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Friendster Fights Fakesters

jerkface writes "Matchmaking/personal networking site Friendster is experiencing a 'problem'. Unruly individuals like John Locke, Socrates, Alf, and many incarnations of Jesus Christ are trying to take over the site, according to SFWeekly.com. For a few months, the 'fakesters' were mostly tolerated, so long as they didn't offend anyone with the images they posted. Fakester profiles exist claiming to be famous people (alive and dead), cities, buildings, abstract concepts, and - increasingly - Friendster CEO Jon Abrams. Abrams is now saying they're all going to be deleted because they ruin the site. Fakesters argue he's stifling the full potential of the site, and many people report that 100% genuine profiles have been deleted in the recent campaigns against fakesters."

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  1. And this is important, why? by AndroidCat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sounds like the usual net tempest-in-a-toilet.

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    One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
  2. Son of a bitch, FINALLY: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've had this comment prepared for several hours now, and I've gotten a first post and an early post carrying my message of Jewish superiority, which I admit is tangential at best to the whole Friendster issue. However, there is a legitimate question as to whether or not Jon Abrams is a Jew - and if so, if he is living up to his cultural heritage? Therefore, please mod this post to +1, Interesting.

  3. morons set badtoll on georgewellian fuddites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Gnome 2.4 changelog. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Gnome 2.4, the desktop environment you have waited for, sucks more than 2.2 did. We advice you to install kde 3.1.4 from CVS until gnome 2.5 comes out. The following features will NOT be present, despite your constant whining
    • The new file dialog
    • The Galeon web browser. We chose January6 instead, because who wants tabbed browsing except you jerks. Look at mozilla, and you will see why we choose this lovley netscape 2 clone.
    • We will make file extration harder, because we don't want to waste space on the context menu. We have removed "Extract here" and you will now have to go though 5 menus to avoid going into the console and typing tar xjvzfcaq file.tar.gz.
    • We have made panel configuaration harder. Instead of an intuitve size dropdown with small large ect we have repaced it with a harder to use spinbox. This is beaucse the sizes upset stallman because we didn't have his trouser size in it so we replaced it. Have fun taking 20 clicks instead of 2. PS we removed the cute goat logo in the about box, now you have to look at the foot!
    • We will STILL not be including a media player, sure you can reboot into windows or play with mplayer from the command line. Why because our media libray sucks and we don't want to use a superior implemnetation.
    We have included some features, but they only did it because you were willing to suck havoc penningtons cock!
    • We added fake cmyk support in the gimp. Sure it LOOKs like it, but when you try to prepress or print it will look like monkey shit
    • We added a better weather applet, but it won't work on rainy days
    • Wanda the fish actually looks like a fish now
    • We added a menu editor, but when you use it you have to reboot for the changes to take effect
    • We made the gnome-terminal compatible with emacs, but you will need a czech keyboard to be compatible with the obscure keybindings.
    • As usual, we took more options away from the prefrences dialog and hid them in gconf where they belong
    Please send all complaints, complements and gay porn to havocpennington@gnome.org Thanks, posted by a disgruntled gnome user and developer.
  5. HELP I NEED KARMA YOU FAT COCKSUCKER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whore

  6. What the weather like on you homeworld? by Trespass · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moderation is broken.