Slashdot Effect, Live and In Person

Thread writes "This group is getting together slashdot readers all over the world. Check out slashdot.meetup.com to meet up with Slashdot readers in your town." The meetup.com site is pretty much brand new, and it's a fun idea. We thought this was kind of a cool idea and something a bunch of people have asked for in email and in past stories so we thought "let's see what happens."

Comments

If I go to troll

[ObviousGuy]

Can I show up as an AC?

What do we say

[jsse]

What do we say when we meet?

"FIRST POST!"

Work people.

[saintlupus]

Hmm. Time to see if my boss reads slashdot.

If so, time to start posting anonymously.

--saint

Uhh, no.

[peterdaly]

There are others like me in my town? I can get 300k downloads off my cablemodem in the evening since there are so few geeks in my area. You think there is enough of us to have a meeting?

What are you smoking! That's why I spend my time here.

-Pete

Meeting, why not just a LAN party?

[peterdaly]

Who wants to meet? Since when are geeks social? Grab your PC and CAT5 and setup a LAN party into the wee hours of the morning.

Ouch! I just had a visual of 50 people all trying to get first post...all in the same room.

-Pete

top 3 bad jokes i predict from this thread

[bilbobuggins]

Top 3 bad jokes you will see in this thread:

3) If we get there first do we get to yell 'FIRST MEET!'???

2) Will there be moderators monitoring our conversations? If so do I get more karma for imported beer?

1) Hey man, if we linked them all up together via video conferencing it would be like a Beowulf cluster of /. meetings!!!

Re:top 3 bad jokes i predict from this thread

[kubrick]

I hope I don't live near the goatse.cx guy...

Hello Steve

[Anonymous Coward]

You're fired.

Good, I hope you show your face.

[Typingsux]

I really want to meet you anonymous coward.

FAQ Confusion

[waldoj]

From the FAQ:

How many people will MEETUP?
We guess that there will be 4-12 people at a MEETUP. We will try to let you know how many people to expect at your MEETUP.

What if there aren't enough people for a MEETUP?
We cancel MEETUPs with less than 5 people signed-up.

Hmm...so what if one of them is an Anonymous Coward?

-Waldo Jaquith

Key difference

[ez76]

You get to "moderate" the trolls whether you have points or not.

(cracks knuckles)

Re:Key difference

[Tokerat]

And.... I wonder how many people will be named "Anonymous Coward" ;)

...or how many wise-ass trolls will write "Slim Shady" on theirs...

Not excited.

[DarkHelmet]

Oh wonderful! A couple hundred nerds in my area going to meet geek chicks and finding that none of them turn up.

I'm sorry, but I'd rather stay at home chatting up guys who *say* they're women than knowing that they're not.

Re:Not excited.

[Quixote]

A couple hundred nerds in my area going to meet geek chicks and finding that none of them turn up.

Thats because "geek chicks" are a myth, a legend. This notion of "geek chicks" has been around for decades, to keep your coke-bottle-glasses geek from stopping his coding and trying to get a social life.
A "geek chick" occupies the same position in the 'real' world as the Unicorn, Sasquatch, Tibetan Yeti and the Loch Ness monster.
There are rumors of a "geek chick" film (a-la the Patterson/Gimlin film) floating around, but nothing conclusive has been found.

Re:Not excited.

[Mandi Walls]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

My site has the IE CSS Vulnerability coded on the front page. :)

--mandi

*BSD is Dying is Invited

[XBL]

Please invite the person who wrote up this oft-posted drivel... so we can beat him/her up.

Also, be sure to setup some tables for the trolls, and then offer a free round of drinks... laced with something...

Re:*BSD is Dying is Invited

[Danse]

Yes, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory for them if we still get to beat them up.

Re:*BSD is Dying is Invited

[anshil]

I say let's all get rubber hammers, and then finally physically fight out several long term discussions:

Round 1: is VIM or EMACS the better Editor? Get your hammers ready!

Round 2: whats the better desktop? KDE or GNOME. 1-2-3 All hammers go!

Round 3: Which license to choose, GPL or BSD style? Hammer guys, hammer!

Round 4: Who is the better Star Trek Captain? James D. Kirk or Jean-Leuk Picard? (However they are spelled), Hammer the wrong speller.

Round 5: The fight of the better kernel: BSD or LINUX! The side group favoring HURD may not be hammered to excesivly, by the BSD or LINUX group, give them a chance.

Round 6: We'll all split up in several groups and hammer for the best browser!

Round 7: What Script Language is better, PERL or PYTHON. ( The ones left favoring TCL are to be hammered until they get some sense in their heads.)

Round 8: Is UnitedLinux a good thing? Hammer, hamm er, hammer!

Round 9: We'll hammer about the linux kernel development, do we need a patch tracker? Versioning System? Shall we hammer linus a bit? until patches it's no longer so frustracting to get all these patches silently refused?

Round 10: YOu can exchange all you hammers you've aquired against Karma, Congrats.

Genius!

[ffatTony]

No longer must we verbally assault strangers via the Internet, now we may physically assualt them in person. Thanks Slashdot.

Should I go?

[writermike]

Who will be attending this meetup?
So far, the following people have signed up:

AssFace

Ummm...

Re:Didn't this bother anyone else?

[Anenga]

Crap! Your right!

Your mom, or friend or somebody might look over your shoulder and cancel your mailing subscription for slashdot meetups!

Somebody alarm the IT Department!

Re:Wait a minute!

[Pig Hogger]

Won't this necessarily involve going outside at some point?

Holy shit! Not the big room????

lets slashdot a bar!

[deft]

lets get a couple hundred people to try and get into a small bar running a 1 bartender server system, and see if he can handle the load.

with this many people, it should be pretty easy to over run the bar buffer and get into the back end areas like the kitchen and accounting areas.

ahhh, the REAL slashdot effect in person.

/. and the dissolution of reality

[Asprin]

NOOOOOOOOOOO! DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT!

Thank you, /. and meetup.com for totally screwing over my entire life!

I just ran into Jon Katz at one of them there meetup.com social mixers and found him to be funny, thoughtful & intelligent.

NOW WHAT AM I GOING TO BITCH ABOUT?!??!

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

Other MeetUps

[Swaffs]

Sadly, there's no barelylegalteens.meetup.com... yet...

Redmond, Washington Meetup

[Leeji]

I was going to make a slick joke about the mysterious lack of interest for a meetup in Redmond, Washington...

BUT...

I was wrong.

Stonecutters!

[shogun]

We should hold an ole fashioned stonecutters conventions. We all just wear our Slashdot User Numbers and the lower numbers get to order all the newbies around. While quaffing beer and signing bawdy songs. ;-)

Re:That depends...

[Mike1024]

Hey,

finding women is like fishing. That'sa ll you have to remember. Sounds silly, but it's very true if you examine it for a minute. You don't go fishing with a pole if you want shrimp, and a net won't get you many marlin.

How would dynamiteing the fish fit into this metaphor? It sounds like my sort of approach.

Michael