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Underground Mac Community Foils a Coup
An anonymous reader writes "In an attempted palace coup that would not have been out of place in a Shakespearian tragedy, a moderator faction at Mac Serial Junkie, one of the largest underground Mac communities, was shut out this weekend after it was discovered that many staff members were plotting a coup. The plans included a surreptitious takeover of the domain name macserialjunkie.com. In an Open Letter to the Community, the founders of MSJ explain how a number of people at the highest levels of the underground planned their takeover activities for almost two years, only to be foiled at the last minute."
I assume this is some sort of piracy forum, but regardless, who cares? This stuff happens all the time on forums and IRC. Owner X doesn't do much/disappears leaving Y in charge. Y gets upset that he's doing all the work while X enjoys ownership. Y plots takeover, and either does or fail and is replaced by Z.
This sounds like it should be an item in a high school newspaper. No wonder, it's a kdawson story, poster of all useless and leftist drivel.
Are you guys going to cover how Timmy is going to plotting to take over the treehouse next?
No kidding. This is like the stories about scams and drama in EVE Online, but even more irrelevant.
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it
I've said it before and got modded down. But I'll say it again (and get modded down).
Was anybody surprised Kdawson posted this? Seriously, anybody.
This is one story that I honestly feel could be deleted, and no one would care.
Because no one cares.
Get this off the front page.
This is quite a soap opera, but I think only people who regularly post on those forums could really care. So here's to the three of you.
Next week on slashdot: How one moderator over at knittingmachines.org thwarted an attempt by 31337gr4ndm4 to copy the patterns of beloved moderator iknit4u.
Dekker Dreyer
> tag this whocares
No, there's too much of a risk that someone will think that Dr. Who or those simpletons the Grinch was ripping off actually care about this tempest in a teapot.
It would make more sense if Slashdot started a section specifically for stories like this. They could combine it with stories about changing alliances among pre-teen girls at our local Junior High School and which C-list celebrities are feuding with their former cast members. They could even reuse the OMG Ponies theme.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
Zonk, and boy, he's pissed he didn't get to post it.
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Highest levels of the underground? That means they're just below the surface, right? And they've been planning their takeover for almost two years? They don't sound all that motivated to me...
This guy's the limit!
Yes, and to further drive home the distinction, they could even place it under a different domain. Something like, Fark.com perhaps...
/kidding
//this is probably too irrelevant even for Fark
///slashies on Slashdot
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it
You know I'm going to hold you personally responsible for this if they create gossip.slashdot.org. I can just hear them now discussing how popular sites like TMZ and The Smoking Gun are.
On the plus side, though, it might bring more girls to Slashdot.
I see the trolls are gaming the firehose.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
SmR writes
"In an attempted anthill coup that would not have been out of place in a tragic Discovery Channel special, the red ants in my backyard, owners of one of the largest anthills underground in my backyard, were doused with gasoline this weekend after it was discovered that a faction of the worker ants were plotting a coup. The plans included an unprecedented and sneaky incursion into my kitchen trash containing an old big Mac, cereal, and tasty junk. In an unexpected move I placed some honey-soaked borax in their trail and the poison infiltrated into the highest levels of their underground empire. Then dousing thier anthill with gasoline I ended their reign of almost two years, and thus they were foiled before my wife got home."
Honestly, I think my story is more interesting.
SmR
Man, you did not just use a regular expression when telling people to get girlfriends. Tell me that's not it.
Send email from the afterlife! Write your e-will at Dead Man's Switch.
Yes, and to further drive home the distinction, they could even place it under a different domain.
Perhaps the Mac Serial Junkie People's Front?
or the Popular Front of Mac Serial Junkie?
or even the People's Front of Mac Serial Junkie?
but not to be confused with the Popular Front of Mac Serial Junkie.
Vintage computer adverts: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads
At the bottom of the
"Yea, it's a site to swap software serial numbers."
Darn, I was hoping it was a site about Mac serial ports. I was gonna go ask a question...
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd
Not quite. Regardless of ./ers participation in Eve, it's well known that it's a 100K strong community, so any interesting community dynamics are newsworthy, moreso because they reflect on the MMO genre itself.
Most of the reason this is a non-story is that there's a total of four people with two servers involved. I'm far from certain that there's more than 100 people who even give a shit about the 'attempted coup'.
Anyone who loves or hates any language, platform, or manufacturer, doesn't know what they're talking about.
The best is when they called you out for downloading porn that obviously was predominately female, and telling the sysop that you really liked girls as well as guys and before you know it you have superuser status. You could download all kinds of things with that. (I think this is how I played police quest 2.) I remember having to setup fake 'meetings' with some of these sysops, just to keep status for a few more days. Nothing elevated user privelages faster than the possibility of some "hot chick" who is into girls and wants to meet you. Then I'd hide out for a few months and repeat the process all over again.
My pops at the time didn't have unlimited local calling for the phone line and our first months phone bill was something like 700 dollars. Ah, those were the days.
Anyway, don't always assume that the "chatroom moderator" isn't just out to find some busty images back in those days. Often it was guys pretending to be girls.
THAT WAS YOU???
And the editors reject so many worth-while stories. LoL! I can see it now:
... nah [rejected], 'ancient silicon chip found in egypt' ... nah [rejects], "ETI found 20 light years away" ... nah [rejects]. Omg! e-drama among mac geeks! Yes!!! [accepts]...."
[Takes hit off joint] Editor: "Let's see [in a holding-breath-talking-way-that-pot-smokers-do], submissions, submissions, submissions.... Hrmm, 'Life found on mars'
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
It's also interesting how many people who don't care took the time to post flames about how much they don't care.
It's the difference between a mature human being comfortable with his or her place in the universe, and an immature person who thinks he or she is the center of the universe. The mature individuals know some things interest them and some things don't, but that some of those things that don't interest them do interest other people. They simply skip over anything that doesn't interest them. The immature people get upset that something that doesn't interest them was posted. If it doesn't interest them, why did anyone waste the time posting it? If anyone else is interested in it, they must be "losers".
The real problem at the core for them is, every time something is posted that doesn't interest them, it proves that the universe does not revolve around them, and they just can't stand that. So they must complain. Any time the universe does not appear to be specifically tailored for them, they must complain. Obviously something is wrong with the universe if it isn't arranged for their ultimate convenience.
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."