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I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
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At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
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How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
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How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
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I forgot/can't get my password!
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Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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FAQ Meta
What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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FAQ Meta
What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
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At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
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Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
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At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
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How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
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Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
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At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
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At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
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Is this censorship?
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3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
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Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
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How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
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Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
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Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
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I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
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Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
Introduction
This reference article summarizes all of the approximately 100 services in the Windows® 2000 Server family of operating systems, presenting them in alphabetical order. It provides general information on how each service is related to functioning of the operating system and describes the major effects of disabling each service.
A service is a process or set of processes that adds functionality to Windows by providing support to other programs. The default installation of each version of Windows 2000 Server provides a core set of services and configurations designed to suit most needs, while offering users some flexibility.
Every service in Windows 2000 has three states, which users can control with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Snap-in:
Disabled. These services are installed but not currently running.
Set to manual. These services are installed but will start only when another service or application needs its functionality.
Set to automatic. These services are started by the operating system after device drivers are loaded at boot time.
Windows 2000 Services
Alerter-notifies selected users and computers of administrative alerts. If this service is turned off, applications that use the NetAlertRaise or NetAlertRaiseEx APIs will be unable to notify a user or computer (by a Message Box from the Messenger service) that the administrative alert took place.
Application Management-provides software installation services, such as Assign, Publish, and Remove. This service (known as appmgmts) processes requests to enumerate, install, and remove applications deployed via a corporate network. When you press the Add button in Add/Remove Programs on a computer joined to a domain, the applet calls in to the service to retrieve the list of your deployed applications.
The service is also called when you use Add/Remove Programs to install or remove an application, and in cases when a component, such as the shell or COM, makes an install request for an application to handle a file extension, COM class, or progid that is not present on the computer. The service is started by the first call made to it-it does not terminate once started. If the service is disabled, users will be unable to install, remove, or enumerate applications deployed in the Microsoft Active Directory(TM) service through IntelliMirror® management technologies. See also Windows Installer.
Boot Information Negotiation Layer (BINL)-provides the ability to install Windows 2000 Professional on (Pre Execution Environment) PXE remote boot-enabled client computers. The BINL service, the primary component of Remote Installation Services (RIS), answers PXE clients, checks Active Directory for client validation, and passes client information to and from the server. The BINL service is installed when you either add the Remote Installation Services component from Add/Remove Windows Components, or select it when initially installing the operating system.
If turned off, PXE clients requesting RIS installations will fail to get a reply. If BINL is no longer needed on the system, the proper way to discontinue its use would be to use Add/Remove Windows components to remove the Remote Installation Services component. IF turned off, Remote Installation Services will fail to allow client machines to install the OS remotely.
Certificate Services-creates, manages, and removes X.509 certificates for applications such as (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) S/MIME and (Secure Sockets Layer) Cliff this service is stopped, certificates will not be created. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.
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This service is turned off by default, and it is only started when a user starts the Clipbook. If you disable or remove the service, Clipbrd.exe will time out on startup and notify the user that it cannot be started and remote access is not available. However, Clipbrd.exe can still be used to view the local Clipboard (where data is stored when a user highlights text and then goes to the Edit menu and selects Copy, or types Ctrl+C).
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Network load balancing clusters provide a highly available and highly scalable environment for applications that have no long running state such as front-end web servers by load balancing client requests among a set of identical servers. This service applies to the server clusters and is the essential software component that controls all aspects of the server cluster operation and manages the cluster database. Each node in a cluster runs one instance of the cluster service
COM+ Event System-provides automatic distribution of events to subscribing (Component Object Model) COM components. COM+ Events extend the COM+ programming model to support late-bound events or method calls between the publisher or subscriber and the event system. Instead of repeatedly polling the server, the event system notifies interested parties as information becomes available.
COM+ Events handles most of the event semantics for the publisher and subscriber. Publishers offer to publish event types, and subscribers request event types from specific publishers. Subscriptions are maintained outside the publisher and subscriber and are retrieved when needed. This simplifies the programming model for both. The subscriber does not need to contain the logic for building subscriptions-building a subscriber is as easy as building a COM component. The life cycle of the subscription is separate from that of either the publisher or the subscriber. Subscriptions can be built prior to either the subscriber or publisher being made active.
