You are right that this is unfair. It is just ripe for abuse.
If you see something that you don't like at +4 Informative. Instead of modding it -1 Overrated which could later be removed in M2 you could mod it +1 funny and prevent any further karma increases for that user.
A few people with mod points could prop up posts they didn't like with +1 Funnys and mod them down until the account is basically muted as a Troll.
(This is made difficult by the current protections of limited and basically random gaining of mod points, but if you really had a grudge and a few friends you could do it.)
Now I know that the purpose of the +1 Funny != Karma restriction is to encourage serious useful discussion, but I think protections need to be put in place to prevent it's abuse.
One very simple way to do this is to make Funny moderations not count for the purpose of allowing further moderation.
So you could end up with posts marked +N Funny to an arbitrary value of N, while only allowing karma destructive mods to be applied if there was additional karma building moderations.
So if it is modded +3 Funny it can not be modded -4 Troll, but if it is at +3 Funny +1 UnderRated it could be modded to +2 Underated. (All this assumes it is posted at an initial value of 1 for a registered account.)
Frankly this is not the place to discuss this. Slashdot has a feature request area that is the proper location for your complaint. You will have to register there to make the request, and I don't know what that entails, but if this is important to you then put forth the effort.
It points out a number of stumbling blocks that you might get into and walks you through them.
It has a few paragraphs on dealing with the various liscenses, and on the effort you should put into giving back to the open source community if you use some of the code.
Ah but it would take a lot less work to make crops that are suitable for oil production than it takes to make crops that are fit for human comsumtion.
You could even use genetically modified crops to good effect without the bio-luddites making a torch and pitchfork brigade.
Once companies saw a stable and lucrative market for GM crop research they would jump on it, and soon you would see more effiecient crops to convert sunlight into easilly storable and portable energy. (Which is what oil is, concentrated sunlight)
I just hope that the various and sundry orginization which get money for HIV/AIDS research don't force this into an endless cycle of research so they can get more grants.
But don't listen to me I'm just made cynical by the constant demand for more research money for a disease that is more than 95% avoidable if you use common sense, and actually maintain some self control.
I bought a PS2 and returned the two games that came with it to get FF VII and umm... some dragon knight game the title of which escapes me.
Later on I got a few PS2 titles, but I actually did get it to finish FFVII which I had started so long ago. (Never did finish it though... Actually I have yet to finish any of the games I have on it. PoP, Dark Cloud 2, FFVII , FFVIII.... all at roughly 95% completion.)
Hate to tell you this, but its strict federal controls on education that got us where we are today.
The scale used to judge the skill levels of the students was removed because it made the low performing students 'feel bad about themselves', meanwhile more and more of the money that was readied for the schools was diverted for 'administrative purposes' or in other words the people who ran the districts decided that they needed a new mercedes and gave themselves a raise.
Many schools became just ways to get a large number of students attending, and a good average grade on the SAT since those are the ways that the school gets its funding.
I can't tell you the amount of time that my teachers in junior high and high school spent drilling us on the SAT instead of actually teaching us.
A number of factors could help the school system in America.
Stop dumbing down the classes for the lowest denominator. Instead make the lest naturally gifted children work for their grades.
Cut the mandatory 'School Spirit' meetings during class periods. Make them after school activities.
Get the parents more involved in what their children are learning. It would be simple enough for a teacher to print out a sheet of what the homework is for the day so that a parent could make sure that the student is doing it, and knows what they are doing.
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I got one on my first try, but then again it was comedy gold.
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I doubt I could play UT while burning to a DVD at 16x.
You would need basically a dedicated machine for DVD burning at that speed.
Imagine what you could do with a beowulf cluster of these things... oh wait... nevermind.
It seems my question is already answered.
I have thought about this for a bit now.
You are right that this is unfair.
It is just ripe for abuse.
If you see something that you don't like at +4 Informative. Instead of modding it -1 Overrated which could later be removed in M2 you could mod it +1 funny and prevent any further karma increases for that user.
A few people with mod points could prop up posts they didn't like with +1 Funnys and mod them down until the account is basically muted as a Troll.
(This is made difficult by the current protections of limited and basically random gaining of mod points, but if you really had a grudge and a few friends you could do it.)
Now I know that the purpose of the +1 Funny != Karma restriction is to encourage serious useful discussion, but I think protections need to be put in place to prevent it's abuse.
One very simple way to do this is to make Funny moderations not count for the purpose of allowing further moderation.
