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April Fools Wrap Up
Thanks for the usual April Fools Day flame- every year people fall for it.
It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless
a few people can be despite the blatant obviousness of the joke.
Lastly, jfengel sent us the annual April Fools RFC: RFC3251 describes "Electricity over IP" and RFC3252 on "Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport" reformulates IP to work over XML."
And unlike MARCHFirst, we will be done with this steaming pile very soon...
You know what?
Kudos Taco...
It really is quite amazing how down right IRATE people can get around here. Lighten up folks. It's just life.
Jason
He's totally creeping out the Great One, eh...
"Thanks for the usual April Fools Day flame- every year people fall for it. It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless a few people can be despite the blatant obviousness of the joke."
/. today. Somebody needs a lesson in humour. It won't be from me either because today's beating of a dead horse has bored me to tears.
They were repetive, unimaginative and unfunny. The best jokes are subtle - making it blatantly obvious makes it extremely unfunny. That is why you were flamed.
The BBC documentary way back in B&W TV days about spaghetti growing on trees is/was funny because it was original and completely unexpected. Unlike anything seen on
You missed the point. They do it to annoy the hell out of all of you. They get to post a bunch of crap, which is so obviously not true that you all will flame it and whine and complain like little babies, which, will make it all the more likely to happen in the future. It might have been dumb to you, but I'm sure they were all laughing their asses off at you.
What?
(But I thought the subscription article, with disabling anon, was funny as hell. Boy do those users get pissed off about that! Y'allHBT, mofos.)
sulli
RTFJ.
This just out
It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless a few people can be...
CmdrTacoThe /. potentate nefariously plays across the collective psyche of his readership in a vain attempt to hang onto a wanning membership while leading a salesteam intent on selling /. to AOL as the web's greatest blog.
....Thaaaaaaaaat's All FOLKSheuristic algorithm seeks stochastic relationship
Who's with me on this? I need someone to help hold him still.
After he's done, we'll move on to the rest of the /. crew. (Except JonKatz, for obvious reasons.)
Q1:If I'm a flame addict, what did you just post?
Q2: How did you get all those repetitive characters past the lameness filter?
Q3:Why did you even see my post? Didn't you put me on your foes list?
Oh, I get it. You're subtly criticizing their broken killfile system! I wish you'd stop criticizing Slashdot!
It never ceases to amaze me how people can actually whine about the content of this site instead of actually surfing for the news themselves. How lazy can you get? Point, click, repeat...!
If you don't like what they post, don't read it! Don't pay for it! Or even better, do your work instead!! (I know, that's not even funny).
I mean, the news on this site is almost always the same, "Big company buys another big company", "MS Sux", "Coders can't get laid"...
That's what actually made the posts today funny; they actually sound a lot like the normal news!
"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake."...Tyler Durden
this is the first time i've ever felt the need to reply to any of the storys on /.
i must say all these people posting and saying it was a waste of time and such like posting all the april fools, need to lighten up and get a sense of humour.
anyways, thats my twopence worth...
"lack of quality control is one of the pillars of slashdot"
The point of an "April Fools joke" is to make someone look like a fool for the purpose of humor. This is accomplished by presenting something that is clever such that it looks believable but is fake under closer examination. Today's Slashdot fiasco only succeeded in making you and your editors look like a bunch of morons, without the joyful side effect of creating laughs. Nothing clever. Nothing believable except to complete idiots.
If you are presented with X pieces of information and you know for a fact that out of those X pieces, ALL of them are fake... well, you won't be fooled. Now if maybe one or two believable stories were injected into today's article, there might have been comedic value.
You're getting tons of flames and pissed off users because IT JUST ISN'T FUNNY. Once or twice, maybe, but not every single story! If I spent my entire day doing nothing but pulling April Fools jokes on my girlfriend, I'd have my balls kicked by now. Do that to half a million Slashdot readers, and you WILL get flamed!
Maybe next year you'll get it... probably not. But this bullshit probably resulted in a lot of good story submissions getting tossed out. What a waste.
Why bother.
Ended for me 12 hours ago.
Sorry! i forgot that only the US counts. my bad. Hrmm i wonder if there was ANY tech news for April 1, i guess it wont be found on slashdot.
All AF jokes are supposed to be ended by 12 noon April 1st traditionally.
1 or 2 stories are funny. but for fucks sake, a whole fucking page of bullshit. It is called TIRED or LAME. Hell i suppose we will have next year the effort to move slashdot from linux to a phat unisys box running Blackcomb.
Do the following really mean anything? SCSA MCP CCSA CCNA
--I'm not actually after an answer!
Angry and clueless? OK, now that I know what CmdrTaco thinks of me, I won't post anymore. This just goes to show how ignorant some web site operators can be. (Read the linked editorial. As a media organization, Slashdot undermines the trust it has worked to build.)
/. today: it is idiocy to place fake stories. They don't fool, at least not me, and they don't amuse. They just annoy and get in the way. Then CmdrTaco insulting his users, well, that takes the cake!)
(My take on