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Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer
SmartAboutThings writes: Windows Live Writer is a blogging tool that Microsoft originally released back in 2006, and it still remains popular today, which has prompted Microsoft to promise that it will make it open source earlier this year. Now the company has officially open-sourced and forked Windows Live Writer into Open Live Writer, having put its repositories on GitHub already.
I'm waiting for them to open source Comic Chat.
Open Live Writer is an open source application enabling users to author, edit, and publish blog posts.
which would mean something if the world hadn't been using wordpress for 12 years. Microsoft had the opportunity to open source things like IIS, frontpage, and a wealth of other web-centric tools and technologies to compete with Apache and Nginx. But instead they paid off hosting providers to put parked websites on IIS to goose their numbers in Netcraft. open-sourcing an editor is boggling, unless for some reason that editor happened to use already open-source code.
Good people go to bed earlier.
So, Microsoft has timeline-editing software to let them insert actions into their own chronological past? Cool!
Perhaps Microsoft promised earlier this year that it will make WLW open-source, and is now doing so? Or perhaps they promised that they would make it open-source earlier this year, but are only now doing so?
I actually mod AC posts appropriately (up or down) at times. I even skipped modding on this article just to respond. I know there are many who won't bother with AC posts, but I'm saying that *I* will mod them. And FYI, were I to have modded your post, I would have modded it as Off-topic because this article is related to Live Writer and your comment wasn't related and wasn't in response to a discussion thread.
But if there is relevant content in an AC post, I have no problem boosting it's score --- sometimes even moreso because it's AC. If there is good stuff there, I know that AC posts will automatically be dinged at least one point just for being AC.
Perhaps you care too much for something that doesn't really matter.
I got a Troll +1 once (vs Troll -1) and don't even know if that's good or bad.
Troll +5 would be funnier though.
Your suggestion is for something that would make the text easier to read. Not all /. readers are native speakers and we have a hard time trying to make sense of badly constructed sentences. Thank you.
Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
"Today: Most Anyone Today any regular Slashdot reader is probably eligible to become a moderator. A variety of factors weigh into it, but if you are logged in when you browse Slashdot comments, you might occasionally be granted moderator access. Don't worry about it- Just keep reading this document and learn what to do about it! Who It's probably the most difficult part of the process: Who is allowed to moderate. On one hand, many people say "Everyone", but I've chosen to avoid that path because the potential for abuse is so great. Instead, I've set up a few simple rules for determining who is eligible to moderate. Logged In User If the system can't keep track, it won't work, so you gotta log in. Sorry if you're paranoid, but this system demands a certain level of accountability. Regular Slashdot Readers The scripts track average accesses from each logged in user. It then selects eligible users who read an average number of times. The homepage doesn't count either. It then picks users from the middle of the pack- no obsessive compulsive reloaders, and nobody who just happened to read an article this week. Long Time Readers The system throws out the newest few thousand accounts. This prevents people from creating new accounts to simply get moderator access, but more importantly, means that newbies will have to be part of the community for a few weeks before they gain access to the controls to a system they don't understand. Willing to Serve If you don't want to moderate, just visit your user preferences, and set yourself as 'Unwilling' Positive Contributors Slashdot tracks your "Karma" (see the FAQ). If you have non negative Karma, this means you have posted more good comments than bad, and are eligible to moderate. This weeds out spam accounts. So the end result is a pool of eligible users that represent (hopefully) average, positive slashdot contributors. Occasionally (well, every 30 minutes actually) the system checks the number of comments that have been posted, and gives a proportionate amount of eligible users "Tokens". When any user acquires a certain number of tokens, they become a moderator. This means that you'll need to be eligible for many of these slices in order to actually gain access. It all works to make sure that everyone takes turns, and nobody can abuse the system, and that only "regular" readers become moderators (as opposed to some random newbie ;)"
can we expect a linux port?
There's a ton of AC posts, and most of them never get modded up even if they're of good quality.
I make a point of modding up AC posts if they are good to compensate for their one point handicap. IMHO, unless you register with your real name, a /. persona is no better than AC.
I have sometimes modded as AC to given an inside view of my own industry and would rather my bosses did not identify me, which perhaps they could if they delved deeper into my past posts if I gave my "real" false name. Those AC posts of mine have often contained more insightful and expert information than if I were to comment on, say, an article on meat labelling which I really know FA about but I can rant away with my real false name because I have no connection with the business.
I've had an account for months that has excellent karma but for some reason doesn't get to metamoderate and has never gotten mod points....... I can't figure out what criteria are used to determine who gets to moderate
Don't know, but you won't collect karma by posting AC, as now
...... Fuck you moderators!
