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Slashdot Announces Idle Section

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-not-read-the-idle-section dept.

For the last few months we've been beta testing Idle.slashdot.org, our offtopic humor/meme/viral video/pictures section. Like many of you, we spend most of our waking hours on-line seeking stuff to entertain our brains, but most replicators out there pick so much content that it's incredibly boring filtering through the mediocrity to find the funny. We intend to fill our idle section with a very small collection of the very best the net has to offer, making it the most efficient way to waste your time. Some of this content will make it back to the Slashdot mainpage, but much of it will be new content that we wouldn't dare soil the precious Slashdot mainpage with. We are also using it as a test bed for new functionality on Slashdot — currently the page is a reasonably dynamic/interactive experience with various voting controls and filtering options. Finally you will see occasional original content, starting with a recurring special feature today where Samzenpus shares some real tech support email from some of our most intelligent readers. We hope you will enjoy wasting a slice of your day with us, and in addition will submit content through the usual channels, but put it into the 'Idle' section so we know not to take it seriously. Now go about your day — it's mid August, so I'm sure everything you do is urgent, exciting, and oh-so-interesting.

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  1. Re:Natural order by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    Order -> chaos /. -> #$%&*

    I hate examples written in Perl.

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  2. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by Otter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Agreed, the last thing we want is for the cesspool of Digg-reading, MySpace dwelling, Pokemon-playing LuSerS!!!!!1 to spill over into where the grownups are trying to have intelligent discussions.

    You forgot "Wikipedia-linking".

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  3. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You forgot "Wikipedia-linking".

    [citation needed]

  4. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by Daimanta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Indeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia#Usefulness_as_a_reference

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  5. Re:Conspiracy Theory! by Hemos · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suspect you to be an agent of the Psychic Friends network.

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  6. Re:Conspiracy Theory! by scc · · Score: 5, Funny

    We have an Idle section now?

  7. Re:Conspiracy Theory! by ScuttleMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

    Please enjoy the shiny and click on our ads. /jedihandwave