A fundamental tenet of open source journalism is being able to pass comment on it and to contribute.
If you try to sign up on his big "journalism" website, there's a 24 hour delay before you can post comments and a one week delay before you can post diaries.
Maybe I'm being paranoid here, but isn't it convenient that if you want to sign up and post a comment about a story that you want others to see, you won't be able to do so until the story (and so your comment) have dropped off the front page? Could it be that Kos isn't really interested in fostering debate at all and just wants an echo chamber for his buddies?
Half of the comments above mine will all agree; Markos is talking crap. What in hell does the "open source philosophy" have to do with weblogging? The weblogging community is just a big echo chamber of technological circlejerking over RSS, Trackbacking and other such tosh. Open source is all about, you know, making something useful and sharing it with others. Someone needs to tell Markos the difference before he spouts more misinformation.
You know, guys, there's a reason that we have separate application programs instead of doing everything through Internet Explorer. Believe it or not, it's not necessarily the best interface for a lot of things.
A "salvo" is something that is fired. A "suit" is something that is filed.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Salvo \Sal"vo\, n. [F. salve a discharge of heavy cannon, a
volley, L. salve hail, imperat. of salvere to be well, akin
to salvus well. See {Safe}.]
1. (Mil.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in
endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
2. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous,
firing of a number of cannon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
salvo
n 1: an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the
release of bombs
2: rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade
from the left flank caught them by surprise" [syn: {fusillade},
{volley}, {burst}]
3: a sudden outburst of cheers; "there was a salvo of approval"
[also: {salvoes} (pl)]
An explanation of this little editorial line. Back in the bad old days of Slashdot, its source code wasn't free as it is nowadays! And so, a grass-roots campaign kinda appeared out of nowhere to "FREE SLASH!!!!!11". Using his famed diplomatic skills, CmdrTaco responded: "I will delay 24 hours every time someone mentions it."
For literally years, the "editor" "michael" has been splattering his moronic influence all over this website. Now, if Slashdot were some dipshit site without any effect on the online world, that'd be all well and good, but I and I'm sure you too would agree that as editor of the most popular "News for nerds" website, michael has a responsibility to us. Amongst the many things that michael has done are:
insert biased editorialising into story blurbs by putting words in "quotes" to put Democrat-oriented stories into disrepute
go off on rants in prominent comments in all caps, screaming and railing against Intel's 64-bit efforts
posting stories that have been instantly archived, allowing no one to post, and then not fixing the situation for an hour and a half
moderating to -1, Offtopic or -1, Flamebait anyone who contests his idiot behaviour
modbombing entire threads of dozens of posts to -1, Offtopic
applying a "bitchslap" operation to users who disagree with him, setting their karma to "Bad" or "Terrible" and taking away their ability to ever moderate again
post blatantly false hoax stories, perpetuating the flow of misinformation (case in point: the tsunami creature story)
post links to sites that have then been switched to goatse, and then not explain what happened afterwards
not edit stories in light of new, overriding information
posted stories with broken URLs
posted stories in the wrong section
posted consecutive dupes - only he, CmdrTaco and timothy have managed to do this
The list goes on and on. michael must go. Slashdot's not that great as it is, but he's just dragging this place down all the faster. What can we do? Taco ignores all emails about his beloved $20K-a-year staff; he trusts michael more than the opinion of his beloved readers. Taco won't do a thing unless we can hit him where it hurts - in the pocket.
