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Hey everybody, jihadi_31337 here again. You may remember me posting from the Internet Measurment Conference earlier this week. I'm on a road trip for the weekened, and I'm at a friend's place. One of my favorite things about going to friends' places is that I can do a bunch of jihad posts and get their IP banned too :)

Ok, here we go. Thanks for reading the intro.

Ever notice the "beat the rush and see it early" link at the top of slashdot when a new story is about to come out?

Sounds good, doesn't it? To be able to view the pages linked to in the article before the tens of thousands of other slashbots click to view them.

Did it ever occur to you that you're taking part in cyber-terrorism?

That's right: Slashdot's editors are cyber-terrorists. They coordinate a DOS against small websites, and they attempt to collect moeny from people who wish to be spared the effects of said DOS. Terrorism, plain and simple.

You can fight this and other crimes by slashdot's editors by joining anti-slash. Anti-slash is committed to forcing the editors to own up to their numerous crimes against the geek community. Until our demands are met, we will relentlessly discredit them as a news service through trolling and other means.

Also, props to poopbot and the alan thicke troll. We remember your accomplishments.

In sacred jihad,

jihadi_31337

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Hey everybody, jihadi_31337 here again. You may remember me posting from the Internet Measurment Conference earlier this week. I'm on a road trip for the weekened, and I'm at a friend's place. One of my favorite things about going to friends' places is that I can do a bunch of jihad posts and get their IP banned too :)

Ok, here we go. Thanks for reading the intro.

Ever notice the "beat the rush and see it early" link at the top of slashdot when a new story is about to come out?

Sounds good, doesn't it? To be able to view the pages linked to in the article before the tens of thousands of other slashbots click to view them.

Did it ever occur to you that you're taking part in cyber-terrorism?

That's right: Slashdot's editors are cyber-terrorists. They coordinate a DOS against small websites, and they attempt to collect moeny from people who wish to be spared the effects of said DOS. Terrorism, plain and simple.

You can fight this and other crimes by slashdot's editors by joining anti-slash. Anti-slash is committed to forcing the editors to own up to their numerous crimes against the geek community. Until our demands are met, we will relentlessly discredit them as a news service through trolling and other means.

Also, props to poopbot and the alan thicke troll. We remember your accomplishments.

In sacred jihad,

jihadi_31337

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Hey everybody, jihadi_31337 here again. You may remember me posting from the Internet Measurment Conference earlier this week. I'm on a road trip for the weekened, and I'm at a friend's place. One of my favorite things about going to friends' places is that I can do a bunch of jihad posts and get their IP banned too :)

Ok, here we go. Thanks for reading the intro.

Ever notice the "beat the rush and see it early" link at the top of slashdot when a new story is about to come out?

Sounds good, doesn't it? To be able to view the pages linked to in the article before the tens of thousands of other slashbots click to view them.

Did it ever occur to you that you're taking part in cyber-terrorism?

That's right: Slashdot's editors are cyber-terrorists. They coordinate a DOS against small websites, and they attempt to collect moeny from people who wish to be spared the effects of said DOS. Terrorism, plain and simple.

You can fight this and other crimes by slashdot's editors by joining anti-slash. Anti-slash is committed to forcing the editors to own up to their numerous crimes against the geek community. Until our demands are met, we will relentlessly discredit them as a news service through trolling and other means.

Also, props to poopbot and the alan thicke troll. We remember your accomplishments.

In sacred jihad-

jihadi_31337

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Hey everybody, jihadi_31337 here again. You may remember me posting from the Internet Measurment Conference earlier this week. I'm on a road trip for the weekened, and I'm at a friend's place. One of my favorite things about going to friends' places is that I can do a bunch of jihad posts and get their IP banned too :)

Ok, here we go. Thanks for reading the intro.

Ever notice the "beat the rush and see it early" link at the top of slashdot when a new story is about to come out?

Sounds good, doesn't it? To be able to view the pages linked to in the article before the tens of thousands of other slashbots click to view them.

Did it ever occur to you that you're taking part in cyber-terrorism?

That's right: Slashdot's editors are cyber-terrorists. They coordinate a DOS against small websites, and they attempt to collect moeny from people who wish to be spared the effects of said DOS. Terrorism, plain and simple.

