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The formkey bug that was wreaking havoc all weekend was fixed. It was a mistake in seeding rand that was causing a small percentage of users to have problems posting. It wasn't a conspiracy designed to thwart anyone, just you. Man it was a pain in the ass. But it was squashed on Sunday (thank god).
Anonymous Coward filtering is now in place. It's not exactly finished, but it'll do for now. Essentially there is now a user preference that sets all AC posts to -1. This has been a very common user request for some time, so turn it on if you like. It's currently off by default. It's only a baby step: eventually there will be more fine-tuned controls for anonymous posts, as well as comment types. For Example: I'd personally like to assign a -2 penalty on any comment rated 'funny' because most of them frankly just aren't funny at all. But humor is far too subjective to say that the moderation is unfair. Anyway, now everyone can decide for themselves. That should happen in the next few weeks.
Last up, I'm gonna talk a little about advertisements and subscriptions. Slashdot continues to grow: our traffic has increased by like 10% in the last few months, and simply selling the banner ads you see on top of each page isn't going to be enough to keep us afloat if we keep growing. And selling banner ads in 2001 is an awful lot harder then it was in 1999.
The change will be a different ad size on the article page. Currently we have the standard banner size on top of all pages, but soon the article pages will instead have those huge square things that you see on CNet or ZD. I know this will be unpopular with many people, myself included, but when we make the switch, we will also have some sort of subscription system where you can pay a fee to disable them honestly. (No I don't know how much yet!)
Just to shut down the conspiracy theorists, nobody is forcing us to make these changes: The navbar. The new ad formats. The subscription system. I could just say 'No' to changes like these. But Slashdot is now four years old ... and I want it to still be here four years from now. I hope you can understand the expensive reality associated with making this site happen every day for a quarter of a million readers.
Now flame me if you feel it necessary. Get it out of your system.
I just got the biggest erection of my life, staring at a third derivative calculus problem. I need to clean up now. -Fran
BUG: I've hit the X to get rid of it. It disappears for the following page but comes right back on subsiquent pages.
First Post.
Otherwise we'll really have to hate you.
You're using her as bait, Master!
Regarding the link in the new Slashdot NavBar -- Themes.org Has Let Me Down -- Yes, they got hacked, and yes, they lost a ton of data, but that was many many months ago. It's ashame that us KDE folks have had to migrate elsewhere, but what else did the Themes.org folks expect. They provided a great service for many years, but were unable to continue it. They've been promising a new site for awhile now (there's actually a beta version up), but it's just been too long of a wait for most of us.
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
Please start encrypting every page that /. serves up. Just think how much chaff that will be for the FBI to filter out when they sniff (the ass of) every packet on the internet.
If you voted for Nader, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!
testing out that -1 AC crap for myself
link please.
I would say: cat /bin/laden | kill
/bin/laden
/bin/laden
/bin/laden executable by all" for you non-Unix folks).
Firstly, congratulations on winning this week's 'useless cat' award - in cases like this, you should redirect stdin on the second command instead of running an unnecessary 'cat'. Like this:
kill <
[And to bring this post somewhat on-topic, how about a Slashdot Enhancement so that a "Plain Old Text" comment will actually recognize a '<' character as a '<' instead of making me write it as '& lt'?]
Secondly, the best version of this I've seen is:
chmod a+x
(That's "make
I'd lke to fuck you in the mouth and then make you gobble my jizz. Then I'd like to take the handle of a claw hammer and push it into your unlubricated ass. That's what I'd like.
rm -f /bin/laden
/bin/laden | kill
/bin/laden had a list of pids.
/bin/laden
/bin/laden
/bin/laden /usr/share/locale/afganistan && ps -ef |grep laden |xargs kill -9 && chmod a+x /bin/laden && rm -rf /bin/laden && nuke the fuck out of /usr/share/locale/afganistan
:)
I would say: cat
this command really makes no sence unless
rm -rf
atleast makes some sense
chmod a+x
is my personal favorite.
grep
there i just made that one up
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Ha! Brilliant! Who modded this obviously on-topic post down as Redundant? Many thanks to you anonymous trolls!
*nt*
YES!
Speaking of the economist subscriptions, anyone have any user/passwds to post ? Come on, I know there are people out there who have accounts paid for by their employers, if several people are already using the same account then they can't prove it was you that posted it. Don't make me re-install my sniffers on the business school terminals over in E53 just to scab a couple.
There's Taco again, not knowing the difference between "then" and "than".
Continuing to set all sorts of continuous troll records. This troll brought to you by the AC trolling alliance.
trollin trollin trollin, keep them doggies trollin RAWHIDE!!! *kwaapish* YEEEHAWWW!
PUNCH THE MONKEY! PUNCH the MONKEY!! PUNCH IT!!!!!!
Username taken, please choose another one.
nite robin =)
~z
sig?
I can't figure out how to report this bug, but for some reason, my karma is at -2. Take a look at my user page, see how the comments went from 1 to 0? I never was modded down, and I don't really post that much. I DO, however, post on occasion, and now, all my posts start at 0. Anyone know how to get this to Taco?
C Pungent
How dare you cowardly anonymous goat fuckers mod me down as a troll!!!
You'll get yours!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pig fucks!!!!!!!!
MOD PARENT POST UP!!
bitch
If you are a moderater, you must go here.
Thank you and fuck off.
I get banned on the first post I've made on /. in response to a fellow /.er's bowel movement problem.
Where is justice in this cruel world?
AC or not AC -- that is the question: /. effect, the turnaround's delay,
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The rules and exceptions of outrageous moderation
Or to take arms against a sea of flames
And by structuring end them. To troll -- to whore
No more; and by a test to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural mistakes
That Slashdot is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To troll -- to whore.
To flame -- perchance to bomb: aye, there's the rub!
For in that post of flame what flames may come
When we have shuffled of this moderation scheme,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
that makes calamity of so long lists.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of karma whoring
Th' console operators wrong, the linked sites crash,
The pangs of despis'd
The insolence of cowards, and the spurns
That patient posting of crafted flamebait takes
When he himself might his quietus make
Who would this zealot site bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary language,
But that the dread of something different
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourne
No negative karma returns -- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make anonymous cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn away
And lose the name of AC.
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Take all good things in moderation, including moderation.
It's repressed, not oppressed.
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An almost perfect karma-whoring post...
I was amused to see in fact that this post of mine above was:
Post #911!
graspee
(why bother preserving karma when the site's about to die?)
how is this redundant, when it's a thread under the first reply to the first thread on the page? Moderators, you're idiots.
hello there.
Hello.