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Slashdot Launches User Achievements
In a concerted effort to compete with more popular MMOs like World of Warcraft, we've decided to add an Achievement system to Slashdot. We've retroactively granted around 900,000 achievements to our logged in users. You can view them from your user page, or you can see my list if you're curious what a REAL achiever looks like. Many achievements have been sprinkled throughout the system and are awaiting discovery by dedicated Slashdot users, but a starter list of achievements is in the FAQ. I'll toss you one freebie: you can register your wow main for points if you're that kind of person.
Now go forth and achieve!
Also, if I have CmdrTaco's attention, why not leave this up?
From the FAQ:
The achievements system was launched on April fools day of 2009 in order to allow for certain joke achievements, but the system itself is a real one. This allows Slashdot users to track accomplishments and milestones (and stroke the epeen, which is what it's all about anyway) as they use the site.
But then you'd never get it because the achievement for getting all the achievements is part of the requirement for getting the achievement!
*head explodes*
From the FAQ
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S.
It is not: The achievements system was launched on April fools day of 2009 in order to allow for certain joke achievements, but the system itself is a real one. This allows Slashdot users to track accomplishments and milestones (and stroke the epeen, which is what it's all about anyway) as they use the site.
Be insightful and you can be a philosopher!
P.S. - Mods, this one is informative or you'll break the chain.
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
In a post from 2002, SexyKellyOsbourne did it and has no achievement for it.
Obviously!
Trying to get the "April Fool" acheivement.
My Babylon
Working system? Did you click the links to Taco's "achievements"?!?! I think Slashdot needs to warn epileptics and others with a tendency towards seizures to NOT do so. The goggles do nothing indeed...
This public service announcement brought to you by the letter i and the number pi
Smell that? You smell that? Burning karma, son. Nothing in the world smells like that...
Plus I have 'The Cheater' achievement! (Truthfully, achievements can serve a nice function to the site: we actually intend to use a few of them for legitimate purposes, starting with tutorial type functions: all major parts of Slashdot have an corresponding achievement, so getting them all requires you to explore much of the site's functionality).
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
The achievements system was launched on April fools day of 2009 in order to allow for certain joke achievements, but the system itself is a real one. - FAQ
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