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Slashdot's Disagree Mail
Everyone likes to belong to something. Whether it be for fun, a sense of belonging, or a need for attention, a group gives you a feeling of solidarity. Surrounding yourself with people that share common goals and ideas can be comforting. Sometimes however, you realize that you hate the people you've surrounded yourself with. Your religion doesn't allow you to read anything that has profanity or you've subscribed to Slashdot thinking you could learn more about hockey. This week's collection is composed of people who don't want to play, read, or be associated with us anymore. Read below to find out how bad they want out.
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 ****** wrote:
"I'm relly sick of the level of discrimination that goes on here. I thought it might be different with other people who maybe didn't win everything. But its no different people won't be nice when your nice first. I try to say what others are saying and they get marked up? Not me as well? How can that be? If I'm the same how can they not act the same to me. It's like you have to be around forever before they won't say bad things about your comments. I thought it was different but they are just as BIG COCSUCKERS!!!!! Take my account and throw it away I've had enough of the newbie bigotry and FUCKING UNFAIR LIES."
Being just like everyone else is harder than you think. This next guy at least isn't concerned about being accepted. He has a clear vision of what he wants out of life. His vision is a world without profanity.
On Tue, 13 May 2008 ******* wrote:
"I try to live a good clean life by learning all I can and nurturing my body and spirit. I'm afraid that I will not be able to become part of your community as I find it sick. Sick in mind body and soul. Why your people deem it necessary to use the language that they do I can never understand. Women, children and people of faith will never be able to learn what you have to impart because of the filth you are tending in this rank garden. Please stop sending me email."
This next guy had me puzzled. I'd never had a complaint from fans of Guns-N-Roses, horror movies or unsound logging practices about the confusing "Slash" part of Slashdot.
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 ******** wrote:
"I came here to learn about hockey and there is no hockey to be found. Your lucky that I didn't send you any money or we would have a big problem right now. If you don't want others to be confused to I suggest you think about changing your name to something that isn't obviously about hockey. I asked some coworkers and they agree, I'm not just some idiot. Come up with a name that means something."
"I'm relly sick of the level of discrimination that goes on here. I thought it might be different with other people who maybe didn't win everything. But its no different people won't be nice when your nice first. I try to say what others are saying and they get marked up? Not me as well? How can that be? If I'm the same how can they not act the same to me. It's like you have to be around forever before they won't say bad things about your comments. I thought it was different but they are just as BIG COCSUCKERS!!!!! Take my account and throw it away I've had enough of the newbie bigotry and FUCKING UNFAIR LIES."
Being just like everyone else is harder than you think. This next guy at least isn't concerned about being accepted. He has a clear vision of what he wants out of life. His vision is a world without profanity.
On Tue, 13 May 2008 ******* wrote:
"I try to live a good clean life by learning all I can and nurturing my body and spirit. I'm afraid that I will not be able to become part of your community as I find it sick. Sick in mind body and soul. Why your people deem it necessary to use the language that they do I can never understand. Women, children and people of faith will never be able to learn what you have to impart because of the filth you are tending in this rank garden. Please stop sending me email."
This next guy had me puzzled. I'd never had a complaint from fans of Guns-N-Roses, horror movies or unsound logging practices about the confusing "Slash" part of Slashdot.
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 ******** wrote:
"I came here to learn about hockey and there is no hockey to be found. Your lucky that I didn't send you any money or we would have a big problem right now. If you don't want others to be confused to I suggest you think about changing your name to something that isn't obviously about hockey. I asked some coworkers and they agree, I'm not just some idiot. Come up with a name that means something."
Also, what is the expected result of our discussions of this stuff? Is it to pick it apart and analyze it? Is it to provide user generated retorts that you can't due to legal reasons? I shall try a little of both.
Is Slashdot trying to add an optional low brow element to satisfy users that have left for other sites dedicated to that? Because, you know that half of your users are going to tag this 'pleasestop' or some such negative approval tag.
Also, why does it look different than the rest of Slashdot? Isn't it just another section? Why do you need another CSS for it? I seem to think it would be better site design to have a thorough reused theme but maybe you want the reader to know it's Idle. Who knows? Sure seems to upset a lot of people.
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"I'm relly sick of the level of discrimination that goes on here."
