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First Impressions Count in Website Design
Andy King writes "Web designers have as little as 50 milliseconds to capture the interest of potential customers, according a new report by researchers at Carleton University. Through the halo effect, first impressions can influence subsequent judgments of website credibility and buying decisions."
I could tell in less than 50 milliseconds as well....
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to get the first post, which I'm sure I've missed
It's not a dupe, it's a Hat trick ...
Three times this article in frontpage in less than a week ...
my first impressions tell me this is not just a DUPE but a TRIPE!
In other news, Slashdot readers needed 50 miliseconds to realize that this is the third time this very same history is posted.
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Stop it.
bad repeat, bad!
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trupe ?
...you have a whole 50 seconds for them to take the page in as it loads.
This article has been around so many times I have now thought of something to post against it.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
I remembered that I had already read this story: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/1 7/0342224
I don't complain about dupes, but this is ridiculous. I have to wonder if this is a sick joke. A third time? I don't even pay and I feel like demanding my money back...
Web Users Judge Sites Instantly
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/1 6/05582441 7/0342224
First dupe: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/
Yes, it's a twofer.
150ms and counting for this article...
I'm expecting CmdrTaco to post a dupe of one of his "letters to slashdot" soon.
Read reviews of shopping cart software
It takes less than 50 milliseconds for Slashdot editors to post the same article twice!
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
A triplicate ...
(too early for jokes about 50 milliseconds, judging dupes, etc. etc.)
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Man i've been reading Slashdot for 4 years now, and I still can't tell its shit.
:)
How strange, I think I read something similar recently: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/1 7/0342224
See http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174167 &cid=14489210
So here's a dupe of a comment that tells you to dupe comments in dupes.
that to realize this is a dupe of a dupe. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/1 7/0342224
Yikes, is that a record? I knew it was a dupe within 50 milliseconds.
dominionrd.blogspot.com - Restaurants on
You know this idea that people make judgements in the first 50ms before you can really gain a conscious impression of it (though probably something flashes in your subconcious) remind me of one of the entries in the "Dangerous Ideas" article in Edge Magazine in which Nobel Prize winning biochemist Eric R. Kandel argues that much of what we call "free will" is processed unconsciously without awareness:
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_5.html
Interesting read for sure.
Will wank off Linus Torvalds for fame.
Just 50ms to make an impression is very short, so Slashdot just does the logical thing; they're giving it 150ms!
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
the Carleton University web site must be impressive :)
hilarious
How much it takes to look at previous accepted news in editors mind to see if it has been accepted before?! Where is thier brain cells, are theey all, "We are down here!!!"
A dupe here and a dupe there....
And pretty soon you're talking *real* repeats!
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Turns out I just wasn't paying enough attention the first two times this was posted.
Here, you can test your 50ms reflexes using this page
Task Mangler
big time :-(
50 milliseconds huh?
Here's my list of things that almost guarantee that I'll leave your site behind, never to look back.
1 - Music - Your taste in music is not mine. Your music sucks!
2 - Pages that don't load - It's usually the page that looks like it has exactly what you were searching for too!
3 - Pages that don't contain the information "as advertised" - you know the ones...you click on a link and it goes to some search page that tries to reset your home page.
4 - Pages that are more banner ad than web page - Get over it. No one wants to see that much advertising. 5 - Anything that blinks - Thank god the W3C deprecated the blink tag
6 - Anything that demands I install a plug-in for "the user experience" - espeically those stupid cursors 7 - Anything that spawns pop ads
8 - Anything that doesn't present easy to read and use navigation (www.thetrueagency.com/true.html is a prime example of this)
9 - Anything that doesn't have a sufficient amount of contrast between the text and the background.
10 - Anything that uses more than 5 different fonts on the same page - Its a web site, not a comic book.
11 - Sites that redirect to another redirect - We get the idea that you move - a lot.
12 - Anything that uses more than 6 colors on the same page - It looks like a circus barfed on your page.
50 milliseconds? A twentieth of a second? No human can react to something that passes as quickly as 3 frames on a 60Hz television.
first impressions can influence subsequent judgments of website credibility
"You're everywhere. You're omnivorous."
Good for us with AD- Wait, what's that? Ah, crap.
Seriously, do you think this is some Andy Kaufman prank where many members of the public are the victim and the only people who find the joke funny are the moderators? It's just getting silly now.
http://www.frenchgeek.com/
How many Slashdotters does it take to point out a dupe? Look above!