If the service is turned off, System Event Notification (SENS) stops working: Login and logoff notifications will not occur. Other inbox applications, such as Volume Snapshot service, will not work correctly.
Computer Browser-maintains an up-to-date list of computers on your network, and supplies the list to programs that request it. The Computer Browser service is used by Windows-based computers that need to view network domains and resources. Computers designated as browsers maintain browse lists, which contain all shared resources used on the network. Earlier versions of Windows applications, such as My Network Places, the NET VIEW command, and Windows NT® Explorer, all require browsing capability. For example, opening My Network Places on a computer running Windows 95 displays a list of domains and computers, which is accomplished by the computer obtaining a copy of the browse list from a computer designated as a browser.
There are several different roles a computer may perform in a browsing environment. Under some conditions, such as failure or shutdown of a computer designated for a specific browser role, browsers-or potential browsers-may change to a different role of operation. Windows NT assigns the following special roles to computers running the Computer Browser service:
Domain Master Browser. Used only in domain environments. By default, the primary domain controller (PDC) for a domain operates in this role. The domain master browser collects and maintains the master browse list of available servers for its domain, in addition to any names for other domains and workgroups used in the network. It also distributes and synchronizes the master browse list for master browsers on other subnets that have computers belonging to the same domain.
Master Browser. Collects and maintains the list of available network servers in its subnet. The master browser fully replicates its listed information with the domain master browser to obtain a complete browse list for the network, and distributes it to backup browsers located on the same subnet.
Backup Browser. The backup browser receives a copy of the browse list from the master browser for its subnet, and distributes it to other computers upon request.
Potential Browser. Capable of becoming a backup browser when instructed to by the subnet's master browser, the potential browser operates similarly to a non-browser under normal conditions.
Nonbrowser. A nonbrowser is configured so it cannot become a browser, and it does not maintain a browse list. It can operate as a browse client, requesting browse lists from other computers operating as browsers on the same subnet. When the Computer Browser service is turned off there is no mechanism to discover other computers to populate the My Network Places, and so on.
DHCP Client- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Client manages network configuration by registering and updating IP addresses and Domain Name Server (DNS) names. You do not have to manually change the IP settings when a client, such as a roaming user, travels throughout the network. The client is automatically given a new IP address regardless of the subnet it reconnects to-as long as a DHCP server is accessible from each of those subnets.
There is no need to manually configure settings for DNS or Windows Internet Name Service (WINS). The DHCP server can give these settings to the client, as long as the DHCP server has been configured to issue such information. To enable this option on the client, simply select the Obtain DNS Server Address Automatically option button. There are no conflicts caused by duplicate IP addresses. If this service is turned off you will not be able to obtain an IP address. You will have to configure a static IP address. See also DHCP Server.
DHCP Server-using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), this service allocates IP addresses and allows the advanced configuration of network settings such as DNS servers, WINS servers, and so on to DHCP clients automatically. If the DHCP Server service is turned off, DHCP clients will not receive IP addresses or network settings automatically. See also DHCP Client.
Distributed File System (DFS)-manages logical volumes distributed across a local or wide area network. DFS is a distributed service that integrates disparate file shares into a single logical namespace. This namespace is a logical representation of the network storage resources that are available to users on the network. If the DFS service is turned off, users will be unable to access network data through the logical namespace; in order to access the data, users will need to know the names of all the servers and shares in the namespace, and access each of these targets independently.
Distributed Link Tracking (DLT) Client-maintains links between the NTFS file system files within a computer or across computers in a network domain. The DLT Client service ensures that shortcuts and (Object Linking and Embedding) OLE links continue to work after the target file is renamed or moved. When you create a shortcut to a file on an NTFS v5 volume, distributed link tracking stamps a unique object identifier (ID) into the target file, known as the link source. Information about the object ID is also stored within the referring file, known as the link client.
Distributed link tracking can use this object ID to locate the link source file in any combination of the following scenarios that occur within a Windows 2000 domain:
The link source file is renamed.
The link source file is moved to another folder on the same volume or to a different volume on
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Re:Yippie (Score:-1)
by Dead Fart Warrior on Tuesday October 23, @12:13PM (#2466069)
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Newbie troll, lesson #1:
Writing a string of chars will not cause scrolling, because taco's slashbot cuts it up. The key is to use HTML to your advantage. Try using several nested lists, then type a long line. The lists will push the comment way to the right, then the long line causes the scrolling.