You can fight this and other crimes by slashdot's editors by joining anti-slash. Anti-slash is committed to forcing the editors to own up to their numerous crimes against the geek community. Until our demands are met, we will relentlessly discredit them as a news service through trolling and other means.

Also, props to poopbot and the alan thicke troll. We remember your accomplishments.

In sacred jihad...

jihadi_31337

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Hey everybody, jihadi_31337 here again. You may remember me posting from the Internet Measurment Conference earlier this week. I'm on a road trip for the weekened, and I'm at a friend's place. One of my favorite things about going to friends' places is that I can do a bunch of jihad posts and get their IP banned too :)

Ok, here we go. Thanks for reading the intro.

Ever notice the "beat the rush and see it early" link at the top of slashdot when a new story is about to come out?

Sounds good, doesn't it? To be able to view the pages linked to in the article before the tens of thousands of other slashbots click to view them.

Did it ever occur to you that you're taking part in cyber-terrorism?

That's right: Slashdot's editors are cyber-terrorists. They coordinate a DOS against small websites, and they attempt to collect moeny from people who wish to be spared the effects of said DOS. Terrorism, plain and simple.

You can fight this and other crimes by slashdot's editors by joining anti-slash. Anti-slash is committed to forcing the editors to own up to their numerous crimes against the geek community. Until our demands are met, we will relentlessly discredit them as a news service through trolling and other means.

Also, props to poopbot and the alan thicke troll. We remember your accomplishments.

In sacred jihad!

jihadi_31337

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_) |_|_)__/_| |
(_) o

Hey everybody, jihadi_31337 here again. You may remember me posting from the Internet Measurment Conference earlier this week. I'm on a road trip for the weekened, and I'm at a friend's place. One of my favorite things about going to friends' places is that I can do a bunch of jihad posts and get their IP banned too :)

Ok, here we go. Thanks for reading the intro.

Ever notice the "beat the rush and see it early" link at the top of slashdot when a new story is about to come out?

Sounds good, doesn't it? To be able to view the pages linked to in the article before the tens of thousands of other slashbots click to view them.

Did it ever occur to you that you're taking part in cyber-terrorism?

That's right: Slashdot's editors are cyber-terrorists. They coordinate a DOS against small websites, and they attempt to collect moeny from people who wish to be spared the effects of said DOS. Terrorism, plain and simple.

You can fight this and other crimes by slashdot's editors by joining anti-slash. Anti-slash is committed to forcing the editors to own up to their numerous crimes against the geek community. Until our demands are met, we will relentlessly discredit them as a news service through trolling and other means.

Also, props to poopbot and the alan thicke troll. We remember your accomplishments.

In sacred jihad,

jihadi_31337

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hey guys,

i'm not sure exactly what i'm doing here. so...bear with me!

i clicked "geeky" on my match.com personals profile, thinking that i'd maybe get hooked up with somebody who was into math or some kind of toy train hobby or something...boy howdy was i in for a shock! i went on 4 dates with guys who all got on match.com because of osdn personals from slash-dot! 4 guys!

anyway, it didn't really work out with any of them, because it seemed like they were all under some kind of mind-control robot or something! i was like "what do you think about office? office 97 is enough for me, but there are some things about xp that are cool too...." the first guy i asked that to exploded on this tyrade about how office was evil, and that it uses html that's invalid...blah blah blah, whatever...i figured "ok, this guys a freak, but i'm not giving up that easily." so guy number two and i are having dinner, and just as a test i bring up office, and he says the *exact* *same* *things* the first guy said! it was like he was reading from a script! i'm thinking to myself "is everybody from slash-dot programmed to say the same thing or what?" i decided to do a bit of investigation.

i actually surfed over to slash-dot and read some of the articles...mostly they were pretty boring, and the comments were just like i expected judging from my previous past experience: scripted!!! just when i was about to completely write the whole thing off, i found a post from some guy who's with anti-slash, some kind of anti-slash-dot website. i mailed him and was all "i so agree with you guys, look at what sheep these slash-dot people are!" he wrote back and made some funny comments (funny and so *true*!...that is soooo the best kind of humor...but i dirgress...) and guess what? this weekend i'm supposed to meet him for dinner :) if you're reading this, i look forward to meeting you in person, john!

anyway, that's my story. ladies: if you're looking for the real cool geeks, check out anti-slash. and fellas, you should check it out too and maybe use to to break out of your mind-control suits!

ok see ya later,

cyndi

Hi,

I'm posting form the Internet Measurment Conference in Berkeley, CA. I always enjoy posting from large conferences, because it gives me a chance to point out one of the many crimes of slashdot's editors: By me posting this over and over, I will cause the subnet I'm on to be banned, which means that everybody here at this conference will also be banned!