Wrong on both counts. You're not first (remember: you've only got 50 nanoseconds to get a frist psot in...).
And it's not a dup either... it's a trup!
EVERY REPOST IS REPOST REPOST
Perhaps the answer to the problem of teenagers dropping bricks from motorway and railway bridges is to sue Tetris.
Well, even though the original was a +5, we can't call it karma-whoring because it's posted anonymously...
This had to be on purpose. They're taking the piss with us. No one is that incompetent. They're having a joke at our expense, so just let it ride
to realize that all of the replies will say 'this is a dupe'.
To realize this is a dupe took only 8 milliseconds.
Watch out - you are being manipulated! This tripication was a deliberate ploy to sell products! Did anybody notice, that after opening the article, you had a sudden overwhelming urge to buy products that you had never even considered before?
If you examine the source code carefully for this web page, you will see that Cowboy Neal is flashing messages at you the whole time you are viewing the article, presenting each one for 50 miliseconds.
Cowboy Neal was depending on the fact that everyone will read this page to see what everybody has to say about an article being posted for yet a third time in as many days.
Yeah, where is Master Chief when you need him to blast away dupes (and their incremental variants) as well as the frickin reduntant posts announcing the fact that the article is a dupe (or variant)?
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I've read Slashdot three times this week. Yes... I don't read Slashdot as much as I used to ...
and the same f*&^%$%%^^&&***ing story has been the top story each effin' time
Seriously, I have never seen a tripe before!
Has this ever happened before?
What about a quadrupe?
A quadrupe, now that'd be something!
See for example
http://www.literature.org/authors/carroll-lewis/t
Off topic, but by now no one cares.
No, that would be a story that would be posted 6 times!
Well, not that it won't happen, the week isn't over yet...
I just need Taco to re-post and it's bingo!
...what shall we talk about?
Ahh, timeless classic.
damned cowboys you just cant trust them to do the job right.
I Predict A Riot
A quick search of the below url...d s
1 7/03422241 6/0558244
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=50+millisecon
and you get these too:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/
Prolly will be reading the same article next week. oh well...
You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance.
...it only takes Slashdot editors 50 milliseconds to forget each story they post.
Taco - have you been at the pills again?
Smile, it confuses people
the second time i saw this as the top story the second story was something DRM related (i think) and i thought, that's odd, slashdot hasnt been updated for a couple of days... now i'm wandering if i'm stuck in some kind of causality loop
If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.
Note that the original article was published in Nature. Appears that the submitter is simply trying to boost his own website up.
Editors quit smoking pot and do your jobs!
dupe
Dupey dupe dupey dupey dupe dupe dupe!
Dupey dupe dupey dupey dupe dupe dupe!
Dupey dupe dupey dupey dupe dupe dupe!
dupe dupe dupe dupe dupey dupe!
*cue horn*
(geez, can I attempt comedy without the compression filter too?)
READY.
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I think there is an echo in here... in here... in here....
count when looking for DUPES as well.
Well, my first impressions of this site were what kept me coming back so much, but it's these last impressions that're keeping me from visiting this site again. Seriously, is it that much effort to READ YOUR OWN WEBSITE and make sure you don't post the same things over and over again?
Do not read this sig!
Congrats!
"I know this story's already been duped, and you've made submitter links 'nofollow', but here's a submission linking an optimisation site - you know you can't resist those..."
50 milliseconds huh?
Here's my list of things that almost guarantee that I'll leave your site behind, never to look back.
1 - Music - Your taste in music is not mine. Your music sucks!
2 - Pages that don't load - It's usually the page that looks like it has exactly what you were searching for too!
3 - Pages that don't contain the information "as advertised" - you know the ones...you click on a link and it goes to some search page that tries to reset your home page.
4 - Pages that are more banner ad than web page - Get over it. No one wants to see that much advertising.
5 - Anything that blinks - Thank god the W3C deprecated the blink tag
6 - Anything that demands I install a plug-in for "the user experience" - espeically those stupid cursors
7 - Anything that spawns pop ads
8 - Anything that doesn't present easy to read and use navigation (www.thetrueagency.com/true.html is a prime example of this)
9 - Anything that doesn't have a sufficient amount of contrast between the text and the background.
10 - Anything that uses more than 5 different fonts on the same page - Its a web site, not a comic book.