Happy Trolling!
Example Below (Also works great as a fifth or so reply)
GPL Business Model --
Step 1) Release Free Software
Step 2) ???
Step 3) PROFIT!!
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Re:Yippie (Score:-1)
by Clint Trollwood on Tuesday October 23, @12:15PM (#2466082)
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Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
Of course a platonic relationship is possible -- but only between husband and wife.
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I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
Of course a platonic relationship is possible -- but only between husband and wife.
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
Of course a platonic relationship is possible -- but only between husband and wife.
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
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About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
Of course a platonic relationship is possible -- but only between husband and wife.
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I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
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At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
Of course a platonic relationship is possible -- but only between husband and wife.
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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FAQ Meta
What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
P-K4
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
P-K4
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
P-K4
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
P-K4
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
P-K4
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
P-K4
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What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
I don't want to accept a cookie!
Someone is posting under a false identity, or an account designed to look like someone else!
Why do I keep getting randomly logged out?
About Slashdot
Who does this?
What does the name "Slashdot" Mean?
Do Rob and Jeff ever regret the decision to sell Slashdot?
Now that you have sold it, does this mean you've become corporate drones?
If you're not corporate drones, whose idea was the Slashdot PT Cruiser?
I would like Slashdot to...
A lot of people have the impression you spend more time arguing with the Slashdot readers than listening to them. Do you think this is true, and if not, why do so many people have this idea?
A lot of Slashdot readers don't feel sufficiently included in how things are done. Is there any possibility of getting more meta-discussion about Slashdot happening?
How much traffic does Slashdot serve?
Why has Slashdot become so successful?
Where did the nicknames "CmdrTaco" and "Hemos" come from?
Why do reporters care where your nicknames come from?
What is this "Free Speech/Free Beer" thing that I see discussed in the comments?
What is the "Slashdot Effect?"
What's the coolest story Slashdot's ever had?
Will there be any more episodes of "Geeks in Space"?
What's your exact attitude about the hidden sids?
Tech
What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?
Why doesn't Slashdot display in browser X?
Where/why do you use cookies?
What kind of logging does Slashdot do with regard to its readers?
Can I have your poll scripts?
Why are you generating so many pages dynamically?
What about the source code to this site?
If you were just starting to code Slashdot.org today, what would you code the site in PHP or mod_perl?
Do you guys ever worry that some site might steal Slashcode and try and outdo Slashdot?
How did it feel when you opensourced slashcode, allowing people to tinker with your 'baby' as it were? Are you still involved with the process as much, or is your time taken up by reading email and such?
What's the biggest benefit to come out of the opening of Slash so far? Better efficiency? Tighter security?
Advertising
Can I advertise on Slashdot?
What is AdFu?
Why aren't you using AdFu any more?
A banner ad is screwing up my browser!
Suggestions
How about an NNTP news gateway?
Have you considered rewriting Slashdot in C?
Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
How about giving us a reason for rejecting submissions?
How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
P-K4
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FAQ Meta
What is this document?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?
Who is responsible for the FAQ?
At various points in this FAQ and elsewhere, you've mentioned a "TODO list." Is this available for public viewing?
Editorial
How do I submit stories to Slashdot?
Can I submit a story anonymously?
How do I "Ask Slashdot?"
Why didn't you post my story?
Why hasn't my story been accepted or rejected yet?
Why do some stories show up in the index, but not on the homepage
My story submission was "accepted", how come I never saw it?
Sometimes I see duplicate stories on Slashdot. What's up with that?
I submitted that a month ago!
Someone else got credit for a story I submitted!
I want to write an editorial. What should I do?
I want to write a book review. What should I do?
Why is your grammar/spelling so bad?
Why did you post story X?
How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Would you be interested in creating mirror sites in other languages and have people translate articles? Different articles for different sites?
"The Omelette"
UI
I want a Slashbox that does X
What is this little [?] I see in stories?
How can I see old stories?
Comments and Moderation
What's up with flat/threaded/nested comments?
Why did my comment get deleted?
Why did it take so long for my comment to appear?
What's up with "First Post" comments?
Comment posts are getting crappy. What are you doing about it?