Speaking of the crimes of slashdot's editors, check out anti-slash! Anti-slash is a community headquarters for fighting against slashdot's editors through the power of trolling and other subversive activities. We encourage everybody to check out our site and learn more about the editor's history of abuse.

In teh sacred jihad,

jihadi_31337

Hi, I'm posting form the Internet Measurment Conference in Berkeley, CA. I always enjoy posting from large conferences, because it gives me a chance to point out one of the many crimes of slashdot's editors: By me posting this over and over, I will cause the subnet I'm on to be banned, which means that everybody here at this conference will also be banned! Speaking of the crimes of slashdot's editors, check out anti-slash! Anti-slash is a community headquarters for fighting against slashdot's editors through the power of trolling and other subversive activities. We encourage everybody to check out our site and learn more about the editor's history of abuse. In sacred jihad jihadi_31337

Hi,

I'm posting form the Internet Measurment Conference in Berkeley, CA. I always enjoy posting from large conferences, because it gives me a chance to point out one of the many crimes of slashdot's editors: By me posting this over and over, I will cause the subnet I'm on to be banned, which means that everybody here at this conference will also be banned!

Speaking of the crimes of slashdot's editors, check out anti-slash! Anti-slash is a community headquarters for fighting against slashdot's editors through the power of trolling and other subversive activities. We encourage everybody to check out our site and learn more about the editor's history of abuse.

In sacred jihad,

jihadi_31337!

Hi,

I'm posting form the Internet Measurment Conference in Berkeley, CA. I always enjoy posting from large conferences, because it gives me a chance to point out one of the many crimes of slashdot's editors: By me posting this over and over, I will cause the subnet I'm on to be banned, which means that everybody here at this conference will also be banned!

Speaking of the crimes of slashdot's editors, check out anti-slash! Anti-slash is a community headquarters for fighting against slashdot's editors through the power of trolling and other subversive activities. We encourage everybody to check out our site and learn more about the editor's history of abuse.

In sacred jihad,

jihadi_31337

Actually there is a dupe tracker here: http://www.anti-slash.org/

Zonk, again you've blown it. If you read your summary, you've written " Washington Times makes note of aa recent satellite launch by the U.S..."

I don't get this -- what does "Alchoholics Anonymous" have to do with satellites?

Oh, I get it -- it is a spelling mistake. This is why the Jihad hates you, Zonk. You have stupid editing mistakes in your articles. Please try it again, this time with a spellchecker.

This and other injustices perpetrated by slashdot's editors are documented within the pages of Anti-slash: Sacred Jihad Against Slashdot. We invite you to join our community and force slashdot's editors to answer for their crimes.

In Sacred Jihad,

jihadi_31337

Zonk, you can't patent a phrase -- you trademark it.

This is why the jihad hates you -- you suck as an editor.

Whenever I read a story here that doesn't have to do with geeks or anything that matters (and how could it matter, given that it predates Linux?), I often notice that the editor in charge of the story is El-Zonko, The Most Zonkoriffic, Zonkalicious one -- -"ZONK" -- who is despised by the folks at anti-slash.org.

Go ahead and mod me down, idiot moderators.

The people over here really have it in for Zonk and his dupes.

I didn't really get the role of editors in making these mistakes. The jihad folks figure Zonk is one of the worst offenders.

I'm agnostic in all this, of course. This is just for informational purposes.

It'd be nice for a site to log all the errors of the editors, but I guess it would cost too much to host. =(

Anti-Slash does exactly that.

Join anti slash - clearly you too have realised how shit slashdot is!

Does anyone care anymore? I only point out the mistakes so I can linkify them for Anti-Slash.

You would think if some company is going to buy a Slashvertisement, they would at least check their grammar first.

HJ

Screenshot of Taco's fuckup

Yet another example of editor incompetance...

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Slashdot Declaration of Independence

(Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/

When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing
any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by
the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different?

We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues.
There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors
are not so much editors as they are salesman.

In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor.
These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum
to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot
be criticized.

We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors.