This level of reverence for the moderation system never ceases to amaze me. Hell, I myself can have a sour day if I'm given a thrashing on a post. This person doesn't even seem to be a regular user and they are already upset.
A very peculiar amount of power, these mod points are. Enough for someone to call a negative moderation discrimination!
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"I try to live a good clean life by learning all I can and nurturing my body and spirit."
Despite being raised Roman Catholic for 18 years, this still baffles me. I know I'm not the first person to share this view (I think I read about it in Vonnegut's "Palm Sunday") but there is a reason I don't swear often. It's not so I can be 'clean' and 'pure' ... it's so that when I do swear, people know I'm not fucking around. Seriously, if you're dropping f-bombs left and right then where do you go when you're genuinely upset? I prefer to not raise my voice so those words are reserved for extreme moments. I feel bad for the people who incorporate them into everyday life ... how loud do you think an injured rapper would have to raise their voice before people gave them medical attention?
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"I came here to learn about hockey and there is no hockey to be found. Your lucky that I didn't send you any money or we would have a big problem right now."
Am I the only person that had the sudden urge to register hockeydot.org and have it redirect to Slashdot?
"If you don't want others to be confused to I suggest you think about changing your name to something that isn't obviously about hockey. I asked some coworkers and they agree ..."
Are these the same coworkers that face physical abuse or verbal ridicule if they don't agree with you?
" ... I'm not just some idiot. Come up with a name that means something."
Of course you're not an idiot, you're just a hockey fan. And if <insert object here> isn't bleeding with hockey (in this case the internet), you are angered with it. I understand. I'm from Minnesota where many of your kind roam around in large herds laying waste to beer and stadiums. I would suggest moving there for solace and the ability to experience all hockey all the time.
My work here is dung.
I suggest you think about changing your name to something that isn't obviously about hockey. I asked some coworkers and they agree, I'm not just some idiot.
This made me laugh out loud. Funny how stupid people always think they're smarter than they are.
It blows my mind you're still posting this garbage on slashdot. Listen to your users.
Whale
Will somebody explain to me why the hockey guy thought slashdot had anything to do with hockey? Maybe I'm just a sports-illiterate nerd, but I don't see the connection.
No, but disagree mail is. This crap is actually kinda funny. But the rest of idle is pants!
...mod Mr. Hockey +5 Informative. I had no idea there was slashing in hockey. Do they use, like, kendo swords or something?
rj
"Women, children and people of faith will never be able to learn what you have to impart because of the filth you are tending in this rank garden."
What? Hold the horses, here! There is something to be learned from Slashdot? And here I thought it was a place for over-opinionated (and often bored) tech folks committing the equivalent of mental masturbation.
Bearded Dragon
Sheesh. What's problem...?
wtf?
I try to live a bad dirty life by not reading any articles and poisoning my body and spirit. I'm afraid that I do not want you to be a part of of this community as I find you healthy. Healthy in mind body and soul. Why you deem it necessary to not use language that we do I can never understand. Geeks, nerds, and dweebs will never be able to learn what you impart because of the impeccable cleanliness of your flowery garden. Please stop receiving our email.
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
You got THAT right.
Am I seeing this right!? I don't have a problem with the idle section, but this isn't even worthy of an Idle thread.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
That guy is right!! One month before hockey season opens, and there's not a single thought to be had about it here!!! Thats it! I'm going home and I'm taking my puck with me!!!
Why your people deem it necessary to use the language that they do I can never understand
We're a VB.Net shop. The language was forced upon us. We don't like it any more than you do. Sorry.
Now that my karma is bad - for the first time - I've got nothing to lose.
The modders must be high on something strong . . . like . . . over sugar'd kool-aid . . .
I've had a rash of being modded down and now I'm a baaaad boy.
Wonder what my mum would say.
Karma is like a VW - small, it floats, and is outdated - though attractive.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Stop trying to be Digg. Seriously. Slashdot is supposed to be uber geeky and you guys are steadily letting non geek stuff slip through, and adding unnecessary features in order to keep up with.. what, the mainstream? This post isn't even funny. Why add useless features like the idle section? Doesn't that go against everything we stand for?
Damn.
Sometime soon this section will die a slow death, but the stinking corpse will still lay around for all to see. Kinda like Slashback or those regular friendly fireside chats Cmdr Taco started (and then stopped) all those years ago.