Thanks, but I only mod. I don't get to choose who else moderates.
I give MS kudos. IBM was the jerk before they lost their monopoly.
Now MS is being all nice. VS code is open sourced. .NET is open sourced. I believe they opened up another project recently too a week or two ago.
http://saveie6.com/
It's interesting to compare writing patterns, spelling mistakes and tone between ACs. You, for example, seem quite similar to the cow obsessed AC, maybe even the same person. The last few sentences are a bit of a give-away. I bet if someone wrote an app to scan AC comments and correlate them we would see some interesting patterns.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I have excellent Karma. I once did an experiment on Karma by deliberately being aggressive / asshole / crabby posts. I didn't change what I said, I just changed how I said it. I drove my Karma all the way down to Bad. Took me a couple days to do it. However repairing my Karma took months of hard and steady work. And as you can see, it is still pretty decent.
You can post controversial views on Slashdot, but you have to use lots of sugar to make the medicine go down.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
That happens when you get modded up and down, but the last mod is a -1 Troll. If you were at +2 Underrated - if I'm not mistaken - a subsequent -1 Troll mod will show you at +1 rather than +2, but a Troll, ergo +1 Troll displays. There is no actual +1 Troll mod of course.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
I used to view modding ACs as a waste of Karma since they can't collect on it or take the hit, but I have since come to leave the absurd AC posts alone and mod up the good ones, since I know others will handle the down mods and it actually says to concentrate on promotion rather than demotion in the guideline IIRC. I think the AC system should require a logged in user who checks "Post Anonymously" and the system should penalize those who post as an AC excessively as most people don't use it for what it is intended. They could have another user, guest, but each user who has a login should have a "Don't show me Guests Posts" option. The number of people who use AC to troll is far, far disproportionate to those who are posting something that could get them in trouble if it was traced back to them.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
That says a lot about your post quality actually. I'm pretty regularly aggressive / asshole / crabby as the trolls just bring it out of me, but my Karma stays regularly almost pegged at "Excellent", going down a few and up a few, but always getting more +1s than -1s on average. There was one time that an active campaign was launched against me and one thread got out of have until my Karma went down to whatever the worst level is for a short time. It took me a while to recover it, and the Slashdot technical geniuses were no help. It was obvious I had been targeted by someone - or a small group - with sockpuppet accounts, but they refused to even investigate.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Thanks.
So what you're saying is that I might as well forget about ever getting that Troll +5, but there is still a slim chance for Troll +4 ?
I'm the original AC in this thread. I started reading Slashdot around 1999 or 2000, though I quit reading and posting for awhile around 2005 or 2006. I had an account with a UID below 400000, but I don't remember the password and I haven't a clue which old email address I registered it with. Back then, karma was displayed as a number, capped at -25 on the low side and 50 on the high side. It's still a number in a database, but that number just isn't displayed to the user any longer. It was fun to see that number go up as I got rewarded for making good posts. A lot more people posted in journals and had discussions about other topics there, so there was an opportunity to get to know other users. There also seemed to be a lot more use of the friend/foe system, which again tended to reward making good posts.
There was probably more trolling, but a much smaller percentage was AC trolling. There were lots of troll accounts that automatically posted at -1, and they were free to post as much as they wanted with those accounts. Slashdot incentivized users to post at -1 because they weren't hit with IP bans like they would for posting crap as ACs that would get modded down. Sure, there were still garbage AC posts, but not as many. When users who post at -1 were limited to two posts per day, Slashdot killed off logged-in trolling at the expense of more garbage being posted as AC.
I do a lot of AC posting because I don't see a lot of incentives to post logged-in. I tend to post in articles about weather and Earth sciences because that's the field I work in. I don't fully agree with the prevailing views about global warming, though I certainly agree we're causing the Earth to warm up. I'd be labeled a skeptic for questioning the dire predictions. Furthermore, I have reasons for thinking Congress should threaten to defund the National Weather Service. These are unpopular opinions, though based on logic and reason. But if I posted them tied to something that could be traced back to me, it might actually be harmful to my career. I see a lot of value in posting as AC, with nothing really to incentivize me to do something else.
And no, despite what AmiMoJo thinks, I'm not the dumbass who keeps crapflooding about cows. I thought that was sexconker.
But apparently at least one reader with mod points thinks this is trolling. Whatever.
I do try to make allowances for posters and submitters who don't have strong English skills. But as long as submissions are reviewed and edited, I think those editors ought to take enough pride in their work to make sure accepted submissions are coherent.
Use an app from 2006 to get your company name scraped on search engines next to the words "Open Source"?
got it.
the Slashdot technical geniuses
You're a funny guy.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it