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I'm not sure what Slashdot actually is anymore. The titles of the entries appear interesting at first, but when you read the associated articles, any substantive content seems to vanish into thin air. I'm still interested, it's just not that interesting.
I'm firmly in the "So what?" camp on this. IRC servers have been known to do this as well, from time to time, as bot mitigation.
Why? That question was asked now ~10 years back. The answer was: to check if the submitter is using an random open proxy server from the net to bypass their IP filter. From the code # If we don't have an IP address, it can't be an open proxy. And scanning commonly known proxy server ports. my $ports = $constants->{comments_portscan_ports} || '80 8080 8000 3128';
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Soylent News! Really, Slashcode is just unbelievably horrible. I ran it myself. It's stupidly fragile, you can break it by altering things in the interface and it stores its weblogs in the MySQL database. I eventually moved everything to WordPress and stopped wanting to STAB MYSELF IN THE FACE REPEATEDLY whenever I wanted to make a post. Slashcode is not my favourite CMS.
>stores its weblogs in the MySQL database Can you explain this to me? this seems like exactly what wordpress does..?
Maybe it doesn't do that any more. BUT SOMEONE EVER THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA.
I'm not sure what Slashdot actually is anymore. The titles of the entries appear interesting at first, but when you read the associated articles, any substantive content seems to vanish into thin air. I'm still interested, it's just not that interesting.