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How Well Do You Estimate?
A random UK blogger has published a quiz asking readers to estimate various numeric values which they may or may not have knowledge of; and has analyzed the resulting answers to determine how well people guess. The first part of the results looks at some specific questions, and the second part takes a look at the quiz overall.
Since the Slashdot effect is so powerful, why doesn't Slashdot offer a section for posting full copies of spam mail, with headers.
The true source IP can be extracted and listed as a special bulletin complete with a link to said IP address. When all the slashdot readers try to connect to the trojaned server, it clogs up the pipeline for the ISP and MAYBE they will get a clue that something is wrong. Meanwhile, that's one less system spewing out mail for a while.
Or better yet, subtitute the IP address in a banner ad or graphic. That way, the calls to the trojaned servers are automatic.
"We give him about a 50-50 chance of living... and of course, there's only a 10% chance of that."
Why did WTC 7 collapse?
To get to the other side?
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
I got 7 of 12 :)
You will never "find" time for anything. You must "make" it.
Those are all good karma whoring advice points, but I don't think they do too much damage to the system. It keeps away the worst of the trolls.
I worry about a WhoreBot which uses Eliza-type mechanisms, and pulls text from highly-moderated comments in similar discussions (perhaps from dups) to create high-karma accounts with no human intervention. The owner could then do ugly things with mod points, post offensive things with the +1 modifier, and generally make a real nuisance of himself.
Not to mention moderate offtopic posts like this mine into oblivion.
Alternative 4. Make a good joke about the comment you have chosen.
I found that the +5 funny is the easiest way to go up quick (if you can be funny, of course).
Estimate : will this post be modded funny, or interresting ?