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Slashdot Announcements/T-Shirt Contest Ends
First off, congratulations to Tom Lam
and Jim Sproull who are the
winners of the Slashdot T-Shirt Design contest. They each
get a $100 credit at CopyLeft.
The designs will be available in a few weeks (don't worry, we'll
announce them), and Tom, please email me an updated URL or your image
since your server seems to be down right now and your email is bouncing.
Second, I added
some new code in the User Preferences: Short Comment Penalty and
Long Comment Bonus. It allows you to +1 and -1 comments based
on their lengths- nice for filtering out "Me Too" kinda comments.
Finally, CowboyNeal,
Slashbox poo-bah has notified me that we now have Slashboxes
for
I, Cringely,
LilithFair.org,
Myther.com,
PBS Online,
Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast, and
Riva Extreme. So login and play with them if you are interested
in these things.
If anyone is actually reading this, you can find the shirt designs over here. I'm guessing that's the designs and shirts this topic was about, anyway, I think the "News for Nerds" looks the best. I wonder when they will announce them on the main page?
That would be a great idea, I'd like to see Geocities server crash.
Anyone know how much the shirts will be? Or will they be Open Source, so they give them out? : )
I don't think Rob & Co. really care about Slash being used in this manner. Atleast not enough to get a CVS server up an running with the Slash code. I think they care more about keeping Slashdot running and the content. I can't blame them, it is that which has made them rich, not the Slash engine itself.
Still I would really really really like to see Slash put on a CVS server. Then I could download it and tinker with it. It would be pretty cool to do an all hardware site with the slash engine. Or any number of other specialized topics.
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/rant Slashdot stats needs to be fixed it's been broken for almost a month. /rant
Before adding more boxes fix the ones that are broken.
"Think of it as evolution in action."
Now that slashdot is a corporate entity, it'll be interesting to see how soon (if ever) malda and co. release the latest slashdot source. I suspect, however that support for the notion of "open source" is only good when other people do it.
I suspect the potential to have an exact duplicate of Slashdot out there would dilute their advertising income potential somewhat.
Me, too posts can serve a valid function--they serve to alert the rest of the slashdot community the person posting them cares enough to have an opinion, although not enough to try and support it. I guess it's kind of lind a multiple-choice poll in that respect...
hey wanna show me your design? i'll show you mine, hehe :)
Tom Lam
You might want to think twice about that..
Whatever happened to the MacOS Rumors slashbox?
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
A short comment penalty and long comment bonus is a really bad idea. Ever since the moderation system was introduced, we've seen more and more long winded comments and a serious dearth of pithy,sharp and funny comments. Didn't Pascal say 'This letter is longer than usual because I didn't have the time to make it short'?
I hate to just post saying "I agree" but...
I regularly skip "windbag" posts. Thoughtful discussion is great, but when people post long, boring repetitious posts, well, I find that I just tend to pass them. We need to encourage people to post shorter, succinct posts, not longer ones. I don't know, maybe it's the intimidating length and mass of multiple paragraphs that gets me; when there are 200+ posts and replies to wade through on a particular subject, often it is the succinct one liner that cuts through the rhetoric, peircing through the tangle of words like a... a.. a big..umm....
(Aww hell, I was going to make my point by going on and on about this for four paragraphs, but I just don't have the heart.)
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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
hm, how about setting up a ebay item and post picture on it? i'm sure they are expert in handling these. :)
too bad there are no MS servers to take advantage of... something like hotmail auto-reply bot will be cool.
Mmmm, just how many of us girls ARE there in /. land?
I would enter in a heartbeat! AND WIN! lol
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Good idea. Perhaps Rob can use his newly found millions to hire some models for the /. t-shirts
Quantity and quality are not the same thing. That's why they get their own words.
There are times when it is necessary to speak.
Bite the hand.
me too
Open Source T-Shirts would allow you to *see* the design, or modify it, but you'd still probably have to pay cost of media (t-shirt). And of course, any modifications you released would have to be released back to the public.
Sig
me three. asshole.
You should really check out the slashdot t-shirt the red-headed babe is wearing over on After Y2K. I voted for her, sorry Hemos.
Could we have link[s] to the winning design[s]?
We need slashdot wallpaper too! And hats and shoes!
Corndog
How short is short? Is it based upon the number of lines or characters? The same for long comments...any clues for us?
Now we'll probably get a relly long list of "me too"s stringed together.
Now all we need is a Slashdot desktop theme for Windows 95/98/NT and we can rule the world!
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
How about one for lwn.net/daily?
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Put Hemos through English 101!
What we need now is a page with all the slashboxes on it. I suppose I could just go and turn them all on, and turn off the ones I don't like, but I would prefer to have a page with all of them where I can select which ones I want.
But can we have copies.... please...
I really don't care how badly documented or setup for Slashdot's servers only it is. I ported Slash 0.3pre to Postgres SQL 6.5 and the code I have is probably going to be far behind what is currently being used on the site.
I would love to have a current copy of the code in any form at all....... Please Rob, Please!!
GOD_ALMIGHTY at work
We need a "To the Point" bonus and a "Windbag" penalty.
Comments are like functions. Too long and they become unreadable.
...what about the Slashdot wet T-Shirt contest?
Did you check Pricewatch. I think it is one of the best places to start.
Have you read my journal today?
Its the CmdrTaco taco bell cup, free with any large soft drink. See the JarJarBinks death scene.
:-)
The Hemos action figure comes with toy light saber and a tiny linux box*.
The JonKatz voodoo doll. 'nuff said
The CowboyNeal signature collection all leather riding outfit.
Slashdot merchandising, because Rob and Hemos aren't rich enough yet.
*Internet connection not included.
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
link: pricewatch.com
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Reveal your Source, Unleash the Power. (tm)
Though I like the system, it'd be nice if I can tell where it kicked in. Maybe you could change it so the point totals showed up like: "(2+1: Interesting)" or "(3: Interesting, Long Comment Bonus)" or somesuch. Maybe it's just me, but I'd prefer to know when somebody else liked (my) post and when it was just my preferences.
ufdraco
I wonder if he knows the meaning of the proverb "Brevity is the sould of wit."? His new filter does little more than to provide an automatic ashcan for witty comments.
It is based on the number of characters. I don't know if it counts spaces/newlines/html as characters... but I'd be interested to find out....
There was a long article about short functions in... No, wait, it was Goto, nevermind. Short comments can be good, but if they're too short, they're unlikely to contain anything useful. On the other hand, most long-posts (I mean anything over 2 paragraphs) have some useful content. The way the preferences are set up, it's based on your own choice of character counts. I figure anything under 50-100 characters isn't likely to contain some amazing message. I'm still undecided on how long is a long post.
~Anguirel (lit. Living Star-Iron)
"Veni; Vidi; Vi C++"
~Anguirel (lit. Living Star-Iron)
QA: The art of telling someone that their baby is ugly without getting punched.
I would post a link to my design, but I don't feel like having my home box /.'d Maybe if I get ambitious I'll create a geocities account or something.
Jim Sproull
Thanks for the link, this should be a news item on /.
While the potential is there for useful comments to be filtered out, it is there as an OPTION, not a requirement. Same thing could be said about the Anonymous Coward issue, the Moderator issue, the ability to sort threads, etc.
InThane
Quantity and quality are not the same thing. That's why they get their own words.
feces crap dirt shit poop
Every word doesn't have a different meaning.
If that was the case, it would be harder to rhyme.