World's First Tree-sitting Weblog

An anonymous reader writes "Amit Asaravala over at Wired News has an interesting article up about the tree-sitters in Humboldt County. Apparently a bunch of tech activists from the Indymedia Center are setting the tree-sitters up with an 802.11b network so that they can blog about all the logging going on up there. Seems like a pretty interesting way to use technology to help the environment, which isn't something you see everyday."

Comments

Just think...

[dirvish]

Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of trees with hippies in them? Wow!

Replies To Troll FAQ

[Anonymous Coward]

Continuing the tradition of unearthing historical documents that have, until now, been lost to the mists of time, I present you with the original replies to the original Slashdot Troll FAQ, all from the previous millennium. I will be working hard to unearth, collect, and archive historical documents for the sake of preserving them for future generations of trollers.

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Dear God! (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on 09:05 AM March 16th, 2000 CST (#817)

You're more verbose than I am! I never knew that about you :)

I'd like to get my two cents in; mainly, I don't agree with your characterization of those who get trolled, for two reasons: (a) I've been trolled myself more than once :) (ask 70%), and (b) I just don't think of it as an adversarian relationship; they may sometimes be a bit clueless, but they're helping to make my troll a success and I'm grateful for that. Much of what I write is a "what's wrong with this picture" puzzle, and if so, I can hardly fault people for solving it, can I?

Another thing is that responders don't always spout conventional wisdom; in fact, I'd describe the libertarian/capitalist and misogynist RWMs as an exaggeration of conventional wisdom, at least the kind on Slashdot. The goal there IMHO is to get people to agree! You've also got people like the ones who explained the Quaker faith and the AFSC in my recent FBI troll: How many Slashbots know the AFSC from their elbow? Not many. There was a real need to inform people there, and I was hoping somebody would. The fact is, I meet a lot of nice, sensible people (nicer and more sensible than me, anyhow :) who respond to my trolls, and most of them are good sports about it when I tell them I'm a troll.

I'm also not comfortable with the "elite" thing. IMHO we should try not to congratulate ourselves too much. This gets back to the "adversarial relationship" thing, I guess. I'd like the tone of the FAQ to be more "letting them in on the joke" than "ha ha, sucker".

Next: Cri de coeur should be italicized, dammit! :)

Lastly: I dig the "ritual reaction" thing, but I couldn't parse the rest of that riff about metaphor and metonymy at all. IHBT? :)

--80md

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Re:God help us all ... (Troll FAQ) (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on 08:11 AM March 16th, 2000 CST (#815)

destined to become a classic. when this is completed, i would post it nice and prominently on a few innocent, unsuspecting stories. with a link to it, wherever it finds a home. i can put it on my server... just email me the exact html you want to use and be sure to sign it.
-osm

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teeheehee (Score:2)
by gnarphlager on 06:46 AM March 16th, 2000 CST (#812)
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God I needed something this morning. This works ;-) Much giggling was heard from my desk.

Anyway; give me some time, I'm sure I can add my two cents. I'm sure we're ALL going to mirror it on some webpage somewhere, but as for here on /., we can pass around maybe sid=trollfaq or even the more arrogant sid=faq ;-) Of course, we'd have to "refresh" it every two weeks, but it's better than nothing ;-)

I feel the desire to use the expression "gateway drug".

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Excellent! (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on 05:37 AM March 16th, 2000 CST (#811)

Now that rules! It needs to be posted somewhere where people can see it once it's completed. I'll definitely keep a copy on my website. Anyway, some more points to add:

Should I "feed" my trolls?

Feeding trolls needs to be done to people who outright flame your troll or who ask loads of dumb questions in an attempt to be reasonable. The longer their reply is, the better it is to reply to them. And if they get moderated up for their vacuous party-line response, troll them again :)

Anyway thanks for an amusing and (5, Insightful) read (or is it (-1, Offtopic)?) and I'll look foward to the finished version.

-- spiralx

In Soviet Russia...

[ekephart]

You ISR people are amateurs. You've got it all wrong... In Soviet Russia TREES CLEAR CUT PEOPLE.

Note: some "wacky" trees sometimes climb people and log people's habits, ironically on paper.

Discussion Board

[goldspider]

I'd love to see some kind of message board on that site (Slashcode?) where people could express their support and ideas about the treesitting, as well as engage in discussion.

But of course they won't do that because these kinds of groups are very unreceptive to criticism and debate. Trolls aside (and what message board doesn't have trolls), I think they would find that their cause and methods are not as accepted or supported as many of them believe.