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Wikipedia Reaches Half a Million Articles
Faraaz Damji (frazzydee) writes "The English Wikipedia has reached 500,000 full-length articles. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia collaboratively edited by thousands of users worldwide, and the article count has been increasing every day. Thanks to all the users who make it happen, especially the ones who put in hours every day writing to make this invaluable resource that we all love."
That's like... 500,000 articles!
teh weks verry2 louve u... weks get fisrt pos???/
wakekekekeekeke \@O@/..!!
Must be a slow newsday.
/., so who knows...
But then again, this is
Someone care to explain this moderation?
This seems like an un explored area - surely many of hte people who use the wiki would like a table of the best cd rates , updated, say daily. The problem of how to compile a list of CD rates is formidable, as there are hundreds, if not thousands of banks (most of which almost alwyas have low rates) not all of which have online rates, and there are "specials"
OK... but what that 'pedia article have to do with the CUNNY CRUSHING SIZE of my EARTH SHATTERING cock?
Slashdot trolling phenomena
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Slashdot trolling phenomena make up a large subset of the bizarre and complex subculture found on the popular technology website Slashdot. They are a mixture of juvenilia, sarcasm, deliberately bad jokes, tasteless nonsense and highly developed and artistic attempts to provoke outraged responses from other forum users, or amuse them. Slashdot trolling is a subset and a microcosm of Internet trolling in general. Some of these behaviours are usually considered to be more offensive or insightful than others. On Slashdot, many of these phenomena have become the object of parody.
Slashdot trolls can generally be divided into four categories: disruptive, offensive, deceptive, and idiosyncratic. Disruptive trolls are those which intend to disrupt the normal flow of things on Slashdot, either by decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio or by causing the pages to render incorrectly. Offensive trolls exist for the sole purpose of offending as many people as possible. The purpose of deceptive trolls is to trick people into either following a link or reading a comment which seems legitimate but is actually a troll. Idiosyncratic trolls are those which are specific to Slashdot and have elements of Slashdot culture and history in them creating, in effect, an inside joke.
Contents [showhide]
1 Disruptive trolls
1.1 Crapflooding
1.2 Page widening/lengthening
2 Offensive trolls
2.1 Homosexuality and racism
2.2 Anti-semitism
2.3 Nationalistic insults
3 Deceptive trolls
3.1 Karma Whores
3.2 Article text alteration trolls
3.3 Web vendor referral trolls
3.4 Signature trolls
3.5 Movie spoiler
4 Idiosyncratic trolls
4.1 First post
4.2 The Pink Syntax
4.3 Netcraft confirms it
4.4 Stephen King is dead
4.5 First Obituary
4.6 Hot grits/Natalie Portman
4.7 Roland Piquepaille
4.8 Reigniting flamewars
5 Minor Trolls
6 See also
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Disruptive trolls
The purpose of disruptive trolls is to cause the pages of Slashdot to display in an undesirable way or to otherwise bring attention to themselves. The two major categories of disruptive trolls are crapflooding and page-widening.
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Crapflooding
Crapflooding is the posting of many nonsensical or gratuitously offensive messages in order to disrupt the normal functioning of Slashdot and annoy its users and editors.
Later versions of the software behind the Slashdot website had an updated lameness filter to prevent posting of the same message more than once. However, crapflooders began avoiding this restriction by varying the content of the message after each post. Crapfloods can be performed manually with a dedicated user repeatedly clicking through the posting options each time, or automated by a piece of software. Automated crapfloods are -- not surprisingly -- larger, more effective and more frequent. The subject of crapflooded messages varies. Some examples include:
* Offtopic stories
* Pornographic/Homoerotic sex scenes with the names replaced with those of the slashdot editors or open source celebrities.
* Incoherent nonsense that contains the correct letter frequencies so the lameness filter recognises it as vaguely English.
* Offensive Base64 encoded images or text.
Warning, potentially offensive external links:
* An example of crapflooding (http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=49515&c id=0&pid=0&startat=&threshold=-1&mode=thread&comme ntsort=0&op=Change)
* Another crapflood example (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=100381&thresh old=-1&commentsort=0&tid=118&mode=thread&cid=85561 86)
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