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Slashdot's 10,000th Story
After two and a half years we're happy to announce that this is the 10,000th story posted on Slashdot. Uncounted trolls, repeats, server meltdowns, lost nights of code, conferences, quickies, hot grits, flame mails, broken links, 'Score:-1', karma whores, rants, submissions: its been a great ride... along the way we've posted a lot of sweet stories and had some great discussions. We promise to make the next 10,000 suck less! Congrats to Hemos (2153 stories) Roblimo (700) Cliff (693) and Sengan (664). Course I rule all over them with 4478 (I had a 6 month head start tho ;)
Monkey moderation. May it live on.
When will we have a story about him? At least a /. pole....
.... to smack you about with so you shuddup about scooby doo!
I want a pole too
Or were you thinking of a poll to vote on?
What is funny is that the story with the most action is Star Fraction, and that has so many comments because some slash-trash apparently automated postings from the output of "fortune". Wassamatter, slashboys, can't handle a SQL update query to mass-moderate them down to -1?
Ooh big deal Taco, it's easy to have the most stories submitted when your a moderator. I've seen quite a few of my story submissions get usurped by you, depsite the fact that I posted much earlier than you every time.!!! News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. The same preferential bullshit. subverse
OpenDK and as seen on CNN Entertainment
Thank you.
Well done.
Can't say I've had time to read them all...
Howabout a top 100 list, 10 most humerous, 10 worst presictions etc...
Ayjay...
let's all pat ourselves on the back now. really great job. 10,000 stories and discourse. and what does it all mean? NOTHING. hasn't it sunk in yet, that slashdot is nothing but a place for a bunch of losers to flex thier egos instead of WORKING. yeah, open source, free software, la la la, but if you spent more time WORKING on the software rather than talking about how cool you all are, then maybe the community would be going somewhere.
but no. instead everyone (myself included) sits around and waxes about how wonderful they are, and how this is good, and that is evil, and how much better the world would be if everyone just adhered to their values and ideals. and what does the world have to say about it? nothing. the world doesn't give a wet slap, because everyone else has something better to do.
i'm not suggesting that we stop writing, just because even i don't have the sense to do that. i'm just saying we should stop acting so rightous and self-important. no one cares. and it's about time slashdot stepped up and admited it.
Rob couldn't turn you into net junkie if you didn't want to be one in the first place.
As opposed to this, you turned him into a millionaire.
Rob thanks you.
You sound like a man of mystery... mysteries Scooby needs to solve! he's on your case pal, so watch out!
Trolling for Scooby doo!
Here I'm calling 1130 hrs E S T figuireing I'd drop in A hearty Congrats only to find that the Greeks in la have already stolen the virginity on this thing... GET SOME SLEEP... go freeze a burrito for bresakfast or something
YOU TALK ABOUT TROLLS...
I thought this was supposed to be Radio Free America How come you have a signifigant agregate of American brainpower chained down to a few tersly written stories w/ no discussion groups where one might start on's own THREAD. I could have read War & Peace by the time I got down to the end of this one story so I would't be F*CKIN redundant. You have half of the Coast's computing power each one crawling up a different blade of grass while on the agregate none are going anywhere.
I commend you on accepting submissions with F*CK SH*T EAT ME in them as they are important cncepts in our language. eg.
I dislike Free Masons
F*CK Free Masons
do you feel the difference, it gives the expression a different weight or emotional tonus.
BUT YOU GO NOWHERE WITH THESE ADDITIONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS except to givesome the right to rail against some Jon somebody
Get rid of the frames. put in a 1k gif that says 'INDEX'. The layout is too busy...[Table of CONTENTS]
take out all the cr.p . put in a light watermark on white instead of beige. No wonder geeks are half blind
> I feel like it has changed my life to be able
> to come here and get an update on the latest
> News for Nerds
What kind of a luser life did you have before Slashdot? It's only a website, and a hypocritical
one at that.
You have a friend in Scooby doo. If you ever need a mystery solved or something along those lines, he'll be happy to help you. He solved the mystery of the Naked and petrified girl (he identified her as Natalie Portman), and he found who was the grits bandit that was pouring hot grits down people's pants (Bob Dole). We'll talk later.
Trolling for Scooby doo!
Scooby dooby doo, and Homos, err i mean Hemos, too!
"If you get to the point wher you must comment on any little thing said about MS or Gates you are a fruitcake. A nutty one at that." - AC
Wow, Hail slashdot and other news media to come. It's nice to read from authors who don't lie for the hype of it all. Lies are useless for the forging of new technologies. Keep it up. A happy user ! :)
Seriously, what the heck does this have to do with Linux? Everyone knows that this site it totally driven by linux users and all of the stories here should be linux derivated! /.
seriously tho, grats to thw WONDERFUL crew @
That would be me then - I couldn't resist it :-)
I am usually known as Dicky - I had one moderator point left and I'm now posting as the Anon Coward from a different IP in order to not cancel my moderation. Hmmm - Meta-Moderation needs a funny button as well as fair and unfair :-) If you want to complain (or thank me, offer me money, jobs, etc.) I am at richard@vmlinuz.org
Due to this post, 10 monkeys started taking steroids and began a weight lifting program. A few weeks later, 100 trolls were found seriously injured in a nearby alley.
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What is the point of the top 10 comments on hof.shtml ?
Hot ants down my pants, ouch !
Does this mean Katz is fired? Empty promise otherwise.
Yeah, and?
Oh, I'm brutal about it. I refuse to moderate any post with those kinds of phrases up, whatever I think of the rest of the content. They add nothing to the post and insult conscientous moderators. If they make it past "3" they are, IMHO, overrated -- and I moderate them as such.
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Portman,+Natalie
...why not set the default display mode back to "Threaded"?
p.s. I'm not rusty, I'm Fish.
You sad bastard. I bet you didn't celebrate the
year 2000 either.
Well done guys.
>Uncountable trolls...
I thought you Unix types could count anything?!
Bah!
like Natalie Portman, new and untouched, free of blemish.
But I trolled you then.
And I troll you today. Do not discount the trolls. I think that rather, we should offer a retrospective of the best of Slashdot trolling. 10,000 stories is 1,000,000 trolls.
