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What Your Favorite Web Sites Say About You
Jimmy writes to tell us that CNET is running an article on what your favorite Web sites say about you. One example takes a look at the possible origins of Facebook readers; "The typical Facebookers are what you'd get if YouTube and Flickr went halves on a baby. Yes, the site was created to help university students connect and have a good time, but connecting and having a good time generally involves unruly, drunken behavior, which is inevitably caught on film and posted for your entire friends list to see.'" The article also takes a look at eBay, Flickr, Slashdot, and several others.
From TFA: The average male Slashdot user probably looks a lot like our model -- but has more acne and bigger glasses. Users are 23 years old but look twice their age and steadfastly refuse to accept the fact that Windows is actually not a bad operating system. Far from being lovable dorks, the Slashdotters have a vicious streak. They hunt like spiders, awaiting the arrival of an article from their victims -- usually a hapless news reporter. The second moderators accept a story, they pounce -- pedantry, suspicion and anonymity their weapons of choice.
If you read the other entries, it is less an info piece and more of a fluff piece for c/net to blow their own horn when you get to the end. How do articles like this get posted to Slashdot?
That said, while there are those of us that have been around since '98 or so, many Slashdot users that started participating in this forum back have continued to participate and additionally have created their own blogs. All in all, I'd have to say that whether or not I visit a website says less about me than the content that goes into my blog does.
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
My favorite site is one that posts noninsightful stories with titles designed to grab maximum nerd traffic and also lacks a print link to let said nerds bypass the ten pages of ads.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
personally I think a better example would be http://www.collegehumor.com/
Scotty load the missles.
Aye Sir, fully loaded with 25 Gigatons of sarcasm
Add pedantry
Yes sir, 45 Teratons of pedantry added
And some anonymity too
Aye Sir, anothe 12457 Teratons of anonymity added
Fire at the abominable site
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I do have a beard that makes me look maybe 4-5 years older, though.
I dress professionally at work, but at home, I dress quite young and fashionably. My wife calls me a 'metrosexual', though somehow I'm not sure if this term fits. steadfastly refuse to accept the fact that Windows is actually not a bad operating system. Hey! I resemble that remark!
But given your 'facts' about Slashdot users, I'd say your probably off on this 'fact', too. Then again, we all have opinions don't we? Nothin' wrong if someone else likes Windows, even though I don't. Far from being lovable dorks, the Slashdotters have a vicious streak. They hunt like spiders, awaiting the arrival of an article from their victims -- usually a hapless news reporter. Yeah, and you're next! Have at 'im, boys!
My blog
10 pages of advertisements, check
no printer friendly page link, check
no interest in reading this article, check.
No thanks slashdot. Next?
Your sig(k) has been stolen. There is a puff of smoke!
Every site has its target audience just like almost every corporation does. All this seems to be doing is defining the target audience. If Slashdot's website wasn't based on "News for Nerds stuff that matters" then I bet there would be less geeks and nerds on this site... that is what digg is for.
The website doesn't make your personality your personality choses to revisit the website.
How the hell'd they get my prom photo for the Slashdot page?
OK, let me get this straight....
A list of what I like says something about me.
Truly, is there no bounds to what science can reveal?
I am well and truly stunned.
The average male Slashdot user probably looks a lot like our model -- but has more acne and bigger glasses.
How the fuck would they know? Aren't we all buff über mensch!?
If you frequent all of them would you then be an EMO, uber geek, trivia nerd, photographer, with an antique obsession, who enjoys poorly made video blogs, and gets smashed reguarly with your college buddies, while constantly chatting about nothing with low self esteem, whilst also enjoy shilling for a has been tech blog?
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
and almost NSFW!
Behold!, the article is slightly more reader-friendly. Still not worth reading, though...
here ya go, the only relevant page: (http://crave.cnet.co.uk/0,39029477,49292669-3,00.htm) if you want to see the photo referenced in TFA.
"SLASHDOT
What's the story?
Slashdot is a well-respected science and technology news aggregation Web site. It lists user-submitted news stories with a bias towards geeks. Each story is vetted by a moderator before being posted, at which point visitors can leave their opinions in Slashdot's highly active forums. It was created in September 1997 by Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda, who still runs the site.
