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Testing the Five Second Rule

Posted by michael on from the lun-cha-wa dept.

V_M_Smith writes "Have we been wrong all this time? Is the Five-second Rule only a myth? My world view is shattered!"

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  1. 5 dulication rule? by lostindenver · · Score: 4, Funny

    Must every thing be duplicated 5 times?

    1. Re:5 dulication rule? by Momomoto · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, but you do have to wait five seconds before posting the dupe, or else it's still good.

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    2. Re:5 dulication rule? by geggibus · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, but you do have to wait five seconds before posting something dupe, or else it's good.

    3. Re:5 dulication rule? by capnjack41 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh, THAT's original.

  2. In my house... by GypC · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... the 5-second-rule is that the dog has 5 seconds to eat dropped food before I pick it up and eat it myself.

    He knows this, and usually manages to snatch the morsel before it even hits the floor.

    1. Re:In my house... by GypC · · Score: 2, Funny

      You are so wrong.

      I don't have a beard.

  3. Testing the 20 second rule. by Tom7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The 20 second rule on slashdot says that any post you can write in 20 seconds must not be worth posting (unless you reload a few times until the time is up!)

  4. Slashdot 5 second rule by phamlen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot shall not post a duplicate of a story until at least 5 seconds has passed?

  5. The real reason for the duplicates by narratorDan · · Score: 4, Funny
    The reason is, and this is the real scary part, that each duplicate story contains a secret message for a anti-US geek terrorist cell bent on destroying the Christian capitalist imperialism of the infidel west.
    To read the messages you compare the two (somtimes three) duplicate stories and ROT13 the output. This is from the two five second rule articles:
    The countdown to the next Windows web worm outbreak has begun.
    SoBig.G ready in 5 days. Praise Allah
    'Course, the repeat stories are between repetitive stories of SCO 0wnz-u x.x, MS Evil 1.4beta, RIAA molests little girl, etc, etc.
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  6. Other Rules by mopslik · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still awaiting scientific analysis of the "he who smelt it dealt it" rule.

  7. Re:Yet another dupe. by Molina+the+Bofh · · Score: 2, Funny

    With all these dupes, it could well be called Slashslashdotdot

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  8. Ok, dupes can be cool by Alizarin+Erythrosin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Last time this story was posted, I got a Score:5, Funny...

    Mods, go to work :-)

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  9. +5 Funny by barakn · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you want karma points and weren't worried about plagiarism, you could just search through this dupe's original story's discussion for the highest rated comments, and then repost them here and pretend they are your own. Unless all the moderators are on crack and hand out mods randomly.

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