Build Your Own Arcade Kit

Shawn Walters writes "Xgaming, Inc., has announced availability of the new X-Arcade BYO Arcade KIT, a $60 solution designed to allow users to create an authentic arcade machine in their home powered by any PC, Mac or game console, no advanced technical skills required." Heck of a lot easier than building your own.

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Re:Slashdot: Advertising

[OldMiner]

Slashdot is known to "bitchslap" (via a perl script of the same name) people who are openly yet honestly critical of the site or the editors. If I use any of my accounts I'm just asking to AT THE VERY LEAST be modded down for going against the flow on this site. I've already had other posts of mine in this thread modded down (as well as up, but only once).

You're referring to this script which you can read in the CVS. It hasn't been used in years. You would know really well if you were bitchslapped because every single one of your comments would have its score manually set to -1 and your karma would instantly be "Bad". /. editors have a few better things to do than bitchslap users.

But, anyhow, posting AC does not separate you from your comments or your actual accounts. To prevent trolling and crapflooding, the MD5'd IP of posters as well as the MD5'd subnet is stored with comments. It would be trivial for editors who wished to do so to associate a given AC with posters from the same site, unless you're using multiple proxies that don't happen to get picked up by Slash.

But, yes, such paranoia is totally unncessary. As I relayed in my previous comment, either this site is run properly with ethics or it's not. If you believe the former case, there's no bloody reason for you to be hanging around, because of all of these evil editors and mean old Tacos are out to get you. If the latter is the case, such covert attempts are at best naive and whimsical. Further, if the latter is the case, you're likely just getting modded down by other more moderately minded users of Slashdot, such as myself.

Unfortunately, I don't think I'm communicating that last point well, because you totally read past it in your response above. The last two paragraphs of your response indicate a fundamental disconnect. Do you disagree or simply not understand what I'm saying here?

OldMiner wrote:

Slashdot continues to be run in many ways like the hobbyist site it was originally.

AC wrote:

No, it's much worse than it was. I've been here since 1998. It was a hobbyist site then. It isn't now, given the OSDN-now-OSTG sponsorship.

Just because the site was bought up by OSDN doesn't mean the place is run differently. I'd appreciate any evidence to the contrary. Heck, if your presumption that the site is "a geek circlejerk" is correct, it would indicate that the site is more the same hobbyist, small time affair it's always been.

elevating those that agree (moderation) and filtering out those who are GENUINELY dissenting (not trolling).

Those of us who came here and stayed, stayed because we liked what we found. Those of us who moderate, moderate the way we think is correct. Any community is going to be self-reinforcing, including this one. So, yes, if you scream against the status quo, you will be modded down unless the quality of your posts is above par. If you want to criticise what most others think is working just fine, it would behoove you to not be an ass about it. It would behoove you because you're trying to convince everyone else here that they're wrong, and you're right.