1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking:
Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days
before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the
content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the
editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor.

Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there
is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly
emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions
are labeled as hate mail.

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/

2. Increased commercialization behind articles:
Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy.
Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get
Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations.

Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement"

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/

3. Blatant editor errors:
The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe
it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors.

There are several instances of items just not being checked:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282

Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three
points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems
of spell checking etc.

Resolution:
We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot.
http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd.

If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the
editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they
are resolved.

Slashdot Declaration of Independence

(Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/

When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing
any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by
the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different?

We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues.
There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors
are not so much editors as they are salesman.

In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor.
These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum
to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot
be criticized.

We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors.

1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking:
Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days
before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the
content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the
editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor.

Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there
is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly
emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions
are labeled as hate mail.

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/

2. Increased commercialization behind articles:
Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy.
Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get
Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations.

Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement"

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/

3. Blatant editor errors:
The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe
it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors.

There are several instances of items just not being checked:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282

Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three
points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems
of spell checking etc.

Resolution:
We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot.
http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd.

If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the
editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they
are resolved.

Slashdot Declaration of Independence (Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/ When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different? We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues. There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors are not so much editors as they are salesman. In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor. These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot be criticized. We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors. 1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking: Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor. Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions are labeled as hate mail. http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/ 2. Increased commercialization behind articles: Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy. Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations. Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement" http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/ 3. Blatant editor errors: The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors. There are several instances of items just not being checked: http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467 http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520 http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282 Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems of spell checking etc. Resolution: We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot. http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd. If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they are resolved. Demand more from this money-making machine! You are all its customers. You have the power! (Links taken from http://www.anti-slash.org/

Slashdot Declaration of Independence (Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/ When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different? We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues. There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors are not so much editors as they are salesman. In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor. These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot be criticized. We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors. 1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking: Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor. Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions are labeled as hate mail. http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/ 2. Increased commercialization behind articles: Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy. Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations. Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement" http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/ 3. Blatant editor errors: The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors. There are several instances of items just not being checked: http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467 http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520 http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282 Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems of spell checking etc. Resolution: We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot. http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd. If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they are resolved. Demand more from this money-making machine! You are all its customers. You have the power! (Links taken from http://www.anti-slash.org/

Slashdot Declaration of Independence (Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/ When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different? We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues. There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors are not so much editors as they are salesman. In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor. These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot be criticized. We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors. 1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking: Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor. Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions are labeled as hate mail. http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/ 2. Increased commercialization behind articles: Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy. Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations. Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement" http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/ 3. Blatant editor errors: The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors. There are several instances of items just not being checked: http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467 http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520 http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282 Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems of spell checking etc. Resolution: We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot. http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd. If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they are resolved. Demand more from this money-making machine! You are all its customers. You have the power! (Links taken from http://www.anti-slash.org/

Slashdot Declaration of Independence

(Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/

When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing
any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by
the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different?

We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues.
There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors
are not so much editors as they are salesman.

In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor.
These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum
to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot
be criticized.

We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors.

1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking:
Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days
before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the
content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the
editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor.

Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there
is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly
emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions
are labeled as hate mail.

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/

2. Increased commercialization behind articles:
Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy.
Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get
Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations.

Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement"

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/

3. Blatant editor errors:
The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe
it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors.

There are several instances of items just not being checked:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282

Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three
points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems
of spell checking etc.

Resolution:
We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot.
http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd.

If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the
editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they
are resolved.

Slashdot Declaration of Independence

(Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/

When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing
any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by
the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different?

We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues.
There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors
are not so much editors as they are salesman.

In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor.
These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum
to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot
be criticized.

We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors.

1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking:
Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days
before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the
content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the
editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor.

Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there
is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly
emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions
are labeled as hate mail.

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/

2. Increased commercialization behind articles:
Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy.
Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get
Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations.

Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement"

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/

3. Blatant editor errors:
The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe
it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors.

There are several instances of items just not being checked:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282

Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three
points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems
of spell checking etc.

Resolution:
We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot.
http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd.

If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the
editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they
are resolved.

This is another example of slashdot's editors not doing a good job of reviewing submitted text. Anti-slash.org has a message board detailing some of their silliest abuses. Check it out!