11 - Sites that redirect to another redirect - We get the idea that you move - a lot.
12 - Anything that uses more than 6 colors on the same page - It looks like a circus barfed on your page.
How about a search facility for key words of an article to spot dupes before they're posted? (could return a list of posts with a "dupe likeliness factor" for each to be scanned by the poster before hitting the button)
There is certainly no evidence that subminimal messages, which seem to based on something similar, work.
/.'ed I have no idea what is quoted there.
I like to see the research report first hand myself. Seeing the linked site seems to be
For all we know, this "on-topic" comment is a dupe, too.
7 &cid=14489311
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17416
tehanu said:
You know this idea that people make judgements in the first 50ms before you can really gain a conscious impression of it (though probably something flashes in your subconcious) remind me of one of the entries in the "Dangerous Ideas" article in Edge (slashdot had it as a story a short while ago) in which Nobel Prize winning biochemist Eric R. Kandel argues that much of what we call "free will" is processed unconsciously without awareness:
willeh "said":
You know this idea that people make judgements in the first 50ms before you can really gain a conscious impression of it (though probably something flashes in your subconcious) remind me of one of the entries in the "Dangerous Ideas" article in Edge Magazine in which Nobel Prize winning biochemist Eric R. Kandel argues that much of what we call "free will" is processed unconsciously without awareness:
To be fair, he/she added, "Interesting read for sure." Insert usual karma whore comments, etc. here.
I wonder if we all submit this link as a story (several times each?), will /. editors finally get a point?
I could tell in less than 50 milliseconds as well...
I am trolling
What amazes me most, is that people keep submitting stories that already have been posted before. It's not that I don't think the editors should read the site more often, but the people that submit stories should know about them too, right?
i also suspect that "Andy King" person submitted the dupe on purpose to get a higher ranking for his own page. Not that there's anything wrong with linking to your website, but you should at least use an original story, not submit old crap...
I guess posting something that was on slashdot before gives you a better chance to have it submitted...
That's Crap (Score:5, Funny)
by Cobralisk (666114) on Monday January 16, @07:00AM (#14479755)
This article is obviously rubbish
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Re:That's Crap (Score:4, Funny)
by malsdavis (542216) * on Monday January 16, @08:13AM (#14480000)
Indeed, it reads just like all those "employers decide whether they will employ you in 50ms" studies.
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Re:That's Crap (Score:4, Interesting)
by Crayon Kid (700279) on Monday January 16, @03:33PM (#14481515)
Now let's talk about how we recognize ad banners in 50ms and shut them out of our vision.
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Duh (Score:5, Interesting)
by Lord_Dweomer (648696) on Monday January 16, @07:02AM (#14479762)
Well, let me be the first to say "Duh, of course we do."
Having all this information at our fingertips is awe-inspiring, yet completely useless if we can't sort through it properly. That's why companies like Google and datamining companies make so much money.
As society and people evolve to adapt to the new technology, we build our "defenses" against bad information. We have so much to go through that unless we are able to filter out bad information that quickly, we'll never get anywhere. Not to mention the fact that in this day and age of spyware/adware, plagiarism, virii and big brother everybody needs to lea
That they want to remind us about it every other day. I suggest a separate section just for this piece of news. We seem to keep reading about it anyway.
I say, if it's not a joke, shame on them for being improfessional. If it were a joke, shame on them for being ignorent and not considering the costs the others have to pay (for getting slashdotted, paying bandwidth cost, etc...).
This is (at least) the second time this has been duped in the last week... I mean, the first time it was funny, with the vague irony of it only taking 50ms for a story to be duped on Slashdot, but now it's just sad...
OK, we get it already - people make up their minds about websites rather quickly... I assume the same goes for /. Let's hope it doesn't get judged too harshly!
Christopher Harrison
thesecond time i saw this as the top story the second story was something DRM related (i think) and i thought, that's odd, slashdot hasnt been updated for a couple of days... now i'm wandering if i'm stuck in some kind of causality loop
After 50 milliseconds looking at the page, I made a nearly instantaneous judgement to leave the site.
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Please do not post any further comments about this dupe. Otherwise CmdrTaco will cry. Moderators, please mod 'Offtopic' any comments about dupes. Otherwise he'll have to post another editorial.
