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How Google+ Punk'd The Oatmeal

Posted by Soulskill on from the revenge-is-a-dish-best-served-in-vanity-URLs dept.

ryzvonusef tips this quote from TechCrunch about a tit-for-tat exchange between Google+ and the creator of The Oatmeal webcomic: "This summer, the artist (Matthew Inman) wrote that Google+ comment threads sound like *crickets*, poking fun at the social network's lack of engagement. He also criticized not being able to 'set up a fancy profile URL so I don't have to link people to http://plus.google.com/blergasdf1234thimbleturdorgasm99meatpoopypoopxv9donkeypie ' — a made-up, ridiculously long string of random characters. ... In retaliation, the Google+ team didn't cite its user growth stats or give an excuse for why there are no custom profile URLs. ... Instead, they just redirected the vanity URL back to The Oatmeal author Matthew Inman's Google+ profile. Congrats, Matt, you've now got 'donkey pie' at the end of your own special Google+ vanity URL."

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  1. Re:I still don't get it by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 4, Informative

    It means someone watches too much awful television and doesn't own a thesaurus.

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  2. Re:The reality... by History's+Coming+To · · Score: 4, Informative

    The average IQ is 100 by definition, it can't go up and down.

    I know what you mean though, the average internet chatter does make me wonder.

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  3. Re:The reality... by History's+Coming+To · · Score: 4, Informative

    An IQ of 100 is defined as the sample mean. It doesn't matter whether you mean the IQ of everyone on the planet, all Ugandans, everybody with brown eyes or all Slashdot readers, 100 is the sample mean of that group.

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  4. Re:The reality... by tuppe666 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the average IQ is constantly rising - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

    After reading the very long and very boring Wikipedia page which contained lots of reasons why over a hundred years, Peoples *results* from IQ tests have been higher...everything from Genetics; Good Eating; Learning Stuff. You get to the end...And their is a rather large section titled "Possible end of progression" which basically states that the the Flynn Effect was over as much as 37 years ago, and shows many results showing no change, marginal increases, or a deterioration in IQ scores.

    You should really have read the link before posting it.