Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot's Disagree Mail
Our first entry starts off by explaining:
"Every time I try to login it tells me that my password is bad! I know I'm using the right password why won't you let me in? My account is *******"
I'm sorry but I don't see an account with the name *******. I also don't find an account with the email address you're using associated with it. Do you happen to know what your uid is?
"Try lookin harder cause I was using AOL a few days ago just fine but now I can't! I'm mailing you from the library right now cause you won't let me on the internet!"
AOL? Can you not log into Slashdot or is the problem that you can't get online at home?
"Whats Slashdot why am I given you guys money for internet if I cant use it?!"
Slashdot is the website you are writing to. If you were banned here for some reason I might be able to help you but I'm not in charge of the whole internet, at least not yet. It sounds like you need to get a hold of AOL tech support and hopefully they can solve your problem.
"If you can't help me why are you on google when I type in help with the internet? If you don't want to help people when they need it maybe you shouldn't be on google!"
Our last email this week demonstrates something, but I'm not exactly sure what it is:
from ***************
to banned@slashdot.org
date Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:46 PM
subject stop sending me mail
"If your so fucking smart that you created the great and awesome slashdot why can't you figure out that I don't want your stupid bulshit mail! Everyone here acts like they are so much smarter than everyone else and that a teenager can't know what is right because he isn't fat enough from sitting around eating twinkys and playing games on the computer. You never even had a girlfriend I bet because you're to busy being smarter than everyone else. Fuck you stop sending mail just because you can't handle me!
P.S. Sorry I didn't write that my little brother did but I really don't want to get mail from you anymore can you help me please?"
And he posts two. Must be a tough job.
Stupidity in the /. community :P
There sure is an abundance of it!
So as they say in soviet russia... /discuss
Send complaint to: banned@slashdot.org
Style sheet? I though Someone swallowed the blue and yellow Playdough and threw up on my monitor.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
Now, wtf do you expect us to discuss?
How about the unholy heinousness that is idle's design? It looks like hammered shit. No, I take that back. It makes hammered shit look good.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Everyone here acts like they are so much smarter than everyone else and that a teenager can't know what is right because he isn't fat enough from sitting around eating twinkys and playing games on the computer. You never even had a girlfriend I bet because you're to busy being smarter than everyone else.
Despite a complete lack of clue he sounds just like any other Slashdotter.
Scratch that, he does sound just like any other Slashdotter.
You just got troll'd!
WTF? Is that it?! 2 emails? Where's the rest of it? What do I pay you for? WHat are you doing on the internet if you can't share more than 2 emails? Grrr! I'm so angry!!!
I am going to have to agree with you. Really bad web design etiquette if you ask me. I mean I have always loved slashdot because they do a great job having a really clean website.
You know, I was going to post a whole rant about how you got me all excited to read about some really funny emails from a bunch of idiot readers only to find you only posted two of them, and only the first one was kinda funny.
But then I realized maybe the whole point of setting us up for nothing was to see how many irate people would sent you hate mail and post rants about the pointlessness of this article, thus bringing the whole thing full circle:
10 Get irate email
20 post lame article about it
30 goto 10
-- Senior Software Engineer, Attorney appearance services, locallawyerapp.com.
If you ask a chick what she looks for in a man, she'll say a good sense of humor. It's a complete lie -- what she really wants is a good looking dude. That would mean you are screwed. You might be tempted at that point to feel a little better, saying "Hey, at least I do have a good sense of humor.."
But you don't. You clearly posted these support emails thinking they would be good for a laugh, but, instead, they were just really boring.
Whale
Oh man, those were priceless! Of course, so are grass clippings.
fixed my internet.
I hope you know I called Google and told them to remove you from the search list for "fixing the internet"
I swear you guys are like the Maytag Repair man of the internet.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
...more a grotesquesheet.
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An evening of navel gazing with CowboyNeal!
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
Looks like I'm not the only one who used to hammer shit as a kid.
Make sure it is a good rant.
By the way, thanks for making the comment box about 2 inches by 2 inches large. I guess it is a form of text compression.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
First IDLE now this.
You guys had a board meeting didn't you?
How many times do I have to warn you about those!
Good thing I ate all those twinkies!
This was like promising sex and delivering a strip tease :(
Back in my day, we had green-on-black text. If you were really lucky, you had AMBER on black. Now, those were the days.
Now where were we? Oh yeah--the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
I once got an email bomb where someone called me gay. This was back around 2000 before we implemented filters. My mailbox, about 20mb at the time, was completely filled. I kind of laughed because of the irony (it's true) but was livid at the fact that I had to write a script to clear the emails out of our ancient POP server.
