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.

Comments

Quantity != Quality

[Shadarr]

If you want to weed out 'me too' posts, put in a 'me too, -1' moderator option. Length has nothing to do with it, since you can say something original in two sentances and you can say 'me too' in five paragraphs.

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.

Short comments are good, not bad

[starling]

We need a "To the Point" bonus and a "Windbag" penalty.

Comments are like functions. Too long and they become unreadable.

Re:Slash Box selection

[SrmL]

Just try http://slashdot.org/cheesyportal.pl.

And action figures and tacobell cups

[anticypher]

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.