Moderation Log

Date/Time Moderator Story/Comment/User, Action, Reason
2018-08-26 13:39 -0500 (Users) Story: Restarting my newsletter: Making the Web
Action: changed tags from "openbsd unix web practices" to "release"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-08-26 00:58 -0500 pushcx Story: Add caching to speed up your site: Even if you think it isn't needed
Action: changed description from "An analysis of using a plug and play caching framework to mitigate the n+1 problem with Django ORM without needing to re-write queries." to "", changed markeddown_description from "<p>An analysis of using a plug and play caching framework to mitigate the n+1 problem with Django ORM without needing to re-write queries.</p>\n" to ""
Reason: The description field is not for summarizing the article.
2018-08-25 14:55 -0500 (Users) Story: The Laboriousness of "Lightweight Linux"
Action: changed tags from "linux" to "linux rant"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-08-25 12:02 -0500 (Users) User troybetz
Action: changed own username from "compedit" to "troybetz"
2018-08-25 08:47 -0500 pushcx Story: Former Tesla employee "ssh'd to as many cars as possible" and other stories
Action: changed description from "Some highlights:\r\n\r\n- Tesla cars run on sketchy software that's connected to the Internet 24/7\r\n- Tesla power charging stations will blacklist you if a complicated algorithm decides you need to be blacklisted\r\n- Employees can \"ssh into\" all cars\r\n- China wants new cars to report their locations to government databases\r\n\r\nI share this as a public service announcement — to those who are considering buying a Tesla, please consider purchasing something that isn't connected to the Internet for your safety and the safety of others. If you are working for an auto manufacturer, please consider how many lives you are putting at risk by connecting a 1+ ton speeding vehicle to a centralized server where hackers, or you own employees, can command and control them." to "", changed markeddown_description from "<p>Some highlights:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tesla cars run on sketchy software that’s connected to the Internet 24/7</li>\n<li>Tesla power charging stations will blacklist you if a complicated algorithm decides you need to be blacklisted</li>\n<li>Employees can “ssh into” all cars</li>\n<li>China wants new cars to report their locations to government databases</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I share this as a public service announcement — to those who are considering buying a Tesla, please consider purchasing something that isn’t connected to the Internet for your safety and the safety of others. If you are working for an auto manufacturer, please consider how many lives you are putting at risk by connecting a 1+ ton speeding vehicle to a centralized server where hackers, or you own employees, can command and control them.</p>\n" to ""
Reason: The description field is not for summarizing the article or editorializing.
2018-08-24 09:15 -0500 alynpost Story: Spherical Harmonics
Action: changed url from "http://www.patapom.com/SHPortal/" to "http://www.patapom.com/blog/SHPortal/"
Reason: insert /blog/ in the submitted link to fix a 404.
2018-08-24 08:37 -0500 alynpost Story: A list of the top Static Site Generators
Action: merged into 59bac3 (Overview of Popular Static Site Generators)
Reason: Merge discussions about static site generators.
2018-08-24 08:15 -0500 pushcx Story: Marpa and combinator parsing 2
Action: changed url from "https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/" to "http://jeffreykegler.github.com/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2018/05/combinator2.html", changed description from "The URL should have been: http://jeffreykegler.github.com/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2018/05/combinator2.html" to "", changed markeddown_description from "<p>The URL should have been: <a href=\"http://jeffreykegler.github.com/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2018/05/combinator2.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://jeffreykegler.github.com/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2018/05/combinator2.html</a></p>\n" to ""
Reason: Replacing blog homepage with specific post at submitter's request.
2018-08-24 08:04 -0500 pushcx User Neo
Action: Banned
Reason: Banning spammer attempting to re-establish (was formerly niravseo).
2018-08-24 07:55 -0500 pushcx User sarju
Action: Banned
Reason: Banning spammer attempting to re-establish (was formerly niravseo).
2018-08-24 07:55 -0500 pushcx User Nirav17
Action: Banned
Reason: Banning spammer attempting to re-establish (was formerly niravseo).
2018-08-24 03:44 -0500 Irene Comment by Irene on Alynpost is now a moderator
Action: used Sysop hat
2018-08-23 15:56 -0500 pushcx Story: Commons Clause isn't that bad
Action: merged into gsw30p (Commons Clause: New Redis Labs license)
Reason: As you noted in the description, yeah, it would've been better to just link this from a comment.
2018-08-23 15:50 -0500 (Users) User liftM
Action: changed own username from "liftm" to "liftM"
2018-08-23 06:24 -0500 (Users) Story: Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches, No Benchmarking Or Comparison Allowed
Action: changed title from "Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches, No Benchmarking Or Comparison Allowed! – Bruce Perens" to "Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches, No Benchmarking Or Comparison Allowed"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-08-22 19:05 -0500 alynpost User evhan
Action: Granted hat "CHICKEN developer" (http://wiki.call-cc.org/maintainers)
2018-08-22 14:25 -0500 pushcx User alynpost
Action: Granted hat "Sysop" (alanpost@c0redump.org)
2018-08-22 13:54 -0500 pushcx Story: Proton, a modified version of WINE for playing Windows games on Linux by Valve
Action: merged into fmb6w5 (Introducing a new version of Steam Play)
Reason: Merging into official announcement.
