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Give the Gift of Slashdot

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the getting-on-the-beg-train dept.

It's time to blatantly plug a recent addition to Slashdot's Subscription System: just in time for the holidays, you can now give a subscription to any other user. You have the choice to give your gift anonymously, or take credit for your fabulous selfless generosity. If that isn't enough, we still have assorted Slashdot Merchandise available at ThinkGeek... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.

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  1. Sure... by jargoone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Get 'em hooked, then they'll have to keep joining, once they see that the banners have once again quadrupled in size!

    1. Re:Sure... by dtfinch · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Members see ads too. We just get to suppress 1000 of them for $5. Though some pages always have ads.

      A nice benefit of membership is being able to see new articles an hour or so before non-members, allowing you to see sites before they get slashdotted and prepare a well thought out response before the comments page fills with didn't rtfa nonsense.

    2. Re:Sure... by magarity · · Score: 5, Funny

      and prepare a well thought out response

      Cool, so when can we expect to start seeing these?

  2. If we give the gift to "Anonymous Coward"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do we all get a cool account to use?

  3. Giving Slashdot Access by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: 5, Funny
    Can I pay to have certain moderators taken out of the pool? Can I pay to get certain people put into the moderator pool?

    My checkbook is open Mr. Taco - all you have to do is give me the answers to write you the dollars.

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  4. Give the Gift of Slashdot... by santiag0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    and never have sex with your girlfriend again.

    1. Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... by winkydink · · Score: 5, Funny
      You have sex?

      You have a girlfriend?

      You are obviously new here. ;)

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    2. Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... by The+Snowman · · Score: 5, Funny

      and never have sex with your girlfriend again.

      Giving a Slashdot subscription is like getting married?

      No, I'm not bitter...

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      24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
    3. Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... by tmark · · Score: 5, Funny

      I just got married and I can tell you it's not stopping me from having sex with my girlfriend.

      Just don't tell my wife.

    4. Re:Give the Gift of Slashdot... by Anonymous+Cow+herd · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't know what you're talking about, I subscrubed to slashdot and I have plenty of sex with your girlfriend.

      :-)

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  5. The gift of Slashd? by Lev13than · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give the Gift of Slashdot(ting)

    Funny, when I first read the headline I thought it meant you could buy a service to crash someone else's server....

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  6. Laundry! by nullard · · Score: 4, Funny

    The more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.

    Don't fall for this! I now can't do all of my laundry, because I have no place to store my last dozen t-shirts. They are sitting on a chair right now. I started buying more clothes without looking at the volume of my dirty laundry. Now where do I store this stuff? Anyone want a t-shirt?

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    1. Re:Laundry! by milgr · · Score: 5, Funny
      Don't fall for this! I now can't do all of my laundry, because I have no place to store my last dozen t-shirts. They are sitting on a chair right now. I started buying more clothes without looking at the volume of my dirty laundry. Now where do I store this stuff?
      Perhaps you need more chairs.
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      Where law ends, tyranny begins -- William Pitt
  7. Of T-Shirts and Laundry by Doesn't_Comment_Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    If that isn't enough, we still have assorted Slashdot Merchandise available at ThinkGeek... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.

    Not to mention that once you own enough t-shirts, you can start a pile in the corner. As you remove a dirty t-shirt, you through it on top. When you need a new one, you take from the bottom. The weight of all the t-shirts on top pressure cleans the ones toward the bottom. Once you acheive a critical mass of t-shirts in your cleaning queue, you will never have to do laundry again.

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    Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
  8. Re:just to keep plugging... by B3ryllium · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... extracted from the rare wool of sheep-like Slashdot Moderators ...

  9. Subscription Question by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: 5, Interesting
    If I were to subscribe, would my Slashdot user name then be tied to my name and address? I know that AC comments are tied to subscriptions if you post them while logged in but how does the billing information and the user data tie together.

    I think this is a fairly important question and would like to see an editor answer it. If user names are then tied to name and address by subscribing, count me out.

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    1. Re:Subscription Question by akedia · · Score: 5, Informative

      If you pay by Paypal they only can see your e-mail. Since you're not paying for a product that has to be delivered to a residence Paypal doesn't include your address in the transaction. It's a part of Paypal's privacy guidelines for payment of services.

    2. Re:Subscription Question by I8TheWorm · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yeah, but PayPal makes it publicly known that they are quick to turn over personal info to agencies, even without a search warrant... not to mention companies that "help them with marketing to banks.

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  10. Do you take e-gold? by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'll only subscribe if I can blatently troll and have unlimited karma!

    Oh, and a complimentary First Post to sweeten the deal!

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  11. Ironic! by h4rm0ny · · Score: 5, Funny


    I bought myself a subscription basically because I read /. so often that I wanted to help out. (Other than with my witty and insightful posts, of course).

    And then I found that it blocked all the ads! This is the one site I've EVER visited that I find the sponsors interesting!

    Oh the irony!

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  12. Re:just to keep plugging... by Davak · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those that don't know...

    It's 1000 pages for 5 dollars.

    i just see a bunch of geeky kids now sitting on Santa's lap trying to explain to him what slashdot is...

    Merry Christmas All.

    Davak

  13. Who wants to be my slashdot sugar daddy? by a!b!c! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everytime I get the chance to moderate, I will bestow apon you as many points as I can.

    I will honor and support you in any flame war.

    During times your times of good karma, and bad karma,
    through a dialup or in broadband
    I will be there to post by your comment.

    Till the subscription runs out...