And I am the CmdrTaco of trolling.
you guys rule... love the site.. visit it multiple times daily... you folks manage to report the news with out a slant.. rock on ya'll
Due to this post, six monkeys were found chained to their Windows NT workstations past 5'oclock on Friday afternoon. The janitorial staff arrived on the scene Saturday morning and alerted authorities. Sadly, none of the six monkeys survied as a result of this post.
Still trolling for Scooby doo, the best crime fighter out there. Its actually a coincidence... Scooby just solved his 10,000th mystery! Congrats, Scooby!
Trolling for Scooby doo!
Long live Scooby doo, the bestest dog in the world!
..notice what channel the beloved cmdrTaco was in during those screenshots? =P
HAHA! Taco is a karma whore!
Try this, Junior:
"But society isn't without ITS pests!"
You're one of them, if you can't understand simple grammar. Go back to Third Grade until you learn the difference between "its" and "it's."
The topic you should have written for the 10,000th story is as follows:
/dev/NewHampshire /dev/arizona and /dev/michigan were polled. bradlb seems out of the running so it will probably be a contest between gorea and bushb.
Who will make the best Superuser?
As you know the quad-annual superuser elections are coming up. Later this year we will select someone from the admin group and give him root permission to all of the hard drives in the country. A few months ago bushg was considered a shoo in, but mcainj was selected when
Sekhmet, are you a poster from atbnb?
Congrats!!!! And merry xmass too you too :).
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." - Lazarus Long
Thanks Guys!
Seriously, though, why all the attention on where Slashdot has "gone wrong"? Is this Rob's modesty? Maybe an attempt to preempt criticism? This site is one of the best f*cking sites on the WWW! I check it at least twice a day. The information is great, the posts are insightful, interesting, and funny. Of course sometimes offtopic or flamebait.. but isn't anyone else amazed and proud at the cultural force this site has become? For what it's worth, it's been cited everywhere from USA Today to the New York Times! And to top it off, Rob et al finally GPL'ed the code!!! Keep up the fabulous work, all.
The grits boy has a web site! Check it out! It's funny as hell!
Slashdot owns j00
10k stories? Not too shabby ... always good to have a strong presence on the web. I wonder how many of the 10k stories i've actually read, hmmmm. We must not forget to thank the Founding Father of the Internet (Al Gore) for making this opportunity possible. Thank you Al. You're my hero.
POLICE, FBI PURSUE SEX OFFENDER
Feb. 24 - The FBI has instigated a nationwide manhunt for Jeff "Hemos" Bates, who disappeared Monday when a warrant for his arrest was issued. Bates is believed to have been involved in numerous sex crimes, including the deaths of several dogs and cats whose bodies were found sodomized and mutilated in a forest near Bates' residence.
Police who raided Bates' apartment Tuesday found dozens of cages filled with rabbits, gerbils, and monkeys. It is believed that Bates was heavily involved in bestiality, and a search of a nearby dumpster revealed the bodies of several animals which had apparently been sexually molested and later disposed of.
"I had no idea," said Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, a longtime coworker of Bates. "Hemos always seemed like such a nice guy."
Jon Katz, a close personal friend of Bates, reported that "Hemos was a very close friend of mine. Some of the best times of my life were spent with him. I'll never forget that night when he finally came out of the closet and professed his undying love for me. He was incredible, although he always smelled like gerbils."
Bates apparently got wind of his impending arrest and fled shortly before police arrived at his residence. One of the officers present reported that they found an uncaged gerbil and a large jar of Vaseline on the table in Bates' apartment. "Apparently he was just about to engage in some kind of sex act when he heard about the arrest warrant. He left in an awfully big hurry," the officer told reporters.
Rumors that Robin "Roblimo" Miller was an accomplice of Bates are unconfirmed. Miller was questioned briefly on Tuesday and then released. When asked about the situation, he declined to comment.
Posts like this go up to +5, and people wonder why there are so many trolls that seem to hate slashdot so much?
Ostensibly, here we've got a guy who spends everybody's valuable time sucking CmdrTaco's dick telling him how wonderful he is and how wonderful we all are. I'm feeling warm and fuzzy inside now, lemme tell you.
People act like slashdot is something holy, or like it was something that's even important. Come ON people, it's an entertainment source, and NOTHING more. If you didn't get news from slashdot you'd get it elsewhere, and it'd probably be more accurate, too.
And I can post this, flaming away at everyone and slashdot in general, because no, I don't feel that there is another human being on the other side of the Submit button. I know that anybody who takes one iota of the bullshit that people see on this site seriously needs to have his/her head examined.
So call me a cynical bastard, but get malda's dick out of your mouth, and start living your lives for christsake
Or does it just seem that way?
if only sengen had posted two more stories, it would have made so much more sense....
Am I dating myself here?
I'm sorry. I punked out at the last minute. Never again.
Rob, tell me one thing: What do you really think of Scooby doo the dog that fights crime and solves mysteries? Personally I love him and i think you should too. When will we have a story about him? At least a /. pole....
Trolling for Scooby doo!
Scooby dooby doo, and Slashdot too!
Ha ha
--80md
I wonder which story had repeated stories about it. Probaby the mars Polar lander("Faint blip may have been heard from polar lander", " no signal from mars polar lander", "no, wait, false alarm, still nothing from mars polar lander", "Remembering the Mars polar lander failure", "Your Rights Online: The Mars Polar Lander", "Mars POlar Lander for Linux", "Microsoft may be to blame for Mars Polar Lander", "Mars Polar Lander 2: Electric Bugaloo"
How is that off-topic?? The whole point of this article is for troll posts. Geez.
I never thought it would happen to me! 10,000 stories have finally made me want to pour hot grits down my pants and fondle statues of Nat Portman! I have ARRIVED!
Bad Mojo
Bad Mojo
"If you can't win by reason, go for volume." -- Calvin
Oh c'mon... I mean I submitted this story like two weeks ago. Give credit where credit is due, man ;-)
Why recongnize all the trolls? I do not even think that hot grits guy is that long term of a troll. CmdrTaco should make it clear to all that it is not Commander Taco but really Commodore Taco.
Real men dump cores! Read my journal, I am neat.
10,000 stories, 10 that didn't suck.
trolling is so much fun...
