Moderation Log

Date/Time Moderator Story/Comment/User, Action, Reason
2018-05-15 08:04 -0500 pushcx User maddi
Action: Banned
Reason: Persistent spammer.
2018-05-15 08:04 -0500 pushcx User chawla
Action: Banned
Reason: Persistent spammer.
2018-05-15 08:02 -0500 pushcx User robinmore
Action: Banned
Reason: Plagiarizing spammer.
2018-05-15 08:02 -0500 pushcx User robinmore
Action: Disabled invitations
Reason: Plagiarizing spammer.
2018-05-15 08:02 -0500 pushcx Story: Java multi threading in a laptop having quad-core processor?
Action: deleted story
Reason: Spam plagiarized from StackOverflow.
2018-05-15 07:50 -0500 pushcx Story: My Steve Jobs stories
Action: changed title from "John Carmack: My Steve Jobs stories" to "My Steve Jobs stories"
Reason: Please don't include authors in story titles.
2018-05-14 22:27 -0500 pushcx Story: News: Rust 1.26
Action: changed title from "New Rustacean – News: Rust 1.26" to "News: Rust 1.26"
Reason: Please don't include site names in story titles.
2018-05-14 15:45 -0500 pushcx User bbrks
Action: Granted hat "Couchbase Developer" (ben.brooks@couchbase.com)
2018-05-14 14:58 -0500 pushcx Story: My Steve Jobs stories
Action: changed tags from "ios games" to "ios games person"
Reason: Tagging `person`
2018-05-14 14:57 -0500 pushcx Story: Efail press release by the GnuPG and Gpg4Win teams
Action: merged into 6yzgvq (Efail: Breaking S/MIME and OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels)
Reason: Merging into the primary source.
2018-05-14 14:57 -0500 pushcx Story: Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now
Action: merged into 6yzgvq (Efail: Breaking S/MIME and OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels)
Reason: Merging into primary source.
2018-05-11 12:27 -0500 (Users) Story: Announcing Rust 1.26
Action: changed title from "Announcing Rust 1.26 - The Rust Programming Language Blog" to "Announcing Rust 1.26"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-05-10 18:58 -0500 pushcx Story: The plan for merging CoreOS into Red Hat
Action: changed title from "The plan for merging CoreOS into Red Hat [LWN.net]" to "The plan for merging CoreOS into Red Hat"
Reason: Please don't include site titles in story titles.
2018-05-10 13:52 -0500 (Users) Story: Announcing Rust 1.26
Action: changed tags from "rust" to "rust release"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-05-09 15:02 -0500 pushcx Story: Kumiho.
Action: merged into qmakzs (Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone)
Reason: Merging hot take into primary source.
2018-05-09 09:53 -0500 pushcx Comment by feld on Smartphones Are Killing The Planet Faster Than Anyone Expected
Action: deleted comment
Reason: We've never had cause to write a rule about doxxing, but pulling someone's personal info into a discussion like this to discredit them is inappropriate.
2018-05-08 19:38 -0500 (Users) Story: It's the future (for databases)
Action: changed tags from "databases" to "databases satire"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-05-08 08:40 -0500 pushcx Story: Two psychologists followed 1000 New Zealanders for decades. Here’s what they found about how childhood shapes later life
Action: deleted story
Reason: This is not about computing.
2018-05-07 18:49 -0500 pushcx Story: Why isn't the economy more like hydraulics?
Action: deleted story
Reason: This is not about computing. The presence of a tag doesn't mean all of finance or philosophy is on-topic, it's for narrowing stories primarily about computing.
2018-05-07 18:21 -0500 pushcx Story: The 70-Year Old Computer That Runs on Water
Action: changed title from "TECH TIME WARP OF THE WEEK: THE 70-YEAR-OLD COMPUTER THAT RUNS ON WATER" to "The 70-Year Old Computer That Runs on Water"
Reason: Fixed link and caps.
2018-05-07 07:29 -0500 pushcx Story: New codingmarks added in the 17th week of 2018 - from angular to scala
Action: deleted story
Reason: Please don't submit link roundups, submit the best individually.
2018-05-07 07:11 -0500 pushcx Story: GNU Readline
Action: changed tags from "unix programming" to "unix"
2018-05-06 19:14 -0500 pushcx Story: Why I'm leaving Open Source
Action: changed tags from "culture" to "person"
Reason: Story isn't about culture, just one person's priorities.
2018-05-06 11:18 -0500 pushcx Story: Crisis at Void Linux as Lead Developer Goes Missing in Action
Action: merged into tvilj4 (Serious Issues in Void Linux project)
Reason: Merging into the primary source.
2018-05-05 00:23 -0500 pushcx Story: Chris Lattner on "I am leaving LLVM"
Action: merged into nf3xgg (I am leaving LLVM)
Reason: Merging into same story posted yesterday.
