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Geek Gift Ideas 2001
Once again its time for Slashdot readers to chime in on what they think would make good gift geek christmas presents. Please put approximate prices in the Subject so Santa can more easily decide your gift ;) I'm still stuck for ideas for a few people yet. Of course I'll have to post my ideas anonymously so people don't know what they're getting ;)
CmdrTaco obviously got his gift early this year. It was a spelling and grammer checker.
I'm still stuck for ideas for a few people yet
Yep, think up some people to give pressies to first..
http://twitter.com/onion2k
Most geeks could really use a trip to Prague, where the girls are very friendly!
priceless
OK, where shall I send it?
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - open source hero Mike Bouma was found dead in his San Francisco home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to the open source comunity. Truly an American icon.
Yet another adequacy.com troll.
Mod down please.
Mod down please...
Explain to me WHY this is flaimbait. He makes a very good point that in the season where we focus on the getting, we should be more concerned about giving to those who have gone through a tragic event. This is ridiculous and stupid moderation.
Mod this down please.
for the price of those 12 scsi drives you could get 20 80gig ide's...
the lameness filter sucks ASS!
hippopotamus for christmas
A hippopotamus is all i want
i don't like rhinocerusses
i only like hippopotamusses
and hippopotamusses like me too!
Perhaps you should borrow them.
In an effort to restore slashdot to it's previous level of quality, I've begun an effort to point out, and mod down, all obvious karma whores and trolls. The job is large, but not impossible.
This poster obviously does not care about the topic, rather he (or she, perhaps), cares only about inflating karma, and to do so, this person has posted absolute crap.
What qualifies as crap on slashdot? Well, quite honestly, about half of the comments ranked above 2.
One way to easily spot a karma whore attempt, is to look for an obvious, but pathetic, post of linux superiority. A linux karma whore will often attempt to point out that linux is the best for job x, even though there may be, and probably are, better alternatives, such as Microsoft for desktops and FreeBSD for servers. These points will be ignored by linux karma whores, as pointing this out will not ensure the positive moderation they desire.
Another method for spotting karma whores is to look for comments posting, verbatim, something stated in the article, or in the editor's summary. While this often includes italicizing the quote, this is frequently a ploy to show that the person read the article, even though it's more likely the person only skimmed to find a comment worth repeating. Additional signs of the repetitive karma whore are: commentary on a quote that says nothing, "mirroring" an article that is not slashdotted, or pointing to google's cache. Also be careful before moderating up posts which link to obviously related sites: karma whores occasionally search popular search engines to find related stories in an effort to gain more karma.
The third type of karma whore, one that very often succeeds on slashdot, is the sympathy whore. A sympathy whore often tries to gain karma by appealing to the moderator's sense of decency, either with a story about how they were unfairly fired, perhaps how they were unfairly persecuted, or occasionally how main stream capitalism is trampling on a sense of global decency. The latter tends to link common, benine events to horrific events of the past, making unfair generalizations and calling for action on behalf of a charity rather than carrying on with one's life. Do not let your heart be fooled into thinking that they are genuine: the sympathy whores want nothing more than karma.
Why would someone try to whore karma? Well, the simple answer is that everyone wants to feel smart, or popular. Many posters on slashdot describe themselves as nerds or geeks, societal outcasts. Posting to slashdot is their only true sense of community, and they view karma as a measure of popularity or status. Others karma whore to try to increase revenue and traffic to their own websites. Frequent marks of traffic whores are links in the posts that match the user's homepage, or links to hardware reviews on small sites, where links to purchase the hardware occupy the bottom half of the review. Again, do not let these subtle traffic whores fool you.
