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iCE's Modern Version Of Old-Fashioned Quilting Bee
Ant writes "tiles.ice.org is a Web site with a cool art idea as a tribute to Salvador Dali. It is iCE (remember ANSI art, you old school computer users?)'s answer to the old-fashioned quilt party, minus the gathering of elderly women. It's a unique opportunity for collaborative artwork on the net. A huge image, composed of individual 'tiles' is created, one piece at a time. The goal when making a tile is to mesh your work as smoothly as possible with the surrounding tiles, while creating something cool, artistic, and if applicable, on-topic. Check out the finished sample. I love the ants in the quilt tiles!"
For literally years, the "editor" "michael" has been splattering his moronic influence all over this website. Now, if Slashdot were some dipshit site without any effect on the online world, that'd be all well and good, but I and I'm sure you too would agree that as editor of the most popular "News for nerds" website, michael has a responsibility to us. Amongst the many things that michael has done are:
The list goes on and on. michael must go. Slashdot's not that great as it is, but he's just dragging this place down all the faster. What can we do? Taco ignores all emails about his beloved $20K-a-year staff; he trusts michael more than the opinion of his beloved readers. Taco won't do a thing unless we can hit him where it hurts - in the pocket.
How? Simple. Taco relies upon the insightful-sounding commentary that this site occasionally produces. (You'll notice he doesn't go to the trouble of modding it up himself - he leaves it to us!). Without it, people stop visiting and Slashdot becomes unprofitable. So, here's what to do if you want to oust michael and force Taco to fix Slashdot:
Burn that karma!!!
Trolls of trolls. You don't get this. We make jokes that you're sure to miss. LOL at LOL, Rolling on the floor. Laughing or Crying? You ass-ruined whore. This troll's so meta you choked on a chip. Toomuch ranch dressing, you slant-eyed nip. Go back to Everquest and pretend you're a girl. T4C, we're the royalty of trolls. Kings, dukes and earls.
Is Slashdot too good for the truth?
"What a dweeb. Say, if you don't like /., how about you just go away? "
Uh huh. And people wonder why "good enough" and mediocrity dominate the world.
Anyway people "going away" is happening. Is that what you want? Are all the people who actually want slashdot to improve "dweebs"?
Like I said years ago and I'll say again. Slashdot is a victum of it's own success. The people who actually gave a damn about this place and made it what it was left around 2000.* That mostly leaves those who don't really give a damn about this place, and will live with the mediocrity, and leave with barely a twing of conscious once their apathy has sucked the husk dry. And apparenty managment agrees with the mindset.
*Don't have to take my word for it. Read some of the old stuff, and compare it to now.
Posted as AC.
For all those who care, let's mail CmdrTaco (Rob Malda) about this -- his email is maldaATslashdotDOTorg. Slashdot is deteriorating into something that is apathetic towards its users, making money for plagiarists and doing little if anything about it, and sponsoring a hack like michael.
To the politically House... pathetic. Trying to dissect Rans0m for their of OpenBSD. How play area Try not In eternity...Romeo If you move a table W00t real problems that
Well, actually if /. has a zombie network of their own they could try a little DDoS test before the posting. ;-)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
How did an offtopic flame from an anonymous coward get modded up so much?