2018-08-22 12:55 -0500 (Users) Story: CVE-2018-1000657 - Arbitrary code execution in a core Rust library
Action: changed tags from "rust" to "rust security"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-08-22 08:16 -0500 pushcx Story: The Commons Clause will destroy open source
Action: merged into gsw30p (Commons Clause: New Redis Labs license)
Reason: Merging hot take into primary source.
2018-08-21 21:21 -0500 pushcx Story: Fewer startups, more indies
Action: deleted story
Reason: This article about business trends is off-topic, but it'd fit right in at Barncles.
2018-08-21 08:44 -0500 pushcx Story: Ruby's Bitwise Operators
Action: changed title from "RUBY Bitwise Operators" to "Ruby's Bitwise Operators"
Reason: "Ruby" is not an acronym.
2018-08-20 19:25 -0500 (Users) User zjg
Action: changed own username from "zgotts" to "zjg"
2018-08-20 10:17 -0500 pushcx User oshogbo
Action: Granted hat "FreeBSD Developer" (oshogbo@FreeBSD.org)
2018-08-20 08:08 -0500 pushcx Comment by pushcx on What’s your release process like?
Action: used Sysop hat
2018-08-20 07:26 -0500 pushcx Comment by 355E3B on Passing the torch
Action: Corrected "pgrmr" to "prgmr"
Reason: Fixing typo in historically significant post.
2018-08-20 01:51 -0500 (Users) Story: You need a task scheduler and runner. What do you use and why?
Action: changed tags from "devops practices" to "devops practices ask"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-08-18 04:42 -0500 (Users) User so_it_goes
Action: changed own username from "pietvanzoen" to "so_it_goes"
2018-08-17 23:09 -0500 pushcx Story: Keep Betting on JavaScript
Action: changed tags from "video programming" to "video javascript"
Reason: Oh, and tagging language.
2018-08-17 23:07 -0500 pushcx Story: Keep Betting on JavaScript
Action: changed title from "Keep Betting on JavaScript by Kyle Simpson [Video]" to "Keep Betting on JavaScript"
Reason: Removing speaker name and redundant video tag.
2018-08-16 23:20 -0500 (Users) User UntangledQubit
Action: changed own username from "NonchalantTurtle" to "UntangledQubit"
2018-08-16 15:06 -0500 pushcx Story: Computing, Climate Change, and All Our Relationships
Action: changed description from "#politics" to "", changed markeddown_description from "<p>#politics</p>\n" to ""
Reason: The description field is not for summarizing the article or editorializing.
2018-08-16 15:04 -0500 pushcx Comment by pushcx on Computing, Climate Change, and All Our Relationships
Action: used Sysop hat
2018-08-16 14:56 -0500 (Users) Story: EXAPUNKS - new programming game from Zachtronics
Action: changed tags from "assembly games" to "assembly games release"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-08-16 09:45 -0500 (Users) User santigepigon
Action: changed own username from "santi" to "santigepigon"
2018-08-16 09:45 -0500 (Users) User santigepigon
Action: changed own username from "sg" to "santi"
2018-08-16 09:44 -0500 (Users) User santigepigon
Action: changed own username from "santigepigon" to "sg"
2018-08-16 01:35 -0500 (Users) User nhn
Action: changed own username from "nicolashahn" to "nhn"
2018-08-16 00:39 -0500 (Users) Story: Safe Clearing of Private Data
Action: changed tags from "c compilers" to "compilers c++"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-08-15 02:43 -0500 (Users) User fjg
Action: changed own username from "FJG" to "fjg"
2018-08-14 13:46 -0500 (Users) User liftM
Action: changed own username from "ilikebits" to "liftm"
2018-08-14 13:40 -0500 (Users) User sbr
Action: changed own username from "Sbr" to "sbr"
2018-08-14 06:39 -0500 pushcx Comment by data_hope on The Tragedy of systemd
Action: Hand-edited in the Rails console to fix an exceptionally unfortunate typo in the word 'like' at author's request. (If it didn't have replies, I'd say just delete + repost.)
2018-08-14 06:35 -0500 pushcx Story: Programming in the Adult Entertainment Industry is Broken
Action: deleted story
Reason: This is 90% entirely about billing and other business practices that are off-topic and 10% a shallow gripe about integrating with a vendor library. I'd rather be the no-fun police for a minute removing a salacious story than the no-fun police all day trying to keep a thread somewhere near topicality.
2018-08-14 05:33 -0500 (Users) User synthkaf
Action: changed own username from "bitpushr" to "synthkaf"
2018-08-14 05:13 -0500 (Users) User minastirid
Action: changed own username from "muhammeddkilicc" to "minastirid"
2018-08-13 20:25 -0500 pushcx User alicef
Action: Granted hat "Gentoo kernel project leader" (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Kernel)
2018-08-12 07:21 -0500 (Users) Story: Thoughts on Forth Programming
Action: changed title from "T h o u g h t s o n F o r t h P r o g r a m m i n g" to "Thoughts on Forth Programming"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-08-11 20:21 -0500 pushcx Story: Building this Website
Action: changed title from "Building this Website - Patrick Marchand" to "Building this Website"
Reason: Please don't include authors in story titles.
2018-08-10 07:48 -0500 (Users) User tobis
Action: changed own username from "wkjeldsen" to "tobis"