With these basic guidelines in mind, go out and moderate. Realize that many of the higher moderated comments are whores, and mod them back down. In an effort to increase the quality of comments, try to mod down no more than 3 posts in a given session ; use your remaining points to moderate some users UP. This ensures that not only are karma whores eliminated but that valid posts are acknowledged.
big dicks
big dicks in my ass
big dicks in your ass
big black dicks up my ass
raping my urethra with a wooden chopstick
big dick up my ass
having my shit packed by matt damon
big dicks up my shitter
big dick up my asshole
getting fisted by hemos
big dicks up my ass
getting fucked with a big dildo
big dildo
horse cocks up my ass
big sloppy dick in my ass
i would like a big dick in my shitbox
big dicks slapping me across the face
timotys big dick in between my buttcheeks
a big dick in my mouth
getting fucked in the ass
big dicks
-CmdrTaco
Please moderate the above post down, as it is obvoiusly a humorless attempt to whore karma.
In an effort to restore slashdot to it's previous level of quality, I've begun an effort to point out, and mod down, all obvious karma whores and trolls. The job is large, but not impossible.
This poster obviously does not care about the topic, rather he (or she, perhaps), cares only about inflating karma, and to do so, this person has posted absolute crap.
What qualifies as crap on slashdot? Well, quite honestly, about half of the comments ranked above 2.
One way to easily spot a karma whore attempt, is to look for an obvious, but pathetic, post of linux superiority. A linux karma whore will often attempt to point out that linux is the best for job x, even though there may be, and probably are, better alternatives, such as Microsoft for desktops and FreeBSD for servers. These points will be ignored by linux karma whores, as pointing this out will not ensure the positive moderation they desire.
Another method for spotting karma whores is to look for comments posting, verbatim, something stated in the article, or in the editor's summary. While this often includes italicizing the quote, this is frequently a ploy to show that the person read the article, even though it's more likely the person only skimmed to find a comment worth repeating. Additional signs of the repetitive karma whore are: commentary on a quote that says nothing, "mirroring" an article that is not slashdotted, or pointing to google's cache. Also be careful before moderating up posts which link to obviously related sites: karma whores occasionally search popular search engines to find related stories in an effort to gain more karma.
The third type of karma whore, one that very often succeeds on slashdot, is the sympathy whore. A sympathy whore often tries to gain karma by appealing to the moderator's sense of decency, either with a story about how they were unfairly fired, perhaps how they were unfairly persecuted, or occasionally how main stream capitalism is trampling on a sense of global decency. The latter tends to link common, benine events to horrific events of the past, making unfair generalizations and calling for action on behalf of a charity rather than carrying on with one's life. Do not let your heart be fooled into thinking that they are genuine: the sympathy whores want nothing more than karma.
Why would someone try to whore karma? Well, the simple answer is that everyone wants to feel smart, or popular. Many posters on slashdot describe themselves as nerds or geeks, societal outcasts. Posting to slashdot is their only true sense of community, and they view karma as a measure of popularity or status. Others karma whore to try to increase revenue and traffic to their own websites. Frequent marks of traffic whores are links in the posts that match the user's homepage, or links to hardware reviews on small sites, where links to purchase the hardware occupy the bottom half of the review. Again, do not let these subtle traffic whores fool you.
With these basic guidelines in mind, go out and moderate. Realize that many of the higher moderated comments are whores, and mod them back down. In an effort to increase the quality of comments, try to mod down no more than 3 posts in a given session ; use your remaining points to moderate some users UP. This ensures that not only are karma whores eliminated but that valid posts are acknowledged.
This is offtopic, but that's not funny. Wil is a nice guy. It's pretty pathetic that people care enough about some decade-old TV show to harbor a grudge against a person that played a character they didn't like. Get a life.
Maybe its cause you are reading too much /., and not doing any work?
Please mod all sympathy karma whores down. This kind of comment is not needed on slashdot.
In an effort to restore slashdot to it's previous level of quality, I've begun an effort to point out, and mod down, all obvious karma whores and trolls. The job is large, but not impossible.
This poster obviously does not care about the topic, rather he (or she, perhaps), cares only about inflating karma, and to do so, this person has posted absolute crap.
