That dumbass should have never used real information on a web site. When the hell are people going to learn this? It should be all the more self-evident to people with common names like "Jessica Davis".
I'm not here to read -1 comments....no one gets through to my screen (except some random zoo.pl friends) without an ACTUAL HUMAN deciding their content is worthy of my eyes.
That might work for you. But it's my opinion that there is pervasive group think amongst the moderators and thus I choose to make all determinations myself. Once Slashdot implemented this feature, that was I really needed to brush off what moderators think. Besides, there are some real gems at -1 if you have a broad sense of humor and an open mind. If your humor is limited to Monty Python, Office Space, overlords, "we have always been at war with Eurasia" and DVD encryption key jokes then yes, moderation is probably for you. On the same note, if you toe the copyright/ip/patent line, moderation is probably also for you. I'd argue that you are going to miss some, no - many valid and interesting arguments and opinions. Well, I think they are worth consideration and thought anyway. You, of course, are free to let the moderators tell you what opinions are worth your time.
As to your +3, nested oldest first comment: Consider this - browsing that way is going to show you many responses to comments that are less than +3. What's the point in reading a +3 response to a comment that wasn't up to your beloved moderator's standards? Where's the context? Does it even address the original comment or is it just spewing slashbot talking points? How would you ever know if you set your "standards" so high? An once again, why even bother?
Not really. I guess I was naive in thinking that statisticians played some role in generating these numbers. No statistician would stand by numbers laid out to that degree of precision when dealing with a number so fluid.
Slide the slider on the left to make them all expanded. What's the problem?
Then it shows all the comments on one page. I just tried that for a story with 3500 comments and it crashed my browser (firefox 2.0) and nearly locked up X. It worked OK in windows (also firefox 2.0), but still all the comments are on one page. So the new system only allows you to see them all on one page expanded or not to some degree. I've tried the new system before. I'll stick with the old system. At least I know its quirks/bugs/crap design and it has never crashed my browser.
But for your job, you do good work, right? Well, the main developers of Slash are paid to do it. It's their job, no? This site isn't running itself and the people running it aren't doing it for free. This site touts OSS as such a great alternative to commercial software, yet it is embarrassingly amateur in so many places. And any attempt to point out problems gets ignored or shrugged off. I won't even bother trying to fix the code myself because of the attitude expressed by the janitors.
The "174 out of 47 comments" bug? 10 to 1 says that could be fixed with a few HTML comment tags to comment out the "out of 47" text and then it would just say "174 comments". Or just remove the some text in the code. That would change it from a WTF? to useful info and I bet the fix would take 10 minutes. If it is any more complicated than that to fix, something is horribly, horribly wrong.
I will accept that some of the other things might be much harder to fix, but they have existed for years and have been brought to their attention a number of times. I see a lot of hypocrisy when they blah, blah, blah about how much Microsoft sucks but can't be bothered to fix a broken link or a misspelled word.
And don't think for a minute that they're modding toasters to run linux, that technical ship sailed years ago when they stopped caring. What they are doing is dicking around playing games, watching anime porn and most likely submitting stories with a cron job. What else could explain it?
Ask Slashdot: What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? 126 of 74 comments
What the hell does 126 of 74 comments mean? That has been like that since they changed over. I build web-based apps for a living and even though this is a terrible example given we're talking Slashdot, seeing that on something I built would be as embarrassing as seeing a misspelled word in production.
It's not an issue on the "new Discussion system", which just puts them all on one page anyway. Perhaps that's why they didn't bother fixing it recently (although it's been around since *long* before then).
Yeah, it's also not an issue if you view in threaded mode too. But I want to see every single comment expanded when I read Slashdot. Threaded and the new system collapse them. Nested is the only way to have them all open (at least that I know of.)
As far as submitting the bug, I think the last time I submitted it was around 2002 or 2003.
The damn calendar skips a month when you hit the next month arrow. Come on, this is the default clock/calendar. I just want to know what day June 14th is. Being May, I hit the next month arrow and it quickly displays June, then goes to July. I have to resort to a paper calendar sitting next my desk. I know I could probably update it, but this is pretty stupid bug to let slip through.
Speaking of Slashdot, you know when you browse at -1, nested mode in a story that has 400+ comments and it gets broken up into multiple pages? So you click on page 2, and there's the very same comment that started out page one. Then you click on page 3 and still the same damn comment starting the page? Same thing with page 4 or 5 or 6. Go to the HOF and click on a story with 4000 comments. You have to click to about page 25 before you see a comment that is not the first or second post from page 1.
That's been a Slashdot bug for years. I even reported it like 10 times at source forge. It just gets closed with some snide comment, like "stop submitting this bug" or "this is not a bug". It's a bug, they could at least leave it open or mark it unfixable.
Not only that, but they did it for free. And if anyone beat their price, the next pickup was 50% off plus they'd mow your lawn and wash your dog all while delivering 50 cents worth of groceries (20% off) on a motorbike from a store 15 miles away.
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I'm not sure what will happen first. You getting modded down to -1 or someone posting that there's no such thing as intellectual property.
Either way, both will happen.
Because it can screw Microsoft. Right?
I hope the don't fuck up "New Title II" though.
The fanfic crowd is riled up. Everyone take cover!
Yes, but would it run an Indy car?
No, but it could run a lowered honda civic with a spoiler, a huge muffler and spinning rims.
That dumbass should have never used real information on a web site. When the hell are people going to learn this? It should be all the more self-evident to people with common names like "Jessica Davis".
The part about someone putting a gun to the head of CD-Wow and forcing them to sign that agreement.
So students are now assets?