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
It's sad to me that someone like the profanity guy just doesn't have a clue about the emailing mechanism (if he is indeed seeing emailed articles). I support people in their right to really find their own niche on the web; it's just too bad that many of them will never find it because the curve is too steep. Those of us who are happy to use Slashdot have already found our own ways of blocking trash we don't like, but many people are forced to wade through LOTS of stuff that they don't want to see as part of their normal web-surfing experience.
So, I totally sympathize with him, even though it's obvious his email is misdirected.
Idle is pants.
Theregister.co.uk has an alternative google chrome comic which is notably funnier.
Everybody understands the google hype engine. Is slashdot afraid of the giant that lives inside the matchbox?
This is fantastic. Your comment disproves itself!
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
If you include "news for nerds stuff that matters" the first 1000 include "salamanders"
my garden is dirty? i dont follow. is this some soviet code for "please stop using the word shitcock so many times"?
i wouldnt exactly call what i impart 'wisdom' either...
Good people go to bed earlier.
All I can say is that if your faith is shaken by if someone says fuck (or other profanity of choice) or not, it must be some pretty weak faith.
On that note: Cock!
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted." -Groucho Marx
What was it that prompted Slashdot to start posting its hate mail? Was someone clamoring for this?
I can only guess that posting stuff like this which causes a flurry of messages proclaiming it's stupidity is merely the result of slashdot trying to get more eyeballs on advertisements.
I come to that conclusion by process of elimination because there is no other intelligent reason for this.
I mean c'mon! Okay you post duplicate articles, you don't read summaries, and you once let JonKatz sully this site. But cmon! Do you really have any journalistic integrity? If you want to post letters from users, post constructive letters and have a discussion about them, rather than post flamebait.
The entire "idle" section is horrible, it's not even entertaining. To top it all off, Idle's layout is ugly, and when I post a comment, the comment field is 2 inches wide in the latest version of firefox! Why do I want to see anything here?
Kill Idle and bury it. For all of those who agree with me, I suggest you go to your preferences and set your content for the Idle section to "none." I'll be blocking the entire section because it seems to be the only way to get thru to the slashdot editors that crap should not be tolerated. This is because if you block the article, you block the ad that comes with it, and that hits home in the pocketbook. Follow the money...
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
Before you complain about being modded down, let me just say something.
It isn't about "I'm so clever" it's about courtesy and polite for getting modded into oblivion. Ask 1 of the twitters who lashes out randomly with racism and you'll know why he gets modded that way regardless of what he says.
Some people only "joke" about being smart. It's a certain type of humor you may or may not understand. But as far as us thinking we are better than you (or anyone else). It's nothing like that 99% of the time.
So please, have a nice day, and smile champ.
Disclaimer: I am not god.
We may not be created equal
But we can be treated equal.
Anonymous posters are treated as second class citizens. This is inconsistent with the pro-reason and pro-privacy atmosphere on Slashdot where appeals to authority are (rightly) called out and arguments (rightly) stand on their merits irrespective of the poster's identity. This is especially irritating when both the fervent pro-privacy, pro-free-speech advocate and the anti-anonymous snob are one and the same person.
Also, cocks.
But man, that green color in editor's post hurt my eyes. I have to blink for a moment to switch back to code. This is my hatemail. Take that, slashdot. :)
You will never have experience until after you needed it.
i came here looking for information about hashpots but YR LUCKY I DIDN'T SEND YOU MONEY.
It's as if all of Digg reached out and touched slashdot in this post. It makes me hurt
Sign me for this. Please completely disable my account.
Signed
Anonymous
... are a ploy to get more people to sign up for accounts so that they can block idle content from the main page.
Tautologies, they are what they are.
What's a "mind body"?
Also, please stop with this "Disagree Mail" crap. Idle is already the short bus of the interwebs, don't make it any worse than it already is.
I think the guy talk about slapshot (the hockey guy).
Very disturbing indeed!
Get a new Idle Theme!
If you squint enough and after drinking through 2.5 periods of a Detriot Redwings vs. Minnesota Wild playoff game 5.
BTW: The icon could also look like Lacrosse or golf. Get ready for hate mail from those fans also.
And he did not read the tag line "news for nerds"?
