative comments again, in reply to me posting this...
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| Comment 1 | [JC] | | 02-Jan-2002 21:58 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Mikey C | | 02-Jan-2002 22:11 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Daniel Miller | | 02-Jan-2002 22:19 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Frank213 | | 02-Jan-2002 22:39 GMT |
| Comment 5 | Thomas Würgler / Pagan Games | | 02-Jan-2002 22:42 GMT |
| Comment 6 | bbrockie | | 02-Jan-2002 22:42 GMT |
| Comment 7 | Amigo | | 02-Jan-2002 22:55 GMT |
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| Posted by Graham on 02-Jan-2002 23:01 GMT | Sadly, it seems that one or two people are making it bad for the rest of us, and especially for the people who give up their own time and money to run these sites that are continuously hacked and messed around with.
I wouldn't be surprised to these useful sites be taken down, because I agree that the hassle of running them is going way beyond the worthy cause in the end. I would like ANN to stay, but I cannot see that happening in its current form. Yet why bother to create a new ANN when it will be hacked as well?
The only option I can see is to install Slashcode on a secure Linux (actually, why not OpenBSD?) box, change the graphics and add in advertising, and run ANN on this. Slashdot doesn't appear to be hackable, and has lasted a long time with many more users and wannabe hackers having a go at it. Same goes for Amiga.org.
Yes, it ain't pretty, but they have useful features:
- Downward moderation of trolls/abuse
- Upward moderation of good posts
- Story approval by site admin (Christian, etc) before posting
- Nested view of comments
- User management and loads of good stuff like that
It would lose the current ANN layout however, at least until the code was modified to look 'right' again...
Please note: Slashdot does not run PHP-Nuke etc. These are PHP-likes of the Perl code that Slashdot uses, except that Slashcode appears to be more secure.
The stuff that runs Kuro5hin might also be a good choice, and it is prettier in my opinion. Probably better suited to the hardware, Slashcode is a higher-end solution I believe I read somewhere, and likes better hardware. Kuro5hin also has story moderation, which would be useful as well.
There is some interesting Java stuff over at aceshardware.com as well, but not a lot of features. |
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