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SciFi Motherlode Donated to Canadian University
Freshly Exhumed writes: "SciFan aficionados might soon be lining up to study at the University of Calgary due to an
amazing donation: A massive collection of science fiction and pulp magazines spanning the last century has been donated to the University of Calgary which officials say will be a boon for literary and pop culture research. William Gibson had spent many of his 92 years sealing his prized collection in plastic, leaving behind a true motherlode of science fiction writings."
turtle turtle!!!
Oohh.. Just books and magazines.. gotcha.
=-Jippy
- Lameness filters (It blocks a lot of legitmate posts)
- Unnessary posting delays. Hasnt taco learned to touch type? A lot of posts are typed in less than 20 seconds and it is a ANNOYING DELAY! 2 minute ban? Come on, so some are faster then others, big deal, some people have more to say than others
- Broken moderation system, The whole point is to sort the gems from the crap, yet a lot of posts designed to make a LIVELY DISCUSSION are MODERATED as flamebait! Come on, not everyone likes X, but just because some one bashes it dosent mean its Flamebait. Flame bait is more useful for DIRECT INSULTS and not legitmate discussions.
The "troll" moderation reason is fragmented and broken, why? Because they are trying to use an obsolete usenet term on a realtime discussion, "trolls" can cover a huge blanket of ideas.- Crapfloods, a meaningless flood of random letters or text, which the lameness filter does a crappy job at trying to stop, besides trolls have written tools using the opensource slashcode to generate crapfloods which bypass the filter
- Links to offensive websites, the most common one is known a http://www.goatse.cx, a awful site which shows a bleeding anus being stretched on the front page. Trolls sneak these links in by posting messages that look legitimate, but infact are sneaky redirects to the site. Common examples include rd.yahoo.com, www.linux-kernel.tk, goatsex.cjb.net, and googles "Im feeling lucky".
- Trying to break slashdot, this is actually a good thing, as it helps test slashdot for bugs. Famous examples include the goatse.cx javascript pop-up, the pagewidening post and the browser crashing post!
Subnet banning, this bans a user unless they email jamie macarthy with their mp5ed ipids. This is unfair, and banning a subnet BLOCKS A WHOLE ISP SOMETIMES, and not that individual user! This can cause chaos! But real trolls use annoymous proxys to get around this so THIS JUST BANS LEGITMATE USERS! Also, they are trying to censor some anoymous proxies, mainly from countrys like africa, so this yet more DISCRIMINATION! If you try and post before the ban is over it gets extended. Pink page of Death, This censors people who use legitmate proxys or firewalls. It also blocks serivces like CgiProxy and filters like t'inator. The Bitchslap! An unethical punishment which is applied to moderators who fight censorship against this site! In addition the Editors use their un-limited mod points to create a communist style censored discussion on slashdot! This one sided discussion makes trolls more determined But, the issue that concerens us the most, is the COMMENT QUOTA. A discrimatory system that stiffles discussion, cripples the community and will ultimateley destroy slashdot unless it is removed! Annoymous cowards are allowed only 10 posts a day! This is unethical! Users with negative karma only get two! That is DISCRIMINATION! How would you like to only be able to speak once a day, just because of the color of your skin. That would be racism, and slashdot is discrimitating on people just because of a negative number in a database! BOYCOTT SLASHDOT! LET THEM DIE! We wan't these stupid useless restrictions REMOVED! This comment will be posted again and again until it does! Inportant imformation for users Boycott slashdot, they are pissing over their community, they are becoming like the RIAA and MICROSOFT! Do NOT TOLERATE THIS SHIT! Here are some real news for nerds sites. We don't need slashdot, slashdot deserves to die! MSNBC BBC NEWS News.com Linux online Linux daily news network Weird news from dailyrotten.com Trollaxor, news for trolls, they are real people too! CNN.com New york times (free registration required) LINUX.com News forge K5 Mandrake forum Toms hardware The register Kde dot news The linux kernel Archives Adequecy Xfree86.org There are hundreds more, But this is where slashdot STEALS THE MAJORITY OF its "news" from. Proxy sites Anti proxy Jmarshalls Cgiproxy,which has been pink paged! Infamous Trolls Wipo Troll Klerck Punish them, here are their emails, spam them, flame them goatse them! Rob malda Jamie Macarthy ChrisD Hemos Micheal Pudge The others ones apperantly dont have an e-mail, probably because ROB MALDA IS PRETENDING HE IS JOHN KATZ. Thank you for reading this, please feel free to repost this information, please reply to add your comments, fight slashdot and its CENSORSHIP Don't forget to sign the petition!18+-2th post!
Fuck I'm angry tonight.
slashdot is only good when you have been up for like 36 hours and you are getting really sleeeepy then all the posts seem really funny.
otherwise slashdot is shiat. But next time you are exhuasted stop to read a few comments, it's funny ass hell.
"This new version of adobe acrobat must be a plot by zee evil americans to poison my precious bodily fluids with riboflavin overdose!"
"Miznacr0shitsnack sux0rz a kaXz0rz!"
"richard stallman has declared that using a GNU/abacus promotes freedom so burn your computers for they are tainted with unholy unfree sins of capitalism!"
"Grip-off and Kimitation have just released new versions! oh yes thank you so much you medoicre C coders are my gods! let me blow you at once!"
well something like that...you know the usual crap, except when you are so very sleepy it all seems so very amusing.
heh heh hehehe heheh HYAHAHHAHAHA.
With a Red Hat pulled down low 'gainst the wind,
Renegade battling the postmodern mind,
Rebel on the run, tipped my hat and grinned,
I'd saved those things their pride had left behind.
WHY ARE THE EDITORS POSTING THESE SHIT ARTICLES?!?! I WANT TO READ NEWS ABOUT LINUX!
So that I won't be accused of complaining without doing anything to improve Slashdot, here's a Linux poem as my contribution:
I'd seen poets drown in bureaucracy,
Know ye the free spirit's safer at sea.
I dreamed of a tall ship with stalwart sailors,
With a cause higher than the bottom line,
And left behind the consultant bailers,
To sail aboard a linux ship so fine.
With a Pentium hull, the Western Canon,
Oak planks of reason riveted with rhyme,
To serve the Great Books forever and anon,
Designed to voyage across all of time.
your uncle is gay.
Does anyone other than me see that MS .net add on this page? This is the first time I have seen a M$ add on slashdot. Does anyone know if it happened before this? I wonder if they know the amount of hate that exists on slashdot that is aimed at them.
First, you have to know, not fear, know that someday you are going to die
totally valid points made.
it's big.
Actually this was a really funny post. Wish the moderators had a sporting sense of humor.