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calibanDNS pointed us to unOfficial H4X0r'$ Guide to Slashdot. This is one of the funniest bits I've read in recent memory. It's nice to get a good belly laugh on a friday afternoon, and this one will provide it.
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Now that's scary.
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the authors of this article are obviously microsoft sympathizers trying to get us to screw up slashdot for the powers of freeBSD!!!!!!
oops forgot to hit post anonymously
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-- rot13 my email address for the real thing
Odds of being killed by lightning and winning the lottery in the same day: 1 in 2^55
"but all the 1337357 know that all the REAL moderation is done within the first 5 minutes or so."
Compare this to http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml:
Post early:
If an article has over a certain number of posts on it already yours is less likely to be moderated. This is, less likely both statistically (there are more to choose from) and due to positioning (as a moderator I have to actually find your post waaay at the end of a long list.)
Sometimes the truth is best told in jest.....
(And no I am *not* advocating the stuff they say on that page....lol I read all the way to the bottom and my soul will NOT go to AOL!!)
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
I liked that trick best...
--Birds take off at sunrise. On the opposite side of the world, they are landing
at sunset. This causes the earth to spin on its axis.
No Katz flames ...
Well, this at least exposed a bug on /.
/. makes it go away entirely, thus leaving nothing to click on in the list. A tad annoying I'd say.
The subject of this message was supposed to be "(Score: -80,000)" without the quotes. But as you can see
Obviously it's looking for a (Score: xxx) type of thing at the end of the Subject line, but if there's nothing in front of that, it just leaves an empty subject.
Still, very funny.
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- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
It appears that my humble little site is already slashdotted. If anyone else wants to view the site, I've got a mirror of that document here.
P.S. Thanks to all the people who have posted possible additions to the article. I promise to review them and include (with your permission and credit of course) them in an updated version. Thanks.
Here is a link for the mirror I've got up. I anticipated the slashdot effect, but not that.
If you can't get the first post (there's lots of 1337 competition y'know), or come in a little too late, another way to get fairly visible to threaded viewers, is to reply, as offtopic as necessary, to the highest scoring post. Yes, there's a chance that that post could be moderated back down, or another be moderated above it, but all the 1337357 know that all the REAL moderation is done within the first 5 minutes or so.
I wish that this were not so true. I am as guilty of it as anyone else, but the moderators do not usually wait more than half an hour before the topic is "dead". If you don't read the article, make a brilliant post and generally get to the top of the view at the start, you get no karma. Even if a moderator does check the thing "later in the day", (s)he rarely seems to note anything below the top 20-30 articles, so your only prayer of really accumulating karma is to be an obsessive reloader who has on-topic, insightful and witty posts prepared for every possible article on the net.
I don't like it because I have a job that I try to do too...
Oh... Wait... Obsessive reloaders aren't supposed to be moderators...
B. Elgin
B. Elgin
"Read at your own risk; feel free to ignore."
Actually, I read the quickies yesterday, and didn't see it. Granted, it's been part of my sig for awhile now, but I just checked yesterday's quickies, and didn't see it again. Maybe I'm missing something tho...
[rant] another huge problem (imho) is that some people feel they must reply to every story featured, no matter how little they know about the subject, how obvious, or redundant it is. there are so many posts that just say "haha, that was funny!" or "wow, that's interesting." i think that anyone who reads the feature and/or links can figure out for themselves whether something is funny or not. if the poster wishes to tell someone how funny or interesting the link or story is, he/she shold tell it to someone who hasn't already read it. [/rant]
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. -- Voltaire
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
What's the largest site of all?
With articles and posts galore,
Seeking for the highest (Score: )
As moderators sift and sort,
Giving good posts just reward.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
What's the largest site of all?
Mirror, mirror, on the 'Net,
What's the geekiest site yet?
"Stuff that Matters," "News for Nerds,"
Aren't just empty slogan words.
Linux, Windows, BSD,
All discussed bellig'rently.
Mirror, mirror, on the 'Net,
What's the geekiest site yet?
Yet Slashdot's feared, or so it seems,
By webmasters of modest means.
For if there should appear a link
On Slashdot, then lo! Ere a blink
Of time should pass, thousands of geeks
Will click on it. And then, such creaks
Of servers grinding to a halt:
Those 404's are Slashdot's fault!
And so, oh mirror, duplicate
My page, lest it evaporate.
For Slashdot linked to it, you know,
And now my server's awfully slow.
Hope you enjoyed it.
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The real meaning of the GNU GPL:
The real meaning of the GNU GPL:
"The Source will be with you... Always."
Y'know guys, I think somehow I'm being robbed by this. I just realized that I wrote the article, and submitted it about a week ago, and didn't get anything. Now CalibanDNS submits it, and HE'S going to get a free T-Shirt. What's the world coming to?!? I would so desperately like a free T-Shirt. It's getting cold where I live, and I don't have anything to wear, since Natalie Portman ate my hot grits.
First posts have of course overstayed their welcome, but I would be far more impressed by the more disreputable slashdotters if they went through all the archives and added last posts to already closed discussion threads. That would at least take some energy.