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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.
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.
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 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.
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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