Why would that complicate things? All the incident proved was what we know already. Besides, Hubble's done some great things, and of course it'll have to come down eventually. We just have to move on and produce a successor.
I'm quite glad for companies which do this, though. We already do this for other open source and proprietary products, but we've neglected games. If a company we support wants to get a bit of free publicity by submitting a story to Slashdot, they're free to do so. And if more people start hearing about games for Linux, that's one of the trifedecta of reasons for staying with Windows eliminated (the other two being a perceived lack of hardware support and legacy Windows applications). This can really only be a good thing; I can't see anything negative about it, especially considering how many adverts Slashdot already has.
It's such an obvious idea I'm surprised that no one's thought of it before. With games makers keeping their games sensibly small it's entirely possible for someone to squeeze a version for Windows and Linux on one disk; heck, they already do it for Windows/Macintosh, why not Windows/Linux more often? Maybe now one company's had the balls to actually go ahead and do this others will follow with higher profile games.
Part of the problem is caused by dead people whose families don't allow the deceased's organs to be harvested, even if that person had given full legal consent for doctors to do so when they died. That does not make sense. If families have to follow the last will and testament of dead people, why is this an exception? Wouldn't these familie would be aware of this and wouldn't want to disrespect the wishes of their dead?
...Galeon is a GNOME World Wide Web browser that seems to constantly hover towards being accepted without actually being embraced as has Mozilla or Konqueror, alternating between being in disrepute and in popularity more often than Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker! This seems to be because of past attitudes regarding its bugginess and not-so-good graphical bugs due to the graphical APIs and libraries that it uses.
...I hope RedHat takes something like Firebird for its browser. It's featureful and it wouldn't be difficult to whack an even simpler configuration interface on it. Plus, being descended from Mozilla, it would be immune to all of the GNOME/KDE infighting that's going on. It's really a shame that there's so much politics going on among all of the OSS organisations-cum-factions. That's why I prefer Mozilla based browsers; their developers don't get embroiled in "Konq sux! Galeon rulez!" flamewars. GNOME and KDE people who say that they're neutral soon show which side they're neutral on!
Due to his own curiosity and the apparent curiosity (or vocal ignorance) of folks around the net, Topher The Web Guy asked some of the Galeon developers a few questions. If your curiosity is not satiated, there'll be a form at the bottom to ask your own questions.
ric: Ricardo Fernández Pascual yaneti: Yanko Kaneti philipl: Philip Langdale tko: Tommi Komulainen
How "healthy" is the galeon project?
philipl: Stable but serious.:-)
We're operating at a fairly low level right now but we've gained a lot more focus recently and Crispin has been a great help. Having the whole gnome farce behind us is also a relief. ximian deciding to ship galeon as their primary browser is a big boost, especially given redhat has thrown us out (no surprises) and slackware too *sniff*. We still have problems dealing with the bad image we have of 1.3 as a featureless POS; most people don't realise how far we've come since October 2002. But we're getting there, slowly but steadily. Galeon isn't going away.
yaneti Pretty healthy all things considered. Not being "the official GNOME browser". Excluded from Red Hat rawhide. Dissed for all the wrong reasons by uninformed people. - Yet people still seem to be interested and most importantly "external" patches seem to have picked up recently, which is just great. Many thanks.
tko We're progressing nicely, if a bit slowly. We've come a long way after hitting rock-bottom and more people are starting to realize that, so the bad image we got last year should be a thing in the past.
In an interesting twist of events, the Epiphany team has started developing an extension system, and the first extension is mouse gestures - the sort of feature the whole disagreement that eventually lead to Epiphany's birth was all about. After a fashion they're sharing our view on the 'advanced' features after all, and I'm guessing by GNOME 2.6 it'll get where we are now. I only wonder why we couldn't start that last October when I was suggesting it, and skip all the fla^Wfriendly discussions. Oh well...
ric It is surprisingly healthy if you think that it has not had a stable[1] release in a lot of time and that it no longer considered "the" gnome browser. I think that there is an important niche for galeon as the usable and *useful* gnome browser.
[1] even if the released versions are only development versions and not officially stable, they are quite stable actually. I use CVS builds always and it does not crash easily. discussions. Oh well...
How much work is left before Galeon 1.3 becomes Galeon 2.0?
philipl: I've just updated the TODO list.
Mainly, we want to:
* Dump the albatross called bonoboui
* Reorganise the prefs dialog to actually be useful.
