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Forbes Lists Top Corporate Hate Web Sites
windowpain writes "You've seen them. Maybe you've made one, like Walmart-blows.com or Paypalsucks.com. Now Forbes.com has a 'Special Report' devoted to what it considers the best of them. 'The following nine sites--there were ten, but one went unexpectedly dark during the editing of this story--are the crème de la crème of online rage. Note that we substantially cleaned up some of the posts, editing out odd capitulation schemes, iffy grammar and plain incoherence. Apparently blinding anger does not go hand in hand with dotting your i's and crossing your t's.' Maybe this will become an annual thing like the Forbes 400 and the Fortune 500." (I wonder what a capitulation scheme is.)
I wonder what a capitulation scheme is.
They probably meant "odd capitalization scheme." YoU THiNk, hUh?
Actually, at first I read it as "odd copulation schemes," which makes a lot more sense, doesn't it? * fp
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
That's what that last site that went dark did..
It's really a multi purpose hate site, hating so many things/companies. This list was more directed to sites that hated a single thing/company.
My company isn't listed yet......wait I mean (cough couch big brother) WHEW, my company isn't listed yet.
how come there's not a 'forbes-sucks.com'?
I didn't notice an SBCsucks or an SBCblows. That's weird, because SBC really really sucks. Well, at least they did until one of their technicians accidently cut power to my high school. I love you, SBC! *Goes to register ilovesbc.com*
Take off every sig. For great justice.
To honor these quixotic champions, we spent hours trawling the Web looking for the very best corporate hate sites.
There's this great anti-Microsoft website that I visit, now and then.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
Anti-slash.org!
The site is outrageous. Apparenly a bunch of -1 posters got together and set it up. I think it's meant to be funny more than an attempt at serious criticism.
Depends on the product, I guess. Saying that a vacuum sucks would be a compliment. So it blows. For a similar reason, a badly broken hairdryer sucks...
If Microsoft ever made a product that wouldn't suck, it would be a vacuum cleaner!
I guess this is the point where jokes about France start, or *cough* viet nam *cough*.
Treat me like a marketing stat, and I'll treat your movie like a series of ones and zeros
Perhaps one day Slashdot will steal some of those editors and do that with submissions - well, it's a dream anyway
Get paid to search..It's geniune and
I interviewed at UPS and we did a tour, a monitor fell off a conveyor belt. Everyone heard the tube pop, and the crash of glass, but one of the employees just tossed it back as if nothing had happened.
That sucks, but the person that shipped these monitors should have put them in boxes.
Here before all but 8486 of you.
"What's really pathetic is not Verizon but this sort of lame Web site..."
This is as almost as good as T-Mobile saying last week that "The silver lining of this Paris Hilton thing is it is an opportunity for customers to take further steps to protect their data."
Yeah, to 42,003 after a few Slashdot readers actually read TFA ;)
An "odd capitulation scheme" might go:
1: Set up corporate hate website
2: Demand payoff to comply with corporate "Cease and Desist" order
3: PROFIT!
4: Go unexpectedly dark during editing of Forbes article about you
This is not to be confused with an "odd capitalization scheme", except by your shady accountant.
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make install -not war
Reminds me of the old joke:
Well, it's sort of a joke....
They bag on the sites for using poor grammar and yet, first paragraph in, we get this little gem:
"But while your average disgruntled consumer simply vents their bile by bellowing at a bewildered service rep, a few go farther. Much farther."
Farther? Much farther? In my native language, we'd use further. Oh, and I speak English. You do have to appreciate the writer's use of syncopation though, bile bellowing and bewildered are nearly poetic in that sequence.
Excting even though they are unreliable? Is that because you get all excited not knowing if the steering wheel will work while driving a 4000 lb. truck 75 mph on a freeway with a turn coming up?
Stop Global Warming!
Just say no to irreversible processes!
On a related thought, I was considering buying some $400 HP or Dell piece-of-shit, loading AdAware and SpyBot on it, then taking screen captures of all the crap these programs find on these boxes before they're even hooked to the Net. Then post these results to a web page for my customers to see. Unfortunately, if I mentioned that I got these results on an HP or Dell, or whatever, I'd be litigated into the dirt. My pockets are nowhere near as deep as theirs.
My gripe is that these companies pre-load stuff like Wild Tangent and other gems, give you a Recovery CD (and only if you are thoughtful enough to ask for it, most are not), and do NOT give you a real copy of Windows so you can take it down to bare metal (format c:, reinstall) the second you get it. (And yes, I use Linux, but some people still won't go near it, justified or not.)
I'm still going to do this, unless somebody else out there already has (?), but say something like: "Screenshot of AdAware on a virgin (rhymes with Hell) computer." Or something similar for HP or other mass-market computer company.
Reminds me of the comedian who, in his act, was saying something nasty about an insurance company, and he wouldn't use their name explicity, but he said instead, holding his hands cupped together palms up: "...but I thought I was in good hands."
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
If you're using two AA batteries, it's overdesigned. One AAA ought to do the trick.
A lot of it has to do with tone. If you take a somewhat original but firm stance which sounds intelligent enough to get somebody agreeing with you, you will be modded up. Look at the page a few days ago on the Harvard acceptance letter scandal. Lots of people took the very un-Slashdot opinion that the students who followed an unpublished URL deserved to get canned. They were modded up, because they spoke calmly and sounded intelligent.
They also masked a moral argument as an intellectual one, which seems to help these days.
Also, respond to the first thread. If you're not near the top of the page you're less likely to be read by a moderator who shares your opinion. Don't respond to the middle of a thread... only to the first or last comment in a string. People don't read the alternate middle comments.
And I may get modded down for saying this, but saying you may get modded down for saying something just doesn't draw the mod points like it used to.
Your post won't be moderated as "Offtopic" if you add "-OT" to your subject line. Feel free to try this with "Flamebait."
These days, Simpsons quotes need to be longer than 6 lines to really draw the freebies.
CmdrTaco and friends are a lot less likely to use the beatdown stick for talking about Slashdot. For some reason, talking about Slashdot draws mod points too. But don't draw too many, or you'll be Offtopic.
The first rule of Slashdot is that you don't quote Fight Club.
The second rule of Slashdot is that you don't quote Fight Club.
Goatse and In Soviet Russia are so old that some people haven't even heard of them. Take advantage of this fact.
Recycle previous posts that have been moderated up.
Make humorous light of other poster's spellings, or use witty misspellings in your posts. I don't know why, but for the past few months the moderators seem to have B.S.'s in English.
Punctuate your remark with one unashamedly unmasked swearword. But use only one, otherwise it's just too much of this shit.
And, of course, if you can say something because you have actual information or insight to share, that's good too. But let's be real, this is Slashdot.
Did I mention that Slashdot bashing works too?
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