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11-Pound Model Plane Vs. The Atlantic, Again
Luap Nanreffeh writes "Last year, (/. Story 1, /. story 2) Maynard Hill and some retired NASA buddies tried to set a record for flying a model aeroplane across the atlantic ocean (from Newfoundland to Ireland). Their plan, using GPS, onboard controllers, and a gallon of gas, would have been the first to cross the Atlantic under FAI rules. They didn't have much luck last year, but now they're at it again. The first launch should be tonight."
And that's .. part of our world.
Frist.
Good job!
Yahoo has another article too.
but then again, I am a super hero and I can teleport across the world with my very mind, so it's not really that big of a deal for me.
also i have a hot girlfriend named kathy and she sews my costume and my penis is really big, and everyone totally loves me, whereas you suck.
This is version 0.61 of a troll HOWTO, sort of a companion piece to jsm's excellent troll FAQ. As a draft, comments and criticism are always welcome, if not appreciated :) Next to come in version 0.7, sections on karma whoreing, conning the Slashdot
users in to clicking your links, and how to beat those crapflood flamebaits
such as GNAA to the punch. If you would like to work on the ./ Troll HOWTO,
please by all means modify it as you see if, please post the new version of
your howto as Unoffical until I can come and pick it and merge the the two together.
Make sure to make your version a minor release, as I will be incharge of posting
all new major releases.
Section 1 - Trolling techniques
There are techniques used by successful trolls to elicit the maximum amount of responses from unthinking /.ers. This section is dedicated to explaining
how to use these in the course of your trolls. Remember though, a great troll
can break any or all of these and still be successful...
* Timing
Because you're posting as an AC, your troll will generally be ignored in favour of posters using their accounts, and so getting in early is essential. A good guideline is to get into the first 20 posts, so that people reading the article will see the troll before it is swamped out. One way of increasing the speed with which you get your troll into play is to prepare them beforehand, and then quickly customise them for the current article. This is easier than it sounds since /. typically repeats stories with small variations and runs lots of similar
stories.
Note that this is why Jon Katz stories are pretty worthless as trolling material - by the time you've found the article and prepared a troll there's already 50+ posts on it, most of them flaming Jon Katz anyway :)
* Exposure
Once you've got your troll in, you need people to actually read it. You also want replies - /.ers are more likely to read your troll if it starts a large
thread. You also want to remember that some people have set their comment thresholds
to values higher than 0 - to get the attention of these you either want to get
your post moderated up (see Style, below) or get a reply which gets moderated
up to 4 or 5, in which case your troll becomes visible to all.
* Accounts
An alternative to the time-honoured tradition of AC trolling is that of creating a troll account. This gives you the advantage of posting at 1 rather than 0, and slashbots are more likely to take you seriously, especially if you at least sound reasonable. If you do this, try to avoid posting stuff where it is obvious you're a troll under the account - post it anoymously instead - some slightly more canny readers actually check your user info before they reply. Not many though :)
The ultimate goal of the troll account is to secure the +1 bonus, which is currently received once you hit 26 points of Karma. To get there, employ the techniques of karma whoring that we see every day on /. and watch the karma
roll in. And of course once you get the +1 bonus, the world is your oyster in
terms of /. Posts made at a default of 2 hit even those people with the threshold
of 2, are more likely to get moderated up even further if they are at all coherent,
and people tend to lose their critical thinking abilities in the face of the
+1 bonus. Milk it for all it's worth.
* Layout
To get people reading it a troll needs to be easily readable. Make sure you break it down into easily digestible paragraphs, use HTML tags where appropriate (but always make sure you close them properly) and use whitespace appropriately.
* Size
Generally a troll shouldn't be too sho
Goddamnit, don't make the /. code start reverse DNS'ing IP's. That's the IP of goatse.cx, I learned the hard way. Icccck.
noooooooooo.. the whore troll is back
Slashdot banned my IP, but I only randomly seem to get the pink screen of death. I even seem to be able to post.
no contest. you whoreabull georgewellian fuddites best get ready to see the light.
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. vote with yOUR wallet. that's the spirit.
how many fauxking phonIE billyonerrors do we need anyway? back to remedial math for 'adults' eye gas.
the daze of the Godless payper liesense hostage ransom execrabull is dissolving into coolapps/the abyss.
(a) Flying an 11-pound model aeroplane across the Atlantic.
or
(b) Sex with a mare.