Those were good! Perhaps good enough for . ..might I suggest having a Slashdot online store for these gems? Perfect for door prizes and gag gifts for the local LUGs!
Yeah, apostrophecolon is a true parody (I especially like the acronym-ridden headline) while hassnot is just hte visuals. Moderators, add points to brennanw's post!
-- "Oh, I hope he doesn't give us halyatchkies," said Heinrich.
Well, there is a way this could be solved actually, and it's not exactly hard to implement either. All CmdrTaco would need to do is take some advice from that insightful fellow whom wrote a feature here recently about the democracy level of sites like Slashdot - that is, make the submissions box accessible for the readers (not without a few strong-worded warnings to click through, mind:) and have them moderate it. Then people could moderate this kind of crap out of existence before it ever reached the main page. True, abuse would be possible, but if the numbers are upped - say, a submission would need at least 10 points out of 20 to be put onto the main page-, it would be quite difficult. If they put in a bottom line at about -5 below wich a post would be blasted out of the submissions box we can get rid of this garbage.
just my $.02
-- ---
Your superiour intellect is no match for our puny weapons
Re:Ok, I accept the challenge - and the winner is!
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Sun+Tzu
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':! Congratulations to the ': editorial staff, sysadmins, reporters, and stockholders. You have produced a parody worthy of being called a, uh, well, parody.
As the only volunteer judge in this contest I had to be even more objective than possible. However, after visiting the ': site, I see no need to go on. Surely the only thing that could be funnier than ': would be a parody of ': -- and that would be a different contest.
So, with these words I turn over the coveted trophy to brennanw, representative of all those at ': who made this day possible. Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen, and good evening.
Hhahah, now this other one is more the style of a good parody. It just needs the whole site around that. I'd love to get ahold of the script that does that.
Re:I took the challenge, here's my parody
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geocajun
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the funniest slashdot imposter site I have seen is Humorix
Shouldn't that have been...
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unitron
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Shouldn't that have been "News for Turds. Stuff that splatters." ?
And can someone supply a link to the site of which Slashdot is a parody?
--
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
calling it "pretty good" is far fetched
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Nicodemus
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It seems like it was made by a 12 year old with a bit too much time on their hands. I don't think the incessant jokes about snot and penis's are funny, and I'm a normally light guy when it comes to parodies and jokes. This is just childish. Not worth a post.
Nicodemus
Re:calling it "pretty good" is far fetched
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dattaway
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It might be interesting to have a list of popular parody sites for those times when one wishes to vent agressions toward a particular vendor at that moment.
Too bad the links didn't go anywhere on this one. I thought the humor value of this site was it looked like it was done in a short time and could be done by anyone. Makes me think of what kind of mischef could be had on commercial sites who have no sense of humor. If I didn't have this great big fear of caffeine strung legal departments waiting to send well dressed goons out in Cadillacs and write cease and desist letters...
absolute garbage
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Anonymous Coward
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if this is all it takes to get on slashdot (which used to be a cutting-edge highly-respected underground news site), then there is serious problem. and i don't mean for rob or hemos.
the problem is for people who read slashdot. the posts about slashdot going down the crapper are usually from reactionary types, but you can see the slivers of truth in them. slashdot, while gaining readers, is sacraficing jounalistic integrity. it's disappointing, but frankly i don't see it stopping anytime soon.
slashdot is dead.
now if you'll excuse me, i'm off to suck rob's and hemos' dicks just to get a story posted.
I can think of 10e12 better ways to spend my time
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Blue+Neon+Head
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than reading that alleged "parody". Come on, it's not as if it was a slow week for news. This didn't warrant an entry.
Well, this may be an alleged parody, but surely the site in question has to be remotely funny in the first place to be classed as such ? Please don't get me wrong - I cliked on the link ready for a quick chuckle... and about thirty seconds later I relised that it just wasn't going to happend. I eventually read the whole site and felt I had to put down the owner of the site. Please, never ever ever try to be remotely funny again - it just doesn't work...
Parody?
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Anonymous Coward
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A parody of this site needs 1) a nanotechnology story posted by Hemos, 2) a NASA story posted by CmdrTaco, 3) a Katz story that includes multiple usage of the word geek, 4) a dual posting of the same story, and 5) three *grins* and two *drools*
Definately.
