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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.
Why can I still not turn off seeing this stupid section? It's pathetic.
Nice knowing you slashdot
So many years of wonderful service.
d~y
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Even worse:
/.: Either let me blacklist the Idle section via my user preferences, or remove this shit, seriously
So far, we're still unable to automatically filter the Idle section out of our front pages.
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 really don't think either one should be an integral part of slashdot.
I thought it was funny, mellow out.
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.
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.
...
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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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.
derive down to a short pier and take a long walk.
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