Thank You,
Troll King
Thank You,
Troll King
Subscribe
Who Cares? The AP never got congratulated on their 1,000th story. No ticker tape parade, no dancing girls, not so much as a mention. If anything, they had a blurb posted in the employee lounge that got tic-tac-toe scribbled on it. Slashdot, nobody cares about your one thousandth story....big deal.
What? What's that you say? ...TEN THOUSANDTH!!!???!!! Well then.... happy happy, joy, joy!
These additional comments were placed here, purposefully, to allow me to take up more space and prove, once and for all, that I know how to write substantively without a lot of filler.*nix clones:
Linux, BSD, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX, NetBSD, FreeBSD, A/UX (remember that), SVR4, AIX (gag), Irix, Ultrix, 4.2, ...
Which is the One True *nix?
And so the flamewars began!
Us Slashdot geezers recall a day when everyone was an AC, though we usually identified outselves in our comments anyway. Then logins were created to cut back on the trolls. Failing that, moderation was introduced to regulate the trolls. I now contend that with moderation, the logins are no longer needed 'cept for those who actually wish to moderate. Abandon logins now! And end the ID spoofing schemes that seem rampant now.
Due to this post, Jon Katz was told that Richard Dawkins (the creator of the word "meme") was going to be waiting in a white car just outside of Paris, France to give an exclusive interview.
Little did Jon know (little does he know anyways) that we actually had dressed a monkey up as Richard Dawkins and placed it in the back seat of the car.
As Jon Katz excitedly drove up, the car with the monkey (dressed as Richard Dawkins) pulled away. Jon, being Jon... gave chase.
At speeds exceeding 90mph (sure, it's France... but I'm an American, I can't stoop to metrics) Jon Katz chased the monkey car until the chase ended... tragically... when the monkey car crashed, killing the monkey in the process.
It is rumored that Jon Katz will be blamed for the monkey's death, and may face the death penalty under French law for killing a funny animal.
We all mourn the loss of the monkey we lovingly dressed up as Richard Dawkins.
It's almost like you were waiting for more stories or something.
Does anyone know when the 1st Natalie Portman or Naked & Petrified posts appeared?
If this is the 10,000th story, do you remember which one was the first? I want to know.
this still means only 1 post per word of average Jon Katz story :) :) :)
timothy
Yeah, I'm that guy.
What I'd like to know is what story generated the most responses. Or maybe, what have been the ten most popular stories (according to the nomber of comments posted) that have been posted on /.
Who knows, perhaps by the 20000th, Rob will have learnt how to spell definitely. Hint: word stem finite.
Now that this little site has been around. How many of us old timers are still around, USING THEIR ORIGINAL username.
hmmm....
"Trust is a trick that dogs play. They don't want you to know how delicious they are."
I'll bet it was the great Sengan - "The US is attacking Iraq illegally and I am disabling posts to the story" story of Dec. 98 or one of the Columbine Shooting/Jon Katz stories.
Or a flame war about Gnome vs. KDE.
Of course I am just guessing.
Where have you been? A significant amount of the posts to Slashdot now are talking about Slashdot: "Slashdot sucks"; "Slashdot doesn't post stories like they used to"; "is this really news for nerds?"; "that's what freshmeat is for"; "Andover controls all the content on Slashdot now"; "I think Rob is getting paid off by VA Linux"; "why aren't there more stories on BSD?"; "is anyone else annoyed by that jamie guy?"; "where did that jamie guy come from?"; "I think I'm going to have to start ignoring stories by that jamie guy"; "you'd think Slashdot would at least be able to verify the stories before posting them"; "wasn't this posted just last week? Hemos could at least check the archives before posting"; "is Slashdot slow today or is just me?"; "why has Slashdot been so slow lately"; "I think the speed of Slashdot over the last while tells you something about the power of Apache and/or Linux". That's just a *very* small sampling too, I could go on for hours. To say that the posters never talk about or appreciate Slashdot is false; they just have nothing positive to say :).
I think slashdot readers gets more than their fair share of criticism for exclusivity. There may be a few sickos that home in on ungeeks and flame them - but I've never noticed it, is this a real problem? I think you're more likely to get sad lonely nerds trying to hit on you.
"No one likes a math geek, Scully." - Mulder
:)
'Nuff said.
Hey! This isn't "News for Nerds"! What gives?
Happy 10k, Rob!
Slashdot has been my start page for over 2 years, and I keep coming back (around a dozen times a day :) for more. You've turned us all into net news junkies Rob. Congrats!
Story number 4 was pretty funny in a juvenile kind of way.
Party sounds like a good idea.. :) /. makers that've given me a superb place to hang round.. :) /.ers out there would actually be interested in some form of occasional party... :) :)
I for one will hit the pub this evening and raise a glass to Rob and Hemos and all the
I was wondering though.. How many
I've been lurking around the net for about 11 years now, and from the first chatters/BBS sites, one of the more binding aspects was the infrequent "Get togethers"..
A mud I'm on (igormud.org) has a huge meetup every summer in Michigan, which is huge amounts of fun, along with impromptu meets now and then, all over the world.
There's been articles recently about how "removed from society" the internet makes people. This may be a chance to gainsay that alltogether..
I'd be happy to arrange a beerup for any slashdotters in Bristol, UK that want to get together sometime, and raise a glass to trolls, flame, and a damnably interesting time.
What better way to thank Rob and co, than to raise a glass of beer in their honour?
Real email is Malkavian@dial.pipex.com
If yer interested, let me know.
Malk.
That's what I was about to say!
:)
In celebration, I'm going to ignore all of my coworkers that don't use linux, and I'll try to be the first to say anything every time anyone around me has some news. :) Or maybe I'll just go back to bed...
Try some of the "sections", the bastard step-children of slashdot. My favourite hangout is science. If it doesn't make the main page, you can expect 10 comments on good, nerd stories. Oh well, makes for a high S/N ratio if nothing else.
What would be really interesting to know is what is the current highest user number. I suppose I could get a new username and find out, but that seems like kinda a waste.
Laugh while you can, monkey boy!
No, really. Seeming as we are counting stories, maybe its worth counting for the 10'000th "First Post" or "Troll" and give them an award. Something like a lump of dirt perhaps?
