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Touch Screen Voting Trouble in Florida
usn2fsu03 writes "Here we go again with
another election controversy in South Florida. Touch screen voting was used in a State House election that was won by twelve votes. Unfortunately, there were 134 people who went through the process of checking in to vote, but either did not vote or cast a vote that was not counted. Without a paper trail it is anyone's guess as to what those voters' intentions were. Obviously, there is work to be done in the Election Supervisor's office before November comes around."
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Slashdot trolling phenomena
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Slashdot trolling phenomena make up a bizarre and complex subculture found on the popular Slashdot technology website. It is a mixture of juvenilia, sarcasm, deliberately bad jokes, tasteless nonsense and highly developed and artistic attempts to provoke outraged responses from other forum users, or amuse them. It is a subset and a microcosm of Internet trolling in general.
This is a list of some of the trolls which may be come across when browsing Slashdot comments. Some of these behaviours are usually considered to be more offensive or insightful than others.
Links to example troll comments are provided for each category listed here at the bottom of the article.
Table of contents
1 Disruptive or offensive trolls
1.1 Shock sites and shock content
1.2 Homosexuality
1.3 Racism
1.4 Crapflooding
1.5 Page widening/lengthening
1.6 Reigniting flamewars
1.7 Article text trolls (aka copy and paste trolls)
1.8 Article text troll-on-trolls
1.9 Web vendor referral trolls
2 Recurring, off-topic jokes
2.1 First post
2.2 Natalie Portman, naked and petrified with hot grits
2.3 *BSD is dying
2.4 Beowulf cluster
2.5 Stephen King is dead
2.6 Business plans
2.7 IN SOVIET RUSSIA
2.8 Movie spoiler
2.9 Get Some Priorities
2.10 Sycophants
2.11 You insensitive clod!
2.12 You must be new here!
2.13 YHBT. YHL. (FOAD./HAND.)
2.14 The Chewbacca Defense
2.15 Personal assaults on Slashdot editors
2.16 Offtopic stories and nonsense
2.17 Miscellaneous
3 Troll organisations
4 External Links
Disruptive or offensive trolls
Shock sites and shock content
A popular technique amongst Slashdot trolls is to post links to "shock sites" in order to annoy and offend other readers by tricking them into following the links. This is often accomplished by posting the link under the guise of being another link to the article or a rebuttal to the article.
A variation on this theme is for a troll to accuse a legitimate link or comment as being a link or reference to a shock site. In some cases this can have the desired effect of a genuinely insightful comment being moderated downward. Another technique is to embed a shock site link in a comment that otherwise appears relevant to the discussion, in the hope that unwitting moderators will mod up the post. The Holy Grail of this type of troll may be to slip a story submission containing a "shock site" link past the Slashdot editors. This situation occurred in July, 2003 when a disgruntled webmaster configured his server to redirect to a shock site when the HTTP referrer was Slashdot.
One particular "shock site" which is overwhelmingly preferred to others is Goatse.cx. This has spawned a large number of other references such as ASCII art of its signature image (hello.jpg) within a square border, and with a derogatory word written inside the anus of the man in the picture.
As a result of this trolling technique, the Slashdot team introduced a feature which appends the domain name a link points to immediately behind that link in every comment to make disguising links more difficult. (e.g. "Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]") When this was implemented, people used mirrors and CGI redirection scripts run by Yahoo!, Slashdot or other servers to circumvent this measure.
'Penis bird' trolls and related trolls were a common variant, where an ASCII art representation of some offensive image, often related to shock sites (in this case a crude ASCII representation of a bird perched on an erect penis) is posted in the body, with a nonsensical or provocative subject line. A link to the original image of the penis bird is given below.
Homosexuality
Homosexuality is one of the most versatile and so common trolling devices utilised. In its simplest form it may be used on its own in the form of a homophobic insult or as a feature of a pornographic troll featuring common Slashd
I'd love to reply to your questions about my policy BUT you've marked me as a foe and therefore it would appear you don't value my opinion - so what is the point?
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.