I just realised that the white-on-green colour scheme used for the story is immensely more pleasant to look at, when seriously stoned, than the black-on-white colour scheme commonly used by /.
Is there any way to personalise / modify the css used when displaying /. ?
- I'd like it white-on-green, pleeeze.
Please ignore the mullet headed, cheap beer swilling hockey fan. His parents dove into the shallow end of the gene pool, obviously, and he does not represent all hockey fans.
This is a great series. Please continue Disagree Mail.
I'll post it here publicly saving them the step of pasting an email into an idle post for public ridicule:
The weekly "Lookie who dum everyone else is!" column is sad. Sure, these people aren't your core audience (obviously) but going out of your way to hold people up for ridicule and abuse when they've done nothing but be ignorant (At worst) is juvenile. But as a feature with the full blessing of the parent company is beyond unprofessional, it's just disgusting.
I know that a large part of Slashdot culture is holding the ignorant up to the cleansing flame of truth and then having decades long flame wars with ourselves about "truth" but it's exactly this part of the culture that we need to shed if IT professionals want to shake the stereotype of being socially stunted. (By, you know, not acting like we're socially stunted.)
"The filth you are tending in this rank garden" That is such a great quote. It makes me think of the right wing political process.
COME ON MODS, FIGHT ME YOU FAGGOTS
What? Trying to pick a fight? Moi? Clearly you have no idea what picking a fight means, YOU DAMN FAGGOTS
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
because there is only one point of view-Americans and yet that majority thinks its 'objective' 'scientific', blablabla
keep this idle shit off of the main page!
// ==UserScript==
// @name slashdot
// @namespace foo
// @description unscewup idle
// @include http://idle.slashdot.org/
// ==/UserScript==
var a, thisdomain, links;
links = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
a = links[i];
if (a.getAttribute("class") == "head" ) {
a.style.backgroundColor = 'white';
a.style.color = 'black';
}
if (a.getAttribute("class") == "details" ) {
a.style.color = 'black';
}
if (a.getAttribute("class") == "body" ) {
a.style.color = 'black';
a.style.fontSize = "100%";
}
}
Seems to work for now.
YMMV.
First: People send money to websites? Maybe that's why my Karma is "bad", who do I send the check to? Second: Is that picture of the fat mailman a slashdot editor in costume or a generic postal pic?
Impetuous! Homeric!
I just find him great: "...because of the filth you are tending in this rank garden". I might not agree with him, but the particular green at the top of the page reminds me of certain jungle plants which grow in deep shade and have developed a similar hue. Also they show a metallic luster which comes from certain crystals they are growing to gather even more light. I just can't find any - oh wait it is on google books: "Vegetation-climate Interaction", Jonathan Adams, Ning Zeng. On page 89 you will find something about Begonia leaves being blueish green and iridescent and living on the rain forest floor.
http://books.google.com/books?id=NMgirQi1oDMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=vegetation+climate&sig=ACfU3U2YZnCT2_M7jfZLZElOzEZ9ljgm8w#PPA89,M1
I wonder what the odd id in the link means, but appart from this it is a nice introductory book about plant-climate interaction.
Well, living on the forest floor gives plants a lot of access to the fumes of decaying matter from the canopy above and also to much higher CO_2 levels. I don't know whether this says anything about Slashdot but with some suspension of disbelief one might find some truth in his statement.
I mean, I admire these plants living with all these hardships - low light, the stink. I just hope they make good use of the CO_2.
Je me souviens.
Please, just go here:
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome
And under the section labeled "Customize Stories on the Homepage", click on the radio button to the right of "Idle" that is under the NOT sign (red circle with a slash through it) and then click on the Submit button at the bottom.
Then Idle stories will no longer show up on the homepage for you and then you can stop whining about them.
It's all about personal selective filtering rather than system-wide censorship, something that most Slashdot users should be able to understand.
What does 'hockey' mean? A new scripting language? A state-of-the-art GPU?
What's with the guy who thinks women and children are incapable of faith? Oh well, to each his own.
How about on idle, you post all the hate mail about idle. All of it. I'm sure there's not that much, right? I mean, you wouldn't keep a section going if it were almost universally reviled. I mean, not like it gets tagged "idleispants" "pleasestop" "noonelikesthis" etc. right?
is like complaining about pee in a public pool.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Don't worry about this guy. He also complained to MicroSoft when he was unable to find any information about his erectile dysfunction at their site.
