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The Tiger Effect and Internet DDoS
An anonymous reader writes "Many US and Canadian ISPs thought they were under a massive denial of service attack yesterday — traffic spiked by hundreds of gigabits across North America. Turns out that the traffic was due to live streaming of the U.S. Open and Tiger Woods nail-biting victory."
What's with all these nazi and gay posts on slashdot lately ? Mods should start banning left and right.
I don't know, I never watch it. I heard it's a bunch of white guys who run around a course occupying prime real-estate that sucks up so much water for irrigation that its run-off alone contributes the majority of pollution found in downstream water sources.
A REAL sport is where men and woman compete equally, like late-nite strip poker (no Tilly sisters allowed - they cheat, at least the raunchy one does), not a bunch of white guys chasing after a little white ball.
Never. Mods are there to mod up or mod down, never to ban. Trolls are trolls, learn how to ignore them. Posting AC because this is off topic.
It's one thing to be a Windows or Linux troll. That I can live with. It's another to post information that is completely off topic (and also likely NSFW). While I'm a great advocate of free speech, not everything should be said everywhere. And slashdot should be a place for nerds to converse about tech stuff. Not a platform for gay lifestyle discussions or radical political commentary.
How very free speech friendly of you.
But I have to admit I could have gone the rest of my life without having to read trash like the original post.
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I guess it depends on what you want modding to be like. When I get mod points I drop to -1, look for moderator abuse and spent most of my points shooting fish in a barrel by modding down trolls which usually burns my points in 10-15 minutes. I'd rather comment than moderate discussions, but I'm happy to help take out the garbage.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
I also read at -1, just in case there's some abuse to be corrected. Most of the time, however, I spend my points on posts that haven't been moderated yet. I'd much rather seek out under-appreciated posts than waste my mod points going ME TOO! by pushing a post up even further.
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Maybe I am unloved but I only get 5 mod points. They do arrive at a greater frequency than before though... *shrug*
Also*, I almost never mod down (twice in four years maybe?) and I never listen to posts that say, "mod parent down" or, "this is a twitter sockppuppet", etc.
*grammer nazis(sic) pay attention here
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"Someone needs to talk to the tree of liberty about its ghoulish drinking problem." by ohnocitizen
Was the "Gay vs Nazi" "Left vs Right" analogy a purposeful joke or did you just strike lucky there?
I always read at -1, because I am a troll and can appreciate others' work.
After all, I am strangely colored.