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Face Transplants On The Way
kwertii writes "A British surgeon claims face transplants are just a few months off. The procedure "could involve a patient being given new lips, chin, ears, nose, skin and bone from a recently deceased person." The problem? Surveys indicate that very few people are willing to donate their face. Would you?"
On the way!
Moogle for con!
Happy Thanksgiving!
or it's 5 days after all the other news sites, i'm too lazy to check which is the case.
Many people around the world are donating much more than a face for a quick buck. So, yes, some people will donate it if it doesn't kill them.
The ENIAC Demo Competition
This was around yesterday. Wasn't it?
...from a few days ago.
--Joakim Ziegler
Repeat :) It's even referring to the same story.
If you look at the picture of Dr. Butler, you realize why he's working on this technique.
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
Taco really needs a brain transplant!
Uh... well, I don't know where Michael Jackson got his face from, but the nose is obviously from another planet.
Ah, kamisama! Ore no atama ni ono ga arimasu yo!.
That's one of the great HKBO (Hong Kong Blood Opera) movies. John Woo is awesome. -1, Offtipic, I know, I know...
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/2 7/1639243&mode=nested&tid=134.
You'd think you'd be able to check a day's worth of archives, right?
- Anomymous Coward
Well, I would donate my face. But as I resemble a sack of King edward potatoes, I'm pretty sure there would be no takers.
But hobbits shouldn't be raising human children!
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"What?"
"Nothing... just a deja vu."
"What exactly did you see?"
"Uh... an article was posted, then the exact same article was posted again."
"Are you sure it was the same article?"
"Pretty sure, yeah. What's wrong?"
"A deja vu is a glitch in Slashdot. It happens when they change something..."
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
I forgot that donators are already dead.
Then, for sure, people will sell their face so their families can have the money.
The ENIAC Demo Competition
Okay, the editors are human and make mistakes.. you can't expect everyone to know what everyone else has put on the site.. but this is a repost of front page news from yesterday.
1 /2 7/1639243&mode=thread&tid=134
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/1
If it's a repost of an old article, it's understandable.. but articles that are still on the front page? C'mon guys, there's just no excuse for that.
...who named his son Pete. He had another son, so he called him Repete.
(buh-dump) Thank, you, I'll be here all week.
Karma: Nuetral (Mostly effected by misspeling and tpyos)
Imagine filling in 'face' on the back of your driver's license...
sig?
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/2 7/1639243&mode=nested&tid=134
Sure, the dead have no more use for a face than a liver. If you want my face, your desperation would no doubt elicit my sympathy (except that I'd be preoccupied with the whole being dead business).
Helium balloons want to be free.
They but a new face on this story.
Then re-used it
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
...have so much contempt for their own site that they choose not to even read it? The number of duplicates has been truely silly as of late.
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And now my leg hurts.
I wouldn't donate my face, because that could traumatize my family, or the new owner.
I'll donate my organs, but don't track me down and carve me up while I'm still alive please...
I'd also donate my brain, but we need to develop that procedure still...
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Read all about it here.
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Slashdot editors are a bunch of double-dealing two-faced bastards.
Someone help me rip this bird face off my head! I knew I should've waited 'till the 1.0 release...
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...from yesterday's news!
...that way I'd be able to satisfy all those who accuse me of talking out my ass. And people would be less reluctant to actually kiss my ass. My only question refers to the donor situation.
This guy could sure use one of these.
Not only is Commander Taco ignoring to check the latest stories, he doesn't even come up with the obligatory Face/Off-remark.
...how many re-runs of Face/Off he has seen.
The ENIAC Demo Competition
Renews for nerds. Stuff that rematters
The number of duplicates in slashdot increases almost weekly, it used to be a rarity, now it's an almost-daily event.
Why isn't it possible for the slashdot editors to have a database containing all links from all stories posted, and the story it was posted in. Then before posting a new story, check the database for any of the links the submitter included, and if they match, check the orininal, and then post or don't post depending on the result. This would take seconds, when automated (and it's easy enough to do.)
I remember when the biggest editor gripe was that they didn't read the article, and it was crap. Now it's obvious they don't read them, since they'll keep posting exac duplicates wihtin several days of each other.
-AC
Surveys indicate that very few people are willing to donate their face. Would you?"
I am planning to give any vital organs I may still have after I am dead but I refuse the reste to become consummer goods.
If people want a face, I guess plastic surgery is a better option.
Trolling using another account since 2005.
This is not the kind of story one should forward to their spouse!
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
now we can spend the next 40mins insulting Mr Taco.
what a way to end a boring day at work
Burt "Out of my mind back in 5 minutes"
I guess it's about to come to Urth....