The first Slashdot submission was recorded on 31 December 1997. By 18 August 2004 it had recorded 10 million posts. During this time its users helped create a unique subculture that was responsible for the propagation of several Internet memes. Among these were Al Gore's spurious claim to have invented the Internet, Chuck Norris' refusal to use email because he comes from the cowboy generation, and countless hyperlink-related 'pranks' involving the Goatse phenomenon.
Slashdot's core audience is thought primarily to be Linux users. Contrary to popular opinion, however, over half of its visitors use a Windows PC. Approximately a third use some form of Linux, with 10 per cent using Mac OS X.
Did you know?
Before Slashdot was Slashdot, it was known as 'Chips & Dips'. The site was launched in July 1997 but less than three months later it was renamed. The name Slashdot was allegedly chosen to confuse those poor souls who pronounce the full URL of the site ("h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-
slashdot-dot-org"). You've got to love geek humour.
What Slashdot says about you
Slashdot's tagline is "news for nerds", so no prizes for guessing what type of people visit the site. The average male Slashdot user probably looks a lot like our model -- but has more acne and bigger glasses. Users are 23 years old but look twice their age and steadfastly refuse to accept the fact that Windows is actually not a bad operating system.
Far from being lovable dorks, the Slashdotters have a vicious streak. They hunt like spiders, awaiting the arrival of an article from their victims -- usually a hapless news reporter. The second moderators accept a story, they pounce -- pedantry, suspicion and anonymity their weapons of choice."
This was where I stopped reading.
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
4chan.org ... 'Linguini' being a street term for crack cocaine.
What's the story?
4chan.org is an increasingly popular hangout for those who call themselves 'Anonymous'. It breeds misfits, criminals, and The Internet Hate Machine, which is a term that is used to describe the collective processing power of the thousands of hackers on steroids who frequent the site.
Did you know?
Disturbingly, 4chan.org is the source of almost every popular internet 'meme' that has surfaced since 2004 or so.
What 4chan.org says about you
If your favorite site is 4chan.org, you're a terrorist who likes to blow up vans, and should be locked away for a very, very long time. You also like to say 'LULZ' a lot, which is a diabolical corruption of 'LOL', which means 'Let's Order Linguini'
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
I need major therapy and a healthier outlook on sexual fantasies....
The article states that more than half the traffic Slashdot gets comes from Windows machines and not from Linux ones... but seems to forget the fact that there are a lot of people who use Linux at home and are forced to use Windows at work.
By their standards, my guess is:
Naive foolish n00bs who don't know basic online safety and heartless trolls whose goal in life is to make people go without eating for a couple of days.
So, this is saying if you join a community/website then you are probably inclined to be interested or involved in whatever the subject matter that site is. What a shocker, people belong and participate in things that interest them. This has been true forever, give me a break. I wonder if everyone involved in drafting and signing the Declaration of Independence were into politics in some form?
Another article aiming just to get hits while producing nothing that would be seen as being anything more than 'mildly entertaining'.
Invexi - a Phoenix, AZ based web design and web development company.
So hypothetically speaking, if my favorite sites were 2 girls 1 cup, Goatse, and Tubgirl what would that say about me?
Hypothetically speaking of course. NSFW!! I repeat NSFW!!
I think the invisible hand of the market has its middle finger extended
--A wise old fart named SC0RN
I must be a mindless, complaining drone.
And does it matter what kind?
Someone hates these cans.
Hmm, it sounds like that should get the article modded -1 Flamebait! :-D
I think CNET is just drinking a little too much haterade as of late. They might also just be jealous cause Slashdot readers can actually understand big words and stuff. I love how they say that people that read here must look like the dude in the pic. For one I'm female and two my glasses aren't taped, well they aren't today. They are superglued. Thank you very much!!
Users are 23 years old but look twice their age and steadfastly refuse to accept the fact that Windows is actually not a bad operating system. Well, I'm not 23, nor do I look twice that, but Windows...actually...yep, it is a bad operating system. Especially when you have options.