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This is the third posting on this report. We heard you already!! On a more serious note, I find this report to be absolutely correct. Just yesterday a collegue and I were browsing a site looking for captive domains names (after reading the sex.com item). pythagore.com (the French pronounciation and spelling of Pythagoras) has the worst design, look and feel i've seen in a while (the sort of thing that was acceptable pre-2000 and before the boom). With instantly laughed at its design, judging it tacky, ugly and just plain wrong. Now thats DESIGN.
WTF does this have to do with developers?
If 50 milliseconds is the rule, the only saviour for a site is its DESIGN, hence this is a WEB designers problem. What has this got to do with PHP, Servlets, JSPs or back-end functionality (i.e. the job of a DEVELOPER). The only functionality you'll see in 50 milliseconds is how the page loads.............
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Is it just me or is there a hint of irony that the most duplicated thing on /. is people saying "Dupe"?
Do we really need everyone shouting it in as many posts as possibl?
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Simply unbelievable - three times in one week, the same week that saw not one but two slashdot threads by CowboyNeal explaining the function of editors?
NEO: Whoa. Deja vu.
TRINITY: What did you just say?
NEO: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
TRINITY: What happened? What did you see?
NEO: A black cat went past us and then I saw another that looked just like it.
TRINITY: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
NEO: It might have been. I'm not sure. What is it?
TRINITY: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
We've all grown to tolerate the excessive dupes on this site, but 3 times!? I think the Slashdot editors read this site less than I do.
If you make a webpage, remember that people will judge them quickly.
CowboyNeal: Hey, so it's really cold out there today, huh?
CmdrTaco: So how much do we owe you for the pizza?
Pizza Delivery Guy: FOR THE THIRD TIME, YES IT'S COLD OUT THERE, AND YOU OWE ME $15.95!!!
Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch.
Redundant Array of Intentional Duplicates. /. is taken out by a nuke then it still survives.
Clever Cowboy, very clever.
If half of
On the matter of Slashdot story duplication
Conspiracy theories again run rampant as users accuse Slashdot Editors of being in cahoots with scam artists. Sounds like just a normal day at the office for me. Except that I've decided to say a few words on Slashdot article duplication process and users who try to abuse it. Read on for my rant.
It's not hard to figure out what sorts of stories Slashdot likes to duplicate. We have a format, and a subject matter. A persistent user can simply start spamming the bin with a submission about everything he finds on that week's Slashdot that comes even close. If he does it enough, he'll get a few through. Especially if he manages to get a reasonable dupe in at 11pm when there's little else to choose from.
Part of the Slashdot Editor's job is to make a submission "Presentable". Usually this means moving a few URLs around. I'd guess a good half of story dupes use the word 'here' or 'article' or something equally stupid as their anchor text. I prefer relevant words to be linked. You can look up the link at the previous version of the story. There are other minor things tho, like taking off extra intros like "Hi guys I read Slashdot every day and thought you would like this". We want the Slashdot story to be mostly distilled down to the essentials. Just the key 3-4 sentences from the previous day.
Now the real problem with this is what it does to the discussion. Last night a nice dupe was posted. And dozens of comments were posted about the dupe. The conspiracy theories. The hostility. Now a lot of this is normal Slashdot Forum Faire. Thats fine. But the problem is that often when this occurs, it swamps out the real discussion. The fact that it's a dupe becomes the story.
I think this sucks.
The story is not about Roland or Beatles Beatles or whatever other random user submitted the last version of the story this week. I encourage moderators to use their points to mod these discussions down when they see them. As a moderator, your job ought to be to steer the discussion on-topic. The dupe is almost never the topic!
The catch-22 kills me. I might have a URL in the bin worth sharing. Something a half a million of you might enjoy. But because it is a dupe, I know that posting it will spawn a giant forum cesspool. I could throw away the article and forget it. Or I could post the story and watch as half of the discussion is simply about the previous version and not the dupe that i wanted to share in the first place.
Many users routinely email me to complain about such dupes. I'm usually fairly flexible on these matters. If the dupe is blazingly bad, I will often dupe it again and try to get it right. Of course some users like to email me to tell me how much Slashdot sucks, how fat and lazy I am, and how the most terrible thing in the history of Slashdot is the fact that the 4th story down contains the word 'to' when it ought to contain the word 'too'. That missing 'o' is the greatest travesty on-line today! It's hard to take that seriously. Especially when people are rude.
You are welcome to disagree with me on matters of grammar and spelling. And many of you do, very vocally in the forums. I would hope moderators would see such commentary as offtopic. A dupe of a story about a new motherboard chipset has nothing to do with the proper use of "Its" and "It's".