Moderation seems restrictive. Is it really necessary?
Most of the trolls and useless stuff comes from "Anonymous Coward" posters. Have you thought about eliminating anonymous posting?
Doesn't this open posting policy ever get you into trouble?
How did the moderation system develop?
How does moderation work?
What are thresholds?
What is karma?
Is there a limit to how much karma you can accumulate?
It seems unfair that I can't get any more karma than that even if I earn it.
Why didn't I get karma for a Quickie or a Slashback story?
What is karma Good For?
Why is my karma not what I expect?
Whenever I use my +1 Bonus, I get moderated down and lose karma!
I just got moderator access. What do I do?
Why can't I moderate any more?
Why don't you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
What about separating the rating (+1,-1), from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often times a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality, nevertheless.
Is this censorship?
Has anyone been, or will anyone be banned from Slashdot
I found a comment rated -2 or 6!
What is a good comment? A bad comment?
3 days is not enough time to moderate!
If I post in a discussion I moderated, why don't I get my points back?
How can I improve my karma?
Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get modded up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?
What sorts of anti-troll filters exist?
Why can't I search or filter archived stories?
Meta-moderation
What do these M1 and M2 abbreviations mean?
What is M2?
Why was M2 started?
Who can M2?
How can I M2?
How often can I M2?
How does M2 affect the moderator's karma?
How often do moderations appear for M2?
Why are there duplicate comments?
Why isn't there a link to M2 on my index.pl?
How should I M2 if the M1er called it "Insightful" and I think it should be "Informative?"
Can I post to stories I'm M2ing?
Does M2 affect my karma?
Accounts
Can I change my nickname?
How do I change my password?
How can I delete my account?
I forgot/can't get my password!
I'm having trouble logging in.
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Have you considered PHP?
How about a page for rejected or pending story submissions?
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How about allowing readers to directly administer the submissions bin?
How about an AvantGo channel, or some other PDA interface?
How about a WAP interface?
Getting the Slashdot headlines by 'finger @www.slashdot.org' would be nice, don't you think?
Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Is is possible to have META tags that Slashdot looks for in a story link before allowing it to be submitted/posted? Many times a server can't handle the load of a Slashdotting. So can the site have tags to prevent it from being added to a slashdot story?
It seems that many moderators, because of the way they read comments, (higher thresholds, older comments first), only see comments that are posted with a bonus, or have already been moderated up. Wouldn't it make more sense to require moderators to read at a threshold of 0 with newest comments first?
Have you ever thought about hiding comment scores when people are moderating? It might help alleviate "Group Think."
I have a suggestion for improving moderation.
What about other moderation models such as those used by Kuro5hin, everything2, or advogato.org?
Will some of the subsections spin off as sites in their own right? For example, it would be cool if the YRO section were to hit dead tree form in some way like soon. It's too important to remain outside the radars of 9-5ers in Pleasantville.
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Use W's or some other wide character. It's much more effective.
...to search for the First Post.
And I found one here...looky...
Introduction
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This reference article summarizes all of the approximately 100 services in the Windows® 2000 Server family of operating systems, presenting them in alphabetical order. It provides general information on how each service is related to functioning of the operating system and describes the major effects of disabling each service.
A service is a process or set of processes that adds functionality to Windows by providing support to other programs. The default installation of each version of Windows 2000 Server provides a core set of services and configurations designed to suit most needs, while offering users some flexibility.
Every service in Windows 2000 has three states, which users can control with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Snap-in:
Disabled. These services are installed but not currently running.
Set to manual. These services are installed but will start only when another service or application needs its functionality.
Set to automatic. These services are started by the operating system after device drivers are loaded at boot time.
Windows 2000 Services
Alerter-notifies selected users and computers of administrative alerts. If this service is turned off, applications that use the NetAlertRaise or NetAlertRaiseEx APIs will be unable to notify a user or computer (by a Message Box from the Messenger service) that the administrative alert took place.
Application Management-provides software installation services, such as Assign, Publish, and Remove. This service (known as appmgmts) processes requests to enumerate, install, and remove applications deployed via a corporate network. When you press the Add button in Add/Remove Programs on a computer joined to a domain, the applet calls in to the service to retrieve the list of your deployed applications.
