Slashdot's Disagree Mail

I am responsible for reading most of the help requests sent to Slashdot. Most of the mail I get in a day is what you would expect, comments and concerns about postings, user accounts and Slashdot itself. There are a very special group however that get passed around the office due to the inordinate level of anger, lack of understanding and just plain weirdness they possess. Through the years I've collected many and still get such gems on a regular basis. We thought it would be fun to share some of our favorite rants, ramblings and ruminations with the rest of you. I give to you the first of many installments of Slashdot's disagree mail. The names have been changed to protect the idiot — hit the link below to drink it in.

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?"

Comments

Oh crap

[Brazilian Geek]

Sorry for that, I just saw the option in the Index > Section preferences.

Sorry...

Tagging Beta

[bugg_tb]

You know I've been reading slashdot for years, long before the tagging stuff came in and its taken until reading this article to realise that you click the little arrows to add tags, I always wondered how it was done :)

Re:It is most munificent of you,

[clone53421]

javascript:for(var a=document.getElementsByTagName("textarea"),i=0;i<a.length;i++){a[i].style.width="100%";a[i].style.height="300px";}void(0);

There ya go.

Re:It is most munificent of you,

[Wandering Wombat]

I love you now, sir.

Re:It is most munificent of you,

[Atticka]

Agreed! the transition from white on green to black on white just made me blind!

Re:It is most munificent of you,

[The MAZZTer]

*cough* @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain(slashdot.org) {
.inline_comment .generalbody {
padding-right: 30px !important;
}
.inline_comment .generalbody textarea {
width: 100% !important;
}
} *cough*

Whew, gotta do something about that cough. You know it's getting bad when you cough up Stylish sheets.

I should probably write another one to fix the lack of proper line spacing in the preview when using <p>s...

More stupid people and IT pros

[daveywest]

Since idle.slashdot.org is failing to deliver on the promise to waste my life away, I present http://rinkworks.com/stupid/

Re:It is most munificent of you,

[againjj]

When replaying click options, under Comment Box Size, set Rows and Columns to what you want, click save, and the next time you make a comment, it is a better size!

Though why it doesn't resize the box currently open, I have no idea. Seems dumb to me.

Re:It is most munificent of you,

[Firehed]

Or just use Safari and resize on the fly :p

(I hate Safari but had to throw it out there)

Re:Years worth of emails

[JCSoRocks]

That's would be 2 in hex...for the ubergeeks

wtf?? Since when? That's decimal 2 in binary... not hex. 10 in hex would be the same as 16 in decimal. Maybe you need a little help. Remember, math is FUN.

Re:It is most munificent of you,

[digitig]

Green on black? We submitted Hollerith cards, and got back output from a golfball printer that was so misaligned that you couldn't easily read along a line even with the green lines preprinted on the paper to help you!

Re:Dear Slashdot,

[Maelwryth]

"How do I mod down an entire article?"

Go to the Firehose.

Re:Dear slashdot:

[zobier]

Come on, you're not seriously going to make a function to not do something?
How about:

if ( category == "idle" ) {
    post_in_front_page = false;
}

Or how about going to Help & Preferences > Sections > Idle > Never?

Re:It is most munificent of you,

[ockegheim]

Wikipedia knows everything:

As the teletype came into use, a key was created that would temporarily interrupt the communications line, allowing this practice to continue. When this occurred, the receiving teletype mechanism would activate but not print characters (it was typing the non-printing DEL character repeatedly). The noise got the operator's attention.

I bet these noobs have never used a teletype either>

Re:True or not, one of my favorites...

[Moghedien]

Not true, but still entertaining.