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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."
To slash someone in hockey means to strike them with the blade of your stick, usually the lower legs. If the ref sees you do it, it's a two minute minor penalty.
I likes it as well...All work and no play makes for a dull day. I wish all the goddamn whiners would learn to use the goddamn preferences if they don't want to see it.
HERE is the LINK you whiny bastards...Scroll down to "idle" and put the little dot in the little radio box under the universal circle/slash that means DO NOT WANT.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
I think the guy talk about slapshot (the hockey guy).
Very disturbing indeed!
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/. looks like a hockey stick.
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Seems to work for now.
YMMV.
You've been downmodded over 10 times because of your N posts, N of them are trolls and/or flamebait.
Your first post is clearly a troll by stating that /.'s mod system is broken, as a reply to a comment which is unrelated to /.'s mod system. That's the precise definition of troll; furthermore, it is not a fact (no matter how much anecdotal evidence you offer), but rather, your opinion. Your other N-1 posts (all but the first) are meta-troll and/or meta-flamebait posts; in each post, you argue that the first post shouldn't have been downmodded for being troll/flamebait, thus sparking a useless discussion about trolls and flamebaits and /.'s mod system.
PLONK
By definition "Theft of Music" is stealing. Copyright infringement isn't theft.
Don't like that? Argue with the U. S. Congress. They carefully put copyright law in Title 17 of the U.S. Legal code. The just as carefully put all theft related law in a different whole title. That title is the one reserved for ALL normally criminal violations, as it says right at the start of the code, so the U. S. congress thinks copyright infringement isn't theft AND isn't necessarily criminal at all.
Argue with the Supreme Court. They ruled that individual states can't enforce copyright, so if violations were theft, they would be taking away the right of the individual states to stop a type of theft happening in their own physical jurisdiction. The Supreme Court has already clarified that that is not what they did.
Argue with the Constitution. It uses the phrase "for a limited time". If violation equaled theft, then the law would be saying there is a type of theft where objects become too old to be protected under law, just from age and not from any loss of value.
Argue with the Berne treaty. If violation is theft, then what's all that bit in the treaty about non-criminal violation? Non-criminal theft? That's an oxymoron for sure.
If you really believe copyright violation is theft, then you need to get up impeachment proceedings against at least four of the current supreme court justices and over 40 still active congressmen who voted on these laws in the 80's and 90's. Depending on just which decisions you would rate as coddling thieves, that could be all the SCOTUS and over 250 active congress-members. You also need to impeach the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and possibly several members of the cabinet for negotiating and signing various treaties and such. There are at least 10 currently serving ambassadors and their immediate staff that you need to get removed from office too, and various other functionaries. You probably should prosecute a large number of people now out of office, or at least support civil suits for denial of due process against many of them. You also need to get a constitutional amendment passed. If you aren't working for any of this, you don't really believe copyright violation is theft, or you lack the stones to speak truth to power. It's easy to harangue a bunch of rank and file people on slashdot - but if you really mean it, tell the big dogs off.
Who is John Cabal?
Not only does he repeat himself, he expects a different result everytime. I do believe that this would fit him into the category of 'insane'.
That's a pretty good idea. Though it wouldn't need to be public as such to achieve the effect, only the system would need to remember which mods made which moderations. Having said that I haven't seen a better system that /. for moderating anywhere on the internet.
Not on my internets. I have Flamebaits and Trolls auto modded up, so they'll always be +5 Trolls to me!
How dare you be so modest!! You conceited bastard!!
I'm curious about this:
And I think the moderation system is abysmal--time and time again there has been excellent posts that are made days after a story is posted, which gets no mod points
The moderation system is abysmal because somebody makes a post several days after the story goes up? Within several days, most stories hit the archive bin anyway (for the front page). Very rarely do I go delving into the subcategories, quite often I just scan the front page, middle-click on what seems interesting and read that. But you are saying that moderation is abysmal because the user pool dries up on a several day old article and goes to read the new stuff.
Would you force people to use half their mod points on articles 3+ days old?
Slash is a particular type of erotic fan fiction where two characters have same-sex relationship.
cite: www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2003/10/hockey-slash.html
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