Is gonna LOVE this.
WOuld've signed in, but slashdot's mail daemon is Sloooooow today. I need my password Slashcode!
This was on /. like, yesterday...
Look, I normally hate the "this is a duplicate" posts just as much as the next guy, but this is just stunning.
I can see someone forgetting an old story that was posted. Maybe even something as young as a month, really. And I can see two posts being placed at the same time because the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing. But almost precisely 24 hours apart? That's wonderful!
Face Transplants On The Way
On Thursday November 28, @11:55AM with 36 comments
kwertii writes "A British surgeon claims face transplants are just a few months off. The procedure "could involve a patient being given new lips, chin, ears,...
Section: Main > News
Getting More Face Time
On Wednesday November 27, @12:07PM with 239 comments
ApharmdB writes "The BBC has a story about the possibility of performing face transplants within the year. Obviously, people are worried about the ethical...
Section: Science > Science
My
Limekiller
Instead of this crap they call slashcode, we would be able to MOD STORYS DOWN!
/me ducks
Of course, and I highly suspect it, I may be talking out of my ass. -oqti
Hehe...you could always just get a Mozilla (dinosaur) mask if you want to be safe ;)
... and his face was ripped out while he was asleep. Authorities are now looking for someone that looks similar to this picture down...
I found the first donor/receiver pair! Sean Archer and Castor Troy! Sean happens to be a FBI Agent and Castor is a Criminal Genious...
I'm sorry, but having a face transplant sounds to me like the dumbest reason to have a transplant.
If you've ever known anyone that's had problems with rejection/anti-rejection drugs, you would know how dangerous transplants can really be.
I guess the point that I'm getting at is that the risks are too high involving face transplants, perhaps if you were Michael Jackson I could see why you would need one. It did well for John Travolta and Nicholas Cage though.
Oy vey. I read that as "face striping" and started postulating redundant arrays of inexpensive faces.
"I'm not a hypocrite - my face is simply configured for RAIF 1".
"Are you being weird, or sarcastic?" said Emma. I said I didn't know because I get the two feelings mixed up.
Lots of low scores today.......Including this post. :o( Oh well, who needs karma when you've got friends.
This seems to be a duplicate story.
N/T
Now the wealthy have to keep us masses happy and well fed. They don't exactly want to spoil their harvest...
But he warned: "The chances are, it won't be long before it's used for aesthetic reasons."
Not to mention that this kind of surgery could make the Face Dancer spies from Dune a reality...
The ENIAC Demo Competition
Kundalini wants his face back....
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
Kill someone, get a new face.
Even better...kill someone, donate your face.
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About who would want to donate their face as much as I would be about who would want to go around with a dead person's face. But then I look at the Micheal Jackson and/or Cher pics, and it suddenly all makes sense.
But...but...it's only 11:20!
For all you lazy geeks - blatantly stolen! No credit!
;-)
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How about modular faces you can switch out at will?
Tom Cruise on Monday...
Brad Pitt on Tuesday...
Weird Al on Wednsday...
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Why do I imagine that Michael Jackson was the tragically unsuccessful guinea pig for most of this experimentation? It would explain so much. Trying to give that poor man the face of some long dead woman
Inside a dark room, the man who calls himself Linux Torvalds awakes.
Linus: What...what has happened to me?
Stands up, groggily making his way to the mirror - but what looks back at him isn't his face, it's...Steve Balmer!
Linus: Nooooooo!
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away at Linuxworld....
Hacker (in crowd): Hey, is it just me, but did Linus gain like 300 pounds?
Hacker2: Totally. The guy needs to go back on his mac n' cheese diet.
On the stage, a man who's face looks like Linus's is jumping about the stage, clapping his hands.
Steve: Developers, developers, developers....!
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It's not just the flesh, it's the bone that shapes your face for the most part. That's why they can make those clay facial recreations when they find an unidentified skeleton. And that's also why Face/Off was so ridiculous...
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I think this face transplanting has been going on for quite some time. Why, as a student I would go out to a bar and go home with a beautiful stunner. But, next day her face had been 'transplanted' leaving the stunner with the face of a munter.
Are they going to use the same plunger-like technology as in Face Off, where the face just comes neatly off with a slight *ploock* sound?
Always found it quite amusing that their faces come off so easily.. I would think a slight nudge would then dislodge anyone's face...
w00t! now i can finally get my vulcan ears, bajoran nose, klingon forhead and cardassian neck.
Hmmz... I wonder where I can find a body of one of those anyway?
Ebay maybe?
sigh(h)
Yeah.. right.. I wanna kiss the lips from some dead person.. Totally sexy.