I'm just suprised Jon Katz wasn't the one who posted the story.
Congradulations,
George Lee
As far as I can see, Slashdot doesn't seem to have any privacy policy whatsoever. Now that Slashdot has certainly hit the big time (and, perhaps more worrisome regarding privacy, owned by a major company), isn't it about time something was put into place?
This is funny.. Some moderators out there think CmdrTaco is a trool :)
:) and a pritty dang successful one too :)
No really he mentions during the "2000 beanies awards"... www.thesync.com I belive the RealVideo can be downloaded from "Geeks in space" on the sync.
It makes sence when you think about it...
The avrage post deserves a mod 1... but ACs posts default to mod 0.. so the avrage ho hum post gets modded up... considering the shear number of AC posts and that the majority are pritty good and deserving of atleast mod 1...
So yeah... AC is the ultimate Karma Whore
I don't actually exist.
Well, I've been reading Slashdot since I joined the workforce, and I must say you probably cost me more than 10.000 hours of work-time. Not that I mind, of course ;-)
Keep up the good work guys, and don't let the naysayers distract you. There are a lot of us out there that just like Slashdot the way it is, but since we've got nothing to complain about we're a rather quiet bunch.
Anyway, on to the next 10.000 !
superblog.org: all your favourite blogs on o
I wonder how they kept count of all the stories? The boring way of course would be for the computer to keep the count for them. But I like to think that they have a big sheet of paper on a wall where each time they post a story, they mark another line on the paper with a tally pen, whose ink is the blood of trolls.
So you see, trolls are important to Slashdot, because where else are CmdrTaco and Hemos going to get fresh troll blood for the tally pen? And I won't mention the successful meat-supply business that funds the running of Slashdot, where they supply fresh troll meat to various restaurant chains in their local area. Those McDonald's burgers aren't really 100% beef, you know....
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
BilldaCat
I come here, get the scoop, it keeps me up to date, I get great info from intelligent posters, the site layout is clean and organized.
What I don't like? Sometimes the speed sucks, and those trolls... But society isn't without it's pests!
Who is Natalie Portman? Have I been living under a rock? Is she some famous model, rock star, singer, blah?
I'm on her site now (www.natportman.com) looking at her perty pictures, still clueless as to who the hell she is!
I think it's a common mistake if it's done by someone who doesn't type its very often. If it's an insult to you, it's your problem. If it's not, well, if it's the way you want to deal with its consequences, it's up to you. It's your choice. It's all I can say.
More interesting is the fact that the posts (not for the faint-of-bandwidth) are made up almost entirely of quotations and jokes. Looks like someone effectively 'spammed' the thread with their cookie file (just two days ago). Makes most of the nu-generation sons and daughters of Meept! look like dabbling dilettantes.
Epic détournement or crude LWP hack? You decide.
"78.5 % slashdot pure?" what?
my experience level is "First Post"???
I've never tried for first post, and I don't intentionally flame.
UNTIL NOW.
don't waste your time on the Slashdot Purity Test.
Paul
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Still 9999 stories. This one shouldn't be counted. The "Slashdot's 10,000th Story" (as the 10,001 by itself) should only be titled when other 10000 stories posted. So CmdrTaco tell a lie.
cat slashdot_stories | sort | uniq | wc -l
3000
cat slashdot_stories | grep -i sengan | grep -v [sucks|grammar|political flamebait] | wc -l
0
cat slashdot_users | wc -l
100000
cat slashdot_users | grep -i katz | grep off | wc -l
9000
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Here is the result of your Slashdot Purity Test.
Linux MAPI Server!
http://www.openone.com/software/MailOne/
(Exchange Migration HOWTO coming soon)
Let me know when Signal11's Karma hits 10K! Or has it already?
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then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
Ah, slashdot's been going downhill ever since story 7,563. Damn Andover!
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
Wow, 10,000 stories. I wonder how many unique stories were posted? Much fewer than 10K I bet.
how bout letting us moderators type in our own ? it should be interesting to see the result at least...
I've been a reader of /. for about two years, yet I missed the start of the Natalie Portman / Grits comments - it just seemed to suddenly appear. Where did it originate, and what is the deal with grits? (I'm probably being extremely naive, but I don't have a clue what it's refering to. Cultural thing?).
I've been reading Slashdot since late 1997.. I have to say, it's been a really useful source of information over the course of doing a degree and stuff.
Here's to the next 10,000! :)
</metoo>~Percible
Eek... The Star Fraction with 2017 comments?!?
Spamtastic!
~Percible
Either to read Jon Katz's stuff, XOR To flame Jon Katz's stuff.
Actually, they do! I found that out flipping through the channels. You can catch Dawn Patrol in the mornings, and they do show full-length music videos, without the screaming girls like on TRL. I was quite amazed when I made this discovery, that MTV plays music videos.
CmdrTaco's post being moderated as troll... Now THAT's something you don't see every day... :)
/.-community as BS, and lots of people listen to CmdrTaco (well... some people anyway :) and well.. you get the picture. It's the exact same thing, just opposite.
ACtually, to be serious, the Jesse Berst comparison might not be that far off. I mean, a certain group of people actually listen to what Jesse Berst has to say, and they are likely to see the
Some additional Mars Polar Lander /. stories..
;)
.sig Instructions .sig here
Son of Mars Polar Lander
Mars Polar Lander vs. Mothra
Revenge of the Mars Polar Lander
Attack of the Killer Mars Polar Landers
Disco Mars Polar Lander
Honey, I Lost Communication With the Mars Polar Lander!
How To Bring Out the Best Mars Polar Lander in You
(Score: cos Pi, Who cares? It's a celebration
_____________________
step one: place
That means every geek in the world will be quitting their day job to keep up with the news (including myself ;)
;)
.sig Instructions .sig here
mmm... 714.29 stories posted per day. That's 89.3 chances a day to flame Jon Katz and 102.04 chances per day to pour hot grits down Hemos's pants.
I hope your chair's comfy Rob, cause you're gonna be staying there for a long time, I want my 714.29 stories now
_____________________
step one: place
Damn right.
It's almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
The interesting part is that out of 2017 comments, no comment got moderated to higher than 3.