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i think profanity is a personal choice, if you wanna use it have at. you can still be tactful and make a good point using it. granted you can also be a fucking moron. it just depends on the context... and i especially don't like elitism. and you're pretty elitist if you don't like people that swear, that's discriminatory, and to say that this is a niche website, i work for a general contractor. you've got a lot of diversities. dirty mexicans, cool mexicans, dumb fat white people, cool fat white people (jk, kinda). all around it just depends on your company. my boss has been with the company 16 years and he's rigged his work truck with an HHO module and is getting awesome gas mileage, plus researching to build himself a magnetic motor or something that works better. it's very cool. then i know people who are just stupid assholes... just put up with everything and get over yourself. welcome to the new world.
If you don't like the profanity on Slashdot, go dig a big hole in your backyard and fill it with water...
Or something.
It makes this rank garden more fertile.
Women, children and people of faith will never be able to learn what you have to impart because of the filth you are tending in this rank garden.
I'm a woman, you fucking insensitive clod!
Or is it a misapplication of DeMorgan's theorem?
I can never seem to tell these days.
Now get off my lawn!
No there is no one making some wild connection George Bush out of no where.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
When I first saw this earlier, I managed to get in BEFORE the auto whine-tag scripts (pleasestop, idleispants, whinewhineihatelevityboohoo, etc) the haters have running had a chance to tag up. Seriously, you guys are getting slow.
As much as I love slashdot to keep me in the "now", I have noticed it is kind-of a good-ol'-boys-club.
;)"
"Slashdot's moderating system is total bullshit and the admins are retards for still keeping it around. Nearly every downmodding that occurs on Slashdot is 100% invalid."
*** And that person gets a -1? For having an opinion? ***
"Including the -1 you just got?
*** And that person gets a 5? He's probably the douche that -1'd the first guy. ***
While I like the format of the news I receive here, the implementation of the commenting system leaves MUCH to be desired. I can easily see how it'd piss people off. (mostly people that need to get out more, but still)
Oh, and yes, go nuts flaming me with "comments" (which is about all it is, and it's lucky to qualify as a comment in most cases, unfortunately). You're comment will be +5 and mine will be -1. Luckily, even if NASA devoted all their employed brain-power for an entire year, I still don't think we could find a way for me to give a fuck less.
Unfortunately, it would seem many of these "slashdotters" seem to gain personal validation by being having "popular" comments.
But my opinion aside... exactly how is the moderation system adding value to this site or anyone's lives?
No really? Serious question!
I never notcied this before but he's right. There's not nearly enough hockey on this site.
Am I the only person that had the sudden urge to register hockeydot.org and have it redirect to Slashdot?
Check this out: Hockeydot.net.
Yeah, I know, slashDOT, hockeyDOT...right. It's a weak connection, but the sender was a weak idiot. I would expect this kind of stupid logic from a person like him.
Man is the animal that laughs.
And occasionally whores for Karma.
There is no bad publicity
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
You are an arrogant little prick with a superiority complex. Everyone here is saying you deserve what you are getting. We are the moderators. We choose to moderate you down because you are an ass and an idiot. The only argument that I can see that the system isn't working is that you weren't slapped down harder and faster, and we all had to read more of your brain farts than any sane person would want to. You aren't as smart as you think you are. You aren't funny. You aren't insightful. No one agrees with you. You are an outcast with no social skills even among outcasts with poor social skills.
Either that or you are a truly brilliant troll.
While I very seldom post to this site I do enjoy following it closely for both the news and the unusually high quality of many posts. That being said, I've found the recent inclusion of idle material into the main page to be disconcerting in the extreme. The fact that slashdot boasts a robust filtering system isn't enough on it's own to justify the repeated posting of material that fails to inform, inspire, or otherwise positively influence anything. I think many of the development staff's goals behind idle's inclusion in the main stream might be better addressed through a slashdot blog or somesuch (i.e. just how much crap the mod staff is regularly subjected too). If the goal was purely to break into the intertube's massive lolcat/political rant market, I think the slashdot team needs to understand that they will be sacrificing what has become a very respected position in the web community. As it stands now, I would be less likely to refer a collegue to check out slashdot as a news source, simply because worrying about their reading "cocsuckers" in the first story they might happen accross isn't something I'm going to subject myself too.