What qualifies as crap on slashdot? Well, quite honestly, about half of the comments ranked above 2.
One way to easily spot a karma whore attempt, is to look for an obvious, but pathetic, post of linux superiority. A linux karma whore will often attempt to point out that linux is the best for job x, even though there may be, and probably are, better alternatives, such as Microsoft for desktops and FreeBSD for servers. These points will be ignored by linux karma whores, as pointing this out will not ensure the positive moderation they desire.
Another method for spotting karma whores is to look for comments posting, verbatim, something stated in the article, or in the editor's summary. While this often includes italicizing the quote, this is frequently a ploy to show that the person read the article, even though it's more likely the person only skimmed to find a comment worth repeating. Additional signs of the repetitive karma whore are: commentary on a quote that says nothing, "mirroring" an article that is not slashdotted, or pointing to google's cache. Also be careful before moderating up posts which link to obviously related sites: karma whores occasionally search popular search engines to find related stories in an effort to gain more karma.
The third type of karma whore, one that very often succeeds on slashdot, is the sympathy whore. A sympathy whore often tries to gain karma by appealing to the moderator's sense of decency, either with a story about how they were unfairly fired, perhaps how they were unfairly persecuted, or occasionally how main stream capitalism is trampling on a sense of global decency. The latter tends to link common, benine events to horrific events of the past, making unfair generalizations and calling for action on behalf of a charity rather than carrying on with one's life. Do not let your heart be fooled into thinking that they are genuine: the sympathy whores want nothing more than karma.
Why would someone try to whore karma? Well, the simple answer is that everyone wants to feel smart, or popular. Many posters on slashdot describe themselves as nerds or geeks, societal outcasts. Posting to slashdot is their only true sense of community, and they view karma as a measure of popularity or status. Others karma whore to try to increase revenue and traffic to their own websites. Frequent marks of traffic whores are links in the posts that match the user's homepage, or links to hardware reviews on small sites, where links to purchase the hardware occupy the bottom half of the review. Again, do not let these subtle traffic whores fool you.
With these basic guidelines in mind, go out and moderate. Realize that many of the higher moderated comments are whores, and mod them back down. In an effort to increase the quality of comments, try to mod down no more than 3 posts in a given session ; use your remaining points to moderate some users UP. This ensures that not only are karma whores eliminated but that valid posts are acknowledged.
Errr anybody want to post a link to this? If he died it'd be all over the web. This, so far, smells like a sick joke.
"Derp de derp."
Prove love.
Some things have no proof. Its called faith.
Some of us want boyfriends you know.. says female geek with shiny new ibook.
HA!
That's pretty damn funny for a troll.
Yea it is, this same AC has posted that Steven King has died, he uses the same sentence and everything, just changes the name..
It's also called "bullshit."
Ok. No problem.
Bring someone who claims to love you over here where I have my gun. Wait while I lock the door.
Alrightly. You're dead unless this person takes the bullet.
Oops.
That's the worst piece of bullshit I have _ever_ heard!
Religion is a leftover from the middle ages - wake up!
"We had my Aunt Val's memorial service yesterday..."
A truly kind god would have given you the gifts of spelling and grammar.
Worship His Divine Shadow.
Funny how other people are keeping their jobs. Maybe the problem is with you?
Don't visit. Where I live, we shoot dumbasses on sight.
I can be there in 15 minutes...
So it'll be English grammar lessons for you then?
<hint>your final phrase sucks</hint>
fuck that, how about a realdoll?
Hi, I'm Will. It's true. I'm dead.
Oh my god! I'm on TEH INTAERWEB with my girlfriend, Hemos. Jesus H. Christ on a crutch. I must call my lawyer right this instanto!
Thank you, kind citizen of the Information SUPERDUPERHIGHWAY, for bringing this to my attention!
Brant
Argle. Bargle.