* Make the bookmark editor not suck big fat rocks
* get the stylesheet chooser back. that is really missed.
* polish! polish! polish!
Unfortunately this means we do have a big architectural step left which is exorcising bonoboui and switching to the egg library. The other stuff is comparatively straightforward.
yaneti Thats a kind of managerial question which would be best left to philip. I count whats left by looking at the number of bugs on the 2.0 milestone, which might be entirely bogus because its only me who puts them there:)
tko A fair amount. While we have a good set of features and a few more coming, they're not presented well to users. For example, mouse gestures have been implemented since last September, but still people keep asking about them. We need to go through the preferences and decide which ones to show in the dialog, which ones to keep semi-hidden in GConf only, and which ones to remove.
Another large task to do is to update the documentation, although I'm not sure anyone reads it anyway;) I hope we can get someone who's both willing an
People have been abandoning the project for imaginary problems or unimportant problems, all of which stem from, allegedly, "libbonobogui", which appears to be a graphical API for GNOME. This has been the cause of lots of kludges in versions 1.2 and 1.3 and they look forward to ceasing to use it. They've also been hit hard by being dropped by both Red Hat and Slackware! Fortunately, they're getting back on their feet now since some people have stuck with Galeon (which is a pretty fine browser, if not the prettiest) and so it's been gradually improving. I believe a new version was released just a few hours/days ago.
It gets 80 miles per charge and has a pretty respectable top speed, but if it's just a small father-son venture then what wider scale impact will it have on cars? Don't take this the wrong way, I'm all for any kind of advancement in electric car mass production, but if this is just a two person personal project then there may not be much point in it.
Of course, I might just be missing the point completely and this is just a cool hack and not something practical.
This is a big step forward.
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Now we have a proper, KDE-enhanced groupware solution for all sizes of organisations. Unfortunately, even if it is better than Exchange, those organisations are still going to stick with Exchange just because it's what they're familiar with. Hopefully we can try and get this stuff supported in the workplace, and if we contribute code and offer support to the companies we work for if they use this, we can get more widespread adoption.
Somebody (not the person in this story) was doing a coastal survey of a US coastline (Florida, I think, though I could be wrong) and this involved taking lots and lots of overlapping photographs of it. Streisand has a house on the coastline and she's trying to sue the people taking the photographs for some sum of money, claiming that they're violating her privacy by taking photographs of the coast in and around her house.
Everyone ignores patents anyway. It doesn't matter if they get a generic patent on any 'secure' compressed format because they'd get their arses kicked in the courts!
Universally that person's acumen is esteemed very little perceptive concerning whatsoever matters are being held as most profitably by mortals with sapience endowed to be studied who is ignorant of that which the most in doctrine erudite and certainly by reason of that in them high mind's ornament deserving of veneration constantly maintain when by general consent they affirm that other circumstances being equal by no exterior splendour is the prosperity of a nation more efficaciously asserted than by the measure of how far forward may have progressed the tribute of its solicitude for that proliferent continuance which of evils the original if it be absent when fortunately present constitutes the certain sign of omnipotent nature's incorrupted benefaction. For who is there who anything of some significance has apprehended but is conscious that that exterior splendour may be the surface of a downwardtending lutulent reality or on the contrary anyone so is there unilluminated as not to perceive that as no nature's boon can contend against the bounty of increase so it behoves every most just citizen to become the exhortator and admonisher of his semblables and to tremble lest what had in the past been by the nation excellently commenced might be in the future not with similar excellence accomplished if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the honourable by ancestors transmitted customs to that thither of profundity that that one was audacious excessively who would have the hardihood to rise affirming that no more odious offence can for anyone be than to oblivious neglect to consign that evangel simultaneously command and promise which on all mortals with prophecy of abundance or with diminution's menace that exalted of reiteratedly procreating function ever irrevocably enjoined?
