What is even sadder is that they don't bother to mod UP the relevant informative insightful posts about the actual article. Instead the actual discussion languishes while the meta-discussion (criticism) gets modded down.
Slashdot Editors: give the community a place to criticize you. This will make you "not evil". Especially if you respond to constructive criticism. This isn't trolling.
Of course. I'm with you on that, and my email address is valid, I'll respond to future contacts outside this forum. It might be useful to document this type of behavior in Wikipdia; that's the least we can do and the best hope for an objective treatment of the facts.
I doubt any major media will be interested in covering this, but at least it can be aired in the wikipedia and in blogs, and elsewhere.
Do the editors of the New York Times bother to read their own newspaper? I suspect they do, and that they pay close attention to legitimate, repeated criticism.
How about a committee of ombudsmen then, if meta-discussion is offtopic in the article pages but it still takes place, there's a clear demand for a place for people to air issues that come up with editorial conduct.
Yeah, yeah, it's their site, but there's a large community here and this little concept of "don't be evil" that everyone seems to advocate.
The only link to his blog is in his name - and all submitters do that.
Some submitters link to their email address only, or do not link at all. PageRank == $$$$. Slashdot editors seem to be preferentially giving free PageRank to certain submitters (including Roland and BeatlesBeatles).
Not only that - complaining about this (and the related ** Beatles Beatles shenanigans) is a good way to keep yourself from getting mod points ever again.
The Internet is a mixed bag, good and bad.
I rather have kids (in Kansas or Africa) read a good international newspaper than to have them uncontrolled access to the Internet.
The internet is a good international newspaper, and much more. Internet access with good training is probably the most empowering thing you can donate to people who don't have access to such tools. Save people from dying of starvation, malaria, and war, and then teach them how to use the Internet. Then they can write their own international newspapers.
Er? The Polynesians sailed all over the place in the Pacific Ocean long before Columbus and Cortez and the rest of the Europeans. See also Easter Island.
Very briefly some people will visit just to see what it's all about (and buy nothing) and soon nobody will visit anymore... What a waste of money.
It could be targeted. This is just the first time we've seen one of these (I think). It's a genuine new idea, and I think we'll see similar implementations on the internet and elsewhere. (Too bad|Good thing) he didn't patent it...
I clicked on multiple ads which looked vaguely appealing, loaded their pages in tabs, skimmed over some of them, and bought absolutely nothing. Net result: wasted bandwidth.
It'd be an interesting way to get your message out to some more people though, if you weren't trying to sell something.
This Internet thing is tweaking human communication in interesting ways. I like it.
Umm, no. I don't see the rel="nofollow" attribute in the a hrefs in comment links, nor is it present in the comment header for the personal url. Whether I'm logged in, or not.
Dude, you can't googlebomb with your sig
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Busy googlebombing 'bunch of luddites' [mpaa.org].
Googlebot sees slashdot pages as Anonymous Coward, who does not see signatures. If you want to googlebomb, you have to either use the linked phrase in the actual message text, or in your personal url.
Lost was a breath of fresh air for network TV (I don't have cable), which I discovered via Slashdot, whose first season I caught up with using Bittorrent, and whose first season DVD set I will still probably buy in the near future.
Unfortunately, it has gone a little downhill in the second season. But IMHO it's still good scifi drama.
Rather look for encrypted traffic between say Saudi Arabia and some location inside the US.
Of course that's already happening.
But anyone who has a clue and really wants to plan something secretly will be able to do so undetectably. It's trivial to post some bytes onto the internet which will be downloaded by thousands of people.
If I privately, verbally agree with my co-conspirators that I will post a message to slashdot that, say, has something to do with hamburgers, if I am ready to go through with some dastardly attack on some pre-agreed date, there's no way any computer monitoring would detect such a thing, and even human intelligence would be confounded.
What did Atta supposedly say to his manager about "two sticks, and a cake with a stick down"? That meant 9/11. How could anybody or any machine have known that?
No!! Don't teach it to kids, at all. If there were a religion that sponsored Thursday School where they taught kids that whites were morally superior to blacks, or that Asian kids were smarter than Caucasians, or that the Sun goes around the Earth, or that electricity is a magical force that comes from God and makes the lights turn on at night, or that you can have whatever you wish for if you just pray hard enough to Shai'Hulud, would that be okay with everyone? No!
I'm gonna get burned at the stake someday, or at least modded down for this, but it has to be said. Let's stop teaching our children things that aren't true.
Don't knock Kansas. The education authorities there have done us a great service. We now know which state to look at first when we need people who can flip burgers without asking questions.
