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I Will Derive
Jamie stumbled upon a very choice video this morning called I Will Derive. To the tune of some song you've never heard before, singing about subjects you know nothing about... oh and a a TI-84 cameo. It features the dopiest dancing you'll see on YouTube today. I promise.
Now Slashdot is going to be posting every funny cat video on the Internet? What the fuck?
"The right to do something does not mean doing it is right." William Safire
So what you're saying is that this video is somewhat derivative.
Indeed... I was ok with "Idle" being its own little sub-section that you had to choose to go to... but not making the front page.
News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters.
Is now...
News For Sheeple, Stuff That Doesnt Matter.
Slahsdot to change name and become Slashitt!
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
Why can I still not turn off seeing this stupid section? It's pathetic.
This is a fucking travesty.
Nice knowing you slashdot
So many years of wonderful service.
d~y
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How bad is this? /. idle? /. has jumped the shark..
(no dispespect to the video makers, but we can all browse youtube randomly if we want...)
--Q
n/t
Yes, partially.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
I think the problem is that due to the way slashdot operates - and I think it is a good choice - stuff like this will already have been old news on at least 3 extremely high traffic sites before it shows up here. People don't want to come here and get the exact same stuff they've already seen at fark, reddit, digg, etc. An exception might be those topics that have some intrinsic value. Because I think one way slashdot sets itself apart (and I'll get torn up over this but I still think it is true.) is in the quality of the comments.
Or at the very least, as has already been mentioned a few times, they should make it possible to filter idle, like everything else.
The reaction does seem a bit strong, but I think it is a cumulative thing - and this post just produced a watershed of responses.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
I really don't think either one should be an integral part of slashdot.
Yes it was obvious and we've all seen a lot of stuff like it before, but it was still funny. Don't be a killjoy. It's Memorial Day weekend.
Go outside and play or something!
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Im not against little comedic stuff like this, or the Idle section itself, it was actually a good idea. But I think that the front page (or any of the main 'news' sections) should be for tech/science/economy/etc "stuff that matters"
This is rightly in the Idle section, and if you were just looking for something to pass a few minutes and maybe a giggle or two... "choose" to go to the Idle section... just like you would choose to wander around YouTube by itself without having Slashdot.
Weekend or not, I think most people expect Slashdot to provide informative "nerdy" things with a certain amount of dignity.
You can't hide from it, and that's OK. It's not so bad guys. You may be disgusted now, but if the past decade has taught us anything it's that people can tolerate a lot of shit before it actually motivates them to action.
In St. Louis, it took a 100% increase in gas prices to motivate people actually start carpooling, up ~30% recently. Every dime increase instigated vocal outrage, but little to no action. But when it starts eating into our beer budgets, then we call Ride-Finders.
Slashdot has jumped the shark about 30 times now, and we still read it, we still participate. Heck, this is the first post I've been motivated to comment on in quite some time.
All you youtube player haters best just chill. If you hate it so bad, it's a relatively free internet for the time being (legislation pending). Go start your own slashcode site with zero youtubes. We'll be right behind you in the other car. No seriously. We're not going to ditch you, honest.
Netcraft doesn't track site popularity AFAIK, but Alexa does. And alexa does in fact confirm: slashdot is dying.
I mean, what the fuck guys? This is such an awesome website. I know that stupid videos get a lot of click throughs in the short term, but you're driving away your regulars with that silly shit. News, fellas, post news.
weirdest thing I ever saw: scientology advertising on slashdot.
Well, Slashdot, I am ok with seeing this on the front page, because it is so nerdy that it makes up for being irrelevant. I mean, Ask Slashdot isn't news, but its ok to have occasionally on the main page. As a regular reader of Fark, I know that most of what passes for "news" isn't. So to the haters: Relax. Simmer down a bit. Some of us enjoy a little nerdy goofiness.
I know it has been said many times, but this is what makes slashdot great - the moderation system! When I first saw this video, I laughed. I enjoyed it. I thought it was funny and was glad that Slashdot had linked to it.