The service is also called when you use Add/Remove Programs to install or remove an application, and in cases when a component, such as the shell or COM, makes an install request for an application to handle a file extension, COM class, or progid that is not present on the computer. The service is started by the first call made to it-it does not terminate once started. If the service is disabled, users will be unable to install, remove, or enumerate applications deployed in the Microsoft Active Directory(TM) service through IntelliMirror® management technologies. See also Windows Installer.
Boot Information Negotiation Layer (BINL)-provides the ability to install Windows 2000 Professional on (Pre Execution Environment) PXE remote boot-enabled client computers. The BINL service, the primary component of Remote Installation Services (RIS), answers PXE clients, checks Active Directory for client validation, and passes client information to and from the server. The BINL service is installed when you either add the Remote Installation Services component from Add/Remove Windows Components, or select it when initially installing the operating system.
If turned off, PXE clients requesting RIS installations will fail to get a reply. If BINL is no longer needed on the system, the proper way to discontinue its use would be to use Add/Remove Windows components to remove the Remote Installation Services component. IF turned off, Remote Installation Services will fail to allow client machines to install the OS remotely.
Certificate Services-creates, manages, and removes X.509 certificates for applications such as (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) S/MIME and (Secure Sockets Layer) Cliff this service is stopped, certificates will not be created. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.
Clipbook-enables the Clipbook Viewer to create and share "pages" of data to be viewed by remote computers. This service depends on the NetDDE/Network Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) service to create the actual file shares that other computers can connect to, while the Clipbook application and service allow users to create the pages of data to share.
This service is turned off by default, and it is only started when a user starts the Clipbook. If you disable or remove the service, Clipbrd.exe will time out on startup and notify the user that it cannot be started and remote access is not available. However, Clipbrd.exe can still be used to view the local Clipboard (where data is stored when a user highlights text and then goes to the Edit menu and selects Copy, or types Ctrl+C).
Cluster Service-defines a cluster as a group of independent computer systems, referred to as nodes, that work together to provide a unified computing resource. There are two different types of cluster solutions in the Windows platform that support different application styles: Server Clusters and (Network Load Balancing) NLB clusters. Server clusters provide a highly available environment for long-running applications such as database or file servers by providing failover support with tightly integrated cluster management.
Network load balancing clusters provide a highly available and highly scalable environment for applications that have no long running state such as front-end web servers by load balancing client requests among a set of identical servers. This service applies to the server clusters and is the essential software component that controls all aspects of the server cluster operation and manages the cluster database. Each node in a cluster runs one instance of the cluster service
COM+ Event System-provides automatic distribution of events to subscribing (Component Object Model) COM components. COM+ Events extend the COM+ programming model to support late-bound events or method calls between the publisher or subscriber and the event system. Instead of repeatedly polling the server, the event system notifies interested parties as information becomes available.
COM+ Events handles most of the event semantics for the publisher and subscriber. Publishers offer to publish event types, and subscribers request event types from specific publishers. Subscriptions are maintained outside the publisher and subscriber and are retrieved when needed. This simplifies the programming model for both. The subscriber does not need to contain the logic for building subscriptions-building a subscriber is as easy as building a COM component. The life cycle of the subscription is separate from that of either the publisher or the subscriber. Subscriptions can be built prior to either the subscriber or publisher being made active.
If the service is turned off, System Event Notification (SENS) stops working: Login and logoff notifications will not occur. Other inbox applications, such as Volume Snapshot service, will not work correctly.
Computer Browser-maintains an up-to-date list of computers on your network, and supplies the list to programs that request it. The Computer Browser service is used by Windows-based computers that need to view network domains and resources. Computers designated as browsers maintain browse lists, which contain all shared resources used on the network. Earlier versions of Windows applications, such as My Network Places, the NET VIEW command, and Windows NT® Explorer, all require browsing capability. For example, opening My Network Places on a computer running Windows 95 displays a list of domains and computers, which is accomplished by the computer obtaining a copy of the browse list from a computer designated as a browser.
There are several different roles a computer may perform in a browsing environment. Under some conditions, such as failure or shutdown of a computer designated for a specific browser role, browsers-or potential browsers-may change to a different role of operation. Windows NT assigns the following special roles to computers running the Computer Browser service:
Domain Master Browser. Used only in domain environments. By default, the primary domain controller (PDC) for a domain operates in this role. The domain master browser collects and maintains the master browse list of available servers for its domain, in addition to any names for other domains and workgroups used in the network. It also distributes and synchronizes the master browse list for master browsers on other subnets that have computers belonging to the same domain.
