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!

Comments

Remember Gmail?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"?

[bFusion]

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*

To be or not to be...

[Gazzonyx]

Be insightful and you can be a philosopher!
P.S. - Mods, this one is informative or you'll break the chain.

No Such Luck, Sorry

[Anonymous Coward]

In a post from 2002, SexyKellyOsbourne did it and has no achievement for it.

Re:Slashdot achievements

[Sylvestre]

Obviously!

Re:Come on

[CmdrTaco]

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).