Slashdot Mirror

http://slashdot.com
http://zanyantics.com
http://slashdork.org
http://smashdot.org
http://crashdot.org
http://splashdot.org //not set up yet...
http://splashdot.org
http://hashdot.org
http://slapdash.org
http://slashnot.org
http://slashrot.org //not set up yet...
http://slashpot.org
http://slashbot.org
http://hotgrits.org
http://slashroot.org
http://slashback.org
http://smokedot.org
http://crackdot.org

Those are the ones I've found so far anyways...

Sorry. I'm afraid you will have to leave. Your surly attitude is soiling 'the web' and you are not welcome here any longer.

If you had just tried to fit in, things would be different. But since we see no pictures of your goldfish, cat, dog, or bird on your home page, we have to assume you're one of those shareware advocates always ranting and raving about 'linusx' or BDS.

Ummm, on a more serious note- your comment about people who view the net as their 'personal playground.' Hmmmm. Seems that you're the one who missed that day in kindergarten when the lesson was all about sharing. Or is the 'net just for those with true grits ??

Rusty deletes (First post) comments from (Natalie Portman) Kuro5hin only (MEEPT!!!) when they (Hot grits down your pants) are grossly (IF I EVER...) off topic. If you have something childish to say, say it on Hotgrits: News for Trolls. Stuff that matters.

You really think that. So it's so much worse to take fair and reasonable precautions to try improving the signal-to-noise ratio than to turn over Slashdot to a bunch of prepubescent morons who have nothing better to do with their pathetic little lives than spam a technical discussion site with puerile humor, attempts to change the subject, and just plain meaningless crap? Note, by the way, that not only are all of my examples from this discussion, but they are three of the first four posts to this discussion. And you say Slashdot isn't declining.

It seems the moderation has gotten way too politically correct.

Not that I've seen. I have yet to see an truly insightful, well-thought-out post that hasn't been modersted up quite high in the end. And no, I haven't agreed with all of them. No, they haven't all been politically correct (hell, many of the posts I do couldn't be called politically correct).

The quality of posts that get moderated up to +5 (in particular +5 funny) is really getting more and more lame.

You mean they haven't all been tasteless crap. Boo hoo hoo.

It's not the trolls' fault, it's the moderation system.

Oh, yeah. The moderators force the trolls to troll. Like we tie the trolls up, guard then with NINJAS and torture them with pr0n of Natalie Portman naked and petrified, and threaten to pour steaming hot grits down their pants if they don't troll. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuure.

the "1984 version" of Slashdot that you get at high thresholds is truly bland. Personally, I would rather read some truly amusing posts and take my chances with being offended or whatever you think the post is going to do to me.

What do you want, a humor site? Go here if you want that. Or better yet, go here.

Some of those posts obviously took some effort and creativity too... they deserve some recognition.

I know of only one troll that could possibly have taken any effort or creativity: the original naked and petrified post. The rest are just idiotic drivel, badly-written porn (I could write better stories than that, about the same subject matter, without any pr0n elements, in ten minutes), or slander (libel?) against JonKatz.

And even with that troll, it wasn't in the appropriate place. There is a time and a place for everything, even for trolls. Slashdot ain't it.

I think everyone should be able to vote on a post... let the score reflect the total of all votes applied to it. people can judge it by that and choose to ignore it or not, as they see fit.

We've got that already. It's called moderation. It picks people at random, yes, and it doesn't let known troublemakers mod, but it's quite fair.

I think free-speech has all but vanished on this site.

Free speech vanishing? Hardly. You can still say whatever you want. And we can also tell you to go fuck yourself. You have the fundamental rights to speak, to hear, and to not hear, but you have no fundamental right to be heard. You are given that right when someone listens to you. And if no one wants to listen, you can still prattle on all you want, while we simply build and move around you. But don't scream censorship when no one wants to hear you. That's just because we all think it's bullshit. And if we all think it's bullshit, there's a very large probability that it is.

"Bitchslapping," and "lameness filtering" ARE interfering with the communications of Slashdot's users.

Never heard these terms mentioned in connection with this site before. What is this "bitch-slapping" and "lameness filtering," as defined by Slashdot?

I've certainly never seen my communications interrupted or interfered with. Nor anyone else's.

Rob Malda almost seems like he's in a panic. He will do anything to eliminate the "trolling"... no matter how it may interfere with the operations of the site.

But does it interfere with this site's operations? Absolutely not. I have yet to see any moderation-related change which has interfered with actual technical discussion on Slashdot. Flamers, trolls, and spammers get filtered down (and I, like you, browse at -1 just to make certain of this), yes. But actual intelligent discussion? Hardly.

Is this Malda's site? Sure is. Will it generate any income when people no longer read it? Nope.

And you think Slashdot's readership is declining? Not that I've seen. And the people I do see leaving are all blaming it on trolls, not moderation.

Rob, you'd better wake up and smell the coffee... take an objective look at what moderation is doing. It's not good.

Maybe, maybe not. But regardless, it's better than the alternative: a site on which technical discussion can no lnger take place because it's been overrun by assholes.

It's actually pretty easy to make a troll bot... just fetch random posts from hotgrits.org... that, and have a cron job to check every 2 minutes whether or not a new story's out, and have 20 or so first post templates to randomly choose from...
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Hotgrits.Org. Free Speech (As in Trolling).

"Gritz" - Anonymous Coward. (Score: -1, Troll)
"Trollz" - Anonymous Coward. (Score: -1, Troll)
"Natalie Portmanz" - Anonymous Coward. (Score: -1, Troll)
"Linuxz" - CmdrTaco. (Score: 5, Funny)

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