Master Browser. Collects and maintains the list of available network servers in its subnet. The master browser fully replicates its listed information with the domain master browser to obtain a complete browse list for the network, and distributes it to backup browsers located on the same subnet.
Backup Browser. The backup browser receives a copy of the browse list from the master browser for its subnet, and distributes it to other computers upon request.
Potential Browser. Capable of becoming a backup browser when instructed to by the subnet's master browser, the potential browser operates similarly to a non-browser under normal conditions.
Nonbrowser. A nonbrowser is configured so it cannot become a browser, and it does not maintain a browse list. It can operate as a browse client, requesting browse lists from other computers operating as browsers on the same subnet. When the Computer Browser service is turned off there is no mechanism to discover other computers to populate the My Network Places, and so on.
DHCP Client- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Client manages network configuration by registering and updating IP addresses and Domain Name Server (DNS) names. You do not have to manually change the IP settings when a client, such as a roaming user, travels throughout the network. The client is automatically given a new IP address regardless of the subnet it reconnects to-as long as a DHCP server is accessible from each of those subnets.
There is no need to manually configure settings for DNS or Windows Internet Name Service (WINS). The DHCP server can give these settings to the client, as long as the DHCP server has been configured to issue such information. To enable this option on the client, simply select the Obtain DNS Server Address Automatically option button. There are no conflicts caused by duplicate IP addresses. If this service is turned off you will not be able to obtain an IP address. You will have to configure a static IP address. See also DHCP Server.
DHCP Server-using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), this service allocates IP addresses and allows the advanced configuration of network settings such as DNS servers, WINS servers, and so on to DHCP clients automatically. If the DHCP Server service is turned off, DHCP clients will not receive IP addresses or network settings automatically. See also DHCP Client.
Distributed File System (DFS)-manages logical volumes distributed across a local or wide area network. DFS is a distributed service that integrates disparate file shares into a single logical namespace. This namespace is a logical representation of the network storage resources that are available to users on the network. If the DFS service is turned off, users will be unable to access network data through the logical namespace; in order to access the data, users will need to know the names of all the servers and shares in the namespace, and access each of these targets independently.
Distributed Link Tracking (DLT) Client-maintains links between the NTFS file system files within a computer or across computers in a network domain. The DLT Client service ensures that shortcuts and (Object Linking and Embedding) OLE links continue to work after the target file is renamed or moved. When you create a shortcut to a file on an NTFS v5 volume, distributed link tracking stamps a unique object identifier (ID) into the target file, known as the link source. Information about the object ID is also stored within the referring file, known as the link client.
Distributed link tracking can use this object ID to locate the link source file in any combination of the following scenarios that occur within a Windows 2000 domain:
The link source file is renamed.
The link source file is moved to another folder on the same volume or to a different volume on
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Re:Yippie (Score:-1)
by Dead Fart Warrior on Tuesday October 23, @12:13PM (#2466069)
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Newbie troll, lesson #1:
Writing a string of chars will not cause scrolling, because taco's slashbot cuts it up. The key is to use HTML to your advantage. Try using several nested lists, then type a long line. The lists will push the comment way to the right, then the long line causes the scrolling.
Happy Trolling!
Example Below (Also works great as a fifth or so reply)
GPL Business Model --
Step 1) Release Free Software
Step 2) ???
Step 3) PROFIT!!
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Re:Yippie (Score:-1)
by Clint Trollwood on Tuesday October 23, @12:15PM (#2466082)
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Yep it's true! -1 baby!
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Re:Yippie (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23, @12:23PM (#2466119)
What
THE FUCK
I like to lick tacos, especially your moms taco!
Not fast enough...not before we do some serious mayhem!!
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w00t!
Yes, w00t!
There's a little bit of spork in all of us. Let it out!
Absolutely. There's nothing like a little good old-fashioned page widening entertainment.
/. under the DMCA for reverse-engineering your .sig?
Hey...have you tried to sue
It'd be great if people could read the threads here and try to figure out what is going on.
The overzealous part rings true as well.