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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Le_Squish ago
I recall a rumor long ago that using a third party program to tag users will cause that tag to still be displayed in anon post.
BaneGhostiSwear ago
here's a fun one. @peaceseeker will shill so hard for @puttitout on this one:
it's so powerful, it downvoats posts before they show up for view to the userbase. i regularly watched v/all/new and when i posted a post, it would take up to 4 minutes to post. when it finally showed up, it already had downvoats before becoming visible.
enjoy.
ooh @fusir they can see the IP tied to every single account, post, and comment. you are a fool if you think that can't, or hasn't been coded into voat.
fusir ago
The question is if it can be seen in the front end. I already understand that the backend can see everything that a backend would see. Duh.
BaneGhostiSwear ago
you're missing the context. the paid criminal shills took over this site about a year ago, and now own and operate it. they are the ones who can see the backend.
fusir ago
There are two conversations going on at the same time. Yes. That is what Needlestack is talking about.
But I was talking about what le_squish was talking about as a counter proposal. That if you have AVE or VES or VUD that the tag will continue when you go into an anon board.
I'm saying that le_squish's idea doesn't work and so needlestack would have to be right.
So you created another voat I hear? I might want to use it. I'm looking for alternatives. I want something with less circle jerk but with tree threads.
BaneGhostiSwear ago
"less circle jerk with tree threads" it's coming up! a few more months and we'll be in a position to debut! i'll let you know when it's ready :)
fusir ago
Have you seen phuks.co?
BaneGhostiSwear ago
it's trash made by shills. why, has it changed?
heygeorge ago
As you have strong enough coding skills to have created a new Voat, why not reveal this via proof in the existing code?