I haven't gotten any since I visited Slashdot via links on Anti-Slash. If you go there, copy and paste the URLs rather than clicking their links back to here. Apparently the HTTP-Referer identifies you as a persona non grata.

Is it now illegal to look at such websites? I don't know. But I surely googled 'jihad' etc once.

Slashdot Declaration of Independence (Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/ When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different? We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues. There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors are not so much editors as they are salesman. In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor. These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot be criticized. We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors. 1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking: Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor. Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions are labeled as hate mail. http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/ 2. Increased commercialization behind articles: Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy. Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations. Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement" http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/ 3. Blatant editor errors: The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors. There are several instances of items just not being checked: http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467 http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520 http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282 Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems of spell checking etc. Resolution: We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot. http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd. If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they are resolved. Demand more from this money-making machine! You are all its customers. You have the power! (Links taken from http://www.anti-slash.org/

Slashdot Declaration of Independence (Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/ When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different? We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues. There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors are not so much editors as they are salesman. In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor. These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot be criticized. We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors. 1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking: Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor. Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions are labeled as hate mail. http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/ 2. Increased commercialization behind articles: Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy. Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations. Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement" http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/ 3. Blatant editor errors: The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors. There are several instances of items just not being checked: http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467 http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520 http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282 Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems of spell checking etc. Resolution: We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot. http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd. If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they are resolved. Demand more from this money-making machine! You are all its customers. You have the power! (Links taken from http://www.anti-slash.org/

Slashdot Declaration of Independence (Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/ When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different? We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues. There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors are not so much editors as they are salesman. In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor. These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot be criticized. We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors. 1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking: Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor. Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions are labeled as hate mail. http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/ 2. Increased commercialization behind articles: Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy. Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations. Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement" http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/ 3. Blatant editor errors: The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors. There are several instances of items just not being checked: http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467 http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798 http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520 http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282 Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems of spell checking etc. Resolution: We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot. http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd. If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they are resolved. Demand more from this money-making machine! You are all its customers. You have the power! (Links taken from http://www.anti-slash.org/

Slashdot Declaration of Independence

(Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/

When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing
any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by
the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different?

We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues.
There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors
are not so much editors as they are salesman.

In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor.
These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum
to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot
be criticized.

We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors.

1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking:
Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days
before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the
content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the
editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor.

Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there
is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly
emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions
are labeled as hate mail.

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/

2. Increased commercialization behind articles:
Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy.
Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get
Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations.

Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement"

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/

3. Blatant editor errors:
The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe
it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors.

There are several instances of items just not being checked:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282

Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three
points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems
of spell checking etc.

Resolution:
We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot.
http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd.

If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the
editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they
are resolved.

Slashdot Declaration of Independence

(Quick summary: use http://www.digg.com/

When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing
any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by
the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different?

We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues.
There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors
are not so much editors as they are salesman.

In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor.
These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum
to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot
be criticized.

We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors.

1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking:
Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days
before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the
content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the
editor to complain, surely they wouldn't have chastised by the editor.

Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there
is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly
emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions
are labeled as hate mail.

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/

2. Increased commercialization behind articles:
Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy.
Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get
Slashdot in good graces with particular organizations.

Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement"

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/

3. Blatant editor errors:
The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe
it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors.

There are several instances of items just not being checked:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282

Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three
points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems
of spell checking etc.

Resolution:
We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot.
http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd.

If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the
editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they
are resolved.

Slashdot Declaration of Independence

When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing
any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by
the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different?

We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues.
There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors
are not so much editors as they are salesman.

In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor.
These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum
to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot
be criticized.

We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors.

1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking:
Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days
before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the
content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the
editor to complain, surely they wouldn'thave chastised by the editor.

Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there
is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly
emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions
are labeled as hate mail.

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/

2. Increased commercialization behind articles:
Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy.
Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get Slashdot in
good graces with particular organizations.

Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement:"

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/

3. Blatant editor errors:
The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe
it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors.

There are several instances of items just not being checked:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282

Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three
points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems
of spell checking etc.

Resolution:
We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot.
http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd.

If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the
editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they
are resolved.

Demand more from this money-making machine! You are all its customers. You

Slashdot Declaration of Independence

When other tech companies severely take advantage of their customers, dismissing
any notion of customer service or satisfaction, they are no doubt subject to criticism by
the ever vigilant masses of Slashdot. Why should Slashdot itself be any different?

