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Rusty Foster Isn't Dead
While he was vacationing with his wife, Kuro5hin founder Rusty Foster was killed — at least in the eyes of Facebook. NBC News details how it happened: a "pal" pranked both Foster and Facebook by notifying the social site of Foster's supposed death, providing as documentation the obituary of another, much older man by the same name. Getting the Facebook version of his life back took some doing; based on this article it seems much easier to convince Facebook that you're dead than that you're alive.
'Frosty Piss' being a loose anagram of First Post stating the obvious and tending to drift off towards an editor bashin' slant is probably the intent of the moderation.
The topic here is the content of the submission, viz some web forum founder's faked death - not whether the submission should have indeed made it to the story page...
I just wanna shove some coal up inside your asshole. When it makes its way back out it will be a bunch of diamonds.
We'll be rich! Isn't that just great, you uptight bastard?
Pretty much, yeah. Couple neckbeards still post their blogs there, but I was just over there, and the latest article was from Dec 17th of last year. The article at the end of the page was a year old.
So much for culture and geek tech 'down in the trenches'.
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
first point, the time standard for slashdot is eastern, learn to adapt your local time is not the center of the fucking world
second point, quota's dont mean shit when its 24 hours before the end of said quota, which I know are only slightly enforced on slashdot in the first place, these guys are not primarily employed by slashdot, most of them pop in for a couple hours after real work to listen to asshats bitch and whine about ad free news tailored as best as they can to some random mouth breathers interests
your dealing with news for nerds by nerds, and as per personal experience you can bust your ass for 300 bucks a month while douches expect you to be Pulitzer winners
Is this what /. has become? I swear that this site is worse than a tabloid some days.