This post is an advisory to users that your username is connected to whatever you write in anon subs.
What you write can be seen by one or more devs who’ve been given that special access. But what you may not know is that they can and do use it against you as they’ve done with me in the past and as recently as yesterday. And one or more of those users who have this ability are part of SBBH.
Some history: One of the SBBH members had a hissy fit with me over a year ago and is probably the same user who would “miraculously” happen to know it was me when I would write certain things in anon subs in the past. I’d write something and they’d make a snarky remark revealing that they knew were talking to my account. It wasn’t a huge deal but it made me aware that my username could be seen by one or more users with this special access.
Back to present day: I’d never bothered to get caught up in SBBH drama until about a week ago when I started needling them in anon subs with a comment here or there regarding their questionable activities on voat.
It didn’t take long for one of them to take the bait and clearly refer to me when making this remark about my recent comments:
http://archive.is/eBPYZ
My account is exactly 2.7 years old. Whoever wrote that comment was a fool; for so obviously ‘giving away’ that they could see it was me writing those comments (showing their hand), and to give such a sensitive shit over what I wrote (notice it took anti-SBBH comments for them to get fresh and reveal themselves).
Let this story be a warning to any of you that this ‘special access’ to see which user is writing “anon” comments creates an unfair advantage and in the wrong hands can be used against you. At the same time, these privileged few are able to enjoy the ability to hide in anon subs themselves.
@PuttItOut, users will never be free to “have their say” in anon subs until everyone but you is stripped of the ability to see who’s posting what in so-called anon subs.
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Edit: Hey, cool! My post got a "Speculation" flair. Perhaps the first in voat's history in v/Whatever.
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mindtrip ago
Wtf is wrong being from 2.7 years ago?
I've never understood that SBBH shit I just blocked the subverse for being cringe trash and went on my way. But then I still browse /v/all/ half the time so it still crops up here and there.
To be honest the fact we're all namefags on voat is its biggest flaw in a lot of ways. But it's held a unique balance so far despite the slow creep towards the same users posting shit constantly - suspiciously from 9-5 almost like it's a job. That makes me laugh in a way. Imagine being paid to shit post all day. Fuck that would eat away at your soul.
totes_magotes ago
If you block a sub, it shouldn't show up in all. Maybe you have a bug to report?
mindtrip ago
I may be confused. I only have a couple things blocked, it looks like I have one of the spin off subs very similarly named to SBBH blocked, maybe I unblocked the original when I saw it mentioned again and wanted to see what the shit was about. I honestly thought the front page was your filtered list and /all was just that.
I mainly visit the subs I'm interested in and have a scroll through all if I'm super bored so I don't really notice. But my bad on that one.
totes_magotes ago
There is soapdoxbanhammer and soapboxbanhammer. lol
mindtrip ago
Yeah that's the other one. Is there a difference?
totes_magotes ago
Not as much as is worth describing.
mindtrip ago
I've unblocked it so it'll come up. I still don't get it though. Think I tried to block all the shit about amalek back in the day.
I'm really glad now that all doesn't show the blocked subs. Fuck those disgusting sick cunts who run the absolutely degenerate loli sub.
totes_magotes ago
Indeed. Here's a tip: if you subscribe to a sub and don't want to see it again in /v/all, sub and block it. It will show up in your front page but not all. Not sure about "default" (front page)
mindtrip ago
Interesting. Thanks for the tip.