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Slashdot Editors: give the community a place to criticize you. This will make you "not evil". Especially if you respond to constructive criticism. This isn't trolling.
Then only those who wear veils will be criminals.
I doubt any major media will be interested in covering this, but at least it can be aired in the wikipedia and in blogs, and elsewhere.
How about a committee of ombudsmen then, if meta-discussion is offtopic in the article pages but it still takes place, there's a clear demand for a place for people to air issues that come up with editorial conduct.
Yeah, yeah, it's their site, but there's a large community here and this little concept of "don't be evil" that everyone seems to advocate.
Good thing the slashdot editors do not also control the Wikipedia.
Real artists start from scratch, or at least reinterpret reality using existing images in new ways. See Warhol.
Some submitters link to their email address only, or do not link at all. PageRank == $$$$. Slashdot editors seem to be preferentially giving free PageRank to certain submitters (including Roland and BeatlesBeatles).
Does anyone dispute these facts?
Not only that - complaining about this (and the related ** Beatles Beatles shenanigans) is a good way to keep yourself from getting mod points ever again.
Ahh, Sweet Armageddon.
Raise your hand if you still have pinto beans and 2L coke bottles filled with tap water and 1 tsp bleach in your basement from 1999.
I thought so...
The internet is a good international newspaper, and much more. Internet access with good training is probably the most empowering thing you can donate to people who don't have access to such tools. Save people from dying of starvation, malaria, and war, and then teach them how to use the Internet. Then they can write their own international newspapers.
Think of what benefits would result if every student in a small Kansas town were given a $100 laptop with Net access.
Er? The Polynesians sailed all over the place in the Pacific Ocean long before Columbus and Cortez and the rest of the Europeans. See also Easter Island.
Why doesn't the slashdot community glom onto Yoism, the first Open Source Religion?
It could be targeted. This is just the first time we've seen one of these (I think). It's a genuine new idea, and I think we'll see similar implementations on the internet and elsewhere. (Too bad|Good thing) he didn't patent it...
It'd be an interesting way to get your message out to some more people though, if you weren't trying to sell something.
This Internet thing is tweaking human communication in interesting ways. I like it.
Umm, no. I don't see the rel="nofollow" attribute in the a hrefs in comment links, nor is it present in the comment header for the personal url. Whether I'm logged in, or not.
Busy googlebombing 'bunch of luddites' [mpaa.org].
Googlebot sees slashdot pages as Anonymous Coward, who does not see signatures. If you want to googlebomb, you have to either use the linked phrase in the actual message text, or in your personal url.
You'll never find the answer at the bottom.
Unfortunately, it has gone a little downhill in the second season. But IMHO it's still good scifi drama.
Of course that's already happening.
But anyone who has a clue and really wants to plan something secretly will be able to do so undetectably. It's trivial to post some bytes onto the internet which will be downloaded by thousands of people.
If I privately, verbally agree with my co-conspirators that I will post a message to slashdot that, say, has something to do with hamburgers, if I am ready to go through with some dastardly attack on some pre-agreed date, there's no way any computer monitoring would detect such a thing, and even human intelligence would be confounded.
What did Atta supposedly say to his manager about "two sticks, and a cake with a stick down"? That meant 9/11. How could anybody or any machine have known that?
Note to feds: no, i'm not an evildoer :)
We need better leaders. I'm not just referring to our dipshit-in-chief.
If more people would just stand up and fight for ideas like freedom, tolerance, compassion, and plain old common sense, humanity would be better off.
Costa Rica by the year 2010, baby.
Right on. Canada is looking better every day. Actually anywhere not currently targeted by USA nukes. Seriously.
Happy Solstice, everybody...
Yes, that is a universal principle. At the office, I've instructed my staff to give every 100th Big Mac "extra-special" treatment.
No!! Don't teach it to kids, at all. If there were a religion that sponsored Thursday School where they taught kids that whites were morally superior to blacks, or that Asian kids were smarter than Caucasians, or that the Sun goes around the Earth, or that electricity is a magical force that comes from God and makes the lights turn on at night, or that you can have whatever you wish for if you just pray hard enough to Shai'Hulud, would that be okay with everyone? No! I'm gonna get burned at the stake someday, or at least modded down for this, but it has to be said. Let's stop teaching our children things that aren't true.
Don't knock Kansas. The education authorities there have done us a great service. We now know which state to look at first when we need people who can flip burgers without asking questions.
He accidentally wrote "working aggressively" instead of "failing to".