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SlashTweaks Let YOU Micro-Edit Slashdot
Here at Slashdot, we watched as Twitter
distilled
perfected
minimalized
trivialized
discourse to just the perfect 140 characters, while
kuro5hin
Digg
reddit
WSJ
showed us that everyone's voice mattered equally when creating the
noise
news
noose
narcissistic
experience. We've taken the next step with SlashTweaks. Within each Slashdot
story
dupe
trollbait
turdshine
you will be presented with several opportunities to make micro-edits: ranging from factual errors or tonal shifts to simple typos.
Since Tweaks are just a single word, there is very little barrier to entry... you have no excuse not to participate. Stories will incorporate the highest rated
goatse
SlashTweak
natalieportman
grits
socially and mathematically guaranteeing the best story possible. Our highest
rated
trolling
karmawhoring
paying
users can start new tweaks on individual words, while everyone else will be rating existing tweaks. Thanks for your participation and patience while we iterate on this, making sure that we are able to stay ahead of the
bleeding
moronic
romantic
cutting
edge of webbovation!
won
Can we have this on comments too ?
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
nuff said
Mostly I come to slashdot to read the commentary, the actual summary isn't bothering me that much. In fact this just makes it harder to read. I'd be a lot more concerned that I can't click on links in threaded posts because the site now wants to just open every post in the thread above it first - stop that please! The KISS principle applie shere.
Here we go ...
I was waiting for the 1st April Slashdot article.
Surely the editors have been using this feature all along?
As in, the not-yet-cut edge?
Oh wait, did yours say something different?
Check the date of the post guys.
Blimey...I'd forgotten that existed. Now I feel old.
I learned a new word today, I can't wait to use it in an inappropriate setting. Am I using it correctly if after a co-worker asks me fix his fuck up I say all I will need is some turdshine.
Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
it deserves, being equated with goatse and all.
Rusty must be so proud.
Best Slashdot Co
While we're at it, can we get an option to remove all the hyperlinks from summaries? None of us follow them anyway and they tend to distract from the flaming.
April Fool - what part of the world is /. base in, where it's only just turned April 1st? Somewhere in Russia maybe? Or possibly Fiji? I've been waiting 13 hours for this to happen.
Can {we/you/me/us} have {this/that/the other} on {comments/replies/trolls/pron} too? {No/No/Certainly Not} {./!/?/oneoneone}
Wowser.
disarm
take better care of each other
tweet in person
co-create
The best April fools jokes I've seen so far today are the Canterbury Distribution and the ThinkGeek "Apple Store" Playmobil set, and the ThinkGeek "Lightsaber Popsicle"
Just close enough to reality to catch you unawares.
--
BMO - OMG PONIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I only wish the most recent redesign was the april fool joke.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Now THAT'S funny.
I am sure this is already in use in newsrooms across the country, and slashdot of course.
SIMPSONS DID IT!
At least an article that isn't an April fools day article.
As far as /. april fools jokes go, this is SlashWeak.
Only snarkier
what exactly ?
also the "do-my-job-for-me dept." joke didnt escape me.
Read radical news here
In soviet Russia, Slashdot microedits/goatse's/karmawhores/grits YOU!
~men are from earth. women are from earth. deal with it.~
Wow...you're even stealing your gimmicks on April Fools from Reddit now, nice. At least it's better than having to sit through 12 pages worth of Malda's fucking shitty jokes.
Welcome to Slashdot 1984, where the past is rewritten as you please. :P
I rarely respond to comments. Also, don't ask for clarifications: a brain and Google are faster, believe me!
Slashdot just keeps getting better and better! Can't wait to use this on future articles
"To prevent this day from getting any worse, I'll just read ERROR as GOOD THING" 1GJU8xLuDKDxEs4KLf8fAGyptoDsqvEsBT
At least Taco remembered some of the old school Slashdot. Props to the natalieportman and grits mention.
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Yeah...
No one ever said being a Heretic was easy.
Let us meet again in "Less Interesting Times"
Lol goatse, that brings back memories
Bi-Winning
Just about as boring as slashdot's daily microsoft bashfest and endless misguided political rants.
They have a new Gmail motion link on the search page. It's a way to write your emails using body language and your webcam.
"I don't have to think. I only have to do it. The results are always perfect, but that's old news." - Meat Puppets
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
WINNING!
Who is natalie portman?
All drop down boxes should have a minimum of 20 word choices pulled from an online thesaurus. For example, the word choice I would have used after Twitter is "compacted."
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
But can we micro-edit in UNICODE???
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Not funny. I want back the ponies!
I still like the Ponies April Fools better.
"The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." -Harlan Ellison
Though I applaud the collaborative edit = Fool notion.
Since the /. redesign, the number of comments visible at any browse level is very different from what the slider says it should be. It's very evident when you browse at +5, it says that there are five comments, and yet only one is visible.
