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Slashdot Announces Idle Section
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.
sorry... typed an extra '/' before that link, http://thedailywtf.com/Default.aspx
When did Slashdot do funny April Fools?
OMG Ponies!!!
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
You're missing the point, this is great news. If idle becomes a "real" section, we'll finally be able to block it from the front page.
idle section stories show up on the mobile browser version of the homepage. Since I don't bother to log in on my mobile, I'm assaulted by this idiotic crap that I can easily avoid when using a normal browser. Please consider removing it.
Don't worry, it doesn't work under IE7 either.
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You have no idea how accurate this is.
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
Oops. I just took a look at the idle section and you're right. I'm very sorry. Jokes about poo would be a step up.
Well, the article is about /. and so is my post.. but has anyone else noticed a difference in how mod points are awarded? I check /. this morning at work and had 15 moderator points. Anyone else see this? The FAQ still says you only get 5 points and they expire after 3 days.
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