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posted by Bytram on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the early-Christmas-gift dept.

Here is a summary of the problems that have been reported against SoylentNews and that have been addressed in the release labelled: "December 2017"

  • Pull Request: #414 addresses:
    • Issue: #279 "Add min karma for the journals slashbox"

      PROBLEM:
      Accounts signing up then posting commercial spam Journal entries in order to appear on most user's view of the main SN site, within the Most Recent Journal Entries box. Whilst offering zero other contribution to the community.

      SOLUTION:
      A. Most Recent Journal Entries only to be populated with Journal entries by accounts with a Karma > N. 5 to be the initial value for N (that would hide all currently seen Journal spam from view), but should be an easily tweaked parameter should we need to revisit this threshold).

      B. Addition of a link to "Unfiltered Most Recent Journal Entries" to be added to the bottom of the Most Recent Journal Entries rehashbox so users can easily compare the filtered to unfiltered lists.

      ADDENDUM:
      This change will need to be clearly announced and rationale explained. We will also need to monitor effectiveness in case spam accounts begin to farm Karma in order to route around this change.

  • Pull Request: #420 addresses:

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  • (Score: 2) by Bytram on Thursday December 21 2017, @06:56PM (2 children)

    by Bytram (4031) on Thursday December 21 2017, @06:56PM (#31475) Journal
    Verifying max length of Subject of a top-level comment on dev is now 46 chars instead of 50. after updating: edit_comment;comments;default as follows:

    Changed:
      <input type="text" name="postersubj" value="[% form.postersubj | strip_subject %]" size="50" maxlength="50">
    to be:
      <input type="text" name="postersubj" value="[% form.postersubj | strip_subject %]" size="46" maxlength="46">

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  • (Score: 2) by Bytram on Thursday December 21 2017, @06:59PM (1 child)

    by Bytram (4031) on Thursday December 21 2017, @06:59PM (#31476) Journal

    Now, when "Re: " is prepended to the parent comment's subject for a reply comment, it should fit without truncation.

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    • (Score: 2) by Bytram on Thursday December 21 2017, @07:04PM

      by Bytram (4031) on Thursday December 21 2017, @07:04PM (#31477) Journal

      Making sure a grandchild comment's Subject is not adversely affected, as well.

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