It is not why therefore we shall wonder if, as the best historians relate, among the Celts, who nothing that was not in its nature admirable admired, the art of medicine shall have been highly honoured. Not to speak of hostels, leperyards, sweating chambers, plaguegraves, their greatest doctors, the O'Shiels, the O'Hickeys, the O'Lees, have sedulously set down the divers methods by which the sick and the relapsed found again health whether the malady had been the trembling withering or loose boyconnell flux. Certainly in every public work which in it anything of gravity contains preparation should be with importance commensurate and therefore a plan was by them adopted (whether by having preconsidered or as the maturation of experience it is difficult in being said which the discrepant opinions of subsequent inquirers are not up to the present congrued to render manifest) whereby maternity was so far from all accident possibility removed that whatever care the patient in that all hardest of woman hour chiefly required and not solely for the copiously opulent but also for her who not being sufficiently moneyed scarcely and often not even scarcely could subsist valiantly and for an inconsiderable emolument was provided.
THE PARENT POST IS PUBLIC DOMAIN MATERIAL.
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You heard me. The parent post, "A Call For Action", is public domain material. No rights reserved. Forget the moderators and forget copyright law. Spread the word! We need creative trolls!
A Call For Action!
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My dear trolling friends, acquaintances, those I have never heard of,
those I never hear of and those I shall never hear of, we, both the
Slashdot community, super-Slashdot community and the trolling subcommunity
are facing a mass crisis upon all levels. Crapflooders, article text
trolls, and representatives of what few organisations there are are currently
scattered and weak, possessing none of the puissance necessary to overturn
the vast heap of articles and book reviews. All of the teeming subcultures
of Slashdot and the websites and ideals it represents or provided the
prototype for are being shredded and ripped apart in the grinder of
commercialisation, corporation and the valuing of technology over humanity.
Our attempts to provoke discussion, highlight the folly and foolishness
of editors or simply to berate and irritate others being pulled down below
the surface of lackadaisical karma whores, slashbots and other useless
automata, grist for the propaganda mills of "Taco" and his crew.
Only occasionally do the great (or simply repetitive) trolls
rupture the calm, mildly bubbling surface of the Slashdot crew and cohorts'
discussions. What was once orgiastic, vivacious, vibrant, active and edgy is
now limp, lifeless, listless, passive and slack. All but a few ragtag,
fleeting, fly-by-night trolling associations have been massacred or left for
better pastures, and those which remain are collapsing and tumbling into the
totality of disarray. To quote the low-cultural yet astonishingly accurate
Sexual Asspussy, "TEH NEW AEG OF TROOLING HAS COME AND GONE". In a cruel
twist of humour poignantly illustrating our shortsightedness, this selfproduced catastrophic failure has been predicted since 2002. We have the tools to
resolve the situation, but lack the motivation, with those who can do
something content to fight amongst themselves in ineffectual pigpens such
as trolltalk or Geekizoid.
Old generations of provocateurs are falling into disrepair and fading out,
with classic trolls dropping from the face of the World Wide Web for the
cosmopolitan relic known as Usenet or, worse still, setting up unsuccessful
websites which have always degenerated into mere talking shops,
inconsequential, signifying nothing and running at deficit for a fleeting
few moons before the inability to afford bandwidth runs, purges the last
remnant from the consciousness of the mainstream. Ancient faithfuls such
as Adequacy have been reduced to flitting HTTP errors, a ghostly echoing
shadow and reminder of our own inability to fix this shambolic state of
affairs.
The new are no better, incompetent, howling; they tend to be more bombastic
but derivative and reiterative and so lose one's interest as opposed to the
subtle classics. The gentle art of producing attractive and fragile
yet incendiary comments has been lost and buried in a tidal flash flood of
advertisements for nascent trolling groups, ASCII 'art', and other
postprepostmodern neo-Dadaist detritus. The production of the "slashflood"
script merely indicates that the mechanisation and industrialisation of
trolling is draining the emotion and spirit of itself. Though the automation
of trolling is a thoroughly understandable response against the face of
the seemingly otherwise unsurmountable automated filters, barriers, sinks
and guards of Slashcode, it has not proven to be a solution; not even a paltry
one in one hundred stories is successfully crapflooded to the point of
dozens of comments, and the reduced manularity of Perl scripts as opposed
to the Ctrl-R/F5 key combo has given all of us an excuse to forget the
craft of omnipollent inflammatory rhetoric.
This excuse has become so stubbornly entrenched in troll subculture that it
may not be cleansed from the minds of some, but we must make an effort!
Otherwise, we will cease to be able to post without fear of modbombing
due to dull, obvious and tired material! Therefore, it is vital for the
continued wellbeing of the profession of -1 Flamebaiters and +4 Insightfuls
alike that we continue to push the envelope
Slashdot Mirror
Why would that complicate things? All the incident proved was what we know already. Besides, Hubble's done some great things, and of course it'll have to come down eventually. We just have to move on and produce a successor.