Well done chaps. Jolly good show and all that.
/. despite the hot grits and HUGE amounts of shit comments posted here.
I'm still reading
I'm just glad I can still see the wood for the trees.
Thanks for the hard work. I hope you make a fortune doing this. By yourselves something nice!
-- Ryszard
mmm...I'd actually like to see the "yes, I agree" one. It'd be interesting to see what people do with it.
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"HORSE."
"HORSE."
-Flaming Carrot
There are 1312 stories missing ... you forgot jamie and emmett and ...
EagerEyes.org: Visualization and Visual Communication
Yeah, alt.slashdot (altdot?) - like we don't have enough trolls & flamers already.
Seriously, if there is ever an nntp gateway (and I can't see any valid reasons for needing one), it should be read-only.
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings.
So, what's up next? What do you have planned for the next 10,000 stories? Come on, take a bow and spill your guts.
Whatever you do... don't read this.
Is it just me or does /. not post as many stories as they did before the takeovers? It seems like these companies are trying to make /. better when they are just slowing it down. Tell them to give money for more bandwidth and faster servers and then tell them to get out of the way! :-)
Congratulations
This is a realavant story because it represents another milestone the open source community has reached.
And besides, they started Slashdot from nothing and have made it into a respected forum for all things computerized. Way to go guys!
thehermit
According to my calculations:
10000 != (4478 + 2153 + 700 + 693 + 664)
These numbers total a mere 8688. What accounts for the missing 1312 stories? Duplicates? If so thats a horrible ratio....
Or am I suffering from caffeine withdrawl here (no coffee or tea in the house this morning)...
"The first time I got drunk, I got married. The second time I bought a chimpanzee, after that I stayed sober" Arian Seid
Has anyone else noticed that when someone posts "I'll probably be moderated down for this", "There goes my karma", or "-1, flamebait", they are almost certain to be moderated UP?
I think it's just that you see more of the posts that DO get moderated up, regardless if their posters have low self-esteem. =)
The Good Reverend
10000th story, 1st post from the Zodiac killer!
Compare above w/: http://members.aol.com/ZSpeaking/belli.html (not a link 'cause I think aol has a monthly hit limit).
What an honor!
Your mouth is like Columbus Day.
I have been reading /. since 1998 and I love this.
Hope to be there for post 1,000,000
;)
I'm not afraid of Death, what's it going to do ? Kill me ?
We also need:
- "Poster on Crack"
- "Moderator on Crack" (that's meta-moderation for you)
Mmmm.. Donuts
gates of hell???? ---> "If you get to a point where fanaticism replaces thinking, you've gone to far." -Frisch
Thanks for two and a half year of entertainment and information.
I am looking forward to the next 10.000 stories!
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
You guys have a lot of balls calling what you post a story. Summarizing someone's email or mentioning a link to a real story is hardly an example of being a writer. You have a geek site, for geeks, by geeks. Please don't try to make yourself out to be more than what you are.
While it is an impressive milestone, I don't see the point in this post. It's just a place for trolls to countdown, and for moderators to waste their precious points. Couldn't you put it up at the top of the homepage in bold or something?
"As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet" --Al Gore to Katie Couric 3/99
And remember: an open mind is the essence of intellect; a phrase most definitely embodied by the /. community:)
Their was a story couple of weeks ago about the future of usenet.
The future of usenet is here, on Slashdot!
Looking for a great online backup: Green Backup
I can think of one reason: it would be easier to read and follow threads with a good newsreader. Read-only would be fine.
Dear God, the 10,000th article, and no replies yet. I'm almost afraid to see what will come out.
Petrified grits?
Naked JonKatz?
"Score:5 (Flamebait)"?
Hot Hemos poured down one's pants?
Frightening thoughts, all. I'll be hiding in an abandoned Y2K bunker. Wake me when Linux 2.4 is released.
We can believe in you for 3 minutes, but beyond that, even the King of All Cosmos can't be expected to wait.
I'm sure there are a lot of us who want to know - what is the current karma of the Anonymous Coward? We need to have an Anonymous Coward Karma Graph on the site that tracks the AC, and whether it is going up or down.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Visit
Well, less crap gets my vote... (more crap would too, makes the decision to continue or quit Slashdot much easier).
Bizar technology?
and how many stories were rejected? (or are they now called 'declined'?)
Bizar technology?
Congrats /. but suck less HS nah -- yall own joo fools
The ultimate network admin tool needs HELP!
I think we'd be more excited about the 8192th story, or 16384th! Base 10 is old news!
(How can we expect there to be anyone other than trolls posting on this story?)
Another one I just thought of: YAKW (Yet Another Karma Whore)
-- Count Spatula: The Culinary Vampire "...because my cooking sucks."
Has anyone else noticed that when someone posts "I'll probably be moderated down for this", "There goes my karma", or "-1, flamebait", they are almost certain to be moderated UP?
Quite honestly, I expected some moderator, in response to my BFG Bait, to moderate me -1 Troll just for kicks. I mean, it's not that killer of a comment...
-- Count Spatula: The Culinary Vampire "...because my cooking sucks."
*bewildered expression* Uh, no... What's that?
You may well be right that /. readers get more than their fair share, and probably the majority of them are 'nice people'. But I read JonKatz's 'Please Die' thing about women (and others) getting put off by the ferocity and sheer hostility of certain posters and I thought 'nonsense! I can handle heated debate...' and then I went and looked at the discussion provoked by something (can't remember what) and just backed off big-style... A lot of it was seriously vicious and completely unnecessary. I don't mind swearing, that's not what I meant - it's the sheer violence that emanates from some people - just not something I could handle. It was cool that I _didn't_ get flamed for this, though!
*sigh* I expect I'm gonna get flamed for this... But I'm going to say it anyway! I'm a non-geek who thoroughly enjoys /. and learns new stuff almost every time she visits. Thanks and wishing you all good things for the future...
If it's going to be read-only (which I have no problem with) then: /. could have a page where based on a cookie stored in your browser it would show you any posts since you last visited same page. If /. just kept a buffer of all posts in order of time (which should be very easy to implement) it would just have to pump out the ones after a certain point in this buffer.
