Category: Why The Hell Not? (Part I)

So for kicks we've decided to create a few categories just for fun. The prizes are less serious: A Beanie and a hug from our own CowboyNeal. We've got several categories that you can Nominate in. This first batch is related to Slashdot:

• Favorite Slashdot Comment Poster
• Favorite Slashdot Author
• Favorite Slashdot Story of 1999
• The Hemos Award (Only Hemos is Eligible)

Comments

Re:BOredAtWork

[Hemos]

Truly one of the best posters around - I concur.

Re:The henos award?

[Roblimo]

Since when has Hemos had self-esteem?

I must have missed something... ;-)

- Robin

BOredAtWork

[volsung]

(I think that's how he/she capitalized his/her name.)

This goes back a bit in Slashdot history, but I always got a kick out of this person, the great wielder of the Clue Stick(TM). I doubt he/she even reads Slashdot anymore, but I think he/she deserves the award more than those stupid MEEPT/gritsboy/Portman trolls.

(I also think that English needs a neuter, singular pronoun.)

Hemos Award?

[drwiii]

Well, I guess we can all predict the winner of the Hemos Award...

My fave: cheese63

[crayz]

http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=chee se63

"2 hundred and foty dollars, worth of puddin. awwww yeahh"

hehe

grammar

[mattdm]

English needs a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun. Neuter is a different thing altogether, and we have one of those already -- "it". But, luckily, we also already have a gender-neutral singular pronoun: "they".

A lot of people seem opposed to this (apparently they don't like that it's also the plural pronoun, but consider that many other languages "reuse" pronouns freely) but it has a strong historical precedent both in commom and in formal speech. Shakespeare used it. So can you.

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US and UK unilaterally attack Iraq!

[poink]

US and UK unilaterally attack Iraq has to be the very best slashdot story! It highlighed both the good and bad sides of slashdot in one broad stroke.

Re:US and UK unilaterally attack Iraq!

[lordsutch]

Minor problem: the story is ineligible for this award, since it was posted in 1998.

But I agree, it is Slashdot writ small. OTOH, the article quality demonstrated there was really low, relative to "typical" ./ standards. Usually, there's only one blatant factual error in the story ;-). (Shame, too, since I did agree with sengan's central thesis.)

Enoch Root!

[Signal 11]

I nominate Enoch Root, the most consistently well-spoken poster on slashdot. He also is fully flame-retardant - something I've had difficulty with. I have his homepage bookmarked here.

igPoster award goes to MEEPT! for obvious reasons. =)

My favorite post is gone :(

[Royster]

The funniest thing I've ever seen on /. was a post atached to the poll How Often Do You Degauss Your Monitor? Unfortunately poll comments are not saved, and the sublime humor of an unknown poster complaining about how Carl Friedrich Gauss kept getting into his monitor ("Get out of my monitor, Carl Friedrich Gauss!") has been lost for all time. So, I nominate the Unknown Poster of this hilarious but tracically lost post.

Best poster -- CJE

[Shoeboy]

CJE is the best comic on /.
This boy is brilliant. All his fake news comments are composed and posted within a few minutes of his reading the article. Nobody else could produce that many long, well written spoofs with that kind of time frame. It takes genius.
--Shoeboy

Hemos -- CmdrTaco

[Jonas �berg]

I would nominate CmdrTaco for the Hemos award. Who cares if he's elegible or not? :)

Tom Christiansen?

[Dacta]

Sorry, he might be a good coder, but his comments are always inflametory.

I nominate Christopher B. Brown

[Dacta]

as the best poster.

His comments are always sensible, always well thought through and never flamebait.

User Info here

Best Comment Poster: It is obvious, folks.

[AtariDatacenter]

The correct nominee for the "Favorite Slashdot Comment Poster" should be quite obvious to everyone. It is the ever-present Anonymous Coward. However, the irony is that AC would also be the winner of the least favorite slashdot comment poster.

My pick :-)

[Pike]

I nominate "Anonymous Coward" This guy may be rude, but how in the world does he manage to post the sheer number of responses to every article on slashdot???


:-)

You may hate me for this - Oh, well.

[dpdx]

I think the "Hellmouth" series was Best Story (to date).

Go ahead and pile on, but it can be argued that Jon Katz, for all the crap he writes, and all the crap this community gives him in return, actually helped the geek community on a lot of levels:

• He helped a lot of junior geeks tell their stories from high school hell, and all of the sometimes extreme consequences thereof.
• He brought attention from this community to what was and still is happening to young people who don't conform,
• He provided a visible counterpoint to all of the baseless Columbine babble brought to you by CNN, and the like, and
• He got geek-friendly parents, teachers, and community members to act on and change this unfortunate situation.

Okay, crucify me.
_____

I nominate Signal 11

[sumana]

...for best comment poster. He is insightful, even insightful enough to make valid criticisms of Slashdot's moderation system and prove them in his own experiments. Like his methods or not, he is consistently interesting, insightful, funny, and a person I wouldn't mind meeting in person.

Oh, and I used a quote by him to start off the paper I've written about Slashdot. I will finish editing it soon; if you'd like a copy, email me.

Best Poster

[Foogle]

I nominate the AC who occasionally follows my posts around for an entire day, calling me names. Words can't begin to express how I feel about this guy. If I may quote him:

"Hi Foogle, you gay stinking bitch !!!"

"shut the fuck up Foogle. I'm not done with your pussy ass yet, bitch !"

"you're a fucking retard."

Such beauty. Such elegance. Such delicate prose... Truly humbling :)

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