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I did not get the first post .. bummer ;-)
I really HAD another userid
WMD scientist's death rocks British government
Now BusHitler/Blair are killing their critics!!! The one person who knew WMD were bogus has been assassainated!
Yeh, a pretty stable OS.
Sure, back in Win9x/Me the OS was utter crap. But it's pretty damn stable now, so long as you don't have sh!t hardware or use bad drivers.
Little robots in your pants - I'm sorry, but all I could think about was Bill Clinton... ROFL!!!
"Dockers recently came out with a new brand of pants, the Go Khakis, which promise to keep your legs stain-free using revolutionary nanotechnology."
You are pandering to the Lowest Common Denominator. Bless you.
How does moderation work?
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Moderators can not participate in the same discussion as both a moderator and a poster. This is to prevent abuses, and while it is one of the more controversial aspects of the system, I'm sticking to it. There are enough lurkers that moderate that, if you want to post, feel free.
Moderation points expire after 3 days if they are left unused. You then go back into the pool and might someday be given access again.
Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. Likewise, agreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it up. The goal here is to share ideas. To sift through the haystack and find needles. And to keep the children who like to spam Slashdot in check.
Answered by: CmdrTaco Last Modified: 6/19/00
Do Editors Moderate? The Slashdot Editors have unlimited mod points, and we have no problem using them. Our moderations represent about 3% of all moderation, and according to Meta Moderation, the fairness of these moderations are either statistically indistinguishable from non-admin users, or substantially better. The raw numbers are: 95.1% of non-admin upmods are fair, and 94.7% of admin upmods are fair. 79.1% of non-admin downmods are fair, and 83.6% of admin downmods are fair.
The editors tend to find crapfloods and moderate them down: a single malicious user can post dozens of comments, which would require several users to moderate them down, but a single admin can take care of it in seconds. This tends to remove the obvious garbage from the discussion so that the general population can use their mod points to determine good. Otherwise, a few crapfloods could suck a lot of moderator points out of the system and throw things out of whack.
You can argue that allowing admins unlimited moderation is somehow inherently unfair, but one of the goals of Slashdot is to produce readable content for a variety of readers with a variety of reading habits. I believe this process improves discussions for the vast majority of Slashdot Readers, so it will stay this way.
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Kill the White Man
A real bleeding-heart liberal thinks Jesse Jackson is white, and that Howard Dean might as well move to Idaho and start stocking up on weapons.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
As my story submission got rejected, I think this is a good opportunity to mention this New Scientist article. It's news for nerds who release early and release often.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.