What kind of sick individual would use this procedure if it was available? And who would touch them with even a 10 foot pole if they did?
And then, it all becomes clear: Michael Jackson
... for some reason. Some of his books, Johnny Mnemonic most notably I think, have gangs that surgically alter their faces to look like animals. For example, there was one gang that had massive fangs "installed", along with complete alternations to facial bone structure and skin. Kind of weird, hearing (the second time) about this story on Slashdot, I'm wondering if we'll ever reach the point where these kinds of alterations will get cheap enough that they could be used as Gibson wrote about.
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
Have graphical depictions of nude women tattooed to your forehead and cheeks before death.
- undoware.ca
Look at Michael Jackson. It may look good at first, but eventually age catches up with you, then you could look worse than before.
The repeat is here while the original is STILL in the front page! At this rate, the duplicates will soon be posted before the originals.
The operation is to be called a 'Faceplant'
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I'd wager that Michael Jackson is going to be the first person to sign up for this procedure. :]
Now I can finally have a face trans-planted to my arse so I can speak out of it! :)
I moderate CmdrTaco down one point for posting redundant articles.
There are a thousand forms of subversion, but few can equal the convenience and immediacy of a cream pie -Noel Godin
The story is indeed a repeat but I was thinking of how cool it would be to get the goaste.cx guy's backside transplanted on someone face. Wee slits for eyes, that revolting, gaping maw...
Oh well, don't smoke my karma too badly. After all, the story is a repeat.
Trolling is a art,
YES! My Hitler halloween costume is now complete!
evil adrian
John Travolta and Nicholas Cage suddenly unavailable for comments.
8==8 Bones 8==8
This brings a totally new meaning to Shaddap your face!!!
You racist bastard.
...they can have the face aslong as I can be sure that they keep the beard!!
Does he even post anymore? I've ignored him since the second the option became available.
"steal your face".
- Organized Crime (mafia et al)
- Terrorists
- Secret Services
I would even guess some of these have already performed this sort of operation at some point, in order to go underground.Stop the brainwash
Who needs a 'brand new' dead face? Botox kills the one you already have!
Karma: Excellent (fuck, even in the future moderation doesn't work!)
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Whey Back When(tm), the /. editors were the only ones that moderated story comments. As /. became more and more popular, the sheer bulk of comments that had to be moderated increased and this task became too great for so few people to do. A critical point was reached, and moderation was given to a larger population of /. readers (ie, the current moderation system).
/.'s immense popularity. As a result, they no longer have the time to review each story as carefully as Way Back When, and are simply forced to post whatever looks n33t.
I believe we have reached that critical point now with story submission/review. I'm sure the editors are getting overwhelmed with the number of submissions due to
If something akin to the comment-moderation-by-many system were introduced for story review, say, allowing everyone with moderator points to have a look at and vote for the pending story submissions, these duplicate posts could largely be eliminated.
My $0.02
'nuff said.
I can't believe the amount of "this is a repeat!!!" posts... Mistakes happen, just when they happen here, a WHOLE LOT of people see them.
:)
this is thanksgiving, i give thanks that slashdot is here at all.
- This isn't the sig you're looking for. Move along, move along..
Sure, no problem. Problem is, no one would want it!
I've got your nose for real now?
Hey, what about butt transplants, like you know when you've pooped too much and worn it out, or if your butt is really ugly. Chicks dig a cute butt.
Taco's alot like Leonard Shelby in Memento.
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
camera
I think somebody's jealous!
The saddest part is when I consider all of the articles that I've had rejected, then I see all the duplicates and misunderstood postings on Slashdot.
If the guy's face you borrowed was on a mafia hitlist?
"No you got it all wrong wiseguy! I am not Sammy the fish! I just look exactly like him right down to the one of a kind tattto on my cheek....
Bam! Bam!.....
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
Face auctions on e-bay
(shudders)
Some faces would be better suited to making boots than to transplanting.
http://www.keithrichards.com/
It might not be funny. It might not sit well with you. It sure as hell isn't redundant!
Out.
nuff said - /.co.uk
Any nominations for replacement faces for Gore?
Please just listen. I know why you're here, pVoid. I know what you've been doing. I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night you sit at your computer. You're looking for him. I know, because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, pVoid. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question just as I did.
In my opinion, there's so much fantastic original material from artists like Poppy Z. Brite and Neil Gaiman on their website, that I don't even care how the sequels turn out. Although I do hope for the best of course and am rather excited for the trailers to start appearing...
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die!
And no Logan's Run jokes?