2018-05-04 19:52 -0500 (Users) Story: Questionnaire which every programmer should fill in
Action: changed title from "Questionair which every programmer should fill in" to "Questionnaire which every programmer should fill in"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-05-04 17:59 -0500 pushcx Story: What are the top takeaways of graph theory?
Action: changed title from "Ask: What are the top takeaways of graph theory?" to "What are the top takeaways of graph theory?"
Reason: The `ask` tag is colored to stand out, you don't need to include "Ask" in the title.
2018-05-04 17:50 -0500 pushcx Story: Favorite code editor with strong security practices?
Action: changed title from "Ask L: Favorite code editor with strong security practices?" to "Favorite code editor with strong security practices?"
Reason: The `ask` tag is colored to stand out, you don't need to include "Ask" in the title.
2018-05-04 08:51 -0500 pushcx Story: When mutability bites
Action: changed title from "When mutability bites – Chris Davies" to "When mutability bites"
Reason: Please don't include authors in story titles.
2018-05-03 12:40 -0500 pushcx Story: on false equivalences
Action: deleted story
Reason: This is about politics and rhetoric rather than computing. If you're responding to something about the llvm/CoC thread, please write a comment there with a link.
2018-05-03 11:47 -0500 pushcx Comment by pushcx on I am leaving LLVM
Action: used Sysop hat
2018-05-03 08:15 -0500 pushcx Comment by isra17 on I am leaving LLVM
Action: deleted comment
Reason: This is the kind of uncharitable post that leads to flamewars. You can make this points without reading the worst into his comment and character, because even if your worst assumptions are right your comment would be better in every way without the word "you".
2018-05-03 07:58 -0500 pushcx Comment by pushcx on I am leaving LLVM
Action: used Sysop hat
2018-05-03 00:12 -0500 (Users) Story: What conferences are you attending this year?
Action: changed tags from "event" to "event ask"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-05-02 23:16 -0500 (Users) Story: GCC 8.1 Released
Action: changed tags from "c c++" to "c c++ release"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-05-02 10:36 -0500 (Users) Story: 🏎Create fake REST API in one sec.
Action: changed tags from "go api" to "go api show"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-05-01 19:21 -0500 (Users) Story: Native Code Performance and Memory: The Elephant in the CPU
Action: changed tags from "performance" to "performance video"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-05-01 18:35 -0500 (Users) Story: Painting made out of CSS rules
Action: changed tags from "web css" to "web css art"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-05-01 10:32 -0500 pushcx Story: “Fake news”: reaction to the end of the monopoly on the narrative
Action: deleted story
Reason: This article is about politics and media, not tech.
2018-05-01 09:30 -0500 (Users) Story: How the C Programming Language Was Created And What Was Forgotten As a Result
Action: changed tags from "event video c" to "video c historical"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-04-30 15:34 -0500 pushcx Story: ‘Who the hell is this person?’ Trump’s Mar-a-Lago pal stymies VA project
Action: deleted story
Reason: The technical aspects of this system would be on topic, but the political manuevering is not.
2018-04-28 11:26 -0500 (Users) Story: The NetHack DevTeam is happy to announce the release of NetHack 3.6.1
Action: changed tags from "c games historical" to "c games"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-04-27 08:32 -0500 (Users) Story: Go's New Brand
Action: changed tags from "go" to "go design"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2018-04-26 17:29 -0500 pushcx Story: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is finally released and is available for download now
Action: merged into zq6tb6 (In Beaver We Trust: A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)
Reason: Merging into earlier submission of same event.
2018-04-26 14:46 -0500 pushcx Story: Fuzzy finding everything with fzf
Action: changed title from "Weekly Command: Fuzzy finding everything with fzf" to "Fuzzy finding everything with fzf"
Reason: Please don't include site/blog titles in story titles.
2018-04-26 09:36 -0500 pushcx Story: What happened to distributed programming languages?
Action: changed title from "What happened to distributed programming languages? by Heather Miller" to "What happened to distributed programming languages?"
Reason: Please remove speaker names from talk titles.
2018-04-25 08:18 -0500 pushcx Story: Program Reduction: A Win for Recursion Schemes
Action: changed url from "https://newartisans.com/2018/04/win-for-recursion-schemes/" to "http://newartisans.com/2018/04/win-for-recursion-schemes/"
Reason: Fixing link.
2018-04-25 08:11 -0500 pushcx Story: Program Reduction: A Win for Recursion Schemes
Action: changed url from "http://newartisans.com/" to "https://newartisans.com/2018/04/win-for-recursion-schemes/"
Reason: Fixing ilnk.
2018-04-25 07:07 -0500 pushcx Story: Transcript of Russ Cox Interview on GoTime
Action: changed tags from "go" to "go transcript"
2018-04-24 15:49 -0500 pushcx Story: Hackers emptied Ethereum wallets by breaking the basic infrastructure of the internet
Action: merged into lbr7j4 (Hijack of Amazon’s internet domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours unnoticed)
Reason: Merging into same story.