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Mysterious MilkyWay Warp Finally Explained?
* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us Space.com is reporting that scientists think that a collision between mysterious 'dark matter' and two of the Milky Way's nearby neighbors may be causing our galaxy to warp 'like a vinyl record left out in the hot Sun.' From the article: 'The warp is most clearly visible in a thin disk of hydrogen gas that extends across the entire 200,000-light-year diameter of the Milky Way. Viewed sideways, one half of the hydrogen disk appears to stick up above our galaxy's plane of stars and gas, while the other half dips below the plane for a bit and then rises upward again farther away from the galaxy's center.'"
* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us Space.com is reporting that scientists think that a collision between mysterious 'dark matter' and two of the Milky Way's nearby neighbors may be causing our galaxy to warp 'like a vinyl record left out in the hot Sun.'
Wow. A Slashdotter, a Slashdot "author" AND a space website conspiring to spam us...*sigh*
see my comment here in this thread.
I'm not asking much. I don't even know if Taco knows this is going on. All I want is integrity.
sig?
Wow, how about that... **Beatles-Beatles and ScuttleMonkey at it again. What a team! Coincidence? I don't think so...
No, I'm pretty sure he and his monkey got nothing to hide.
Ok, tell me what I'm missing here. The guy has a tribute site to George Harrison, with no advertising, including no google ads. The page itself has a Google PageRank of 5, so that's not such a big deal. And when I was on it, it said I was the only current visitor? So what's the big deal?
Two of those stories were submitted anonymously.
"he drew his sword Ringil that glittered like ice... and he wounded Morgoth with seven wounds..."
It's one thing if he was posted evenly amongst the other editors. Okay, fine, they're all getting scammed by him.
But, with the exception of a CmdrTaco article, every other submission from this guy is posted by ScuttleMonkey. Why is that? It's proof they just don't care anymore at this site.
This crap is why people are flocking to Digg.com. Even though the discussions there suck because of no threading (yet), it's not really different from here, and when people are scamming the front page, everyone gangs together and undiggs it to remove it!
"Sufferin' succotash."
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You make some good points, but I think you make some assumptions.
You said you've only submitted ten or fifteen articles to Slashdot in your entire lifetime. To contrast, I wouldn't be surprised if Beatles Beatles submits at least fifteen articles every week. (He makes money off of it, so it's worth it for him to spend a couple hours every week trolling the Internet for stories.) If that is the case, his success in getting articles submitted would be perfectly sensible.
That said, the fact that the person who posts his articles is consistantly ScuttleMonkey is intensely suspicious. It is possible that there are other reasons, but we are right to be suspicious.
That said, I'm not sure if we are right to care. It's not a big deal. Beatles beatles's articles are generally neat little links.
The sole function of editors at Slashdot is to prevent stuff like Goatse from getting posted. In the years I've been here (less than yours, admittingly) editors have never done anything vaguely editorial. All they do is look in the editor's queue, and post whatever catches their eye. They do not edit the posts for grammar, or check if the article has been posted before, or check if the article is true or not. They are not journalists, they are merely a rudimentary filter. Thus, until Beatles Beatles posts Goatse, ScuttleMonkey is performing his job perfectly.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor
There's a bigger question--why are you subscribed to this place? Is this spam really worth your money?
"Sufferin' succotash."
Looks like ScuttleMoney^H^Hkey still doesn't get it, as well as other Slashdotters. So, let me repost this for the thousandst time.
Interesting thing is, ScuttleMonkey seems to use some standard template for * *Beatles-Beatles submissions, since ALL of them start by: "* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us...".
So, let me repost some earlier post of mine:
Ok, let's have a look at his george-harrison.info website. Aha, maybe the links at the bottom of the page? Yes, I see: http://george-harrison.info/reciprocal-links.html.
Sooo, what may be on that page? Quoting:
Looking at the link list (just a small excerpt):
What do we learn? * * Beatles-Beatles is an ugly link spammer who uses Slashdot to increase the PageRank of his own site, on which he hosts a link farm.
HTH!
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With the disclaimer that I work at Digg, what makes you think Digg lacks what Slashdot gives you? At first I lamented the fact that Digg, although cool for its front-page articles, has really crappy comments.
But lately, when I go to a Dugg story with a lot of comments, and read at +1, I get a couple of nice gems.
Plus, Digg gives me a lot more variety. As a many-year Slashdot reader, I'm actually starting to di-- uh, like the website.
Again, I know it's kinda hard to swallow since I'm supposed to be all biased and stuff, but I swear I'm not. It took me several weeks of using Digg before I finally decided I could actually eat my own dogfood.
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Take it easy, take it easy. The deeper you troll the higher you fly. In google pagerank, that is ;)
BTW, I dont fully understand how search engine indexing works, but wouldn't everybody in this thread constantly mentioning "Beatles" and referencing their songs (even while complaining about Scuttlemonkey and spamming) increase the relevance that google attaches to this guy's link in relation to the Beatles, and rise his page up through the ranks?
Hi there Rob! been a while. You doing ok?
Dumb question: everyone says that, so why doesn't digg just run slashcode?
I am trolling
> When did this bullshit start anyway?
.goldrush
When they sold themselves to a corporate pwner, back in the
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
ScuttleMonkey and Beatles-Beatles are friends
Worse yet: I believe they are the same person.
I think he simply accepts his own submissions.
He's trying to lay low/cut back, but can't resist.
I liked my next sig a lot better
What surprises me the most is this :
But, as far as I'm able to guess there is no such validation for higher ranks of administration. Why is that readers are subjject to so much redundant checks whie the one with the most powers are left unattended ?
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