Hey everybody, we're at Score -1 here! This is the cellar, this is slimy -1, this is the sewer! This level is for page-lengthening posts, for goatse.cx, for Taco-snotting. What makes you think you can post interesting and insightful and funny posts down at this level? No wonder you get modded offtopic.
Here's a quote from a Slashdot editor commenting on this thread:
If you're so dumb that you post off-topic comments and think it's horrible, evil censorship when they get moderated off-topic, then great, please leave Slashdot. Go away. I'm serious. You're an idiot and you won't contribute anything of value anyway.
So that's how they value their readers, that's how they value this massive readership concern for Slashdot.
The funny thing is, I don't even agree with the post that started this. Moderation has flaws, so what? Editors can edit, so what? Nothing new there.
But there's a massive readership interest here! The editor's response to this massive interest is ridiculous. The editors themselves are doing the damage. If offtopicness is the problem, just put the damn subject on the front page! Then we'd have a discussion that is ontopic! With the readership interest that we see here, any professional journalist would do that. Journalism thrives on controversy, including debate on its own practices.
So why don't they put this on the frontpage? Ridiculous.
I suggest you put a link to this thread in your sig. It's interesting, it's worth discussing. And sigs aren't modded offtopic. (I think they aren't...)
From QuickFox, even though I'm using a different nick.
Even in Swedish universities, fluency in English is required because of the literature. The reason quoted by the universities is the literature. This happens even though Sweden is among the richer Western countres and has extensive literature in most fields.
Certainly you can have all the basic schoolbooks in many local languages, and a lot of additional material too. But you can't have translations of every detailed study on every exotic bacterium or every unusual transistor tunneling effect.
Note that "literature" includes periodicals, they are essential.
The amount of scientific and technological literature is quite staggering.
I could never do the work that I do if I couldn't read English. Impossible.
Because of the extremely large volume of the world's scientific and technological literature, translating major parts of it to several thousand local languages is unfortunately not a realistic proposition.
-- It looks like I may perhaps not be able to continue this discussion, for reasons that I find quite interesting. Slashdot tells me:
"Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email jamie@mccarthy.vg."
And me such a serious guy. The reason seems to be
these
Amazing. I don't even agree with the original post. Anyway, now I'm using workarounds to try to post this anyway, that's why I have a different nick. Let's see if it works.
Well, if it ends, our discussion would have to end some day anyway. It's been interesting discussing with you. Have fun.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
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Trying to be funny, are we? You karma whore!
Hey everybody, we're at Score -1 here! This is the cellar, this is slimy -1, this is the sewer! This level is for page-lengthening posts, for goatse.cx, for Taco-snotting. What makes you think you can post interesting and insightful and funny posts down at this level? No wonder you get modded offtopic.
... -1 Insightful ... -1 Funny ... The most amazing Slashdot phenomenon ever, perhaps.
-1 Interesting
If your pupils are real geeks, your most important piece of equipment is a filter to make Slashdot and pr0n unavailable, else there's no way you can get their attention. ... -1 Insightful ... -1 Funny ... The most amazing Slashdot phenomenon ever, perhaps.
-1 Interesting
Here's a quote from a Slashdot editor commenting on this thread:
If you're so dumb that you post off-topic comments and think it's horrible, evil censorship when they get moderated off-topic, then great, please leave Slashdot. Go away. I'm serious. You're an idiot and you won't contribute anything of value anyway.
So that's how they value their readers, that's how they value this massive readership concern for Slashdot.
Read the entire comment and its responses. (It's over at Kuro5hin of all places. Why not on Slashdot?)
The funny thing is, I don't even agree with the post that started this. Moderation has flaws, so what? Editors can edit, so what? Nothing new there.
But there's a massive readership interest here! The editor's response to this massive interest is ridiculous. The editors themselves are doing the damage. If offtopicness is the problem, just put the damn subject on the front page! Then we'd have a discussion that is ontopic! With the readership interest that we see here, any professional journalist would do that. Journalism thrives on controversy, including debate on its own practices.
So why don't they put this on the frontpage? Ridiculous.
I suggest you put a link to this thread in your sig. It's interesting, it's worth discussing. And sigs aren't modded offtopic. (I think they aren't...)
-1 Interesting ... -1 Insightful ... -1 Funny ...
The most amazing
Slashdot phenomenon ever,
perhaps.
From QuickFox, even though I'm using a different nick.
Even in Swedish universities, fluency in English is required because of the literature. The reason quoted by the universities is the literature. This happens even though Sweden is among the richer Western countres and has extensive literature in most fields.
Certainly you can have all the basic schoolbooks in many local languages, and a lot of additional material too. But you can't have translations of every detailed study on every exotic bacterium or every unusual transistor tunneling effect.
Note that "literature" includes periodicals, they are essential.
The amount of scientific and technological literature is quite staggering.
I could never do the work that I do if I couldn't read English. Impossible.
Because of the extremely large volume of the world's scientific and technological literature, translating major parts of it to several thousand local languages is unfortunately not a realistic proposition.
-- It looks like I may perhaps not be able to continue this discussion, for reasons that I find quite interesting. Slashdot tells me:
"Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email jamie@mccarthy.vg."
And me such a serious guy. The reason seems to be
these
four
posts
of mine.
(There's also an interesting
Slashdot's editor's comment posted at Kuro5hin of all places.)
Amazing. I don't even agree with the original post. Anyway, now I'm using workarounds to try to post this anyway, that's why I have a different nick. Let's see if it works.
Well, if it ends, our discussion would have to end some day anyway. It's been interesting discussing with you. Have fun.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.