Maybe carousel came early this year.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
So how long do you think, before we actually see the first crime that goes along the lines of the Face Off film? Killed for there image, or forceably swapped image. And how does this impact on driving licences or passports for example. I mean with having an image on those, to check its actually you. As you know now, it is hard to tell after 5 or so years on a passport if its actually your photo or not. Esp, at younger years of life. With the odd facelife etc, wont see much difference. But with a new X X and X who knows.
--+> Life, is there any?
If they forsee a lack of face doners then I think its time to cash in.
1) Scan Face with flatbed scanner
2) eBay
3) PROFIT!
I wonder if they will offer the faces of famouse dead celebrities for auction? Now that would be a true collectible.
---- Anyone can act smart, but it takes a smart person to act stupid. ----
Quick! Somebody send the Slashdot Team some coffee! This is getting out of hand!
They've been using Michael Jackson as a human experiment for the past 10 years. I guess they finally perfected it!
I just fscked up big time.....
My girlfriend is works in cosmetic surgery, so thinking she might be interested i just fowarded the link to her. Unfortunately, she has also got a pig ugly face, and I am scared that she may take it the wrong way....
I prefer to think of this type of occurence as proof of my ability to predict the future. Why, tomorrow, I bet we'll learn to how test internet connections with sound!
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
Sex - Find It
If Slashdot used computers, they could even automate the process of checking to some extent.
Look in the corner... its a face off!!!!!
I mean they're like kidneys right? You have a spare to fall back on?
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
Well, this gives a whole new meaning to that whole Japanese "losing face" thing...
Facial features are very personal. No one will look at someone if i donate my kidney and be like "HEY, you recieved your kidney from Randall!" yeah, its just not a good idea.
"Martha Stewart can lick my Scrotum......do i have a scrotum?" -- Sharon Osbourne
Of course I know you were kidding. In fact there is no reason to give Taco (or any of the /. folks) a break. Duplicate stories suck, and despite the lame FAQ comments *would be* easy to deal with if only they could really code. But, duplicates of really really lame stories suck even more.
Beyond candy and fine kitchen appliances... ... it's time for ....
$$$ Jewelry $$$
and lots of it.
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
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"revealing the unrevealed since 2002"
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In conclusion, if you are moderating or replying to this comment, I caution you, it is 100% untrue.
--the eric krout troll
"revealing the unrevealed since 2002"
Pedantic correction time, kids!
The name of the movie is stupidly enough, not "Face Off." It is "Face/Off."
I am hideously irritated by brand logos that include punctuation and extraneous characters in lieu of letters, like those worthless tee-vee shows Arli$$ and The $treet. "H4x0r" kids are bad enough, but does TV Guide really have to emulate those "clever" little title-designs in print?
And yes, that squishy noise was pretty amusing.
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die!
I'm gonna have my face transplanted onto my girlfriends ass, so she'll always be sitting on my face!
Like any other foreign tissue you might want to integrate into your body, your immune system will fight to kill it (i.e. reject it). In order to stem this, you would be forced to take various anti-rejection meds which are notorious for having many unpleasant side-effects, even then rejection is still not guaranteed (can imagine having your body reject your FACE!?!?). Oh yeah and there is no going back if you change your mind, or if you get infected and lose the whole thing.
;)
Sign me up!
This would be interesting however, if they were to use cloned fetal tissue created from your own body, in which case rejection is a non-issue and you could look 18 for the rest of your life.
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You might get more people to take out paid subscriptions if you offered a more professional service.
"Surveys indicate that very few people are willing to donate their face. Would you?"
I would, but who would want mine?
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Bill Gates,
"Generic news for the m asses"
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You have to love the BBC. The surgery picture is a generic picture: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38516000/jpg/_
It could just as easily be for a news story entitled "Descending colon transplants from hyenas 'on the Horizon'"...
-- Terry
my face is simply configured for RAIF 1
So you have two faces? What happens when you look in the mirror? *chuckle*
This crime appears to be occurring in large cities and apparently is well known to the police community. Here is a typical scenario.
Business traveler goes to a bar after a long day at work, and while sitting there, meets a fairly attractive young woman and they hit it off.
Next thing he knows, he wakes up in a strange hotel room, he's flopped in a chair and his head is wrapped in a bandage. Written in lipstick a note on the table reads: "call 911, and don't touch your face!"
He calls 911 on the phone next to the chair. He tells the 911 operator his story; she already knows where he's going with this and in fact has already called for paramedics to race to his hotel room.
She tells him to very carefully reach in through the bandage and touch his chin. She asks if he can feel a five o'clock shadow. He does this and tells her he feels something more like steak.