A typical post would be about an essentially meaningless kernel update. (you know the drill)*grin*
The buzzword list would be: RedHat, Debian, FCC, USPTO, DoJ, NSA, NSI, KDE/Gnome, AOL, Apple, RIAA, Beowulf, wearable computers, encryption, FUD, hackers/crackers, Intel, AMD, NSI, Id, 3dfx, furbys, Bill Gates, ESR, RMS, France;-), spam, and finally Star Wars.
A story about furbys will somehow generate a discussion that is focused on guns, Bill Clinton, and Janet Reno.
Hemos writes: "MS in partnership with Intel have introduced a wearable computer that utilizes patented embedded nanotechnology. Individual computers/people form part of a modified beowulf cluster (aka, a collective), with each incredibly fast and stable NT computer communicating with each other using export restricted encrypted signals. Bill Gates, in announcing this new product, said, "Resistance is futile." In reponse to this, Apple immediately sued a totally unknown company for no apparent reason.
Re:That's a really sad job at parody...
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f1r3br4nd
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Word up, brother. Folks, this guy really know what he's talking about. He is like 40% of the support for Slash in the entire world (the other 40% being Temple Hoff and 20% being random people on Temple's list). Also, lilithfair.org is way cool. What do you mean, lame ripoff? It's running the same software, of course it's going to have some UI features in common. At least he did original artwork and color schemes for it. As for better Slashdot parodies, segfault.org actually bothered to mess around with the Slash code (AFAIK) and actually has funny stuff now and then.
I took the challenge, here's my parody
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brennanw
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I took Sun Tzu's challenge and decided to do my own Slashdot Parody (for the record, I thought HashSnot was pretty amusing -- especially the concept of the Amish having web sites -- but I can't resist challenges like this.
It would be one thing if there was some trace of wit behind the jokes, but all the guy did was take a static page and change the words and pictures. I don't mind bathroom humor, as long as there is real wit behind it ("hehehe, he said 'Penis'" won't cut it). Any idiot with a text and graphics editor and some spare time could make something at least that good.
If you are making a parody, there should be some satire type humor there, like the onion or the simpsons, that truely pokes fun at the thing it is a parody of. This didn't really poke fun at slashdot at all - now if there was something about the hopeless obsession of us nerds reloading 5-10 times a day (guilty as charged) that would be different.
Well the roblimo link, seems to point back to TechSightings which seems to be a part of the Andover network. So I guess that the guy is some Andover guy.
Anyways I think the parody had some fun parts in it. especially the part about "activating" inside your box. lol
An interesting aspect i noticed was that andover.net has released the perl source for Tech Sitings:-)
-- Russian Roulette?
while:; do killall -9 $RANDOM ; done
Re:No- it was REALLY good!!! ;)
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Cebert
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People like you are WHY I haven't completely stopped reading the comments.:) A great deal of them really ARE a bunch of boring anal retentive geeks with no humor or life, and certainly give the community, a bad name.;D
Perhaps Slashdot is a somewhat accurate reflection of humanity itself? Lots of morons, a moderate amount of really nice people? *shrug*
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www.bteg.com | bleh.n3.net | hac47.dhs.org
Ok, I accept the challenge
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brennanw
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· Score: 5
I don't know about a contest, but take a look at Apostrophecolon
-- Eviscerati.Org: All Hail the Eviscerati
Re:Ok, I accept the challenge
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StormDawg
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Apostrophecolon was a true parody. Very well done! Kudos to the reponsible party.
Can ANYONE do a better Slashdot parody than the legendary Hashsnot? If so, please put your HTML coding where your flaming comments are and do it. You all know the standard for entry here -- you have to raise the bar on Hashsnot. This will be difficult for some of you, impossible for others. Consider that the task is made even more difficult by the fact that Hashsnot survived the Slashdot effect and, therefore, must be a solidly designed site running on a massive SMP server.
As one who would stand no chance in such a contest, I volunteer to help judge the entries.
That's a really sad job at parody...
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[null]
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[go ahead moderators, flamebait and -1 me. I made sure that to not volunteer as a moderator, so remember that when I don't moderate your stuff.]
