I really hate things trying to make babies look cute by acting like adults in some ways. This is like the worst commercials ever made -- the etrade commercials -- on crack.
Normally I have no time for all the cynics who rail on Idle. But for once I have to say that Idle really has hit a new low. I can't condone this tripe on the front page and neither should anyone else.
Look. I know this is idle. I'm aware of that. But of all the literally hundreds of awesome stories in the Firehose to put on the front page, you chose this?
Re:C'mon, kdawson.
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(startx)
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kdawson hasn't posted/promoted a single decent article, ever.
The solution is to go your preferences, filter by author, and uncheck kdawson. Slashdot looks 1000x better this way.
Remove please
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dward90
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Idle or not, this is a waste of electrons to include on/.
-- My other sig is clever.
I accidently set my settings
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Megaweapon
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· Score: 4, Funny
to have/. show only things posted on/. that aren't a complete goddamn waste of time, and it redirected me to "about:blank"
-- I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Re:Sense of humor = 0
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rotide
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This site isn't about funny video clips someone found. There are tons of sites devoted to compiling funny video clips.
This "article" was nothing more than kdawson enjoying a video and posting it to the front page. There was no commentary/summary included besides "When Iron Baby wants O's, Iron Baby gets O's.". This tells me nothing about it. This tells me nothing about why it's on the page. I have no information as to why it's _any_ type of "news".
This front page "article" was nothing more than what I typically find in a humorous work email where a co-worker found a video he thinks I might enjoy.
Slashdot, last I checked, was about news or something resembling it. It's about intelligent (at least respective to other sites) discussion about the article/summary/information/technology. Slashdot is not about posting a cute video you want to share with people.
If you want to do that, that's fine, but find a "news" angle with it. Maybe this was made by a college kid with free software. Maybe it's a project to raise awareness about something, I don't know. But if the editor merely wants to post a video with the text "When Iron Baby wants O's, Iron Baby gets O's.", submit it to Ebaumsworld or another "joke" site.
We're "grumpy" because this was a sheer and utter waste on Slashdot. Ya, Slashdot can be considered a waste of time on someones scale of relevancy to life, I get that. But Slashdot is a site we go to to learn, not have "cute" videos pushed to the front page. The problem is that now we have precedent that a cute enough video with no summary will be front page material. Why not cut to the chase and just have every other "article" be a funny picture, say a lolcat that kdawson found amusing and then later they can put up the video of the redneck rollercoaster because they thought that was hilarious.
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I really hate things trying to make babies look cute by acting like adults in some ways. This is like the worst commercials ever made -- the etrade commercials -- on crack.
Look. I know this is idle. I'm aware of that. But of all the literally hundreds of awesome stories in the Firehose to put on the front page, you chose this?
Fail. Epic fucking fail.
Living With a Nerd
Idle or not, this is a waste of electrons to include on /.
My other sig is clever.
to have /. show only things posted on /. that aren't a complete goddamn waste of time, and it redirected me to "about:blank"
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
This site isn't about funny video clips someone found. There are tons of sites devoted to compiling funny video clips.
This "article" was nothing more than kdawson enjoying a video and posting it to the front page. There was no commentary/summary included besides "When Iron Baby wants O's, Iron Baby gets O's.". This tells me nothing about it. This tells me nothing about why it's on the page. I have no information as to why it's _any_ type of "news".
This front page "article" was nothing more than what I typically find in a humorous work email where a co-worker found a video he thinks I might enjoy.
Slashdot, last I checked, was about news or something resembling it. It's about intelligent (at least respective to other sites) discussion about the article/summary/information/technology. Slashdot is not about posting a cute video you want to share with people.
If you want to do that, that's fine, but find a "news" angle with it. Maybe this was made by a college kid with free software. Maybe it's a project to raise awareness about something, I don't know. But if the editor merely wants to post a video with the text "When Iron Baby wants O's, Iron Baby gets O's.", submit it to Ebaumsworld or another "joke" site.
We're "grumpy" because this was a sheer and utter waste on Slashdot. Ya, Slashdot can be considered a waste of time on someones scale of relevancy to life, I get that. But Slashdot is a site we go to to learn, not have "cute" videos pushed to the front page. The problem is that now we have precedent that a cute enough video with no summary will be front page material. Why not cut to the chase and just have every other "article" be a funny picture, say a lolcat that kdawson found amusing and then later they can put up the video of the redneck rollercoaster because they thought that was hilarious.
Oh, I found a funny picture on failblog, that should be front page too!