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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.
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
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?
/. entry? :)
you think the mods made it to the
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
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!
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!
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....
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.
5 ways to piss off Slashdot readers:
1.) Post a question that is answered in the summary (or better yet, the title).
2.) Use a Slashdot meme in an unfunny way.
3.) Be kdawson.
4.) Post obvious karma whores, such as "text of article in case of Slashdotting".
5.) Write your comments in list form.
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.
Yeah! They are so wrong... I am a 24 year old male, thank you very much.
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?)...are filled with almost nothing but +5 Funny comments.
I use my +3 shield of suspicion and +2 helm of sarcasm to counter that.
I drank what? -- Socrates
6.) ???
7.) Profit!
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
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
6.) Now I know you're going to mod me down for this, but...
As far as #2 and #5 are concerned, in Soviet Slashdotistan, lists write you!
Number three only works for those of you who haven't already blocked kdawson from the front page, and if you haven't then you deserve to be pissed off.
I am TheRaven on Soylent News
if my favorite sites were 2 girls 1 cup
I'm disgusted!! Don't they know the difference between a cup and a tumbler?!?
Blank until
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.
Hrm.. looks down... yep definately breasts... and not man-breasts either...
Looks at nick and sig file... they got it part right about the Windoze reference...
Sara
Designer, Gamer, Macgrrl in an XP World
The best candidate for a BIND replacement? Definitely emacs.
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