Dozens.
I'm quite glad for companies which do this, though. We already do this for other open source and proprietary products, but we've neglected games. If a company we support wants to get a bit of free publicity by submitting a story to Slashdot, they're free to do so. And if more people start hearing about games for Linux, that's one of the trifedecta of reasons for staying with Windows eliminated (the other two being a perceived lack of hardware support and legacy Windows applications). This can really only be a good thing; I can't see anything negative about it, especially considering how many adverts Slashdot already has.
It's such an obvious idea I'm surprised that no one's thought of it before. With games makers keeping their games sensibly small it's entirely possible for someone to squeeze a version for Windows and Linux on one disk; heck, they already do it for Windows/Macintosh, why not Windows/Linux more often? Maybe now one company's had the balls to actually go ahead and do this others will follow with higher profile games.
Part of the problem is caused by dead people whose families don't allow the deceased's organs to be harvested, even if that person had given full legal consent for doctors to do so when they died. That does not make sense. If families have to follow the last will and testament of dead people, why is this an exception? Wouldn't these familie would be aware of this and wouldn't want to disrespect the wishes of their dead?
...Galeon is a GNOME World Wide Web browser that seems to constantly hover towards being accepted without actually being embraced as has Mozilla or Konqueror, alternating between being in disrepute and in popularity more often than Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker! This seems to be because of past attitudes regarding its bugginess and not-so-good graphical bugs due to the graphical APIs and libraries that it uses.
...I hope RedHat takes something like Firebird for its browser. It's featureful and it wouldn't be difficult to whack an even simpler configuration interface on it. Plus, being descended from Mozilla, it would be immune to all of the GNOME/KDE infighting that's going on. It's really a shame that there's so much politics going on among all of the OSS organisations-cum-factions. That's why I prefer Mozilla based browsers; their developers don't get embroiled in "Konq sux! Galeon rulez!" flamewars. GNOME and KDE people who say that they're neutral soon show which side they're neutral on!
Galeon Developer Interview, July 2003
:-)
:)
;) I hope we can get someone who's both willing an
Due to his own curiosity and the apparent curiosity (or vocal ignorance) of folks around the net, Topher The Web Guy asked some of the Galeon developers a few questions. If your curiosity is not satiated, there'll be a form at the bottom to ask your own questions.
ric: Ricardo Fernández Pascual
yaneti: Yanko Kaneti
philipl: Philip Langdale
tko: Tommi Komulainen
How "healthy" is the galeon project?
philipl:
Stable but serious.
We're operating at a fairly low level right now but we've gained a lot more focus recently and Crispin has been a great help. Having the whole gnome farce behind us is also a relief. ximian deciding to ship galeon as their primary browser is a big boost, especially given redhat has thrown us out (no surprises) and slackware too *sniff*. We still have problems dealing with the bad image we have of 1.3 as a featureless POS; most people don't realise how far we've come since October 2002. But we're getting there, slowly but steadily. Galeon isn't going away.
yaneti
Pretty healthy all things considered. Not being "the official GNOME browser". Excluded from Red Hat rawhide. Dissed for all the wrong reasons by uninformed people. - Yet people still seem to be interested and most importantly "external" patches seem to have picked up recently, which is just great. Many thanks.
tko
We're progressing nicely, if a bit slowly. We've come a long way after hitting rock-bottom and more people are starting to realize that, so the bad image we got last year should be a thing in the past.
In an interesting twist of events, the Epiphany team has started developing an extension system, and the first extension is mouse gestures - the sort of feature the whole disagreement that eventually lead to Epiphany's birth was all about. After a fashion they're sharing our view on the 'advanced' features after all, and I'm guessing by GNOME 2.6 it'll get where we are now. I only wonder why we couldn't start that last October when I was suggesting it, and skip all the fla^Wfriendly discussions. Oh well...
ric
It is surprisingly healthy if you think that it has not had a stable[1] release in a lot of time and that it no longer considered "the" gnome browser. I think that there is an important niche for galeon as the usable and *useful* gnome browser.
[1] even if the released versions are only development versions and not officially stable, they are quite stable actually. I use CVS builds always and it does not crash easily. discussions. Oh well...
How much work is left before Galeon 1.3 becomes Galeon 2.0?
philipl:
I've just updated the TODO list.
