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Slashdot Flame Index, January 1999
Pac wrote
this story for Segfault
Very silly :-) Update: 02/20 01:21 by CT : as usual, segfault segfaults immediately
after getting linked. And you thought Slashdot was unstable.
And they only get like 3 hits a week.
Take another look CT. Your highest flamed topics (Katz, MStupidity and KDE/Gnome) are all your highest placed stories.
That says something about your tendency towards sensationalism, doesn't it?
....... but very true
KDE is for people who want a stable, consistent, and functional desktop environment to work in :)
Damn, that made me laugh, Slashdot.org and Segfault are getting better.
Your non-flame posts dilute the flames.
Flame wars generate more ad revenue because
they are more interesting to read. Who would
want to read non-flame posts? They are boring.
Only a female would object to flames.
who's more evil, Microsoft or Monsanto? ;-)
I like the ring of that acronym.... makes 'Troll' sound so primitive. em-sack.... hmm...
But just to make sure we are on the same page, *read* the article before posting ;-)
If they want to use Linux they use either KDE or Gnome. KDE is nothing like windows, except it can draw widgets in win95 (or Motif) style.
It has an integrated browser, too. But that's a neat feature. Too bad windows has it also.
Try using the software before commenting on it.
huh? whacha thunk about it?
Ass kissing bitch, why don't you suck his dick while your down there brown nosing you whore...
I bet Bill OWNS Monsanto.
I bet they were a nice little bio-tech company with cool stuff like viruses that make you immortal and seeds that'll grow in the desert with no water, then along comes Bill and says NO, we must genetically engineer soya so that we can sell more herbicides to 3rd world farmers.
I tried Gnome.. It woldnt FSCKing install.
and then you had to download 90 million update to the libs because the programmers are idiot drooling geeks that have to use the latest alpha libs on the planet. If theyd make it as easy to install as KDE I'd change my mind.. KDE download 5 things and I'm done! Gnome.. Connect up your T1 line and download every thing on the planet. I'll bet that the next release of Gnome requires Kernel version 2.2.1 and yet another release of a fricking glib that wont install without screwing the system over.
Is it gay as in a leather chaps or gay as in pink tu-tu's?
Or is it lesbian...
I really wish 13 year olds weren't allowed onto the internet....
The reason why Gnome oozes "anit-commercialness" is because it sucks so badly it is of no use to anyone other than weenie hacker boys who can't write real software....
And many, many more people were able to compile and use it then the present Gnome.
KDE is for people who want Windows to ACTUALLY
WORK.
M$ have had years at it, and have failed time
and time again.
p.s. GNOME is for people who want KDE without
the maturity.
GNOME is for people who want KDE without the
(relative) consistency.
GNOME is for people who want to spend 20hrs a day
trying to persuade the thing to actually fit
through any sort of C compiler.
GNOME, to put it bluntly, DOESN'T WORK.
p.s. The GNOME team could fix M$ Windows quicker
than they could repair the brain damage in GNOME.
I reckon that Segfault's ISP has some kind of block that prevents accesses with a referer of segfault getting through! Cause the machine wasn't really worrying about it.
3 hits a week? I think Rob's just jealous that we have a better poll script *snigger*
The article says ./ runs on msql, but doesn't it actually run on MySQL? Say, there's an idea for another flame war (MySQL vs msql vs etc...).
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Monsanto are far worse.
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I set my default threshold to 1, and discovered that hitting "lower threshold" no longer works. I considered resetting the default but I've learned to love life on 1.
/. universe to a manageable size, like it was a year ago.
Not that AC's don't make a lot of useful posts - they do - but the signal to noise ratio improves dramatically without them. Besides, just cutting out 2/3 of the posts reduces the
Go ahead and flame - I can't see it!!!
BTW, I thought that was the best Segfault piece since "Larry Ellison offeres $1 million for return of his eyeglasses."
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I just can't stand the jaunty queer attitude that KDE and Be have. Be-this, Be-that, K-this, K-fscking everything. BeOS is especially gross. It's as if they're tring too hard to be cool or something.
At least Gnome is decidedly non-commercial. It oozes "anti-commercialness".
FWIW, Gnome is definitely hip.
support gun control: take guns from cops
We must regain the lead. Our sacred honor demands no less.
After all, he's OUR obnoxious windbag!
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
To think, I could have had an MSAC, but Nooo, I had to go and get this lousy nick and password.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
All of which just goes to show that software tends not to deliver to its intended audience.
:-)
Ben
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...and the article goes under FAKE news.
:)
Also, I have NOT devised a statistical method to measure flame wars, nor have I counted every silly post of yours. I just made it all up, trying to keep it more or less in order of funniness (is there such a word?)
Have fun
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That was it !!!
Looks like an addendum was added by CT to me, Mr Observant. There's a clue in the CT: part.
Well, anyhow, before I read the article, I wanted to make a statistical observation:
The more an article is read/seen, the more likely it will also be flamed, so keeping that in mind, the ratio of flames/rank would be highest for those articles that only got 1 post, with it being a flame, over another article with hundreds of posts and several flames...
Another point is that in order to draw posts and comments, people get excited and sensationalistic in disproportion to the actual content or reality of the article. Still... I have to read the article to be sure, eh?
Sigh, crunch crunch slog...
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Just realized it was a humor post...
Like most things funny, it also embedded more than a kernal of truth =)
Hey, if it didn't mean anything, it wouldn't be funny! I finally got through after 15 minutes(It could have been shorter, but I was busy and not paying attention)
Slashdot should have some sort of self-ranking/flame counter... Perhaps counting posts with sux/rox/rulez/moron/idiot/troll in their text? While rough and approximate, it would be funny to try and figure out some sort of S/N ratio...
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