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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!
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If there is, it would be impossible to get it :(
The disappearing pencil trick. Let me show you it.
This isn't the worst idea I've ever come across but I can't help feeling it's walking down the idle route. I like achievements in games I'm not really sure they fit into a news discussion site. Still there's a good chance they won't be around tomorrow anyway.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
Since slashdot is about 14 hours late with the april fools, will we expect this for another 24 hours, well into April 2nd?
Except, they didn't just throw a static "haha, gotcha" page up... Slashdot really has implemented this system.
They might not leave it up after today, but I don't know if you can call an actual, working system of award-tallying a proper "April Fools" hoax...
I'm guessing "The Maker" is starting a comment thread, rather than just replying to a comment.
Also, how are you computing the total number of Achievements? If you add up my achievements (and if I add the powers of two I get closer) but it doesn't come out to be the number you posted.
Rounding errors, gets them every time...
Especially the 'read slashdot for [x] consecutive days' part. This is an encroachment of my privacy
So just do like everyone else, and don't log in unless you want to post. Then it won't know when "you" have visited unless you actually write something.
And if you do write something (not as AC), you've violated your own privacy, no not much right to whine there.
That is the best game ever. Achievement Unlocked!
I mean, like, when is the last time you heard about a website melting down because it was WoWed?
No no, you have it backward...
People melt down websites mentioned on the FP of Slashdot.
WoW melts down the people sadly addicted to it.
Slashdot just wants to combine the best of both worlds.
Oh, come on... This is the least obnoxious Slashdot April Fool's so far. Do you want them to go back to the entire day being fake stories? Or OMGPonies!!!?
Sweet!! A new /. meme. Haven't had one of those in a while
I, for one, am looking forward to the inevitable
I believe it's referred to as karma whoring here.
No, he's right. There's an achievement for having a 1-digit uid, along with 2-5 digits, and it's impossible to have both a 1-digit uid and a 5-digit uid.
The year that gmail launched was better. Every story was so unbelievable that it was assumed to be a joke, but it turned out they were all true.
Do you changes clothes while making the "chee-chee-cha-cha-choh" transformation sound?