Mainly, we want to:
* Dump the albatross called bonoboui
* Reorganise the prefs dialog to actually be useful.
* Make the bookmark editor not suck big fat rocks
* get the stylesheet chooser back. that is really missed.
* polish! polish! polish!
Unfortunately this means we do have a big architectural step left which is exorcising bonoboui and switching to the egg library. The other stuff is comparatively straightforward.
yaneti
Thats a kind of managerial question which would be best left to philip. I count whats left by looking at the number of bugs on the 2.0 milestone, which might be entirely bogus because its only me who puts them there
tko
A fair amount. While we have a good set of features and a few more coming, they're not presented well to users. For example, mouse gestures have been implemented since last September, but still people keep asking about them. We need to go through the preferences and decide which ones to show in the dialog, which ones to keep semi-hidden in GConf only, and which ones to remove.
Another large task to do is to update the documentation, although I'm not sure anyone reads it anyway
People have been abandoning the project for imaginary problems or unimportant problems, all of which stem from, allegedly, "libbonobogui", which appears to be a graphical API for GNOME. This has been the cause of lots of kludges in versions 1.2 and 1.3 and they look forward to ceasing to use it. They've also been hit hard by being dropped by both Red Hat and Slackware! Fortunately, they're getting back on their feet now since some people have stuck with Galeon (which is a pretty fine browser, if not the prettiest) and so it's been gradually improving. I believe a new version was released just a few hours/days ago.
Go download it! Show your support!
It gets 80 miles per charge and has a pretty respectable top speed, but if it's just a small father-son venture then what wider scale impact will it have on cars? Don't take this the wrong way, I'm all for any kind of advancement in electric car mass production, but if this is just a two person personal project then there may not be much point in it.
Of course, I might just be missing the point completely and this is just a cool hack and not something practical.
...how long do the batteries last?
Now we have a proper, KDE-enhanced groupware solution for all sizes of organisations. Unfortunately, even if it is better than Exchange, those organisations are still going to stick with Exchange just because it's what they're familiar with. Hopefully we can try and get this stuff supported in the workplace, and if we contribute code and offer support to the companies we work for if they use this, we can get more widespread adoption.
Somebody (not the person in this story) was doing a coastal survey of a US coastline (Florida, I think, though I could be wrong) and this involved taking lots and lots of overlapping photographs of it. Streisand has a house on the coastline and she's trying to sue the people taking the photographs for some sum of money, claiming that they're violating her privacy by taking photographs of the coast in and around her house.
Here's a link I found from some quick Google searching.
...how long will it be before he gets sued by Barbra Streisand?
Everyone ignores patents anyway. It doesn't matter if they get a generic patent on any 'secure' compressed format because they'd get their arses kicked in the courts!
Universally that person's acumen is esteemed very little perceptive
concerning whatsoever matters are being held as most profitably by mortals
with sapience endowed to be studied who is ignorant of that which the most
in doctrine erudite and certainly by reason of that in them high mind's
ornament deserving of veneration constantly maintain when by general
consent they affirm that other circumstances being equal by no exterior
splendour is the prosperity of a nation more efficaciously asserted than
by the measure of how far forward may have progressed the tribute of its
solicitude for that proliferent continuance which of evils the original if
it be absent when fortunately present constitutes the certain sign of
omnipotent nature's incorrupted benefaction. For who is there who anything
of some significance has apprehended but is conscious that that exterior
splendour may be the surface of a downwardtending lutulent reality or on
the contrary anyone so is there unilluminated as not to perceive that as
no nature's boon can contend against the bounty of increase so it behoves
every most just citizen to become the exhortator and admonisher of his
semblables and to tremble lest what had in the past been by the nation
excellently commenced might be in the future not with similar excellence
accomplished if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the
honourable by ancestors transmitted customs to that thither of profundity
that that one was audacious excessively who would have the hardihood to
rise affirming that no more odious offence can for anyone be than to
oblivious neglect to consign that evangel simultaneously command and
promise which on all mortals with prophecy of abundance or with
diminution's menace that exalted of reiteratedly procreating function ever
irrevocably enjoined?