Far from being lovable dorks, the Slashdotters have a vicious streak. They hunt like spiders, awaiting the arrival of an article from their victims -- usually a hapless news reporter. The second moderators accept a story, they pounce -- pedantry, suspicion and anonymity their weapons of choice. Why, thank you!
10 FILL MUG WITH COFFEE
20 DRINK COFFEE
30 GOTO 10
I'm insulted. The geek pictured on the Slashdot page doesn't even have real glasses. In fact, they don't even have lenses!
Now, if you noticed that as well, then yes, you are a geek too, and Slashdot is your favorite site to visit regularly.
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
The typical Facebookers are what you'd get if YouTube and Flickr went halves on a baby.
A plateful of bones?
But I can tell you with reasonable confidence that crave.cnet.co.uk has roughly zero chance of becoming my favorite site until they clean up their web pages and put more substantive material and less junk on each page.
Can't say that I thought all that much of the content either. Not very insightful and not especially funny. I don't think this is one of those little things that get's pasted up on cubicle walls and passed around in the office mail and email.
Does that make me a vicious slashdotter hunting like a spider?
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
They hunt like spiders, awaiting the arrival of an article from their victims -- usually a hapless news reporter. The second moderators accept a story, they pounce -- pedantry, suspicion and anonymity their weapons of choice.
I know you're just doing it for the laughs, guys, but that's short-sighted. Slashdot is one of the more diverse (in terms of opinions, not genetics and gender) web sites I've run across, much more so than myspace, for example. Libertarian Christians and Mac-using bisexual Buddhists can agree on the necessary traits for any BIND replacement here without much rancor.
I think the article sells it short.
technical writing / development
I'm 28, athletic, and my first +5 post (or at least, the first one I remember) was in defense of windows security, which indicates that at least 4 other people agreed that windows is OK as an OS. I don't wear glasses and I am married to a woman who is pretty high on the physical attractiveness scale (and yes, I have had sex with her).
I think I am probably also pretty indicative Slashdotters. I think that the slashdot comment system is a pretty good way to hold authors accountable for what they write, and anonymity is no shield since the moderation system is pretty good at filtering bullshitters out (although not perfect).
It sounds to me like this author is your typical tech journalist who graduated with a C average from some no-name school, has brought the same mediocre performance to his job, and has been called for it on slashdot. Now, he's bitter.
weirdest thing I ever saw: scientology advertising on slashdot.
Whatever happened to the recognition that stereotypes are usually wrong?
That's a stereotypical response.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
http://www.askaninja.com/ and http://www.homestarrunner.com/.
Sure, slashdot, maybe, but that's just so people can validate my sense of humor and I can troll liberals.
Listen, if you want to be "cool", don't make up slang! (In this case, for "...if YouTube and Flickr had a baby together".)
This goes for every subject! Don't ever make slang up! Ever. No matter how appropriate you think it is, just don't do it. Some examples:
Retro
- Don't (make up slang): "Tie it up girl!"
- Do (use the original): "Oh, behave!"
Engineer- Don't (make up slang): "Whenever you lowchance it you get the lose."
- Do (use the original): "If it can go wrong, it will."
Teen girl- Don't (make up slang): "Shigoo!!! Lowtails!!!!"
- Do (use the original): "OMG!!! Ponies!!!!"
Digg- Don't (make up slang): "Viz or it wasn't!"
- Do (use the original): "Pics or it didn't happen."
Slashdot- Don't (make up slang): "Man, the scoremasters must be hitting the big one hard today."
- Do (use the original): "Whoever mod'd this up is on crack."
(Oh, and linkaloo. Would you in-room with these people?)If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
I have excellent karma.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
I am Jack9.
Everyone knows me.
and comprehensive list!!
however, in an effort to save everyone from having to click that link and then read those words and then click another link to read even more words, here is the article summed up: If you have a favorite website, you are a worthless faggot.
Fuck C|NET, I'm not reading any article that's three paragraphs on each of ten pages. Does anybody have a printable version?