The moderation system serves many purposes, but perhaps the most important is to provide a user, 24 hours later viewing at Score 2 or 3 an accurate pulse on the dupe at hand. If the comment is not about the new motherboard chipset, or at least about the old story about the same new motherboard chipset, that comment at least should not be modded 'insightful', and in many cases, ought to be modded offtopic of flamebait.
Post it 1000s of times. 3 down 997 to go.
who post and then put up these dupes ACTUALLY READ /. ?
or is there a room full of monkeys posting articles in the hope that eventually there will be a day without any dupes?
But the number of dupes has certainly spiked the past week. People still recovering from NYE? :)
Could someone explain to me why the americans use trupe or tripe? I fail to see what food has to do with any of this.
dupe = duplicate (the "e" is added for pronunciation)
when there's three of them, it becomes a triplicate, so shortened down, that would be a "trip", not a "trupe" or a "tripe".
I hope that this forces less bloat and faster loading webpages!
For all we know, this "on-topic" comment is a dupe, too.
The only thing getting older than this article is the desperate posters trying to get modded funny by posting the same lame joke that it takes them 50ms to realize its a old article.
"the halo effect"
Is that the effect where after seeing a website, you'd rather go hammer nails through your penis than look at it?
Some say he is made with ascii, others that he is eyeballed daily by millions. All we know is, he is known as the Sig
hey make some sh1t up or something if you don't have anything to report!
So I was thinking just the other day, how to write a script or somesuch to use google to search for all the stories that have been posted more than once here on the ol slash and dot. Then someone could submit the list as an article, and again, and again....
Maybe that way the mods would get the point.
Ex nihilo nihil fit.
Could it be possible, does anyone think, that some mischievous and malicious persons are reading stories on Slashdot, waiting a day or two, and then submitting exactly the same articles back to Slashdot in order to dupe the editors into looking incompetent?
Surely not.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
They're taking the piss with us.
They can take the shit too. Hey, since this entire story is basically off-topic, allow me to present to you... The Aristocrats, goatse style:
A family walks into a talent agency. It's a father, mother, son, daughter and dog. The father says to the talent agent, "We have a really amazing act. You should represent us."
The agent says, "Sorry, I don't represent family acts. They're a little too cute."
The mother says, "Sir, if you just see our act, we know you would want to represent us."
The agent says, "OK. OK. I'll take a look."
The father immediately rips off his clothes turns his back to the agent, bends over, inserts 4 fingers of each hand into his anus and spreads it to a diameter of 8 inches. Meanwhile the mother and daughter have begun a striptease, one on each side of the father. The son begins a magic routine and starts pulling dildos of various sizes out of his hat and the dog shits on the floor.
Once the mother and daughter are totally nude they lie down on the floor with their legs spread and in the air and the son starts throwing the dildos at their gaping snatches while the dog vomits up some road kill and the father holds his position.
Once there is a dildo in each snatch the mother and daughter flip into 69 position on top of the road kill dog barf and start fucking each other with the dildos, the dog sticks its head in the father's gaping anus, and the son strips naked and starts fucking the dog while squeezing the dog's shit like play dough.
The mother and daughter bring each other to screaming, squirting orgasms as the father lets his rectal walls close on the dogs head, the dog starts kicking and bucking as it suffocates and the son moves around to blow the father while jerking himself off his hands covered in dog shit.
The mother and daughter cram both dildos in the dogs ass just as it expires and quickly move around to finish off the son and father in their mouths, which they then snowball right back into the men's mouths, which the men then spit on the dead dog.
All in unison shout "POOR FLUFFY!!! SHE WAS SUCH A GOOD DOG" after which they fall on their faces and prostrate themselves for the agent.
For the longest time, the agent just sits in silence. Finally, he manages, "That's a hell of an act. What do you call it?"
And the father says, "The Aristocrats!"
That this story is getting so many chances to make a first impression.
I think people also get the wrong impression when they see the same story on digg a week before. Perhaps we need some kind of site that merges /. and digg and removes dupes?
This comment does not represent the views or opinions of the user.
This isn't a dupe/trupe. The former article was a synopsis. This one actually gives the real research. I was looking for the original research on the earlier article but I didn't want to pay the publishers for it. This article gives the methods, the pages viewed, the results. That's far better than the first two /. postings!