We must remember that slashdot makes money off subscriptions and ad revenues.
There is no altruistic motivation behind their actions, and as such, the Slashdot editors
are not so much editors as they are salesman.

In addition, we must remember that Slashdot is NOT a legitimate journalistic endeavor.
These so-called editors did not attend journalism school, nor is there a centralized forum
to air grievances done on the site. To the slashdot editors, their words are final, and cannot
be criticized.

We put forth three major grievances we have with Slashdot and its editors.

1. Complete lack of dupe checking and article checking:
Imagine a newspaper that routinely prints stories from months, weeks and even days
before. Image the same newspaper placing all import on the headline, rather than the
content. Surely this newspaper would not last long. If the readers would write in to the
editor to complain, surely they wouldn'thave chastised by the editor.

Yet, as we are all aware of, this is the biggest problem facing slashdot. Although there
is no editorial section in which we may submit letters, we have the option to directly
emailing the editors. What happens when we do? We are scolded and our opinions
are labeled as hate mail.

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/taco _dupe_lash_out/

2. Increased commercialization behind articles:
Many recent articles seem to be advertisement for products, and not really newsworthy.
Other articles (including the recent "discovery" of month old google products) try to get Slashdot in
good graces with particular organizations.

Here are more examples of such "Slash-vertisement:"

http://www.anti-slash.org/injustices/other/extreme tech_slashvertisement/

3. Blatant editor errors:
The role of an editor is to oversee the final content of text before it goes into publication. That, believe
it or not, includes checking minor errors in HTML and spelling, in addition to larger errors.

There are several instances of items just not being checked:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157102&c id=13170467
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 209&cid=13177798
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157125 &cid=13172520
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156961&c id=13159282

Where as grievance one details the question of "newsworthiness" of an article, grievance three
points out instances where article and summary do not agree, in addition to the smaller problems
of spell checking etc.

Resolution:
We do not have to stand for this lack of respect toward the customer. There are alternatives to slashdot.
http://www.digg.com/ has had good reviews from the slashdot crowd.

If leaving slashdot all together seems too extremist you can start demanding better treatment from the
editors. Demand a public forum where we can discuss our issues with slashdot, and see that they
are resolved.

Demand more from this money-making machine! You are all its customers. You

People, it's time we take a stand against the Slashdot editors!

Imagine if Slashdot was an OS, and every dupe, unchecked story, instance of google ass kissing, advertisement hidden in an article, etc was some sort of security exploit.

What would you get? And would this OS stand the critisism of the slashdot crowd?

Join the slashdot jihad!
http://www.anti-slash.org/

le white rabbit

Will they have to update Theodore?

I don't think I'd feel comfortable letting my children watch television shows about "Space Tugboats".

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ATTENTION SLASHDOT READERS:

You don't have to stand for the crap these so called "editors" put you through! Come join the Slashdot Jihad and end the tyranny of the shit-for-brains editors!

I know you guys like to think much about yourselves, but just because you are good programmers does not make you good editors!!!!!!!!!!

http://anti-slash.org/

The real question is who designed these "pyramids"? It's obvious that our current society is not advanced enough for such a feat, so that leaves us three possibilities.

A) A past civilization capable of such feats.
B) A future version of our civilization with time travel.
C) Otherworldly visitors with hyperadvanced technology.

I fear we'll never quite understand this mystery.

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News for real nerds, stuff that actually matters.

hey guys,

i'm not sure exactly what i'm doing here. so...bear with me!

i clicked "geeky" on my match.com personals profile, thinking that i'd maybe get hooked up with somebody who was into math or some kind of toy train hobby or something...boy howdy was i in for a shock! i went on 4 dates with guys who all got on match.com because of osdn personals from slash-dot! 4 guys!

anyway, it didn't really work out with any of them, because it seemed like they were all under some kind of mind-control robot or something! i was like "what do you think about office? office 97 is enough for me, but there are some things about xp that are cool too...." the first guy i asked that to exploded on this tyrade about how office was evil, and that it uses html that's invalid...blah blah blah, whatever...i figured "ok, this guys a freak, but i'm not giving up that easily." so guy number two and i are having dinner, and just as a test i bring up office, and he says the *exact* *same* *things* the first guy said! it was like he was reading from a script! i'm thinking to myself "is everybody from slash-dot programmed to say the same thing or what?" i decided to do a bit of investigation.