- -------
If you want a simple way to keep up with all new posts then
You could cut out stories you weren't interested in and set moderation levels etc. Or maybe just select a post and read all replies (and subreplies etc.)
Ah well, it probably doesn't seem like a great idea but anyway
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"If I can shoot rabbits then I can shoot fascists" -
I've always wanted a -1: wasting my free oxegen moderatoin setting...........
My heartfelt congratulations! May the "imminent death" prophecies never come true...
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
--Henry Kissinger
Sadly, these two are in fact one and the same. Check it out at the /. Hall of Fame.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
--Henry Kissinger
I know a statistic I'd like to see: Anonymous Coward's karma rating. Any bets on how low it is?
I'm going to live forever or die trying.
And to think I was all worried about S10K! /. are S10K compliant
I had visions of the world as I know it ending, people running through the streets crazed, trying to find a copy of some computer publication. No. It didn't happen. Nice to know that the wonderful people at
Which story has the least comments?
How many stories have been removed after being put up? (I noticed a story on new flat screen technology this morning that is apparently no longer up.)
Hot Grits - "No one Can Eat Just One!"™
take a triptonica to subthunk
Does this count the total number of stories? or just the stories that remain on the page for more than an hour. If you count the ones that appear and disappear, were looking at more like 10,753. *Grin*
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.
Wow! I've been around /. for about two years or so, and I can never remember a troll post ending up at the top of the heap. Way to go moderators!
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.
Me? I am just posting for the sake of driving this to be the most active story. Seeking HOF, baby!!
Network Security: It always comes down to a big guy with a gun.
You forgot adding Justin's, Jon Katz's, emmett's, michael's, and jamie's stories. Rob only said who the top five posters are. If you want to see all the numbers, go to http://www.slashdot.org/hof.shtml
Now, don't get me wrong -- I'm a pretty loyal /.'er. CmdrTaco and gang generally do a pretty darn good job running the show. But can someone please tell me why we are wasting bandwidth on this piece of self-congradulatory back-patting?
:-)
I fail to see how fluff like this gets top billing while my submission on a hacker bust gets declined? Which one meets the definition of "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters."? Which topic is more likely to provoke intelligent debate rather than endless spoutings about hot naked petrified grits?
It's almost enough to make me want to shut down my browser and actually do some work
"The axiom 'An honest man has nothing to fear from the police'
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
Why are there ~600 comments to any story involving John Carmack and only 209 as of this post to a really neat /. post? Good coder, yes, idol for the new generation, I can only hope not.
Error 503:
What about:- ...from mars, ...from venus tripe - you're from up uranus...
Polar Lander Is From Mars, Mars Is From Venus
and to the author of
Oh well, whatever, nevermind
"Information wants to be paid"
To try out comment posting. Been lurking for about a year now, 10k seems the place to start.
Done.
You guys would've gotten to 20,000 already if there hadn't been so many quickies in the server room!
managers...why god invented purgatory
Congrats on the posting of a 10,000th story. I honestly thought that would have happened a while back (only been /. reader for 1yr)! However, does anyone else see the irony in the 10,000th story being a story about the 10,000th story? I find it rather humurous, sorry if it wasnt supposed to be seen in this light., but that's just me. Please excuse the truncated sig, I'm about to fix that now.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.-Franklin
It's really a bit odd commenting, my-2-cents-ing, IANAL but-ing, trolling and doing everything that we do best about our very selves, but thank goodness we haven't had to abandon comments (like a certain other, unmentionable news/satire site that does induce violent sickness in 95% of Rats tested in the laboratory), or resorted to 10 Billion comments about how nice it was for all those little people to experience DevFS in the recent 2.3 releases. And didn't you get a warm feeling when all of us shared openly our views about DeCSS? I thought so. Three cheers for Slashdot!
How many posts?
How many posted stories (including those that didn't make it)?
Just for fun...
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Yep, It all Started with Afterstep and a program :) then chips and dips, then a funky site for "news for nerds. stuff that matters". :) dam was that a kool tool back then or what?
for a really kool new window manager called Enlightenment (e-plus). This site used to be a
place to get some really kool themes for
afterstep and enlightenment one being
Obsidian for enlightenment. After which came
duckpins
The rest is history.
I still say Rob got all of this from e-plus though
Kinda crazy that a "kid" in college playing with a
window manager would get so much attention.
Hey, Rob for the aniversary could you put up that
pic of yourself so we can all see that pretty
boy face of yours?
You Freak!
Congrats man you've come along way......
Countless? This is the land of computers, just ++var it!
:) :) )
How about some statistics, Rob? I know there are some such as hits and browser type, but there must be data to be derived from the messageboard.
Some cool ones I can think of:
Slashdot's total karma (could actually be a rough rating of the value of slashdot's accumulated information in the messageboard)
Total posts per quarter (graphs are cool)
Troll count (sorry, gotta count the trolls)
Most popular author by replies vs number of stories posted (Keep em comin Katz!)
Number of stories on Quake vs every other game combined
Number of registered users (this can be approximated with enough clicking, but we all really want to know
Number of active users (who have logged in in the last two weeks)
Anonymous coward vs Known Coward post ratio
Anyways, Rob and co. Thanks and congratulations for making the most exciting page in the age of indoor boredom.
The hof is neat, but I would like to see Hall of shame with stuff like, Least Active stories, Least visited stories, Least active authors, Least active poll topics.
And we need a new algorithm for Top 10 Comments, (maybe sum of karma of the comment and child comments?)
I'd say slashdot is poised to become the zdnet anchordesk of the GNU/Linux world! Congrats to CmdrTaco for becoming the new Jesse Berst.
Damn good job!
'nuff said!
That's it. Now Grit is going to send Urgje after- -------------
you. And if the little guy is mad, he's dangerous.
He doesn't come out much.
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UNIX isn't dead, it just smells funny...
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UNIX isn't dead, it just sme
First all..CONGRATS.....second of all....anyone notice the irony of the 10,000th story being the 10,000 story story? :) All and all....it's been a fun ride, here's to many more
Lame sig not here
..now get that NNTP-gateway going!
MTV shows videos?
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
The only surprise I could find was that some of the stories have disappeared leaving just the comments by themselves. What surprise did *you* mean?