The operator tells him to remain calm, stay in the chair and not to move, the paramedics are on their way. Apparently this is not another crime of organ harvesting....but this time, the havesting of the faces. Because of the demand for face transplants and the shortage of faces, there's now a flourishing black market in face harvesting.
For now this traveler is masked and awaiting his own face transplant. Lucky for him, the black market is thriving. He probably won't have to wait too long for another traveler to meet a nice looking young woman in a bar so he can have a new face.
nutter
You had this yesterday. old news
This is nothing new.
Politicians have been getting face transplants for years. There arse and faces are interchangable.
"What'd you say your name was?"
"Osama bin..errrr John."
There goes your chance for an open casket funeral...
Sola Scriptura * Sola Gratia * Sola Fide * Solus Christus * Soli Deo Gloria
Maybe they've completely automized the redaction and are now measuring how long it takes us to find out.. well guys, until the bug appears..
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
possibly the BEST halloween [lack of] mask ever?
I've heard of being off your face, but this is rediculus!
-- remove NOSPAM for actual email address -- Things are not as square as they may seem
Would you [donate your face]?
Hell no! I'm far too ugly to be donating my face. Just like people who die of heart attacks shouldn't donate their hearts and people with skin cancer shouldn't donate their skin, ugly people should not donate their faces.
Winamp, Mozilla, and now THIS?? You're gonna look might silly when your face doesn't match the remaining native widgets on the rest of your body.
So, there's hope for Michael Jackson yet!
"We shall party like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean." - HedonismBot
2004:
A trend emerges among ageing Hollywood celebrities, dubbed by Entertainment weekly as the "asian youth from a poverty stricken country" look.
2005:
LELEESHA: Shanya! I gotta go to the restroom.
SHANYA: Ooh, don't go at the mall! Wait until we get home, didn't you hear about the girl in the restroom? A girl at my cousin's school last year was found dead in a restroom, WITH HER FACE REMOVED.
LELEESHA: GET OUT!
2008:
Urban Legends III: Face the electric Boogaloo.
although Wednesday's original post is still slightly ahead in comment numbers.
it's the bone that shapes your face for the most part. That's why they can make those clay facial recreations when they find an unidentified skeleton. And that's also why Face/Off was so ridiculous...
damn I just say that snoop show on mtv(I hate it, but this was funny ass shit so I had to watch) and they had some dude get a snoop face transplant to where he looked like snoop, then he met snoop, they went to the ghetto and the real snoop started talking shit, rolled up his window saying he was gettin out of the ride, then sent the fake to get his ass beat and drove off.
also in other snoop news, check out the new Cadillac Snoop DeVille it would be an excellent ride for you people out there that are complaining about not getting laid, buy a lot of them so the price of mink(embedded into the leather seats) goes up and I can make money trapping them again
The only transplant where the donor will be better off than the recipient is a brain transplant. A face transplant is a bit like that. Anyway, at what point does the recipient become the donor?
Or better yet, allow users to moderate stories rather than just comments.
You should come over to PLASTIC then. Users with 50 or more karma (which you can generally earn much quicker than here) can moderate the submission queue which does significantly reduce repeats. Not that we don't revisit subjects where a given angle migh have been passed over before.
There's also a messaging system so its much easier to respond to off-topic posts without getting modded down. And there is spell checking for story submissions and comments.
While the choice of topics does vary from SlashDot in that there is a much smaller emphasis on Linux, BSD, the DMCA, etc. those issues do come up occasionally. And issues like this one on Face Transplants would be pretty typical of the scitech category on Plastic. But in additional there are categores for Film &TV, Music, Games (& sports), Politics, The Work (and academic) world, and a catch-all category called Etc (covering news of the weird / oddly enough type stories).
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yeah, but even after your plug, the face transplant story on plastic has only 22 comments, as opposed to the 207 comments at time of writing here on slashdot.
Maybe the repeats on slashdot are intentional and allow the many users who weren't logged on when the story was on the front page to catch up on the state of the world.
yeah, but even after your plug, the face transplant story on plastic has only 22 comments, as opposed to the 207 comments at time of writing here on slashdot.
/. only 96 have current mod scores of 1 or higher. Whereas 21 of the now 23 comments on the Plastic story are at 1 or higher (the two others being anonymous posts, not down-modded posts). I think you'll find that when price is irrelevant, quality will trump quantity every time.
Yes but of the now 212 comments on
Here on slashdot I find there is a very real price in terms of my time taken up by low quality posts - or if raise my filter, by missing potentiall good AC posts.
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A social scientist, studying the culture and traditions of a small North
African tribe, found a woman still practicing the ancient art of matchmaking.
Locally, she was known as the Moor, the marrier.
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