If you're going to do a Slashdot parody, do it right, get the less buggy code and the FAQ and actually go through the trouble of making the code work. And I find "buggy code" to be a little harsh on Rob... undocumented and not well written, yes, but it works for the most part. Parodies don't work unless you put some time into them, and this one looks like something that was thought up while on drugs.
And to all you who called LilithFair.org a bad Slashdot ripoff, I'd like to see you get the pre-0.3 release from Slashdot (no, not the -jt releases I made) and make it work without any support. At least my site functions, instead of being a poorly written one-page parody.
I have a few bones to pick with people... don't mind me if you're not one of them.
-- James Turinsky Owner/Admin, LilithFair.org
A couple more things to add
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grappler
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The thing I said about jokes about reloading is just an example. I wasn't saying that adding that would automatically make it funny - you would have to do it with the right flair, which is something the onion is very good at. If you haven't been there, it's a must. www.theonion.com
I also was not saying that a good parody would have to have that joke. Again, an example. Other ideas for a good/. parody:
*Making fun of the quirks in the personalities. For instance,
CmdrTaco will talk about the latest new geek toy, and then say "I've GOT to have one of those"
Hemos will quote somebody's submission, and almost always add his two cents.
Katz will post a very long article, where everyone else keeps it short (I know, he's a writer, and this is his forum for articles) and it's usually about his ongoing fascination: geeks. Sometimes he will imply he's not a geek, sometimes he'll imply he is (sometimes both in the same article), and people always get mad saying he is inaccurately stereotyping.
*Certain kinds of posts will always appear, such as:
First post! (though the moderation system has really helped that). It's always amusing that more often than not, the "Frist posts" aren't even first. Sometimes nowhere close.
"But will it run linux?" These used to be serious, but now they are in a more joking nature to make fun of those who say it seriously.
Trolls - Rob Sux, Hemos Sux, Grapefruits are a tool of the Borg in Redmond. I like how Rob recognized this universal constant and so included such responses in the poll choices.
Long essays written to get moderated up - I bet that after the moderation system was added, the mean post length (MPL) went waaaaaaaaaaayyy up. (I know what you're thinking. And I don't care)
"Top Ten" (Or Top X) posts. This is a fairly new animal, which has been sighted a lot more after "funny" was added to the moderation options (which was a Good Thing btw).
In short, any of these would be much more clever than things like changing "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters" to "News for Turds, Stuff that doesn't matter". *Cringe*
Oh, one more unrelated side note. Anyone seen "Eyes Wide Shut" yet? Awesome movie. If you've seen the recent quickies, and recall the CAP movie review site, imagine what that reviewer would think of it! BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Slashdot Mirror
Jeez, at least come up with a semi-creative parody..
Yeah, apostrophecolon is a true parody (I especially like the acronym-ridden headline) while hassnot is just hte visuals. Moderators, add points to brennanw's post!
"Oh, I hope he doesn't give us halyatchkies," said Heinrich.
Well, there is a way this could be solved actually, and it's not exactly hard to implement either. All CmdrTaco would need to do is take some advice from that insightful fellow whom wrote a feature here recently about the democracy level of sites like Slashdot - that is, make the submissions box accessible for the readers (not without a few strong-worded warnings to click through, mind :) and have them moderate it. Then people could moderate this kind of crap out of existence before it ever reached the main page. True, abuse would be possible, but if the numbers are upped - say, a submission would need at least 10 points out of 20 to be put onto the main page-, it would be quite difficult. If they put in a bottom line at about -5 below wich a post would be blasted out of the submissions box we can get rid of this garbage.
just my $.02
--- Your superiour intellect is no match for our puny weapons
':! Congratulations to the ': editorial staff, sysadmins, reporters, and stockholders. You have produced a parody worthy of being called a, uh, well, parody.
As the only volunteer judge in this contest I had to be even more objective than possible. However, after visiting the ': site, I see no need to go on. Surely the only thing that could be funnier than ': would be a parody of ': -- and that would be a different contest.
So, with these words I turn over the coveted trophy to brennanw, representative of all those at ': who made this day possible. Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen, and good evening.