Anyone have any other early screenshots of Slashdot? I want to remember what it *looked* like.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Juvenile funny is the best kind. BG eats BS!
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
We promise to make the next 10,000 suck less!
You know what this means? You heard it here first boys and girls, Slashdot is FIRING Jon Katz.
Yippie!
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
That's a good idea. If you really want to be accurate about it, you could find some proportionality constant that would adjust your formula so that stories always average to some constant "activity" value. Then, the ones that stick way out above this value are your most active.
--
grappler
Vidi, Vici, Veni
So Rob, what was the first story you ever posted??
Well, if you get 00000004 or so you start seeing Rob's test posts, presumably from some of the earliest strings of comments. As you get higher, you see rare authors, including "The Slashdot Authors", and some others.
It's all just fun, of course.
You're looking for screenshots of Slashdot? But chips and dips was so much more *fun*.
-Ed
this
Oops! Flaunt is really here.
And, of course, I meant increment the story link a few times in binary
Regards,
Ed Fisher
this
One last goodie for all you fans out there!
(Sorry, I couldn't resist)
Story 1,000!
What a blast from the past... a whopping *four* comments to that story.
this
11.0010010000111111011010101000100010000101101000
Congratulations, of course.
Do you keep statistics on the speed of growth? I'd be really interested to see the number of stories posted in each month; but also the number of comments, submissions, page views... in each month.
11.0010010000111111011010101000100010000101101000
Or if you are babylonian that would be:
2:46:40
Lowmag.net
*Sigh*
Open Source. Closed Minds. We are Slashdot.
Congrats!
Congrats on beating MTV to the 1,000,000 video mark!
Some interesting things:
What story had the most trolls?
What story had the most comments?
What was the first story?
How much disk space do the stories and comments currently use?
--
then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
Of some of use antiquated things like Binary
:)
:)
(10011100010000)
and considering that Slashdot is on the net, and the net uses IP, and IP uses Decimal representations of Byte Notated numbers,
39.16 is apropriate but doesn't really SAY anything
Now... 40.0 will be really big!
(that 10100000000000 for you Binary geeks, or 10240 for you Decimal shovanists
This space for rent. All reasonable inquiries will be entertained at proprietors discretion.
For those who have been to [Everything 2] may have seen some people just [NFN]. Could CmdrTaco just be posting pointless stories in order to increase his story count? That is, is he just [PSFN]?
Lets see ... "Atmel Chip for Embedded Linux Devices" has almost no posts under it. That means that nobody cares about it. That means that Taco posts pointless stories. That means he is just [Posting Stories for Numbers].
--== [N] ==--
Such a system would let all those people who post saying "What does this topic have to do with nerds?" or "This doesn't matter" could instead let their opinion be heard by reducing the rating of the story. What a relief it would be to the rest of us.
Hate to correct you, but shouldn't this be:
"100,000,000 trolls on Slashdot, 100,000,000 trolls,
Moderate one down, move your mouse around,
100,000,001 trolls on Slashdot..."
:-)
Thimo
--
Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux!
I ate some bad chicken. Nasty stuff.
Keep up the good work, you guys.
Looking forward to the cool million.
Always keep a sapphire in your mind
And to remind moderators that this is on topic :)
Jack Valenti and the MPAA are to technology as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone
You know you're really right about Slashdot feeling like home. It's weird, but I even appreciate the trolls and "hot grits". It may be the dark underbelly of Slashdot, but part of what gives Slashdot its character are the trolls, the karma farmars/whores, and moderation debates. This place wouldn't be the same without it.
-Ted
Joy Happiness and only a few lines :-) Come on dudes, we want to see a t-shirt contest, balloons, cake, features, a "I remember the day we started", Interviews, Best of Slashdot. This should not go by this obscure. You guys now should brag and boast your accomplishments. That is how it is done in the corporate world. Hmm, maybe that is why I like Slashdot, it is not like the corporate world :-)
Use Adsense for Charity
On behalf of the academy, I would like to give the award for best forum for news, flaming, gossip, and hot grits, to. /.
Eh...
OK, the largest number ever. With another 9,950 or so posts to this article, someone *really* gets the 10,000 post on the 10,000 article. The prize will be a [drum roll, please] yes, a life! :)
:)
This will lead to new depths of behavior. Lured by the not so lurid prizes, the cellar dwellers of the web will realize that the first post nonsese was just the beginning; there's plenty of cool numbers.
10,001 will be of interest for the symmetry. But it will be hard to top 12,321 and 12,345 . . . (except, of course, by getting post 666 in a microsoft thead
hawk, who should really know better . . .
This is the 23,114,038 "first post!" that wasn't.
/.
Congrats,
Ben
I'm hoping to start a collection of The Worst of Slashdot. Send me links to the best Troll, offtopic, stupid, bizarre, and funny posts ever. I want Natalie Portman with hot grits using a Beowolf posts! I want BSD is evil/sucks posts. Send the links to xm@geekmafia.dynip.com I want them all. THis will be no mere lame webpage. Think Yahoo-style directories
/.ers! and remember........ "Jon Katz is a Windbag!"
TOP::Natalie_Portman::With_Hot_Grits
TOP::BSD::BSD_IS_EVIL
Send them
the most popular/controversial story I wonder?
JonKatz would probably kick everyone's ass with over 90% of the total bytes in body.
We can come up with better words than those...
"Pungent"
"Quixotic"
"Post-postmodern"
"Touching"
"Outré"
"Demented"
"Obvious"
"Bloodthirsty"
And one more really useful one,
"Wrong."
I'm the Monkey Moderator.
I feel that I've outdone myself with this latest Masterpiece of Monkey Moderation, and to celebrate... I'm revealing my secret identity.
I can't take credit for every one of the monkey moderations you've all seen, but I've posted all but a couple that I know of. I've actually hoped it'd catch on a bit more than it has, but alas... I was unable to keep up with so many trolls on my own.
You'll still see the occasional monkey moderation from me. I'm not going to let this die easily... but from now on, I'll honestly take the karma hits as they come.
Here's to Monkey Moderation in all it's Glory (hehe)... may it continue!
"It all started with a Monkey."
LouZiffer
LouZiffer
Re:In celebration... (Score:5)
(-1 here I come...)
