IRC Forum w/ CmdrTaco & Hemos Tonight at 8pm Eastern

Tonight on irc.slashnet.org in #Forum Hemos & I will be hanging out answering users' questions. This is your chance to ask about the moderation system, story selection, or the technology upon which Slashdot is built. (No Biz questions please ;) It's been a long time since we last did this, and we're hoping we can answer questions and get some feedback on some new ideas too. We'll see ya there.

Comments

Re:Will there be a cyber session after?

[Anonymous Coward]

You must not use irc much.

dear sir,

[SweetAndSourJesus]

you take slashdot way too seriously.

sincerely,
everyone else

Re:The question I'll ask if I'm around...

[Agent Green]

But the more important question is... ...who really gives a shit?

Duplicate Session?

[Lawrence_Bird]

will there be a duplicate session on IRC tomorrow night too?

Any bets on....

[Torqued]

how long it will take to /. the irc server? :)

Re:Log-File?

[Niles_Stonne]

We'll see a log file...

Then the next day we'll see another log file...

Then it will be cross-posted in YRO, and games.

Then it will show up in Features.

Duplicate selection process?

[donutz]

This is your chance to ask about the moderation system, story selection, or the technology upon which Slashdot is built.

I've noticed that not all stories on Slashdot are duplicates. How do you choose which stories to duplicate (and triplicate, and possibly in some circumstances quadricate)?

Thanks!

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Re:Help!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm vaguely aware of the acronym irc but how would one participate in this, specifically? I'm on a Linux box if that makes a difference.

apt-get install BitchX Then run: "BitchX username server" OK, I'm a dummy.

Oh, I missed this. You'll need to replace apt-get install with urpmi.

Doing it twice?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you going to dupe this again in a couple of days same as you do with most of the posts you make Taco?

And WTF does "tonight" mean? are you some kind of omnipresent being that is in all time zones at once???

We aren't all in the Q continuum you know.

It's a fake!

[FurryFeet]

Disregarg that. It's obvious Slashdot has been hacked, and the story is bogus.
How do I know? Read it. Proper grammar, good ortography, even a well-place apostrophe after the word "users". There's no way in hell Taco wrote this.

Re:oh dear-Feel the heat.

[Anonymous Coward]

" something tells me the trolls are rubbing their hands with glee....."

That's not hands, I'm afraid.

This should be good

[inc0gnito]

If nothing else, I'm looking forward to the opportunity to see Taco spell on the fly. :)

Re:This should be good

[Anonymous Coward]

I know there've been a lot of spelling errors, but come on..."on the fly" is two three-letter words and a two-letter word...he's bound to get one or two of the words right.

If I were you, I'd think up a phrase that's a bit more challenging.

Re:The question I'll ask if I'm around...

[Stephen Williams]

Maybe someone could write a long, pontificating article on the subject. "Searching for JonKatz in the Post-Columbine Neo-Hellmouth" or something.

-Stephen

annoucement

[Anonymous Coward]

Cmd_taco and Hemos will be talking about their relationship............as lovers

Re: How to telnet to irc

[Black Parrot]

> Leave if You are getting bored:
> part <#channel>

If you're a crummy typist and accidentally type -

fart <#channel>;

does everyone else leave instead?

Re:Bad timing, but..

[evilviper]

What would be the point in that???

Slashcode/Slashdot Merge News

Thu Jun 12 09:15 2003: Merged to get new design change to games section... Something got fucked up.

Thu Jun 19 10:18 2003: Merged to get new friend/foe improvements... Something got fucked up.

Thu Jun 26 05:27 2003: Merged to get new moderation system improvements... Something got fucked up.

Thu Jul 5 8:02 2003: Merged to get new friend/foe improvements... Something got fucked up.

Etc...

Thu Nov 31 10:11 2004: Merged to solve all the problems we've had for the past 2 years... Expect things to be fucked up for the next few weeks.

How?

[grub]

How do I log into this IRC thing via the AOL InterWeb? My screen name is l337h4x0rzzzz@AOL.COM thanks

Re:Log-File?

[Gordonjcp]

It will be posted 47 times on /. over the next week.

In fact, that would be a good question - ask them over and over "Why are there so many dupes?"

2 questions

[smeeze]

I'll ask two questions.

1) what's with the dupes?
and
2) what's with the dupes?

Re:Stats and background

[Realistic_Dragon]

This is Slashdot - most people will just answer 'Jedi'.