---- I'm out of your mind!
This story is from a different site *and* it is in the developers section instead of the science section!
Can anyone tell me how long my web page has to capture the interest of a visitor? I've been searching everywhere for this data but cannot seem to track it down.
I don't get how this could happen a third time. Let's hope that this is a joke. Otherwise, it really would make a good topic for the next About Slashdot article. Wow. I've been reading for a long time and haven't seen this happen before. Weird. I think that this is some of the reason why editors and CmdrTaco get so much crap hurled at them. If you give people the ammunition, they're likely to fire it on you sooner or later.
All that said, it's not the end of the world. It just makes the site look sloppy and haphazard rather than polished. In many ways, it's kind of the stigma that Linux has faced when compared to Windows. Oh well.
Yeah, I'm as old as my UID would suggest.
I just submitted this link as a a story.
0 1/20/0611209 That story, on the 50 millisecond website appreciation, got posted as a story no less than 3 times. Rob wrote a huge article about how submitters should make decent articles, watch their links, cross their t's, dot their i's (but he doesn't care about spelling because he can't spell himself), and I for one, would dearly love to know what his excuse for duplicate, and in this case, triplicate stories is.
My text:Today, slashdot really outdid itself. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/
I think it shows that the slashdot editors neither care what they post, nor do they have any respect for their audience. Pathetic. It also shows they have an attention span of around 50 milliseconds.
Great job on two counts...
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
In 49 milliseconds I figured this was Redundant.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Would the dot be slashed if ... or a bit of each would give us a slot?
It wasn't even interesting the first to times!
At least I think it is a troll... Come on slashdot editors, please tell us you are doing some early trolling before April First!
Is this a dupe of the original article, or a dupe of the dupe?
C'mon, help me out here...
bkd
I wonder how long it takes to realise a site has got to be slash dotted.
Windows is like decaf - it tastes like the real thing, but it won't get you through the day.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Age: 0
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:10:28 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Expires: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:10:28 GMT
The thing about things we don't know is we often don't know we don't know them.
It's been posted 3 times now if my memory doesn't fail. That gives us 100 extra milliseconds!!!
This may be true for people who are randomly surfing around but I have to believe that if a person is deliberately going to your site, they will stay even if it doesn't have a lot of flash (and not the cruddy Macromedia Flash either).
I would think that most business websites have a specific target/niche and, unless the site is completely horrible, people will stay no matter what their first impression is. There are several sites that I go to that I am not fond of but I keep going back because the content is what really matters to me.
Wouldn't the original article link normally be posted in a Slashback?
--The Programming goddess from Gorflaz
Seriously, I'm changing my hosts file to redirect slashdot to somewhere else.
i think they're putting the article's assertion to the test by seeing how many people can spot the dupe ion the first 50ms.
50 milliseconds? Right. stories like this give science a bad name. People decide quickly whether they like a website or not. Probably true, for some people. Probably untrue for other people. 50 milliseconds isn't hardly enough time for the headers to load up so how can you possibly decide if you like a site or not? What if you like image heavy sites? Takes more time than that to load images up. How does this fact mesh with the ridiculous assertion? It doesn't. What statistical models did this 'study' use. Some are more accurate than others, big arguments about that. How big was the study, - not enough people in the study? How the heck did they measure the reaction time? Probes in the head? Ouija board? Crap science.
Enjoy your Karma, after all you earned it. Feel your Karma Joe, feel it burn.
OK, so this was a dupe of a dupe. Big deal.
/. is blocked by the wonderful WebSense software (as it's a forum and I might leak stuff).
/. or read the archives, so I miss them the first time round.
Quite frequently I miss articles the first time they are posted for a number of reasons - mainly because at work I don't have internet access to my desk and on the machines I do have internet access,
I'm also often busy out of work too and dont get around to look at
/me understands ...
;-)
Time to post that one again
Bye egghat.
-- "As a human being I claim the right to be widely inconsistent", John Peel
Obviously, the abbreviation for a triplicate should be "trip," which is exactly what the editors are on today.
It happens when they change somthing in the Matrix, so beware, agents are coming!
Grab your +5 comments here for some instant karma. Well, the editors tripe the articles, we might as well tripe the comments...
Who is we? And what's it to you what he posts links to?
Dupe, gull, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across -- (fool or hoax; "Slashdot was duped because they trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!")