So you could end up with posts marked +N Funny to an arbitrary value of N, while only allowing karma destructive mods to be applied if there was additional karma building moderations.
So if it is modded +3 Funny it can not be modded -4 Troll, but if it is at +3 Funny +1 UnderRated it could be modded to +2 Underated. (All this assumes it is posted at an initial value of 1 for a registered account.)
Frankly this is not the place to discuss this.
Slashdot has a feature request area that is the proper location for your complaint. You will have to register there to make the request, and I don't know what that entails, but if this is important to you then put forth the effort.
Because Ashcroft wasn't involved with this?
Since this isn't a patriot act crime...
I for one welcome our totally artificial overlords.
"HANG UP & DRIVE"
"U R IN MY LANE!"
"SAME TO YOU ASS"
"DAMN TAILGATER!"
this is a bunch of lower case letters to avoid the lameness filter so you can ignore it if you like or not if it fits your preference.
It points out a number of stumbling blocks that you might get into and walks you through them.
It has a few paragraphs on dealing with the various liscenses, and on the effort you should put into giving back to the open source community if you use some of the code.
Except this would be the average iPod, laptop, and PDA nerd who also had to qualify for a gun course which includes a course on gun safety.
Anyone who took the time to get a gun would be able to shoot it.
Text --> MUD --> MMORPG --> ??? --> Profit!
I found a good way of getting around quickly.
Hit A and S repeatedly one after the other.
S makes you slimy and expands you slightly.
A makes your edges sticky and if you are expanded you contract.
So you grow outwards stick to the ground and then contract.
If you have an arrow key held down you end up running in a circle shape at high speeds. (I outran the sliding board in the second collection level.)
Its his sig.
Its a quote from Aqua team hunger force on cartoon network.
Google has a picture
You should have gone with a perpetual motion water pyramid.
Just make a big hill with the land shaper tool and cover it with water tiles.
Put hydroelectric dams on it and you have a powerful stable, and cool looking powersource.
Then you can put a bunch of water pumps around the base and supply your city's basic needs.
If you drop enough iron salts into the ocean then lots of algea will form to fix the carbon as it gets into the water cycle.
Check it out.
Ah but it would take a lot less work to make crops that are suitable for oil production than it takes to make crops that are fit for human comsumtion.
You could even use genetically modified crops to good effect without the bio-luddites making a torch and pitchfork brigade.
Once companies saw a stable and lucrative market for GM crop research they would jump on it, and soon you would see more effiecient crops to convert sunlight into easilly storable and portable energy. (Which is what oil is, concentrated sunlight)
Well he is using the asignment operator.
If it wasn't before it is now.
I just hope that the various and sundry orginization which get money for HIV/AIDS research don't force this into an endless cycle of research so they can get more grants.
But don't listen to me I'm just made cynical by the constant demand for more research money for a disease that is more than 95% avoidable if you use common sense, and actually maintain some self control.
I bought a PS2 and returned the two games that came with it to get FF VII and umm... some dragon knight game the title of which escapes me.
Later on I got a few PS2 titles, but I actually did get it to finish FFVII which I had started so long ago. (Never did finish it though... Actually I have yet to finish any of the games I have on it. PoP, Dark Cloud 2, FFVII , FFVIII.... all at roughly 95% completion.)
It also detects when you try to use the CD-ROM tray as a drink holder and automatically logs you out and contacts your local BOfH.
Regexp
s/#(\w)\s{\sdisplay\s\:\snone\s}/#\1 { style : inline }/
Or if you have proxomitron
Replace
#\1{display*:*none*}
With
#\1{display : inline }
I for one welcome our shower curtain overlords.
The scale used to judge the skill levels of the students was removed because it made the low performing students 'feel bad about themselves', meanwhile more and more of the money that was readied for the schools was diverted for 'administrative purposes' or in other words the people who ran the districts decided that they needed a new mercedes and gave themselves a raise.
Many schools became just ways to get a large number of students attending, and a good average grade on the SAT since those are the ways that the school gets its funding.
I can't tell you the amount of time that my teachers in junior high and high school spent drilling us on the SAT instead of actually teaching us.
A number of factors could help the school system in America.
I got one on my first try, but then again it was comedy gold.
Kerry is Bush lite only in that all of Bush's good traits are removed.
Kind of like how they came up with pepsi one.
What we need now is a torrent or a download for the clipped .bin file.
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