Same problem on various versions of firefox on WinXP, OS X, and Ubuntu.
Any chance of this being fixed? Is there even a bug on this?
Or have people pretty much given up hope complaining about this? It's a shame, because I always looked to the /. comments for insight into the tech community.
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
Slashdot summaries have always read like mad-gabs to me.
WINNING!!!
Can I get a +5 funny please.
I sure hope so.
Can I get a +2 Troll?
Boot Windows, Linux, and ESX over the network for free.
No pony options, lame.
That could work out well. C'mon people, it's hard to do April fool's jokes these days, at least the tried something.
Open Source Network Inventory for the masses! Kuwaiba
Cool. Real-time, personalized language localization.
This will probably also help a lot when slashdot China gets launched. Users can self-censor, which I imagine will save a lot of editorial work.
Can I get a [ham and swiss on Rye, light on the mustard]?
I tried to think of a good sig, and this wasn't it.
Everyone that clicked on any of those drop downs just gave money via ad clicks. Congrats on finding a new ad revenue slashdot!
Do I get a pony?
Yea! Another pointless April Fools OR Turn off your internet for a day ... umm Day!
Atlas Shrugged : Thematic Story
So, how do you turn it off?
Oveur: "Give me Hamm on five; hold the Mayo!"
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
...combat will continue with the Ahn Woon!
I actually like April Fools.
Micro-editing at a word level is too crude. Try it at the letter level. You'll need to add a lot more drop-down boxes, but I find that the boxes add flair to the dull sequences of words in an article. Grammar Nazis will love it. Why stop at letters? Give us the ability to change fonts and colors too!
Stories will incorporate the highest rated goatse guaranteeing the best story possible.
Highest rated? What, are you going to do a hot or not with goatse?
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Why wasn't Webbovation boxed?
Sent from my CR-48
The perfect opportunity to craft reality in my own image.
Mad-libs for geeks.
Cannot believe I forgot the date.
I don't want to explore drop down bullshit. I just want to read the fricking summary and determine yeah or neah, and then move on. Who has time for this crap? It just makes it difficult to read and impairs the communication.
I'm uncertain whether to enter serious MicroTweaks or Jokes. Do I bore myself with minor edits to articles, or raise the ire of Slashdot editors by picking the funniest choices?
#%&@)%*@(JFIAW
Endless loop
***BOOM*****
It [appears][looks][sounds][smells][CowboyNeal] like that [is not][is][might be][takes][eats] the case.
(I tried the exact HTML syntax of TFA plus some variants, no dice on actual <select> and <option> tags)
Maybe I can still get the "The April Fool" Achievement? (this is my first April 1 post in years).
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
This change is horrible! It's incredibly distracting to the eye and makes reading hard. Please stop. Or at least let me turn it off.
Madlibs for slashdot! I *LOVE* it. the truth revealed. Its prophetic really, Im sure that there will be alternative translations for Broadcast news where you can substitute 'HEAD LAWMAN' for Obama, and "HEAD LAWWOMAN' for Hillary, and "COWBOY NEIL' for... Yeltsin, and "HEAD_CHEESE" for Sarkozy.
If we get microediting for the comment section, it would make those threads where people argue over the relative demerits of (vim)|(emacs) delightfully confusing. Which is well, because we wouldn't want the (vim)|(emacs) morons to know how crappy their editor is.
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
Our highest [rated][trolling][karmawhoring][paying] users can start new tweaks on individual words, while everyone else will be rating existing tweaks.
What's the threshold? What does it look like to those that qualify?
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
Even Rusty doesn't post there anymore.
Best Slashdot Co
never have i seen so many April fools stories on /.
My first impression of this micro-edit is slashdot has really took a turn to the worst. Many other websites that used to be convenient to access and read now has all kinds of goofy javascript or other mischief i.e. gizmodo so I figured this site has bit the dust like everyone else. Then..... I realized April 1st! I all hope this is just a bad dream and when I wake up tomorrow everything will be like it was.
mfwright@batnet.com
It's the end of all the [grammer / grammar] Nazis!!
this feature is pointless and stupid. please get rid of it
Lulz. Nice try but nothing will ever beat OMG!!!! Ponies!!!!
then I can wait a day for sanity to return to my reality. If not, I'm more than disappointed.
You know just how frakking messed up micro-editing is, right? It renders your RSS feed unreadable.
And then there's the complete devastation of IE7 users. I'm stuck with this at work. Browser snobbery is counterproductive, even if there are security issues, which my corporate security has so far solved so well that IE7 doesn't work here any more. More pus.
Slashdot code is not getting better. Hopefully this is part of a cycle of break/fix.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
So I guess everyone just assumes that nothing actually happens today? I mean, if there was some big real story, it would take at least a couple days of follow up before anyone thinks it really happened.