Geeky modern art T-shirts
Hhahah, now this other one is more the style of a good parody. It just needs the whole site around that. I'd love to get ahold of the script that does that.
the funniest slashdot imposter site I have seen is Humorix
Shouldn't that have been "News for Turds. Stuff that splatters." ?
And can someone supply a link to the site of which Slashdot is a parody?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
It seems like it was made by a 12 year old with a bit too much time on their hands. I don't think the incessant jokes about snot and penis's are funny, and I'm a normally light guy when it comes to parodies and jokes. This is just childish. Not worth a post.
Nicodemus
if this is all it takes to get on slashdot (which used to be a cutting-edge highly-respected underground news site), then there is serious problem. and i don't mean for rob or hemos.
the problem is for people who read slashdot. the posts about slashdot going down the crapper are usually from reactionary types, but you can see the slivers of truth in them. slashdot, while gaining readers, is sacraficing jounalistic integrity. it's disappointing, but frankly i don't see it stopping anytime soon.
slashdot is dead.
now if you'll excuse me, i'm off to suck rob's and hemos' dicks just to get a story posted.
than reading that alleged "parody". Come on, it's not as if it was a slow week for news. This didn't warrant an entry.
I'm sorry, but that page isn't even close to funny. It's just plain lame and stupid. That's the worst pariody I have ever seen.
Hey all,
Well, this may be an alleged parody, but surely the site in question has to be remotely funny in the first place to be classed as such ? Please don't get me wrong - I cliked on the link ready for a quick chuckle... and about thirty seconds later I relised that it just wasn't going to happend. I eventually read the whole site and felt I had to put down the owner of the site. Please, never ever ever try to be remotely funny again - it just doesn't work...
A parody of this site needs 1) a nanotechnology story posted by Hemos, 2) a NASA story posted by CmdrTaco, 3) a Katz story that includes multiple usage of the word geek, 4) a dual posting of the same story, and 5) three *grins* and two *drools*
;-), spam, and finally Star Wars.
Definately.
A typical post would be about an essentially meaningless kernel update. (you know the drill)*grin*
The buzzword list would be: RedHat, Debian, FCC, USPTO, DoJ, NSA, NSI, KDE/Gnome, AOL, Apple, RIAA, Beowulf, wearable computers, encryption, FUD, hackers/crackers, Intel, AMD, NSI, Id, 3dfx, furbys, Bill Gates, ESR, RMS, France
A story about furbys will somehow generate a discussion that is focused on guns, Bill Clinton, and Janet Reno.
Hemos writes: "MS in partnership with Intel have introduced a wearable computer that utilizes patented embedded nanotechnology. Individual computers/people form part of a modified beowulf cluster (aka, a collective), with each incredibly fast and stable NT computer communicating with each other using export restricted encrypted signals. Bill Gates, in announcing this new product, said, "Resistance is futile." In reponse to this, Apple immediately sued a totally unknown company for no apparent reason.
Word up, brother. Folks, this guy really know what he's talking about. He is like 40% of the support for Slash in the entire world (the other 40% being Temple Hoff and 20% being random people on Temple's list). Also, lilithfair.org is way cool. What do you mean, lame ripoff? It's running the same software, of course it's going to have some UI features in common. At least he did original artwork and color schemes for it. As for better Slashdot parodies, segfault.org actually bothered to mess around with the Slash code (AFAIK) and actually has funny stuff now and then.
The result is Apostrophecolon . Hope you enjoy it.
After you view that, take a look at my comic strip on the rest of the Ubersoft.net website.
Eviscerati.Org: All Hail the Eviscerati
You people need to lighten up .. it might be a little immature but I thought it was quite funny.
It would be one thing if there was some trace of wit behind the jokes, but all the guy did was take a static page and change the words and pictures. I don't mind bathroom humor, as long as there is real wit behind it ("hehehe, he said 'Penis'" won't cut it). Any idiot with a text and graphics editor and some spare time could make something at least that good.
If you are making a parody, there should be some satire type humor there, like the onion or the simpsons, that truely pokes fun at the thing it is a parody of. This didn't really poke fun at slashdot at all - now if there was something about the hopeless obsession of us nerds reloading 5-10 times a day (guilty as charged) that would be different.