i actually surfed over to slash-dot and read some of the articles...mostly they were pretty boring, and the comments were just like i expected judging from my previous past experience: scripted!!! just when i was about to completely write the whole thing off, i found a post from some guy who's with anti-slash, some kind of anti-slash-dot website. i mailed him and was all "i so agree with you guys, look at what sheep these slash-dot people are!" he wrote back and made some funny comments (funny and so *true*!...that is soooo the best kind of humor...but i dirgress...) and guess what? this weekend i'm supposed to meet him for dinner :) if you're reading this, i look forward to meeting you in person, john!

anyway, that's my story. ladies: if you're looking for the real cool geeks, check out anti-slash. and fellas, you should check it out too and maybe use to to break out of your mind-control suits!

ok see ya later,

cyndi

hey guys,

i'm not sure exactly what i'm doing here. so...bear with me!

i clicked "geeky" on my match.com personals profile, thinking that i'd maybe get hooked up with somebody who was into math or some kind of toy train hobby or something...boy howdy was i in for a shock! i went on 4 dates with guys who all got on match.com because of osdn personals from slash-dot! 4 guys!

anyway, it didn't really work out with any of them, because it seemed like they were all under some kind of mind-control robot or something! i was like "what do you think about office? office 97 is enough for me, but there are some things about xp that are cool too...." the first guy i asked that to exploded on this tyrade about how office was evil, and that it uses html that's invalid...blah blah blah, whatever...i figured "ok, this guys a freak, but i'm not giving up that easily." so guy number two and i are having dinner, and just as a test i bring up office, and he says the *exact* *same* *things* the first guy said! it was like he was reading from a script! i'm thinking to myself "is everybody from slash-dot programmed to say the same thing or what?" i decided to do a bit of investigation.

i actually surfed over to slash-dot and read some of the articles...mostly they were pretty boring, and the comments were just like i expected judging from my previous past experience: scripted!!! just when i was about to completely write the whole thing off, i found a post from some guy who's with anti-slash, some kind of anti-slash-dot website. i mailed him and was all "i so agree with you guys, look at what sheep these slash-dot people are!" he wrote back and made some funny comments (funny and so *true*!...that is soooo the best kind of humor...but i dirgress...) and guess what? this weekend i'm supposed to meet him for dinner :) if you're reading this, i look forward to meeting you in person, john!

anyway, that's my story. ladies: if you're looking for the real cool geeks, check out anti-slash. and fellas, you should check it out too and maybe use to to break out of your mind-control suits!

ok see ya later,

cyndi

hey guys,

i'm not sure exactly what i'm doing here. so...bear with me!

i clicked "geeky" on my match.com personals profile, thinking that i'd maybe get - hooked up with somebody who was into math or some kind of toy train hobby or something...boy howdy was i in for a shock! i went on 4 dates with guys who all got on match.com because of osdn personals from slash-dot! 4 guys!

anyway, it didn't really work out with any of them, because it seemed like they were all under some kind of mind-control robot or something! i was like "what do you think about office? office 97 is enough for me, but there are some things about xp that are cool too...." the first guy i asked that to exploded on this tyrade about how office was evil, and that it uses html that's invalid...blah blah blah, whatever...i figured "ok, this guys a freak, but i'm not giving up that easily." so guy number two and i are having dinner, and just as a test i bring up office, and he says the *exact* *same* *things* the first guy said! it was like he was reading from a script! i'm thinking to myself "is everybody from slash-dot programmed to say the same thing or what?" i decided to do a bit of investigation.

i actually surfed over to slash-dot and read some of the articles...mostly they were pretty boring, and the comments were just like i expected judging from my previous past experience: scripted!!! just when i was about to completely write the whole thing off, i found a post from some guy who's with anti-slash, some kind of anti-slash-dot website. i mailed him and was all "i so agree with you guys, look at what sheep these slash-dot people are!" he wrote back and made some funny comments (funny and so *true*!...that is soooo the best kind of humor...but i dirgress...) and guess what? this weekend i'm supposed to meet him for dinner :) if you're reading this, i look forward to meeting you in person, john!

anyway, that's my story. ladies: if you're looking for the real cool geeks, check out anti-slash. and fellas, you should check it out too and maybe use to to break out of your mind-control suits!