Fear is the mind killer.
Slashdot -- Mad Libs edition! BEST. APRIL FIRST. EVER. Can we keep this after today as a 'special section', to parallel Idle?
Sometimes when I pick an option, it turns green and writes itself in, but other times it turns red and makes me pick another one.
It makes me feel like I'm not smart enough to get a subtle joke. :(
Is 1563649 a prime number?
It's to force you to read posts in context before moderating them.
oh yeah !!
Read radical news here
you tell them unity100 how an emotionless drone he is. good job !!
i always wanted someone to shove that in his face. thank you.
Read radical news here
Is Kuro5hin even still around? If it died would any notice it was gone?
That's the fucking straw! I'm outta here! Fuck you, slashdot!
I don't even.
sig not found
-1 troll
TSIA
WTF is happening around here?
Moderators are doing less, almost no story breaks 20 +5 comments.
We can't filter as well as we used to be able to now this?
I don't want to point out that the comments are getting worse as well, but they are, straw man arguments and people who appear to be shills for government and big business are running amok. So instead of trying to fix the place, make search better, show all of a users comments, make stories editable longer (with whatever usability tweaks are required to show what the original discussion looked like) we get new little features based on social media?
I'm involved with a site that's trying to raise their level of discourse, I'm recommending an old version of slashcode and that's sad.
Makes my head hurt
Will ThinkGEEK be selling un-microedit glasses as well?
I think it's pretty clever, since it's pointless and quite buggy... kind of like the rest of Slashdot's recent UI changes. So it's quite the meta-joke :)
How incredibly freaking annoying. I hope this an April fools joke.
It's a fun game.
just because it's wikipedia doesn't mean it's fit for human viewing
Can we use this to de-troll comments?
Just pick a selection that's so outlandish you know it won't take. Then when it refuses your choice, select the first entry.
This way you have to be REALLY sure you want the first selection, so sure that you'd risk selecting something completely wrong just to have the opportunity. That's not a bug, that's a feature!
Man is the animal that laughs.
And occasionally whores for Karma.
{You/I} {am/are} {winning/smoking} {winning/crack}.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
I don't like this.
Do you guys not have anything better to do?
you made me realise my addiction. Only posting here to get my April's Fool achievement. :(
The Google pulldown needs an NSA tag.
This is an April Fools joke, right? It's so hard to tell, it maps to neatly into the long Slashdot decline...
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
I thought "webbovation" was training cows to properly utilize the Internet!! Shows what I know!
Edit your comment preferences and select Slashdot Classic Discussion System (a.k.a. D1) for the original classic slashdot threaded discussion system. It's the only sensible way to read slashdot.
Thank you slashdot for screwing the RSS feed.
Here at Slashdot, we watched as Twitter distilled perfected minimalized trivialized discourse to just the perfect 140 characters, while kuro5hin Digg reddit WSJ showed us that everyone's voice mattered equally when creating the noise news noose narcissistic experience. We've taken the next step with SlashTweaks. Within each Slashdot story dupe trollbait turdshine you will be presented with several opportunities to make micro-edits: ranging from factual errors or tonal shifts to simple typos. Since Tweaks are just a single word, there is very little barrier to entry... you have no excuse not to participate. Stories will incorporate the highest rated goatse SlashTweak natalieportman grits socially and mathematically guaranteeing the best story possible. Our highest rated trolling karmawhoring paying users can start new tweaks on individual words, while everyone else will be rating existing tweaks. Thanks for your participation and patience while we iterate on this, making sure that we are able to stay ahead of the bleeding moronic romantic cutting edge of webbovation!
How do you turn them off?
You people better check that 'distilled' whatever it is. It could possibly be something electrical or other source of smoke in the ventilation system, but this does seem to be playing excessivvely with our time and for what end? Is there an Opt Out function.
Miss Violet Dudley, I presume!
Why how did you know my moniker?
By the provocative initials on you k-nickers!
I could go on and on; but for those of you who were born after proinhibition, please check out:
The Tale Of the Giant Rat of Sumatra.
Hey, the next generation has to be educated SOMEhow!
n/t
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
I visit Slashdot daily for INFORMATION. I expect to find humor, if any and however feeble, in the DISCUSSION. This childish prank doesn't even qualify to be labeled as humorous, and it doesn't belong in the submissions.
Is Slashdot now catering exclusively to ComiCon tweenagers (twenty-something teenagers)? If so and this prank remains, I won't.
I haven't been on the main /. site for ages - I tend to rely on my RSS reader instead. For once, the April Fools stories have actually brought me out of my RSS shell and in to the real web.
The April Fool — posted in the April fools story
Is that why the articles read like mad-libs?
Cranky educator.