Just my $0.000002
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Well the roblimo link, seems to point back to TechSightings which seems to be a part of the Andover network. So I guess that the guy is some Andover guy.
Maybe Roblimo is Robin Miller on this page ?
Anyways I think the parody had some fun parts in it. especially the part about "activating" inside your box. lol
An interesting aspect i noticed was that andover.net has released the perl source for Tech Sitings :-)
Russian Roulette? while
People like you are WHY I haven't completely stopped :) A great deal of them really ;D
reading the comments.
ARE a bunch of boring anal retentive geeks with no
humor or life, and certainly give the community,
a bad name.
Perhaps Slashdot is a somewhat accurate reflection of
humanity itself? Lots of morons, a moderate amount of
really nice people? *shrug*
-- www.bteg.com | bleh.n3.net | hac47.dhs.org
Eviscerati.Org: All Hail the Eviscerati
Can ANYONE do a better Slashdot parody than the legendary Hashsnot? If so, please put your HTML coding where your flaming comments are and do it. You all know the standard for entry here -- you have to raise the bar on Hashsnot. This will be difficult for some of you, impossible for others. Consider that the task is made even more difficult by the fact that Hashsnot survived the Slashdot effect and, therefore, must be a solidly designed site running on a massive SMP server.
As one who would stand no chance in such a contest, I volunteer to help judge the entries.
Geeky modern art T-shirts
[go ahead moderators, flamebait and -1 me. I made sure that to not volunteer as a moderator, so remember that when I don't moderate your stuff.]
If you're going to do a Slashdot parody, do it right, get the less buggy code and the FAQ and actually go through the trouble of making the code work. And I find "buggy code" to be a little harsh on Rob... undocumented and not well written, yes, but it works for the most part. Parodies don't work unless you put some time into them, and this one looks like something that was thought up while on drugs.
And to all you who called LilithFair.org a bad Slashdot ripoff, I'd like to see you get the pre-0.3 release from Slashdot (no, not the -jt releases I made) and make it work without any support. At least my site functions, instead of being a poorly written one-page parody.
I have a few bones to pick with people... don't mind me if you're not one of them.
--
James Turinsky
Owner/Admin, LilithFair.org
The thing I said about jokes about reloading is just an example. I wasn't saying that adding that would automatically make it funny - you would have to do it with the right flair, which is something the onion is very good at. If you haven't been there, it's a must. www.theonion.com
/. parody:
I also was not saying that a good parody would have to have that joke. Again, an example. Other ideas for a good
*Making fun of the quirks in the personalities. For instance,
CmdrTaco will talk about the latest new geek toy, and then say "I've GOT to have one of those"
Hemos will quote somebody's submission, and almost always add his two cents.
Katz will post a very long article, where everyone else keeps it short (I know, he's a writer, and this is his forum for articles) and it's usually about his ongoing fascination: geeks. Sometimes he will imply he's not a geek, sometimes he'll imply he is (sometimes both in the same article), and people always get mad saying he is inaccurately stereotyping.
*Certain kinds of posts will always appear, such as:
First post! (though the moderation system has really helped that). It's always amusing that more often than not, the "Frist posts" aren't even first. Sometimes nowhere close.
"But will it run linux?" These used to be serious, but now they are in a more joking nature to make fun of those who say it seriously.
Trolls - Rob Sux, Hemos Sux, Grapefruits are a tool of the Borg in Redmond. I like how Rob recognized this universal constant and so included such responses in the poll choices.
Long essays written to get moderated up - I bet that after the moderation system was added, the mean post length (MPL) went waaaaaaaaaaayyy up. (I know what you're thinking. And I don't care)
"Top Ten" (Or Top X) posts. This is a fairly new animal, which has been sighted a lot more after "funny" was added to the moderation options (which was a Good Thing btw).
In short, any of these would be much more clever than things like changing "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters" to "News for Turds, Stuff that doesn't matter". *Cringe*
Oh, one more unrelated side note. Anyone seen "Eyes Wide Shut" yet? Awesome movie. If you've seen the recent quickies, and recall the CAP movie review site, imagine what that reviewer would think of it! BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Vidi, Vici, Veni