**insert favorite profound quotation here**
I find the disagree mail interesting, I'm surprised that it's been so poorly received by the 'community'. Placed in quotes because I fall into the group that occasionally visits slashdot and almost never leaves comments. (This might be my first.) It would be nice to read the section without all the redundant (ha! slashdot word used +1) complaining about a complaints section.
Bungie started posting the funny emails they get from people who get banned from Halo 2 and 3. Some were just sad, because if they were really how the person thinks, then I imagine that going through life is pretty difficult for them. I feel the same for some of these. It's amazing how sensitive of creatures we are.
Can I bum a sig?
What... really?
I've been doing it wrong all this time?
A Human Right
So all we need to do to get rid of the superstitious zealots who tell me that I am going to hell because I recite a incantation, or that I am going to hell because I will not believe that that contradicts my own senses, or I am going to hell because I have enough faith to believe in the great unknown and the probably known is use more profanity? Shit ya'. I am so fucking in.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
The comments! Hell, I don't even RTFP. I just skip right to what you all post, and I just fall over in gales of gut-wrenching laughter. I'm serious. In fact, I bet there could be no e-mails posted, and you guys would rock the house with your comments!
(Really. I'm serious!)
I know there's a good chance that you'll never read this, because of all the filth you see around it, but I must write it. I don't know what faith you claim, but it seems as if it is only for those who are good enough. I guess it would be wrong for you to walk on the streets without soundproof earplugs, because someone might drop an f-bomb in your vicinity. I also guess you must keep your eyes closed most of the time, so you don't accidentally see something evocative or inappropriate.
I, too, am a person of faith, but my faith does not teach me to hide away from those who act in ways that do not align with my beliefs. On the contrary, my faith teaches me that I am to be a light in a dark world, by living the life that God has given me in a manner that is grateful to him for all he has done for me. My faith teaches that God has adopted me as a son because I trust him and accept they payment he made for my very life. As a son, I am grateful. Yet I also understand that those who have not yet accepted his gift, which leads to adoption, cannot be expected to live by the same standard to which I have been called to live. In fact, the messiah himself, when self-righteous religious leaders asked why he hung out with drunks and prostitutes, replied by saying that healthy people don't need a physician (telling them, indirectly, that they, who claimed to be righteous, did not need him while those "sinners" around him needed him there).
If you truly are a person who is carrying the light of God, why would you not want to be part of this community? Don't you believe that they need to hear his message? I don't expect my peers in the technology field to share my desire to keep my communications clean, because they do not share my faith. I hope that my interactions with them--a group of intelligent, witty, and (usually) well-meaning people--will help to demonstrate that not all people who claim the name of Christ, the messiah, feel it is their purpose on this earth to beat them over the head with doctrine, accusations, and slurs. I hope that in some way, someone will see my witness here (or on the other sites you likely would also consider "sick in mind body and soul") and say, "Wow, there's one of those Christian nut-jobs who isn't like the others I've encountered...I wonder if there really could be something to what he believes."
And yes, I know that making these comments here are likely to open me and my beliefs up to criticism and open disdain, but I will not be ashamed of the good news that I have received: that Jesus (Y'shua), the Christ, who though innocent of any wrongdoing, suffered execution in the place of me and all of mankind to appease the wrath of God (for God is both just and loving), so that we could be reconciled with God, and was vindicated when he was raised from death to life, so that all who believe this good news and in faith turn away from their sins and toward a loving God will also partake in that resurrection and be heirs of life without end in the presence of God. This I believe, regardless of how much anyone else derides me or my Lord. Yet I will not look upon those who will respond in such a way as horrible people, or people deserving of God's anger. Rather, I see them as people in need of mercy and grace--people who do not realize the depth of God's love for them, and for whom I can only hope for the best. ~HikingStick~
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
If the redirect is in place I'm not seeing it. I know DNS info takes awhile to propagate, but I've found Godaddy get the word around pretty quick. I'll check a bit later. If someone knows a public dns server that has picked this up perhaps you can post it here.
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
WTF!
I actually thought it would be fun to laugh about the whiners that want out (hint: quit coming here guys), but you only post three?