I've always pictured the life of a Slashdot editor as a glamorous one. Partying with hot supermodels like Hugh Heffner, flying around the world in the Slashdot Learjet, racing Ferraris against CowboyNeal, pouring hot grits on Natalie Portman... that sort of thing.
After reading this article and discovering that the above emails were "very special" "gems" that brightened the editors' day, I think I may have to lower my image of them a bit.
That's not green, buddy. It's teal. Which is incredibly annoying regardless of any other factors.
Whale
Too bad. You should have sent an irate email about it to slashdot. It looks like samzenpus can use the material.
Maybe the editor posted before previewing?
time to crank up the weirdness, people
You should see someone about that
rewriting history since 2109
I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
You misspelled slide rule, but point taken.
My XT Clone had a turbo button on it! Boy did Wordperfect fly with the turbo on.
But I didn't care for the last one or the first one.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
I am intrigued by your thoughts and ideas and would subscribe to your newsletter or pamphlet.
Respectfully,
Intrigued
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
He's not a guy, oh wait this is /.
Dual Century Programming: Yeah I know
are you one of those guys writing these emails to slashdot?
And of course in fitting with one of the Laws of the Internet, my complaint about grammar contains a misspelling. Sigh.
If you mod me Overrated, you are admitting that you have no penis.
Why is it that every time I hear the words "negative space" I just thick "fucking prick" and stop listening?
Burma Shave
When was that, nineteen dickety two?
CGA and Text. OOOOOOOH!
Then I bought a Hercules graphics card, and lost that capability...
the dual 24" widescreen monitors I have now are driven by a graphics card that has 50x the memory of my hard drive that was in that system, and 1000x the memory.
Windows runs just as fast, tho...
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
I pasted this into my address bar, thinking "why the hell not"
The fact that it actually worked is just plain scary...
What's next? Address bar pong?
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
Damn, my ex-wife hangs out on Slashdot.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Who is this Amber you speak of, and where can I get her phone number?
so _that's_ where you got all those freckles!
The story behind the letter below is that there is this nutball in
Newport, RI, named Scott Williams who digs things out of his backyard
and sends the stuff he finds to the Smithsonian Institute, labeling
them with scientific names, insisting that they are actual archaeological finds.
This guy really exists and does this in his spare time!
Here's the actual response from the Smithsonian Institute. Bear this
in mind next time you think you are challenged in your duty to respond
to a difficult situation in writing.
Smithsonian Institution
207 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20078
Dear Mr. Williams: .Hominid
Thank you for your latest submission to the Institute, labeled
"93211-D, layer seven, next to the clothesline post . .
skull". We have given this specimen a careful and detailed
examination, and regret to inform you that we disagree with your theory that it represents
conclusive proof of the presence of Early Man in Charleston County two
million years ago.
Rather, it appears that what you have found is the head of a Barbie
Doll, of the variety that one of our staff, who has small children,
believes to be "Malibu Barbie". It is evident that you have given a
great deal of thought to the analysis of this specimen, and you may be quite certain
that those of us who are familiar with your prior work in the field
were loathe to come to contradiction with your findings. However, we
do feel there are a number of physical attributes of the specimen
which might have tipped you off to its modern origin:
1. The material is molded plastic. Ancient hominid remains are
typically fossilized bone.
2. The cranial capacity of the specimen is approximately 9 cubic
centimeters, well below the threshold of even the earliest identified
proto-homonids.
3. The dentition pattern evident on the skull is more consistent
with the common domesticated dog than it is with the ravenous
man-eating Pliocene clams you speculate roamed the wetlands during that time.
This latter finding is certainly one of the most intriguing hypotheses
you have submitted in your history with this institution, but the
evidence seems to weigh rather heavily against it. Without going into too much
detail, let us say that:
A. The specimen looks like the head of a Barbie doll that a dog
has chewed on.
B. Clams don't have teeth.
It is with feelings tinged with melancholy that we must deny your
request to have the specimen carbon-dated. This is partially due to
the heavy load our lab must bear in its normal operation, and partly
due to carbon-dating's notorious inaccuracy in fossils of recent geologic
record.
To the best of our knowledge, no Barbie dolls were produced prior to
1956 AD, and carbon-dating is likely to produce wildly inaccurate
results.
Sadly, we must also deny your request that we approach the National
Science Foundation Phylogeny Department with the concept of assigning
your specimen the scientific name Australopithecus spiff-arino. Speaking
personally, I, for one, fought tenaciously for the acceptance of your
proposed taxonomy, but was ultimately voted down because the species
name you selected