LotR RotK Premiere Today In New Zealand

donnz writes "Things are getting a little out of hand in Wellington today. For those of you who have not spent the night sleeping on the sidewalk CityLink have been wiring up webcams all over the place. Keep up with all the news and links on Stuff.co.nz. Just to show we are twice blessed, the sun is shining."

Comments

Hmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

MY Slashdot troll post investigation(fp?)

[Anonymous Coward]

The last few months I have been doing some research into the trolling phenomenon on slashdot.org. In order to do this as thoroughly as possible, I have written both normal and troll posts, 1st posts, etc., both logged in and anonymously, and I have found these rather shocking results:

• More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up. Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
• Logged in people are modded down faster than anonymous cowards. Presumably these Nazi Moderators think it's more important to burn a user's existing karma, to silence that individual for the future, than to use the moderation system for what it's meant for : identifying "good" and "bad" posts (Notice how nearly all oppressive governments in the past and present do the same thing : marking individuals as bad and untrustworthy because they have conflicting opinions, instead of engaging in a public discussion about these opinions)
• Once you have a karma of -4 or -5, your posts have a score of -1 by default. When this is the case, no-one bothers to mod you down anymore. This means a logged in user can keep on trolling as much as he (or she) likes, without risking a ban to post on slashdot. When trolling as an anonymous user, every post starts at score 0, and you will be modded down to -1 ON EVERY POST. When you are modded down a certain number of times in 24 hour, you cannot post anymore from your current IP for a day or so. So, for successful trolling, ALWAYS log in.
• A lot of the modded down posts are actually quite clever, funny, etc., and they are only modded down because they are offtopic. Now, on a news site like slashdot, where the number of different topics of discussion can be counted on 1 hand, I must say I quite like the distraction these posts offer. But no, when the topic is yet another minor version change of the Linux kernel, they only expect ooohs and aaahs about this great feat of engineering. Look at the moderation done in this thread to see what I mean.
• Digging deep into the history of slashdot, I found this poll, which clearly indicates the vast majority does NOT want the moderation we have here today. 'nuff said.

Feel free to use this information to your advantage. I thank you for your time.

Re:MY Slashdot troll post investigation(fp?)

[Anonymous Coward]

I found that +5 Interesting.

But my opinion doesn't count!

This can't end well...

[Deaper]

Having a live stream get /.ed is never a good thing for servers. I'm a /. subscriber and the server already started it's downward spiral before the story went live.

FastTrack

[shift82]

I'm starting up giFTd tonight :D.

Wizards by Ralph Bakshi

[handy_vandal]

I just hope someone does a parady of this shitfest soon.

It's been done, kind of: Wizards by Ralph Bakshi.

-kgj

Re:Big deal!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now this is the sort of thing where I really wouldn't mind if the responsible parties if are bent over and repeatedly violated by the MPAA's lawyers.

Re:Big deal!

[Anonymous Coward]

Retards. Thank you for giving the MPAA some very juicy ammunition.

Who the fuck is more stupid, you or the MPAA / RIAA? Right now, you are.

Re:Bugger Australia!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok, but I don't know what you're planning to do with Visual Basic...