October marks 10 friggin years of Slashdot, and nobody is more surprised
about any of this than me. Throughout the month we'll be running a series
of navel gazing meta news articles about our history, infrastructure and plans for the future. We're also
going to give away 500 t-shirts and
ThinkGeek gift certificates to people willing to
organize and attend their own local Slashdot parties. One lucky winner will get a cool grand to blow at ThinkGeek! I'm going to attend "official" gatherings in Ann Arbor, MI on Oct 20 and in Palo Alto, CA on Oct 25. But you can read on for details about party organization and how you can win the grand prize.
The idea is simple. Visit
the Slashdot Anniversary
Party Web Page. You can sign up to attend a party, or if there's nobody
hosting near you, you can create your own. The details of your local parties are up
to you- each has a corresponding discussion so you can work it out amongst
yourselves. The Ann Arbor gathering will be at a bar because dammit I'm old
and don't have time to go out for beers much these days. But you do whatever works for
the folks in your area. Dorm Room. Bar. Gym. Wherever several Slashdot readers
gather, we shall attempt to mail shirts until we run out.
To be eligible for schwag, you need to schedule your party by Oct 8 and sign up to attend a party
by Oct 9- this will give us time to figure out where to send the shirts, and time to send them before
you all start partying naked during the official party window of Oct 19-28.
As for the one thousand dollar ThinkGeek Gift Certificate grand prize, the winner
will be the party attendee who submits the coolest thing for our "scrapbook".
Videos. Pictures. Songs. Anything you can email. Something that proves that your party was the one we all wish we were at. The deadline for submissions will
be Oct 28. We'll have an official
submission email address posted later. This is all about creativity and coolness
so good luck with that. The grand prize winner will be posted on Oct 31, the end of the
month when we can all forget that any of this ever happened.
Oh, and happy birthday to us. Here's to wasting another decade, same as the first.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, internally AC is 666.
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
That would be mfh (56)
I see nothing wrong with this and would consider it myself if something came along at the right time.
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liqbase
Let's see, /. posted a how-to on how to karma whore, which was an interesting read. I wish I could remember his name.
There was the whole voices from the hellmouth thing. A big deal actually, read up on it.
CleverNickName's jokes in trekkie threads look really out of place until you figure out who he is. say, here. The first one I saw was a joke on how something was done on the Enterprise, he simply replied "in my day we did it this way..." and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why he was +5 funny. He also had an ask slashdot which redeemed him for a lot of people.
Trolling, Karma Whoring, Metamoderation have a whole story that I won't get into. There was a troll who upon leaving
Goatse. That's the reason why links now get the domain name appended.
Slashdot got hacked once, because the production site had the same password as a less secure test site. That was an interesting discussion.
CommanderTaco's wedding proposal (see the FAQ, favorite story). Achieving record number of posts.
Database breaks upon reaching 2**31-1. Site goes back online without threading for a few days.
This is only some I remember. There were other story-related cool stuff. Some interesting interviews as well.
(I have a high UID because I always posted as AC, but I've been here for a long time)