Has anyone else noticed that when someone posts "I'll probably be moderated down for this", "There goes my karma", or "-1, flamebait", they are almost certain to be moderated UP?
Hmm.. my karma could use a boost:
"Yea, I'll probably be moderated WAAAAAY down for this. I'm sacrificing my karma by posting this, but I think the original bears repeating."
That'll probably grab someone's attention. (-:
Maybe we should take a peek at the first few stories to see how things have changed?
Congratulations and continued good luck!
Certified Microsoft Notworking Specialist
How about...
Come on Moderators, Move this one up a little more. Hot grits posts are as much a part of this site as anything else, give him that +5 Funny, he's earned it, after all he's posted on just about every one of the 10,000. That's /. Commitment, even if it's a little misguided.
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.
of postings, the next 10,000 will take roughly 2.5 weeks.
Judge Pag, the Learned, Impartial, and Very Relaxed
Damn,
I still have 9930 articles to go through...
*******************************
This is where I should write something
intelligent or funny but since I'm
how bout letting us moderators type in our own ?
I can see it now:
Re:In celebration... (Score:3.1415926539, Yes, I agree, Wrong, Yes, need write ins, Are you crazy, Not a bad idea, waffle, orange, cool, a troll moderator was here but I'm too lazy to make a real troll comment so I'll just moderate with a stupid write in, ok, great idea, bill gates sucks, Monkey, Hot Grits, MEEPT!!, fuck off, right, libertarian, Insightful, Troll, +5, Bruce_Perens., moderator whore, more...)
by Zurk (zurk@SPAMSUCKSgeocities.com) on 09:49 AM February 24th, 2000 CST (#121)
(User Info)
Who has the highest average reply rate (i.e., JonKatz usually gets 200-300, and not infrequently in excess of 400 or 500)?
Who is the "favorite" author on Slashdot (who has the highest number of hits per story, on average?)
What is the most frequently appearing topic? Linux, Microsoft, Star Wars Prequels, The Internet, Links, Quickies (when are we gonna get more quickies, anyway?), Science, or something else?
Who has posted the most comments, besides the Anonymous Coward?
What, in your opinion, were the coolest stories you've posted on Slashdot (yeah, the Netscape Open-Source thing was the indicator that Slashdot was "respectable", but what have you guys gotten the biggest kick out of posting?)?
Any regrets?
Anything you would do differently?
Did you ever imagine anything like this happening 3 years ago?
Where do we send congratulatory "Who" box sets?
So that would make this the 9999th story...
Now that everyone has forgotten the entire "when does the millennium start" fiasco, I needed something to bitch about.
Seriously tho, congratulations.../. has gotten me through more than one seriously boring computer lab.
Andrew
The first "naked and petrified" post on any open-source website was made by me on Segfault.org in July of 1999. I started with "Natalie Portman naked and petrified" because Ms. Portman had the greatest mass-market appeal and name recognition potential of any young lady I could think of.
I started "Mae Ling Mak naked and petrified" after becoming enamored by reading a couple of Ms. Mak's Segfault articles. I soon extended "naked and petrified" to others as well, and of course as it gained in popularity others took it in all new directions.
It wasn't me that took "naked and petrified", my beloved love-child, to Slashdot. In fact, I don't know WHO it was. But once comments were disabled on Segfault, SOMEONE did, and I decided to review my decision that Slashdot wasn't the right place for "naked and petrified". In fact, Slashdot was a *WONDERFUL* place for "naked and petrified".
I think it was roughly around September that Segfault disabled comments. I've been posting "naked and petrified" messages (including the famous "Open Letter to ESR" which ESR himself wound up reading) here ever since then, on and off, and so have my many loyal fans and followers. I've also engaged in a few other projects when my "naked and petrified" muse wasn't helpful, such as PR0J3C7 31337-H4X0R-5P34K, which never really got off the ground, although I am rather proud of its first work, "1 H4V3 4 DR34M".
Of course, petrification-related stuff has been around the Internet for as long as anyone can remember. As long as the Internet has existed, people with an interest in petrification have been able to find each other and talk about their interests. Only in the past 10 years, though, have the websites and newsgroups and stuff started to spring up related to that interest.
Well, it was a good 10,000. Here's to 10,000 more... NAKED AND PETRIFIED.
Does this include the 2,000 stories that were repeats of stories that were posted earlier?
My other
I will now pour 10,000 bowls of hot grits down your pants !!!
(By the way, this is the 100,000,000th troll)
thank you.
I submitted this a months ago !
Hot ants down my pants, ouch !
And hat's off, too, to all the people who have taken the time to post insightful, interesting, informative or funny comments; the site is as much about you, because the net has enabled you to participate as much as the authors of the stories and the editors who select them.
Despite all the whining about the acquisitions, it sounds like CmdrTaco has done the truly noble and honorable thing and guarded the independence that makes the site what it is. I can't tell you how much I respect that, and thank you for doing the right thing, and understanding what the right thing was to do.
And that means that the next 10,000 stories will give us all as much reason to come here as the last 10,000 did.
Of course, the number 10,000 is only significant to those of us who use a base-10 numeric system as their preferred counting device.
/. are able to count and manipulate numbers more easily in octal or hex, making this story (number 023420 or 2710h) pretty meaningless.
I would guess that many of us geeks who reed
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31,000 hot grits pouring
22,000 Natalie Portman references (slowing down, guys)
33,000 Jon Katz flames
5,000 references to the supposed sexual preferences of Slashdot staff
10,000 "is this really news posts?"
10,000 First Posts
100,000 First Post wannabes
5,000 "I submitted this months ago" posts
and maybe
300 good trolls.
[Note that these numbers are based on recent averages]
~~~~~~~~~
auntfloyd
It's here. Some very interesting statistics :)
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
A story for the sake of being the 10,000th story? Sounds to me like this is CmdrTaco's way of saying "FIRST POST!!!" ;)
Perhaps now that 10000 has been reached, /. can celebrate by putting in a couple more moderation words, such as "surreal" or maybe "BFG Bait"...
(-1 here I come...)
-- Count Spatula: The Culinary Vampire "...because my cooking sucks."
Seriously guys, Congratulations, It's been a fun ride so far.
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.