Editing Soot (section)

== Soot defends himself ==

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On June 15, 2021, Soot responded to the issues raised in this article in a thread on the /qa/ board of Soyjak.party, after a Chud replied to him with a link to this article:

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Most of the concerns in that wiki page are explained in the article itself or no longer apply, but here goes:<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Google Adsense</span><br/>
No longer used, hasn't been for a very long time<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Malicious Ads</span><br/>
They were up for less than 30 minutes or so while I was testing with another ad network (I do not have ads on this site anymore)<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>TrustAsia TLS</span><br/>
Not a security concern since they do not have my private key. That's how TLS is designed to work.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Matomo</span><br/>
I have apolgized ''[sic]'' for any concerns that arose from using this, and once again, I will say this:<br/>
I never sold/shared any data collected using Matomo, and never planned to.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Removal of the Islamic Culture Thread</span><br/>
I removed this because I was concerned about being terminated by my hosting provider. I have since decided to not do anything and just hope I don't get terminated.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>captchas</span><br/>
For a short period of time, I used recaptcha on the wiki in an attempt to stop bots. I removed it later on and replaced it with a math captcha instead.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Cloudflare</span><br/>
I used cloudflare to improve performance. I understand the security concerns, but at the same time, I think concern over whether someone can see your soyjak posts is a bit ridiculous. If I were handling payment data or something, then maybe it would make sense.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Admins can see IPs</span><br/>
I thought this would be obvious, especially if you did your research regarding vichan (which I thought the people complaining about my datamining or whatever would do). Apparently, they didn't know this. I cannot see the IP addresses of lurkers through vichan, although I might be able to see them in my server logs or something (I don't know since I don't check them). <br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Tor nodes blocked</span><br/>
This was not a deliberate effort to block tor nodes, it was just me having to quickly ban and delete posts from spammers hopping tor nodes. I did not even know they were tor IPs at the time.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Intermittent censorship of gems on archive.org</span><br/>
This is ridiculous, I have never had anything removed from archive.org and I have never attempted to have anything removed.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Treatment of Userbase</span><br/>
This is really a matter of opinion. I locked the wiki article because it was just being spammed too much. I didn't really care what it was saying at that point, I just wanted the pointless edit wars to calm down for a bit. The second time I locked it, I left it at what I feel like is a more unbiased state, although some seem to disagree.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Roygbivsloweddown</span><br/>
Once again, this has to be a joke. The posts were almost certainly not from a new person, as they had already previously spammed around 20 threads before making a different post. <br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>User:Scatman John</span><br/>
I don't know when I apparently leaked his IP. I have never revealed any user IPs, the only time that this has ever occured was when the site was breached. <br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Downward spiral</span><br/>
I would say that this is more me losing patience with people who come on this site every single fucking day to complain about me being a dataminer or whatever. When it comes to the wikimod, I understand the concern, but he's only been a moderator for a week or so. I want to give him a little bit of time to prove himself before I consider removing him.<ref>{{CitePost|board=qa|no=6148|date=June 15, 2021|caption=Most of the concerns in that wiki page are explained in the article itself or no longer apply, but here goes|url=https://web.archive.org/web/https://soyjak.party/qa//res/6141.html}}</ref>
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