1681, from Fr. dupe "deceived person," from M.Fr. duppe (1426), thieves' jargon, probably from phrase de huppe "of the hoopoe," an extravagantly crested and reputedly stupid bird. Bird name is from L. upupa, imitative of its cry. The verb is from 1704.
If they stopped posting dupes and trupes/tripes, the site would die!
:-)
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slashdot editors takes as little as 50ms to post a article
Research has shown that Slashdot editors now may need to post an article at least three times before it makes a strong enough impression to keep them from posting it again.
Insert witty sig here.
It takes the average slashdot reader 50 ms to spot a duplicate post on slashdot.
We all know the story is a dupe... what's funny is the fact that the story was only up three times, the number of duplicate comments telling everyone that the story is a dupe has to be over 50+ by now.
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Besides, in Soviet Russia, the Webpage Only Takes 50ms to Judge You!
-=JML=-
And it took less than 50 milliseconds after the article was posted for the webserver to get slashdotted.
"Never underestimate the power of the Slashdot!"
> Wouldn't the original article link normally be posted in a Slashback?
...newbies. we need a FAQ here, please.
that would be the tetrupe.
tsk tsk tsk
You could tell in less than 50 ms that this was a dupe.... Is this story so great to publish it for the 3rd time???
It's never too late to stop doing something wrong, or to start doing something right.
So Slashdot posted two previously worthless submissions and now gave the good link in the third one. That's not much better.
"Sufferin' succotash."
I seem to recall you making a post in your "fire-side chat" recently about how you don't like it when the meta-discussion takes over the story thread and drowns out any interesting posts about the story.
In this case, where people spent the entire discussion joking and talking about how this is a triplicate posting (ok, so technically not a triplicate since it has more actual research data than the first, not that anybody else noticed)....IT IS ENTIRELY PREVENTABLE!
It's one thing to not be a perfect speller, but posting the same content multiple times within just a couple of days is inexcusable. It is sloppy, and really a slap in the face to subscribers, for whom it diminishes the value of their subscription.
Please don't take this as a flame...I am just a loyal Slashdot reader who is trying to make the site I love even better. But its these sort of things that are making some of your more insightful posters head over to Digg for their news.
Sincerely,
A concerned Slashdotter.
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Whew. I thought i was Bill Murray and it was groundhog day. I guess it would be kinda cool. I would get to know what each of you were going to post. I would tell you your own thoughts before you thought them. I would be hailed by all. Of course to end the cycle i would need to nail someone.. hmm there aren't any GIRLS on /. I'd be stuck here FOREVER!
Come on. It just *has* to be a joke.
I wonder if this is the editors (failed) attempt at humor at the expense of their rival digg.com. Digg's biggest problem is/are dupes, so much so that you can see dupes on the front page on a semi-regular basis.
Do what I say, cuz I said it.
-Meatwad
FYI: If you are a developer and are developing some web thing and need to impress your boss, you should remember this. You have to wow them the first time. Best thing to do is show them somewhat diverse options, and css is good for that.
Only 'flamers' flame!
Does slashdot hate my posts?
Because posting the same thing three times for you is a feat/victory? Ô.o
If Slashdot are going to give this paper its 15 minutes of fame, we've got 17,997 more repeats to go.
April 1 windup?
Third time's a charm...
'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'
If this were true no-one would use myspace
Any takers?
this "50 millisecond" thing is a tirade in desperate need of a meme à la Soviet Russia jokes!
Dupes generate a great deal of enjoyment among Slashdot readers, as they get to happily call "dupe"!
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
I had the privilege of discussing the WWW with Sir Berners-Lee at one of his first public demos at the RARE conference in Zurich in 1991. When I complained that he needed eternal links to make his 'library in the sky' dream come true, he counter-complained about the fact that 'studies have shown that if a hyperlink doesn't resolve in a tenth of a second, users will go elsewhere'. Well, he was wrong in the short term (imagine downloading porn with a 1991 browser, or even the first Mosaic) but seems to have been right in the long term. I salute you, Sir Tim!
I suspect some trolls have done so by deliberately submitting dupes. Eg, the recent Google radio dupe was submitted by a self-proclaimed troll).
You obviously hate Slashdot with a passion, as shown by this little rant and your previous absurdities about the editors supposedly being out to get you by taking away your mod points.
So I ask: why do you keep coming back here if you have such a burning hatred for everyone and everything here?
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.