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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 ;)
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.
Anonymous Coward's Karma was (last I checked) around 2000.
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
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.
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grappler
Vidi, Vici, Veni
So Rob, what was the first story you ever posted??
No, it was spammed with the same tools as used in the Borland/Interprise Developer Survey article (which is number 2 on the HOF).
This spamming tool, incidentally, was made open source by it's author, who posted the source code (it's a bash script) in a few comments to the thread.
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auntfloyd
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
Grits is an oatmeal-like hot cereal popular in the Southern USA -- that is all (sorry if that's too obvious -- on the Internet everyone assumes you're a dog :-)
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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?
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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
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].
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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
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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
> These numbers total a mere 8688. What accounts for the missing 1312 stories? Duplicates?
No, the other 1312 stories were submitted by the authors who didn't made at into the "Top 5".
(OctobrX, CowboyNeal, emmet, jamie, JonKatz etc.).
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 :-)
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Well the first indexed story is here. Perhaps the first real story is gone forever.
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...
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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]
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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.
I would be pleased with this, but wasn't I reading this on Wired and Salon.com last week? Come on guys! This is old news.
/. article needs someone flaming the story to be old. [/disclaimer]
[disclaimer] Every
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.