ok see ya later,

cyndi

hey guys,

i'm not sure exactly what i'm doing here. so...bear with me!

i clicked "geeky" on my match.com personals profile, thinking that i'd maybe get hooked up with somebody who was into math or some kind of toy train hobby or something...boy howdy was i in for a shock! i went on 4 dates with guys who all got on match.com because of osdn personals from slash-dot! 4 guys!

anyway, it didn't really work out with any of them, because it seemed like they were all under some kind of mind-control robot or something! i was like "what do you think about office? office 97 is enough for me, but there are some things about xp that are cool too...." the first guy i asked that to exploded on this tyrade about how office was evil, and that it uses html that's invalid...blah blah blah, whatever...i figured "ok, this guys a freak, but i'm not giving up that easily." so guy number two and i are having dinner, and just as a test i bring up office, and he says the *exact* *same* *things* the first guy said! it was like he was reading from a script! i'm thinking to myself "is everybody from slash-dot programmed to say the same thing or what?" i decided to do a bit of investigation.

i actually surfed over to slash-dot and read some of the articles...mostly they were pretty boring, and the comments were just like i expected judging from my previous past experience: scripted!!! just when i was about to completely write the whole thing off, i found a post from some guy who's with anti-slash, some kind of anti-slash-dot website. i mailed him and was all "i so agree with you guys, look at what sheep these slash-dot people are!" he wrote back and made some funny comments (funny and so *true*!...that is soooo the best kind of humor...but i dirgress...) and guess what? this weekend i'm supposed to meet him for dinner :) if you're reading this, i look forward to meeting you in person, john!

anyway, that's my story. ladies: if you're looking for the real cool geeks, check out anti-slash. and fellas, you should check it out too and maybe use to to break out of your mind-control suits!

ok see ya later,

cyndi

hey guys,

i'm not sure exactly what i'm doing here. so...bear with me!

i clicked "geeky" on my match.com personals profile, thinking that i'd maybe get hooked up with somebody who was into math or some kind of toy train hobby or something...boy howdy was i in for a shock! i went on 4 dates with guys who all got on match.com because of osdn personals from slash-dot! 4 guys!

anyway, it didn't really work out with any of them, because it seemed like they were all under some kind of mind-control robot or something! i was like "what do you think about office? office 97 is enough for me, but there are some things about xp that are cool too...." the first guy i asked that to exploded on this tyrade about how office was evil, and that it uses html that's invalid...blah blah blah, whatever...i figured "ok, this guys a freak, but i'm not giving up that easily." so guy number two and i are having dinner, and just as a test i bring up office, and he says the *exact* *same* *things* the first guy said! it was like he was reading from a script! i'm thinking to myself "is everybody from slash-dot programmed to say the same thing or what?" i decided to do a bit of investigation.

i actually surfed over to slash-dot and read some of the articles...mostly they were pretty boring, and the comments were just like i expected judging from my previous past experience: scripted!!! just when i was about to completely write the whole thing off, i found a post from some guy who's with anti-slash, some kind of anti-slash-dot website. i mailed him and was all "i so agree with you guys, look at what sheep these slash-dot people are!" he wrote back and made some funny comments (funny and so *true*!...that is soooo the best kind of humor...but i dirgress...) and guess what? this weekend i'm supposed to meet him for dinner :) if you're reading this, i look forward to meeting you in person, john!

anyway, that's my story. ladies: if you're looking for the real cool geeks, check out anti-slash. and fellas, you should check it out too and maybe use to to break out of your mind-control suits!

ok see ya later,

cyndi

Slashdot throttle

Hmm... 3 times have been done before, but never on the FP I think.

http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=151936&c id=12747639
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=144601&cid=121 15432
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=150292&c id=12603539

Of course there was the April Fools Trupe of yore:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59193&threshol d=1&commentsort=0&tid=95&tid=172&mode=thread&cid=5 638044

And then there are the many dupes by the same "Editor" (Usually Zonk):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=144599&cid=121 13809

Ah yes, and then there was the dupe that occured less than an hour after the original. There has been some debate as to whether that was even a dupe or just a Slashvertisement, but for our purposes today we will just call it a dupe:
http://www.andrerestivo.com/weblog/archives/slashd otdupe.html

All of this has been documented for your protection here:
http://anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/double_d upe/

HJ