Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot Turns 100,000
This entry represents the 100,000th story posted on Slashdot. Technically this is a bit late since we're missing the first few months of stories from the DB, but there are now 100k items in the story database and I thought that milestone was worthy of sharing with the universe.
We've come a long way in the last 12 years, and while the site isn't always exactly what I want it to be, I'm very proud of the work done by our thousands of submitters and by the editors our readers have "affectionately" referred to as "The Slashdot Janitors" for so many years.
Special grats to timothy who is just short of his 17,000th story and is far and away the most prolific person here. The hall of fame has a few other bits of trivia.
Go slashdot!
There may be 100,000 stories, but what's that without dupes though? 1000, 2000 tops? ;)
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
You have to hold a four or five digit UID to wake them from the darkness, otherwise they won't listen and will continue to hide.
Sig: I stole this sig.
At least we know they used the right data type for the stories ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I credit the moderation system.
Sig: I stole this sig.
If you strip out the duplicates, it's about half that.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Only one way to find out:
``Pl'ngooi hglw'grtz Natalie Portman /. wgah'nagl b00bies petran''
(In a pool of hot grits at Slashdot, Natalie Portman lies naked and petrified.)
Thanks for 100,000, Taco and Company.
...to a geek. We should hold off celebrating until the next power of two. Looking forward to the 131,072nd story!
-Stephen
This is my highest numbered account, my first one (three digits as I recall) got lost in some sort of database snafu in the early days and my second one I forgot the password to. I only ever read via RSS though... (and even then I mostly just skim).
You mean the same moderating system that hasn't given me mod points in 4 or 5 years?
I haven't gotten mod points in quite a while either. That's why it's successful!
Wait a second...
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
You have to hold a four or five digit UID to wake them from the darkness, otherwise they won't listen and will continue to hide.
I have a five digit UID and am nihilistic enough to awaken eldritch horrors purely out of curiosity to see what would happen.
Is there a man page for it?
Darth --
Nil Mortifi, Sine Lucre
/. keeps me from productively working myself out of a job.
"There are no facts, only interpretations." --Friedrich Nietzsche.
Me too.
My really low account number was one lower than your really low account number, but I lost it. I think it's somewhere in a dresser drawer, next to the keys to my other car, which is a Porsche 911 GT3 RS and has a kicking sound system.
You are welcome on my lawn.
that woke me up, but I think I saw someone in double digits somewhere around here.
Yes, that one. Apparently it's been giving me all your mod points. Most weeks, I get more mod points then I can have time for.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Oi, 6-digit, get off my lawn :)
Ah yes, the Call of Cthbooblu.
Sure baby, I'll give you my phone number...in Hex
Having all your comments rated highly and $1 will buy you a cup of coffee at your local diner.
My local diner coffee costs $1.50 plus tax you insensitive clod.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
Putting the value of having all your comments rated highly at approx $0.50
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
When did you find the time to log on? Aren't there kids in your lawn that need to be told get off?
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
I remember a few times the "low UID" issue came up (for no other reason than asking who's got a low uid??)
Somebody was bragging about their low UID (2 digits) and Taco responded "pwned". ;)
Another time the discussion was about if people with low UID's posted useful info, and user #11 (I think) said "nope just pointless comments really".
I see Palpatine posted below, #94 that's pretty low!
What, were you waiting for the statute of limitations to run out before confessing or something?
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Late 90s sometime. There were a few years I skipped. When was the uid wipe? Wondering if that is what changed my name from 'Phantom of the Operating System'
*blinks* Did someone say something? I thought I felt a "disturbance" in my "force"
What CmdrTaco failed to mention is that when you remove all the duplicate articles they're only at 75,654.
I hate to admit it but I usually skim the summary and dig straight into the comments section of any particular article. I almost never RTFA.
You must be old here.
Keep registering accounts until it overflows - you'll then have the lowest number possible ... $MAX_NEGATIVE_VALUE.
Hell, my name has been in the title of a story on Slashdot before now.
Indeed! "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
I remember reading posts like yours in the days of old, decrying the decline of /.
Back in those days, people really knew how to decry the decline of /.
But where are my mod points man? :(
plus an unknown constant vaguely related to pizza.
rewriting history since 2109
but really, were would any of us be without Slashdot?
Working?
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
You have succumbed to the overpowering hum of groupthink.
All your thought are belong to us.
Every mans' island needs an ocean; choose your ocean carefully.
Well there's still time, dudes!
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
how do you determine your meta-mod status?
Guessing.
But it was fairly obvious. I was consistently given mod points for years, until I moderated the heck out of a story in which I was of the complete opposite opinion of 80% of the comments in the story. So I positively moderated those that agreed with my point of view (and made valid, logical points). Within one month of my moderation, I lost the ability to obtain mod points for 13 months (kind of an interesting-to-know timeframe).
If you can read this... 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011
I'm just waiting for the duplicate story for hitting 100,000 stories when they subtract all the duplicates
Funny that slashdot trolls have existed long enough to be a source of nostalgia. Somebody should post the "nullo" troll for old time's sake.
100,000th story, what's the comment count at? 30408632?
I'm a virgo and on Slashdot. Coincidence? Yes.
# cowboyneal
there, fixed it for ya.
signed,
grammar nazi
I agree!
and even the most intelligent fellow is liable to the ocassional episode of stupidity
That was only the *one* time, I told you. Jeez, cut me some slack will ya. Well, since you've been most gracious in not mentioning my name, I won't be the spelling Nazi right now, and we'll call it even. In fact, to top it off, on Monday I will even pretend you didn't even make this post.
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