On a balance sheet? Yes. Or possibly liabilties. But they are one or the other.
Seriously though, I can't remember Slashdot ever linking directly to the printable page. I wish they'd do it more often.
I think it's time to get a new battery for your sarcasm detector. His argument was shit. Anyone who would suggest C is going away is an idiot.
Luckily I brought a printout or I would never have gotten the price quoted online.
Did they verify your printout? If not, I just had a great idea...
I'm not here to read -1 comments....no one gets through to my screen (except some random zoo.pl friends) without an ACTUAL HUMAN deciding their content is worthy of my eyes.
That might work for you. But it's my opinion that there is pervasive group think amongst the moderators and thus I choose to make all determinations myself. Once Slashdot implemented this feature, that was I really needed to brush off what moderators think. Besides, there are some real gems at -1 if you have a broad sense of humor and an open mind. If your humor is limited to Monty Python, Office Space, overlords, "we have always been at war with Eurasia" and DVD encryption key jokes then yes, moderation is probably for you. On the same note, if you toe the copyright/ip/patent line, moderation is probably also for you. I'd argue that you are going to miss some, no - many valid and interesting arguments and opinions. Well, I think they are worth consideration and thought anyway. You, of course, are free to let the moderators tell you what opinions are worth your time.
As to your +3, nested oldest first comment: Consider this - browsing that way is going to show you many responses to comments that are less than +3. What's the point in reading a +3 response to a comment that wasn't up to your beloved moderator's standards? Where's the context? Does it even address the original comment or is it just spewing slashbot talking points? How would you ever know if you set your "standards" so high? An once again, why even bother?
Does it matter?
Not really. I guess I was naive in thinking that statisticians played some role in generating these numbers. No statistician would stand by numbers laid out to that degree of precision when dealing with a number so fluid.
How do they calculate that? I mean, they cannot have that high of a confidence level in those numbers.
Then everyone is going to be on the fastest route. Those old slow, traffic infested roads will be like ghost towns.
Slide the slider on the left to make them all expanded. What's the problem?
Then it shows all the comments on one page. I just tried that for a story with 3500 comments and it crashed my browser (firefox 2.0) and nearly locked up X. It worked OK in windows (also firefox 2.0), but still all the comments are on one page. So the new system only allows you to see them all on one page expanded or not to some degree. I've tried the new system before. I'll stick with the old system. At least I know its quirks/bugs/crap design and it has never crashed my browser.
But for your job, you do good work, right? Well, the main developers of Slash are paid to do it. It's their job, no? This site isn't running itself and the people running it aren't doing it for free. This site touts OSS as such a great alternative to commercial software, yet it is embarrassingly amateur in so many places. And any attempt to point out problems gets ignored or shrugged off. I won't even bother trying to fix the code myself because of the attitude expressed by the janitors.
The "174 out of 47 comments" bug? 10 to 1 says that could be fixed with a few HTML comment tags to comment out the "out of 47" text and then it would just say "174 comments". Or just remove the some text in the code. That would change it from a WTF? to useful info and I bet the fix would take 10 minutes. If it is any more complicated than that to fix, something is horribly, horribly wrong.
I will accept that some of the other things might be much harder to fix, but they have existed for years and have been brought to their attention a number of times. I see a lot of hypocrisy when they blah, blah, blah about how much Microsoft sucks but can't be bothered to fix a broken link or a misspelled word.
And don't think for a minute that they're modding toasters to run linux, that technical ship sailed years ago when they stopped caring. What they are doing is dicking around playing games, watching anime porn and most likely submitting stories with a cron job. What else could explain it?
Here's another good one:
Ask Slashdot: What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? 126 of 74 comments
What the hell does 126 of 74 comments mean? That has been like that since they changed over. I build web-based apps for a living and even though this is a terrible example given we're talking Slashdot, seeing that on something I built would be as embarrassing as seeing a misspelled word in production.
It's not an issue on the "new Discussion system", which just puts them all on one page anyway. Perhaps that's why they didn't bother fixing it recently (although it's been around since *long* before then).
Yeah, it's also not an issue if you view in threaded mode too. But I want to see every single comment expanded when I read Slashdot. Threaded and the new system collapse them. Nested is the only way to have them all open (at least that I know of.)
As far as submitting the bug, I think the last time I submitted it was around 2002 or 2003.
He makes a very compelling argument as to why C is dying.
Everyone knows that Microsoft obtained perfection with Word 5.1.
The damn calendar skips a month when you hit the next month arrow. Come on, this is the default clock/calendar. I just want to know what day June 14th is. Being May, I hit the next month arrow and it quickly displays June, then goes to July. I have to resort to a paper calendar sitting next my desk. I know I could probably update it, but this is pretty stupid bug to let slip through.
Speaking of Slashdot, you know when you browse at -1, nested mode in a story that has 400+ comments and it gets broken up into multiple pages? So you click on page 2, and there's the very same comment that started out page one. Then you click on page 3 and still the same damn comment starting the page? Same thing with page 4 or 5 or 6. Go to the HOF and click on a story with 4000 comments. You have to click to about page 25 before you see a comment that is not the first or second post from page 1.
That's been a Slashdot bug for years. I even reported it like 10 times at source forge. It just gets closed with some snide comment, like "stop submitting this bug" or "this is not a bug". It's a bug, they could at least leave it open or mark it unfixable.
Did they do a good job picking up your garbage?
Not only that, but they did it for free. And if anyone beat their price, the next pickup was 50% off plus they'd mow your lawn and wash your dog all while delivering 50 cents worth of groceries (20% off) on a motorbike from a store 15 miles away.