...and the horse they rode in on. Anyway, here's page 3, slashdot. (picture of a jock wearing taped glasses and a necktie... what nerd wears a necktie? who would confuse C|NET with a nerd site or even a tech site? These asshats are clueless)
We've all been not only misrepresented, but slandered. Most nerds are NOT dorks, most look NOTHING like the model (most of us are either overweight or underweight), do NOT look twice our age (I'd look 110; most people think I'm 40), and Windows is a bad operating system. I want the thirty seconds of my life back that I wasted clicking looking for slashdot in TSFA.-mcgrew
There is a remarkable sense of humour failure going on here. I've been a slashdot user for many years, and I don't look anything like that picture. But you know what, my life is full enough for it not to bother me. I thought the slashdot thing was amusing, and it's really not supposed to be taken so seriously. Oh, and for the people that moan about ads. Come on, this is how the net works. Companies provide free content, which they pay for with adverts. It's not a new model, and bitching about it is a bit like moaning about having to watch ads on live TV. If you don't like it, some tech savyy geeks like you should be able to work adblock.
What are they saying?? Look it is not true.... It was only that one time, I was only looking for the failed Donkey Kong tv show... I didn't know that searching for "donkey show" in Google would bring that up....
Free porn, no Bullshit - thebestlinklist.com
ain't no sweat off my back, dawg.
sup, brah?
You make the assertion that stereotypes are "usually" wrong.
...and that is pretty well documented through the sociological and scientific studies in the area. It turns out that women DO think differently than men. So is that stereotype wrong? No, but it might be in some individual, specific cases.
...and it turns out, that is correct. Are all of them that way? No, but enough have "misperceptions" that it is statistically significant.
Please explain and back that up. Because from where I stand, stereotypes can be dead on accurate. Not all, mind you, but enough of them to make the case there is some basis in reality.
Case in point: women. The stereotype is that they are more emotional beings than men.
Another case: the stereotype of Fox news watchers is that they are uninformed (or, to be nice: "have misperceptions").
Stereotypes have been around for a long time, with good reason. They aren't "wrong" anymore than jealousy or anger are wrong. They just are.
heh... As an added bonus, that URL also confuses web browsers.
They didn't include this one, so I'll do my take on it.....
ORKUT
What's the story?
Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Orkut Büyükkökten (sëë älsø: hëävÿ mëtäl ümläüt). It's something like Friendster and MySpace, but it also allows users to create "communities", that is, mini-forums about any theme you choose.
Did you know?
Orkut is not very popular in the USA, but it is extremely popular in Brazil. It was "invitation only" at first, which probably had something to do with it: Brazilian teenagers invited everyone and their dog. And no civilized person can stand a place with too many Brazilians.
What Orkut says about you
You're most likely Brazilian. Your English probably sucks, so you will write in Portuguese (usually with awful spelling and grammar nonetheless). You will do it even in communities that have English as their official language; and if anyone complains, you will cry persecution and toss insults at the opressive imperialist xenophobic gringos.
Circumcision is child abuse.
I've been using the trick they mentioned to see the larger versions of people's profile pictures for years, and now everyone is going to know about it (or at least the 3 people that read CNET)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAoh wait that's not funny read #2 again kthxbye
Our chief weapon is pedantry. And...two! Our two chief weapons are pedantry, suspicion and... Three! Three. Our three chief weapons are...
Subway.. eat fresh!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/19
WTF?! CNet? Who the hell is addicted to CNet?! Nobody. What does it mean if I visit almost all these sites daily (excluding CNet and Twitter)? Also, this is the first time I ever heard of twitter, but it sounds relatively cool. CNet can suck it though.
Meh.
what a wa**er
no you really are a complete ar****le, do you know that?
so this is an example of anger, anger that "just is."
anything wrong with that?
ok, first off work out the difference between generalisation and stereotypes...
secondly, you tend to lose more information than you gain when you classify someone in some way. people are quite complex
oh and just because something "just is" doesn't mean it isn't dangerous or shouldn't be avoided.
How I read this reply:
"[Insult, insult] That's not true! That is SO not true! That is ABSOLUTELY not true! BUT IF IT IS TRUE, SO WHAT???"
man, reading that boring pile of prejudices was a real waste of time...
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes