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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.
I would like to see a log-file. Is this planned?
something tells me the trolls are rubbing their hands with glee.....
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Hey, what I have always wondered about Slashdot is some of the stats and demographics of the Slashdot crowd. Not from a business perspective (although I am sure some would kill for that info), but from a purely academic perspective. Additionally, I've wondered if there is any social science thesis work behind the growth and evolution of the friends/foes dynamic of the Slashdot crowd.
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You must not use irc much.
..what ever happened to JonKatz?
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
And why no biz questions? Is this only to protect you from enbarasment, or what?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
You have linux, so that has telnet included.
:<irc name>
/NAMES:
:<message>
:<notice message>
:<new topic>
You have to use ':' (colon), if Your text contains space(s).
First things first:
telnet irc-server 6667
Then log in: (<host> and <server> is irrelevant):
user <ident> <host> <server>
Choose a nick:
nick <nickname>
Since You have to answer the server;s PING manually, you'd better know it:
pong <irc server>
Join to a channel:
join <#channel>
Ask for
names <#channel>
Send something to the channel or to a nick:
privmsg <#channel/nick>
Leave if You are getting bored:
part <#channel>
You can send NOTICE this way:
notice <#channel/nick>
Let's change the topic:
topic <#channel>
Good luck!
It's valuable to hold a scheduled live event, but not everyone can attend. Could someone (official or not) please capture a log and post it for others to read (and flam... er, respond).
My own question would be why no technical aids have been implemented to avoid reposting articles ("has this URL been posted in the past X time?"), offer basic grammatical assistance (highlight the article via pipe through aspell or better), or assist Editors in other obvious ways. If I used slash for my own projects, I'd offer help, but I don't use slash. Someone ask. :)
And by "business questions," are you saying you won't talk about NYT &partner=SLASHDOT?
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I'm sure I'll end up sleeping through it (sleep schedual is a bit off currently), but I'd love to know why they never publicly announce when/what they change? Many users would love if there were a slash.slashdot.org or something to just post storys whenever slashdot.org syncs with the newest slashcode, whats changed, etc.
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
... that this will be a huge troll/slashdot hater fest? The few voices who actually want to talk will probably be drowned out. But good luck anyway.
you take slashdot way too seriously.
sincerely,
everyone else
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
I don't think anyone doubts slashcode's technical scaling merits; so for a high-traffic web site the main issues are scaling financially.
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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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.
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.
1.) Why do any negative slashdot comments automatically get nailed with a moderation of -1 redundant or overrated?
2.) If you want a moderation system that is open to the public why the hell do you let editors have unlimited mod points?
3.) Why can't we edit comments after posting (and have it posted in the subject (chg'd) or something like that)?
4.) Is there a plan to have "staff meetings" or something of that nature to try and prevent dupes and maybe having some articles with more content.
5.) Besides book reviews and the Late Jon Katz it seems the "read more" link is pretty much useless, is slashdot ever going to have some type of "meat" to their content?
6.) Google has no legal recourse for caching, why don't you do it?
7.) Ever thought about contacting link'd site administrators before killing their servers by a front page story and then getting charged for bandwidth?
8.) Most websites go through a "layout" change every couple of years, the "slashdot style" has been pretty much worn out, especially with not being w3c compliant, any changes in the future?
9.) Ever thought about publishing all stories in a public bin where the users decide what makes the front page? Like when an article gets 100 "post points" it is then sent to the front page where it's live and ready for commenting on?
10.) Have any of you ever thought about maybe bringing on some "professional" journalism type people? Someone who knows how to write the news and doesn't abuse the editor function as a place to put comments (michael comes to mind).
11.) You all ever think maybe this is getting a little old and it's time to get out?
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Dude, it totally says 8pm EASTERN in the article header, and like stuff :)
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A Music Section!
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As I have mentioned before -
With 250,000+ /.ers out there, I think we benefit the artists who have decided that the RIAA is NOT for them, and also make our voice heard.
If it was made available to subscribers only, that might be enough to make me go for a subscription (of course, since I thought of this great idea - I should get a free pass, or edit the damn thing.)
Rock Me, I'madumbass! I'madumbass! I'madumbass! ... I'madumbass! ... I'madumbass!
OhOh, I'madumbass!
I'madumbass! I'madumbass!
If nothing else, I'm looking forward to the opportunity to see Taco spell on the fly. :)
So is it 8pm EST? or 8pm EDT?
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Sorry can't be there so I'll just ask here. When will slashdot be reachable from ipv6? ipv6.slashdot.org works but it points to a ipv4 adresse. Couldn't find any AAAA records with dig :(
For those in the UK, it should be on at 1am tonight.
Cmd_taco and Hemos will be talking about their relationship............as lovers
Face it, some editors (michael) constantly put up wild, hysterical headlines with their own two cents in the story that concludes the world is coming the an end. Isn't that the definition of flamebait? You guys are essentially baiting users to read and respond, in a very Enquirer/NY Post way.
Why is trolling from the editors less worse than trolling by the users?
And it seems to have gotten worse lately. Just look at the Red Hat story today.
In short, don't you think you guys should follow some set of standards or professionalism?