How? Simple. Taco relies upon the insightful-sounding commentary that this site occasionally produces. (You'll notice he doesn't go to the trouble of modding it up himself - he leaves it to us!). Without it, people stop visiting and Slashdot becomes unprofitable. So, here's what to do if you want to oust michael and force Taco to fix Slashdot:
install adblocking software like Privoxy to block adverts
set your preferences to eliminate the slanted crap posted by michael
don't put links to Slashdot URLs on your blog; link directly to the URLs that the Slashdot story includes
don't post genuine comments in the stories; if you must post them at all, do them in the journals of the people you want to talk to or email them privately
any time michael (or any editor, for that matter) does something that they need to be called up on, say something. Post about it, even if others have done so - the more noise people make about editor screw-ups, the more incentive they have not to do them
change your comment preferences to give a +6 bonus to Flamebait and Offtopic moderations. These are popularly used for moderation-enabled censorship. Overrated is too, but I guess Taco wants to keep at least one moderation that we can't dodge
if you get the chance to metamoderate, moderate all positive moderations as "Fair" and all negative moderations as "Unfair". This won't get picked up at all and you're helping to stop over-sensitive censors like michael
whenever you moderate, use your mod points to moderate comments at -1 and 0 upwards as "Underrated"; you can't get metamoderated for this
There you go. Now you know what needs to be done. If you agree, reply. If you disagree, re
Utilities have been coded to overclock HP48/HP49 calculators to a wide range of clock speeds - you can pick and choose what you like, up to 200MHz. This is pretty impressive too - that's more than a doubling of clock speed, IIRC.
For literally years, the "editor" "michael" has been splattering his moronic influence all over this website. Now, if Slashdot were some dipshit site without any effect on the online world, that'd be all well and good, but I and I'm sure you too would agree that as editor of the most popular "News for nerds" website, michael has a responsibility to us. Amongst the many things that michael has done are:
insert biased editorialising into story blurbs by putting words in "quotes" to put Democrat-oriented stories into disrepute
go off on rants in prominent comments in all caps, screaming and railing against Intel's 64-bit efforts
posting stories that have been instantly archived, allowing no one to post, and then not fixing the situation for an hour and a half
moderating to -1, Offtopic or -1, Flamebait anyone who contests his idiot behaviour
modbombing entire threads of dozens of posts to -1, Offtopic
applying a "bitchslap" operation to users who disagree with him, setting their karma to "Bad" or "Terrible" and taking away their ability to ever moderator again
post blatantly false hoax stories, perpetuating the flow of misinformation (case in point: the tsunami creature story)
post links to sites that have then been switched to goatse, and then not explain what happened afterwards
not edit stories in light of new, overriding information
posted stories with broken URLs
posted stories in the wrong section
posted consecutive dupes - only he, CmdrTaco and timothy have managed to do this
The list goes on and on. michael must go. Slashdot's not that great as it is, but he's just dragging this place down all the faster. What can we do? Taco ignores all emails about his beloved $20K-a-year staff; he trusts michael more than the opinion of his beloved readers. Taco won't do a thing unless we can hit him where it hurts - in the pocket.
How? Simple. Taco relies upon the insightful-sounding commentary that this site occasionally produces. (You'll notice he doesn't go to the trouble of modding it up himself - he leaves it to us!). Without it, people stop visiting and Slashdot becomes unprofitable. So, here's what to do if you want to oust michael and force Taco to fix Slashdot:
install adblocking software like Privoxy to block adverts
set your preferences to eliminate the slanted crap posted by michael
don't put links to Slashdot URLs on your blog; link directly to the URLs that the Slashdot story includes
don't post genuine comments in the stories; if you must post them at all, do them in the journals of the people you want to talk to or email them privately
any time michael (or any editor, for that matter) does something that they need to be called up on, say something. Post about it, even if others have done so - the more noise people make about editor screw-ups, the more incentive they have not to do them
There you go. Now you know what needs to be done. If you agree, reply. If you disagree, reply. Whatever you do, don't just moderate me down without responding first to explain why. Discussion is what this idea is all about. Spread the facts. Keep the dream of journalistic integrity alive. Peace.
michael has always been a joke. He has, in his tenure here, posted stories in the wrong section, posted broken URLs, posted goatse links, posted blurbs with multiple mispelled words, blatant plugs, stories duped ONE AFTER THE OTHER(!) and stories that have been archived instantly, allowing no one to post. He calls himself an "editor" but all he does is rubber-stamp submissions that might look good on the front page. He'll hit anyone who he disagrees with with a bitchslap to knock their karma down, and has massmodded entire threads down to -1, Offtopic regardless of content. Let's see if he does it again here.
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A fundamental tenet of open source journalism is being able to pass comment on it and to contribute.
If you try to sign up on his big "journalism" website, there's a 24 hour delay before you can post comments and a one week delay before you can post diaries.