Then I read the comments and realized that the video wasn't funny or appropriate, and was in fact a harbinger of the Apocalypse. I shouldn't be smiling and happy - I should be ranting and outraged. I should be writing my elected officials and forming citizens action committees.
How dare slashdot trick people into a watching a silly youtube video buy disguising it as a story about a silly youtube video. Don't the slashdot editors realize that there is only a limited amount of webspace space on the internet, and they shouldn't be wasting it on stuff like this?
I am so glad I have seen the error of my ways. Now I just need to know where I can get one of these giant sticks to ram up my pigu, so I too can be a diligent defender of Slashdot integrity.
...because all true nerds are laughing their heads off at this video. It's a hoot.
Thanks to you and the GP for the inspiration :) And this is just to get rid of the "too few characters per line" complaint from the filter.
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First I thought "Oh fuck,
this is travesty".
The Slashlords fin'ly lost their touch,
this really cannot be.
But the idle section stayed,
and while I cried out "This is wrong",
the trolls grew strong.
And even Taco plays along!
Yes, they are back
from all the chans.
They took the training for the flaming
and are here to grab their chance.
Oh, do you think you have seen bad,
well then you're in for a surprise.
Cause on the one hand there is fluff
but now get ready for demise!
Go Taco go, give junk the floor.
Ignore your readers.
Nerds don't matter anymore.
This idle style is hot, we are taking over Fark.
Yet still I wonder...
Did Slashdot really jump the shark?
Don't link YouTube,
just post a dupe!
About cold fusion with hot grits
greased by Piquepaille's lube.
Even Katz stories are fine
Even goatse seems divine
when idle's stage
is the frontpage.
While this may sound like I'm new,
my ID confides
that while I could not pay
for lower ones I've seen the tides.
It seems the terrorists have won.
Breakouts of common sense are gone.
I used to mod.
Now I'm just one more old sod.
And I say now,
get off my lawn!
I hope that in Korea's shelters
I can still respawn.
And you can stick your idle site,
its sorry style like soylent green.
I'd rather pony up for pink
and I bet so does your Kathleen...
Go Taco go, give junk the floor.
(alternate part for "Yes, they are back...":
Slashdot cries out,
The movie blares.
Oh yes, on weekends they'll submit
it till the firehose declares
that the frontpage is their scene,
the idle section is their heir,
and if you don't vote for those films
we've still got Jamie over there...
)
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Boy, you really threw a curve with that one. Sorry for going off on a tangent.
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Posting these kind of videos is a really slippery slope.
Well if there's one thing that's been constant about slashdot over the years, it's that people love to whine about the stories. They still read them and comment of course.
We live, as we dream -- alone....
It's DIFFERENTIATE, not DERIVE! Philistines.
I'm a casual Slashdot reader. I usually just check the front page on Slashdot. This is the first time that I've heard about the Idle section.
If it has funny stuff like this, I'm there.
I think that, once in a blue moon, putting something on the front page from other sections that don't normally make it there is a good thing.
For those who don't know, Idle has been around for a few months now, though I know of no official announcement. This tells me that Slashdot is trying to throw it in under the radar, for whatever reason.
Please, Slashdot, drop this. This isn't Fark, this isn't Digg, this isn't StumbleUpon. While I don't hate those sites, this kind of stuff belongs there. Slashdot is about "hard" news (with an editorial bias) and science/tech industry, not "LOL THATS FUNNAYE". Not to say we can't have humor, but it should be the tongue-in-cheek or irony kind.
One good thing Idle does have-- the comment bar. Compared to the comment bar on regular Slashdot entries, this is light years ahead. It's much smoother, it doesn't take up a large amount of space on the left side (making some comments look longer than they really are), and overall is just cleaner.
Take that, go back o the old "Reply to This|Parent" stripe (instead of those unnecessarily large buttons), and you'll be doing Slashdot a great service.
But drop Idle first. Seriously, it's completely worthless. I'm really glad I'm not paying for this shit.
derive down to a short pier and take a long walk.
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