SIG:Slashdot: indymedia for nerds.
as has been repeated many times, this is not a global site. it's an US site run by people in the US. Hemos and company are from michigan (originally), which is in EST. if they want to use it, their choice.
/me apologizes for the flame
While I agree that it would have been nice to have utc for those in other countries, I get sick of people bitching at the american websites for thinking in familiar terms. Ever notice how they list stuff in terms of USD? that's cause that's what they have in their piggy bank.
Quit being so fricking politically correct- I hate people that pull that crap.
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Most of the links on Slashdot point to places on the site Google is forbidden from crawling by robots.txt. As a result, only the few items Google catches on the main pages, plus pages linked elsewhere, end up in Google. Try searching for some of your old stuff. I bet you don't find a lot of it. Google should also allow journals to be indexed.
Can we get the ability to have different settings depending upon whether we have mod points or not? For example, I normally read at +2, highest scores first, but when I have mod points I read at +1, newest first. It's annoying to have to change those all the time.
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I agree that a lot of posts that are merely disagreement, sometimes with cogent argument behind them, get moderated as flamebait, etc., and this is not corrected nearly often enough in metamod.
I have never dared submit anything conneted to stuff my geekfriends work with here in Boston, because i don't want to see them slashdotted. Fix that, get more off-beat interesting stuff.
I won't be able to attend, so i redundantly request PUHLEEEEZE post the discussion the next day....?
"I'd say 'Have a good time,' but arson is still illegal.
One thing Ive often wondered about regarding the development of HTML was : Why did nobody, not MS, not netscape... nobody ever implement a time tag extension. ie some thing like this
<time timezone="UTC+8">
13:00
</time>
Then the broswer could just translate it into the readers timezone automagically.
And as has been stated many times before, you only think it's not a global site because you live in the US. /. readers are actually living outside the US. Showing UTC is not being "politically correct" - it's being helpful to all those people who don't know and don't care what EST is.
A poll a while ago showed that around half of
I'm one of the folks that got $rtbl'ed for modding up the forbidden post awhile back. As a result I have never gotten moderation rights and metamoderation went away. About two months ago or so, metamoderation came back, but I still have never gotten moderation rights, so I assume I'm still $rtbl'ed.
Was some code changed that $rtbl'ed users can now metamoderate, or is this a bug ? How are $rtbl'ed users worthy of metamoderation rights but not moderation ?
Tired of being "punished" by the Slashdot $rtbl since 2002. I'm now over at http://soylentnews.org/ .
I'm not going to be able to make it to this tonight (whenever "tonight" is for the editors, it's going to be really late in the night here), so could someone please bring up the following:
1. Congratulate the editors on finally cutting down on the number of dupes posted - it's been ages since I've seen one.
How has this been acheived: via technology or a more human factor?
2. Ask the editors when they plan to:
i) start checking story submissions for basic spelling and grammar errors;
ii) start checking that the actual stories aren't well-known hoaxes;
iii) start editing the story titles so that they are more easily found via searches (eg, a chess story should have some chess reference in the story title, rather than being called "Man Last Stand vs Machine" or whatever); and
iv) start offering bittorrents straight off the bat when it's relevant (eg, a story on a new movie trailer being made available for download, latest patch for a popular game, new distro launch).
3. Ask the editors to update polls more frequently.
Now that ChrisD's left, polls seem to linger well past their sell-by-dates. Chris said once that he posted new polls after x number of days or y number of votes, whichever came first. If I remember correctly, x was about 3-4 and y was roughly 25,000-30,000, so the recent poll about "Favorite fictitious drink" went on for far too long (7 days, nearly 60,000 votes). I'm sure some sort of automation could be used here.
That's it really.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I'll ask two questions.
1) what's with the dupes?
and
2) what's with the dupes?
Most people know which time zone they're in (as in GMT+/-x, personally I'm in +8), but if you're not an American, have no idea when "8pm Eastern" is.
And I know that you don't care; so we can just leave it at that.
I'm not quite sure where this would fit in (server, HTTP protocol, browser, ???) or if it already exists and just isn't widely used...
.. *cough*v4l*cough*) that have NO mention of date on them. I have read through howtos that refer to a 2.0 kernel patch... and I don't know if just the patch is irrelevant, or the whole piece of software (again, *cough*v4l*cough*).
But I am *really* tired of going to webpages (particularly linux HOWTO pages
Wouldn't it be nice if webservers would timestamp a page and say when it was last modified, and the browser would show that date?
no comment
There's a bug that affects me when I'm logged in, where the full number of comments that should display does not display, and the totals of how many comments are at each score level are wrong.
/. a complicated process, as I have to log in to see all the stories I want, pop them in new windows, then log out to grab the full set of comments.
So, since I normally read only score-5 comments, it can say "12 of 500 comments", I click thru to the 12, and only 5 get listed.
So I have to erase my cookie, go to the story without being logged in, and I'll see that in fact there were 17 or 20 score-5'ed, and then it will list them all. (And I'm not lowering any scores in my preferences.)
This makes reading
I reported this into the bugtracking system quite some time ago, and CmdrTaco closed the ticket saying it was a known issue, part of a larger problem that was being worked on.
What's up with it?
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