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How to Spackle and Plaster a Black Hole

Posted by timothy on from the looking-forward-to-humorless-vitriol dept.

Phil Shapiro writes "With the recent reports about a lab-made black hole, it's useful to go over the directions of how to spackle and plaster a black hole. You can complete such projects in one weekend, but you wouldn't want to spackle and plaster a black hole every weekend."

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  1. Ever notice.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Ever notice how humour articles usually don't work on slashdot? By "don't work" I mean "fail to generate any interesting discussion".

    The standard internet forum response to an article of this calibre would be to post a single line comment such as "LOL" or "That's a cool link. thx." The standard slashdot response will be a few, very nerdy jokes that no will bother to moderate because they aren't particularly funny (like most of slashdot humour). Lack of moderation leads to few posts rising above a 3 threshold (which is probably the sane minimum for browsing slashdot - even with my severe -2 extra-moderation for "funny" posts). With few posts above a reasonable threshold, few people will bother to post/read/browse the subject and it justly dies a dismal death.

    Proposed solutions:

    1. Don't accept joke articles, they're just worthless clutter
    2. Editors edit the article to make it relevant
    3. Submitters take the time to make the post more than a single link joke (see metafilter for how to turn a sorry joke with a single link into a slightly less sorry joke with a link for each word.)

    None of this is going to happen - just me having my whinge. I currently read at +4, but even that's getting tedious these days.

    Looking for more intelligent discussion...