I think the best that you could hope for might be the low digit count UIDs. I have the single digit UID achievement (5 points:) but there are rewards for 2, 3, 4, and 5. Once we hit 6 figures, we stop rewarding;)
Plus I have 'The Cheater' achievement! (Truthfully, achievements can serve a nice function to the site: we actually intend to use a few of them for legitimate purposes, starting with tutorial type functions: all major parts of Slashdot have an corresponding achievement, so getting them all requires you to explore much of the site's functionality).
There's actually a system message generated by an achievement. If you enable webmail in your user preferences, you will get notified. It's not flashy, but it could probably be turned into something flashy next year;)
yeah it was the only way i could switch CDs in my little 4xCD switcher too. Loved that thing back in the day. Now I probably stick 10 CDs in my laptop a year. How things have changed:)
yeah you can do.slashdot.org but back in the day (not sure if it's still true) some browsers would not let 'slashdot.org' get at a cookie saved to '.slashdot.org'. Cookies were a really shitty standard for a few years there.
I can explain that... I have a philosophical problem with 'www'. 'www' is redundant... 'www' implies that this is a web site. Web sites communicate using the http protocol. So to have 'http' and 'www' in the same URL is redundant and needless. I used to refer to it as The Cursed WWW, or TCWWW. you don't need to say ftp://ftp.sitename.com because it's REDUNDANT. You're wasting letters and time dammit! So to this day I always try to redirect people from 'www' to the base domain name.
Unfortunately this causes problems with domains & cookies. A cookie set by foo.domain.com is invisible to domain.com, so if you login while viewing 'games.slashdot.org' you aren't necessarily logged in to 'slashdot.org'. And this all really sucks because apparently advertisers seem to think that if it's not in the URL, it's not part of the content of the page. This context sensitive advertising thing is responsibile for an awful lot of stupid URLs that just make it harder to share information through meatspace.
It was called ePlus. At first I just themeified asclock and released it for E. Before that I had written a CD switcher applet for the AfterStep dock, as well as a volume controller. Later I merged the clock, volume controls, and a few other things into a fully themable suite of little widgets for Enlightenment. Good times.
Yeah we lost like 3-4 months worth of stories... like 300-400 of them iirc. Back then I never really considered that we'd still be here a decade later and actually CARE about them;)
Heh... what I'm saying is that since we only had small data sets to work with, we haven't decided exactly how to make this stuff useful yet. I can get the information, but it's not yet integrated into the system as fully as it ought to be.
There are conventions for tagging that I think should be followed, and those are covered in our tagging faq. In theory tags you assign should be visible to others, but we haven't tested much with users tagging freeform tags on the home so that might not actually be working properly.
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Ok we're both offtopic and deserve to be moderated as such, but this is very well said.
I assumed you were kidding Ray ;)
We've seen UIDs on eBay before. We've also messed with the accounts when we saw them :) (Karma? What karma!)
sounds like he april fooled you ;)
I think the best that you could hope for might be the low digit count UIDs. I have the single digit UID achievement (5 points :) but there are rewards for 2, 3, 4, and 5. Once we hit 6 figures, we stop rewarding ;)
yeah that's slashteam pranking me ;)
we didn't feel like making 30 icons for april fools day :)
Plus I have 'The Cheater' achievement! (Truthfully, achievements can serve a nice function to the site: we actually intend to use a few of them for legitimate purposes, starting with tutorial type functions: all major parts of Slashdot have an corresponding achievement, so getting them all requires you to explore much of the site's functionality).
There's actually a system message generated by an achievement. If you enable webmail in your user preferences, you will get notified. It's not flashy, but it could probably be turned into something flashy next year ;)
Stop Taunting Me ;)
You have no idea how accurate this is.
www.slashcode.com. Patches are always welcome.
I'm only kinda exagerating ;)
yeah it was the only way i could switch CDs in my little 4xCD switcher too. Loved that thing back in the day. Now I probably stick 10 CDs in my laptop a year. How things have changed :)
because we didn't log that information for like 5 years ;)
yeah you can do .slashdot.org but back in the day (not sure if it's still true) some browsers would not let 'slashdot.org' get at a cookie saved to '.slashdot.org'. Cookies were a really shitty standard for a few years there.
Unfortunately this causes problems with domains & cookies. A cookie set by foo.domain.com is invisible to domain.com, so if you login while viewing 'games.slashdot.org' you aren't necessarily logged in to 'slashdot.org'. And this all really sucks because apparently advertisers seem to think that if it's not in the URL, it's not part of the content of the page. This context sensitive advertising thing is responsibile for an awful lot of stupid URLs that just make it harder to share information through meatspace.
It was called ePlus. At first I just themeified asclock and released it for E. Before that I had written a CD switcher applet for the AfterStep dock, as well as a volume controller. Later I merged the clock, volume controls, and a few other things into a fully themable suite of little widgets for Enlightenment. Good times.
Dude, I *invented* it. You guys told me it couldn't be done. Of course, you were right- the performance sucked, but it looked awesome.
Yeah we lost like 3-4 months worth of stories... like 300-400 of them iirc. Back then I never really considered that we'd still be here a decade later and actually CARE about them ;)
Actually, internally AC is 666.
I'll just cut this off now then.
Pwnz3d.
Heh... what I'm saying is that since we only had small data sets to work with, we haven't decided exactly how to make this stuff useful yet. I can get the information, but it's not yet integrated into the system as fully as it ought to be.
There are conventions for tagging that I think should be followed, and those are covered in our tagging faq. In theory tags you assign should be visible to others, but we haven't tested much with users tagging freeform tags on the home so that might not actually be working properly.