It is not why therefore we shall wonder if, as the best historians relate,
among the Celts, who nothing that was not in its nature admirable admired,
the art of medicine shall have been highly honoured. Not to speak of
hostels, leperyards, sweating chambers, plaguegraves, their greatest
doctors, the O'Shiels, the O'Hickeys, the O'Lees, have sedulously set down
the divers methods by which the sick and the relapsed found again health
whether the malady had been the trembling withering or loose boyconnell
flux. Certainly in every public work which in it anything of gravity
contains preparation should be with importance commensurate and therefore
a plan was by them adopted (whether by having preconsidered or as the
maturation of experience it is difficult in being said which the
discrepant opinions of subsequent inquirers are not up to the present
congrued to render manifest) whereby maternity was so far from all
accident possibility removed that whatever care the patient in that
all hardest of woman hour chiefly required and not solely for the
copiously opulent but also for her who not being sufficiently moneyed
scarcely and often not even scarcely could subsist valiantly and for an
inconsiderable emolument was provided.
You heard me. The parent post, "A Call For Action", is public domain material. No rights reserved. Forget the moderators and forget copyright law. Spread the word! We need creative trolls!
My dear trolling friends, acquaintances, those I have never heard of, those I never hear of and those I shall never hear of, we, both the Slashdot community, super-Slashdot community and the trolling subcommunity are facing a mass crisis upon all levels. Crapflooders, article text trolls, and representatives of what few organisations there are are currently scattered and weak, possessing none of the puissance necessary to overturn the vast heap of articles and book reviews. All of the teeming subcultures of Slashdot and the websites and ideals it represents or provided the prototype for are being shredded and ripped apart in the grinder of commercialisation, corporation and the valuing of technology over humanity. Our attempts to provoke discussion, highlight the folly and foolishness of editors or simply to berate and irritate others being pulled down below the surface of lackadaisical karma whores, slashbots and other useless automata, grist for the propaganda mills of "Taco" and his crew. Only occasionally do the great (or simply repetitive) trolls rupture the calm, mildly bubbling surface of the Slashdot crew and cohorts' discussions. What was once orgiastic, vivacious, vibrant, active and edgy is now limp, lifeless, listless, passive and slack. All but a few ragtag, fleeting, fly-by-night trolling associations have been massacred or left for better pastures, and those which remain are collapsing and tumbling into the totality of disarray. To quote the low-cultural yet astonishingly accurate Sexual Asspussy, "TEH NEW AEG OF TROOLING HAS COME AND GONE". In a cruel twist of humour poignantly illustrating our shortsightedness, this selfproduced catastrophic failure has been predicted since 2002. We have the tools to resolve the situation, but lack the motivation, with those who can do something content to fight amongst themselves in ineffectual pigpens such as trolltalk or Geekizoid.
Old generations of provocateurs are falling into disrepair and fading out, with classic trolls dropping from the face of the World Wide Web for the cosmopolitan relic known as Usenet or, worse still, setting up unsuccessful websites which have always degenerated into mere talking shops, inconsequential, signifying nothing and running at deficit for a fleeting few moons before the inability to afford bandwidth runs, purges the last remnant from the consciousness of the mainstream. Ancient faithfuls such as Adequacy have been reduced to flitting HTTP errors, a ghostly echoing shadow and reminder of our own inability to fix this shambolic state of affairs.
The new are no better, incompetent, howling; they tend to be more bombastic but derivative and reiterative and so lose one's interest as opposed to the subtle classics. The gentle art of producing attractive and fragile yet incendiary comments has been lost and buried in a tidal flash flood of advertisements for nascent trolling groups, ASCII 'art', and other postprepostmodern neo-Dadaist detritus. The production of the "slashflood" script merely indicates that the mechanisation and industrialisation of trolling is draining the emotion and spirit of itself. Though the automation of trolling is a thoroughly understandable response against the face of the seemingly otherwise unsurmountable automated filters, barriers, sinks and guards of Slashcode, it has not proven to be a solution; not even a paltry one in one hundred stories is successfully crapflooded to the point of dozens of comments, and the reduced manularity of Perl scripts as opposed to the Ctrl-R/F5 key combo has given all of us an excuse to forget the craft of omnipollent inflammatory rhetoric.
This excuse has become so stubbornly entrenched in troll subculture that it may not be cleansed from the minds of some, but we must make an effort! Otherwise, we will cease to be able to post without fear of modbombing due to dull, obvious and tired material! Therefore, it is vital for the continued wellbeing of the profession of -1 Flamebaiters and +4 Insightfuls alike that we continue to push the envelope