Maybe I'm being paranoid here, but isn't it convenient that if you want to sign up and post a comment about a story that you want others to see, you won't be able to do so until the story (and so your comment) have dropped off the front page? Could it be that Kos isn't really interested in fostering debate at all and just wants an echo chamber for his buddies?
Half of the comments above mine will all agree; Markos is talking crap. What in hell does the "open source philosophy" have to do with weblogging? The weblogging community is just a big echo chamber of technological circlejerking over RSS, Trackbacking and other such tosh. Open source is all about, you know, making something useful and sharing it with others. Someone needs to tell Markos the difference before he spouts more misinformation.
You know, guys, there's a reason that we have separate application programs instead of doing everything through Internet Explorer. Believe it or not, it's not necessarily the best interface for a lot of things.
An explanation of this little editorial line. Back in the bad old days of Slashdot, its source code wasn't free as it is nowadays! And so, a grass-roots campaign kinda appeared out of nowhere to "FREE SLASH!!!!!11". Using his famed diplomatic skills, CmdrTaco responded: "I will delay 24 hours every time someone mentions it."
Way to post ontopic material there. I really don't know what kind of axe you have to grind.
Stop michael Now
For literally years, the "editor" "michael" has been splattering his moronic influence all over this website. Now, if Slashdot were some dipshit site without any effect on the online world, that'd be all well and good, but I and I'm sure you too would agree that as editor of the most popular "News for nerds" website, michael has a responsibility to us. Amongst the many things that michael has done are:
The list goes on and on. michael must go. Slashdot's not that great as it is, but he's just dragging this place down all the faster. What can we do? Taco ignores all emails about his beloved $20K-a-year staff; he trusts michael more than the opinion of his beloved readers. Taco won't do a thing unless we can hit him where it hurts - in the pocket.
How? Simple. Taco relies upon the insightful-sounding commentary that this site occasionally produces. (You'll notice he doesn't go to the trouble of modding it up himself - he leaves it to us!). Without it, people stop visiting and Slashdot becomes unprofitable. So, here's what to do if you want to oust michael and force Taco to fix Slashdot:
There you go. Now you know what needs to be done. If you agree, reply. If you disagree, re
Utilities have been coded to overclock HP48/HP49 calculators to a wide range of clock speeds - you can pick and choose what you like, up to 200MHz. This is pretty impressive too - that's more than a doubling of clock speed, IIRC.
For literally years, the "editor" "michael" has been splattering his moronic influence all over this website. Now, if Slashdot were some dipshit site without any effect on the online world, that'd be all well and good, but I and I'm sure you too would agree that as editor of the most popular "News for nerds" website, michael has a responsibility to us. Amongst the many things that michael has done are:
The list goes on and on. michael must go. Slashdot's not that great as it is, but he's just dragging this place down all the faster. What can we do? Taco ignores all emails about his beloved $20K-a-year staff; he trusts michael more than the opinion of his beloved readers. Taco won't do a thing unless we can hit him where it hurts - in the pocket.
How? Simple. Taco relies upon the insightful-sounding commentary that this site occasionally produces. (You'll notice he doesn't go to the trouble of modding it up himself - he leaves it to us!). Without it, people stop visiting and Slashdot becomes unprofitable. So, here's what to do if you want to oust michael and force Taco to fix Slashdot:
There you go. Now you know what needs to be done. If you agree, reply. If you disagree, reply. Whatever you do, don't just moderate me down without responding first to explain why. Discussion is what this idea is all about. Spread the facts. Keep the dream of journalistic integrity alive. Peace.
michael has always been a joke. He has, in his tenure here, posted stories in the wrong section, posted broken URLs, posted goatse links, posted blurbs with multiple mispelled words, blatant plugs, stories duped ONE AFTER THE OTHER(!) and stories that have been archived instantly, allowing no one to post. He calls himself an "editor" but all he does is rubber-stamp submissions that might look good on the front page. He'll hit anyone who he disagrees with with a bitchslap to knock their karma down, and has massmodded entire threads down to -1, Offtopic regardless of content. Let's see if he does it again here.
Technorati is a subsidiary of OSDN. They have in the past paid Michael Sims small sums of money to post entries on certain subjects. Though there's no evidence that that occurred for this article, know this.