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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LostandFound ago
Thank you for that I asked these questions before but only ever got half answers, I think this is probably as good as its going to get.
Yeah I spotted that post alright, just read through it im not convinced that anything untoward actually occurred, there's quite a number of 2.7 yo accounts. If I had made that post no one would have noticed tbqh its just her voat fame that has made this into something else. We should always question the framework we operate in but this is a total storm in a teacup, signed in.... anon ... it was always going to have holes. Generally seems like a fairly decent contributor to the site so I might let this one just blow over. I think the title was misleading if all you did was glance or skim over the content, but Putt has stuck his boots in and has made some equally questionable statements, given the contribution history 'creating a false narrative' while true seems like a stretch, 'no one has access but me' .... sorry putt buy you got assistance porting the code and DB you bet theres more than you with access to the data, if only a historic snapshot or someone with the key that generates the anon handles.