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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.
Something broke it temporarily. It should be fixed now: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/12/10/1333202/The-Star-Wars-Christmas-Special-Still-Exists
How's this? I know a few ppl with even lower though... and obviously the staff!
Maybe more than lowest account number (mine isnt that high, but surely won't be the lowest one) what really matter is to be in this community all this years, since 1997.
The UI would be fine if a) it worked correctly cross-browser, or at least among standards-compliant browsers and b) the javascript that powers most of it wasn't some of the slowest ever written. Honestly, the whole lot of it could be replaced in about 5kb of code that works 10x better and 50x faster, in about two hours worth of work. Well, if half of slashcode hadn't been eaten by a grue years ago.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Does that 100,000 include the Star Wars Christmas Special story which mysteriously disappeared yesterday?
It's been fixed, says Soulskill:
Something broke it temporarily. It should be fixed now: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/12/10/1333202/The-Star-Wars-Christmas-Special-Still-Exists
using Wayback Machine to read their first edition of /., not much have changed, more or less the same articles
The lowest I've seen in a very long time is a three digit UID.
E pluribus unum
Isn't that what happens if you get ranked badly in metamoderation? I'm not going to RTFMMM just now.
which is totally what she said
Nevermind
E pluribus unum
Oh, and back then, Internet email wasn't always easy to send. I had a friend at Mt. Holyoke, and to email her, I had to send to [her_name]%holyoke.edu@gateway.riverside.edu.
And if you wanted to email someone who was on a BBS (say, 'BBS-X') which wasn't connected directly to the Internet, but got their feed through another BBS (say, 'BBS-Y'), the address would look like: BBS-Y!BBS-X!user@somerandomgateway.com.
Back then, you had to EARN your email.
The CB App. What's your 20?
I have found that I get metamoderated into oblivion (and therefore lose my mod-points) if I moderate a discussion in a way which does not fit the general opinion of most slashdot users.
/. moderation system, it encourages groupthink and censorship.
That's the negative aspect of the
But yes, I agree, it is certainly the worst - except for everything else.
If you can read this... 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011
The option is under "Discussion Style" here: http://meta.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=editcomm