What a waste of time to waste my time in such an ineffective manner!
NO SIG
As far as canceling ID's go, why not? My suggestion to Slashdot for a feature would be just that, a feature that lets a user say "I've had it" and turns in and cancels their user number, that number will consequently be allowed re-assignment to the next Slashdot user that comes along, might give me a shot at a 2,3,4 or 5 digit user ID someday :-)
Actually if Slashdot was feeling capitalist, maybe detect if that ID is 2,3,4 or 5 digits and offer them for sale using a price that's dependent on the number itself (lower or "cool" numbers such as 666 or 1234 go for higher prices...)
...in bed
Really, he is just expressing his existential angst. Aren't we all going somewhere to learn about hockey in our own way? Yet we wander about in lonely, unfriendly desolation.
No sir, you are not just some idiot. You are the quintessential idiot that represents humanity's great mortal struggle with meaninglessness.
I think it's broken, and I have excellent karma. On the other hand I am an anarchist, so I think every authoritarian system is "broken".
Beyond that, I fail to see anything remarkable in the alleged "hate mail". They represent very legitimate points-of-view even if we do not share them. In all, I see this as a feeble attempt to push hitcount.
On the plus side, it is good to see the editors faithfully reflect their audience: they can be slashtards too!
> he does not represent all hockey fans
I'm sure most other hockey fans are probably much more intelligent. Maybe even all eight of you.
I mean, seriously, *hockey*? What next, beach lacrosse? Full-contact fly fishing? Jai alai? World championship fooseball? Intramural underwater pole vaulting? Indoor soccer?
I wouldn't even bet money (without checking) that there'd be information about hockey on hockey.com, much less on slashdot.org.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Wait a minute!! Isn't this site a Fatboy Slim fan forum ?
MOD THE CHILD UP!
Yeh, I can understand. I was equally pissed when I discovered that I wasn't able to order pipes on youtube...
but i stayed for the women and booze (clearly)
not only is time travel possible, it's irrelevant.
Although I don't know of any specific hockey discussions, I remember a hot figure skating/ice dancing gripefest during the run up to the Olympics. With a group as eclectic as this, hockey is bound to come up sometime. After all if a million monkeys can write Shakespeare....thousands of Slashdotters can say something about the NHL.
Wait... what? You're saying these emails weren't sent by George?
The details are trivial and useless; The reasons, as always, purely human ones.
This thread is an Escher thread.
Except for all you retards who aren't geeky enough to know who Escher was.
Lacrosse, yes. Golf, no. With a golf club, the face is slanted the other way ie ( \. instead of /.)
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
It's news for nerds! It's entertainment! It's both!
You're confusing desire for a higher ideal and the gutter reality of human nature. So what the parent company has blessed this? Since when is Slashdot some sort of flagship for proper behavior or even known outside of the tech crowd? It's their company, they can do what they want and the market will reward actions accordingly. Maybe they compiled statistics showing how popular the competition is for funny modded posts. And last I checked a clear percentage of tech people are socially stunted, part of the mass appeal to come here. (Cough, cough, not me of course)
How are people being abused? There's a hot button word - I fail to see how ending up as fodder for what is clearly meant as satire qualifies as abuse. Humor is often all about ridicule, stupidity, and yes, quite often completely juvenile behavior, whether or not it's fair or mature is beside the point. Hence movies like Dodge Ball, a true pinnacle of achievement, get made and make money.
I would love to see this same profiling done for comments posted to my local TV news website. It's truly scary to see what people post: someone has a horrible freeway accident and a commenter posts something to the effect of 'hell yes, cool, a dead person, he deserved it because my microsecond skim of a sensationally covered news item suggests it to me'.
So far, the rest of these blew. This one had me laughing.
We now have confirmed reports from an informed Orange County minister that Ethel is still an active communist.
I understand completely. During discussions like this, I wonder if the people on here that are at each other's throats with trolls and flames abound, is that it makes for some really great 'idle' reading material. The system works.
anything sensefull to say not needed
Slashdot has jumped the shark.
. _/ ./ isnt't the bestest place to figure out what hockey and slashdot got in common?
Perhaps
...what he really meant was that there wasn't enough hokey.
He must have hit Slashdot on a good day.
Do as you would be done to.