And I'll LMAO if this comment gets modded "Informative". Sillier things have happened on/. - I'm pretty sure that the mod system is a placebo for the users, and that it's really a random number generator, or some of the pigeons from PageRank moonlighting...
Yes, you're right. There's no better forum to troll than/. - what I should have said was "I'm trolling the wrong SID". Oh well, 20/20 hindsight and all that...
I've lost loads of karma on this article. I've been on Good for ages, and been getting positive mods, but a couple of Trolls and Offtopics and I'm just "Positive" again.
Actually, this isn't offtopic. Look at all the spam that follows - just shows that people don't care about America's scapegoat for all the world's problems. However, my 1st was kinda naughty - but it had more of a troll flavouring than an offtopic smell to it.
And as long as people like you continue to fall for it, they'll carry on doing it. Remember, kids, hyperlinks are dangerous! The "Run" dialog box can give your computer measles!
(GOD DAMN slow down cowboy again... and I'm not even a guy. However, cowgirl would probably get filtered as a sexual position by commercial blockers...)
So far all the posts, including mine, are really spammy. I think that tells us just how much anybody really cares that the US finally caught their scapegoat for all the world's ills.
So Afghanistan was a complete waste of time, then, since (supposedly) they were only there looking for him.
Sorry, but with 0 Comments for so long, the article was just begging for a 1st.... ps I hate the slow down coyboy crap. What's wrong with a fast follow-up?
This post makes me ashamed to troll slashdot. I hope you get run over by a bus full of Jamaican tourists before you can post another... blind justice and all that...
Actually, despite being a trolling b**ch at times, I do not abuse the mod system in the way outlined in my GP post, and I often post perfectly sensible, constructive posts which contribute positively to the discussion at hand.
Also, the fact that gmhowell, tomhudson and myself are mentioned here tells me that you're probably the person who modded me down. Thanks AC. Why not sign up for an account here, and be accountable for your actions, like myself and others? Or are you under some sort of perma-ban for abusing the system?
You know you've been mod-bombed when a clearly insightful, intelligent post which points the finger at no-one in particular but makes a succint point
is modded "Overrated" when it's at it's default (Score:1)
If there's any oversight or monitoring going on here, I implore you to investigate other recent mods by this user - either they are modding me down personally, or are serving a particular political agenda (I suspect the "tea party" and "pro-iraq") agendas.
Regardless of political views or your feelings about the value of the post itself ("Troll" or "Flamebait" wouldn't have been nearly as insulting, nor would those mods have caused the suspicions outlined here), it is obvious at this point in time, and can be proved very easily from server logs that the moderation described here is a clear and blatant abuse of the system, which we all claim to abhor. Users who abuse the system should be disallowed from using it, surely we can all agree on this? Describe to me how a post can be "overrated" at 1 with no other mods done yet?
I find that the 20+ year-old 70-210mm f/3.5 that I got with my 2nd-hand Nikon D70s purchase provides everything from a wide enough angle for landscapes to close zooms for shooting police activity. This and the 5 or so frames per second forces me to feel exactly the same way - I don't care about any of the DRM/JPG crap not working or being "forgable" as long as they don't ever, ever take away my RAW - which isn't editable anyway as it's a one-way format like a hash - raw data from the sensor, tagged with the current camera settings and adjustable losslessly in post.
In other words, This news isn't going to put me (or most other shooters) off Nikon.
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Yep, this is definitely shaping up to be my article, isn't it? I've burned LOADS of Karma, and it was worth every -1 Troll, -1 Offtopic, etc.
Yes....
And I'll LMAO if this comment gets modded "Informative". Sillier things have happened on /. - I'm pretty sure that the mod system is a placebo for the users, and that it's really a random number generator, or some of the pigeons from PageRank moonlighting...
Yes, you're right. There's no better forum to troll than /. - what I should have said was "I'm trolling the wrong SID". Oh well, 20/20 hindsight and all that...
I've lost loads of karma on this article. I've been on Good for ages, and been getting positive mods, but a couple of Trolls and Offtopics and I'm just "Positive" again.
It was beggin for it. Sorry folks.
Oh dear, I'm trolling the wrong forum.. it's ok, I've Karma to burn and a fast connection today! (Slow down cowboy!)
Actually, this isn't offtopic. Look at all the spam that follows - just shows that people don't care about America's scapegoat for all the world's problems. However, my 1st was kinda naughty - but it had more of a troll flavouring than an offtopic smell to it.
And as long as people like you continue to fall for it, they'll carry on doing it. Remember, kids, hyperlinks are dangerous! The "Run" dialog box can give your computer measles!
(GOD DAMN slow down cowboy again... and I'm not even a guy. However, cowgirl would probably get filtered as a sexual position by commercial blockers...)
So far all the posts, including mine, are really spammy. I think that tells us just how much anybody really cares that the US finally caught their scapegoat for all the world's ills.
So Afghanistan was a complete waste of time, then, since (supposedly) they were only there looking for him.
Sorry, but with 0 Comments for so long, the article was just begging for a 1st.... ps I hate the slow down coyboy crap. What's wrong with a fast follow-up?
Death.
Oh right, I always wondered what those spammy posts with no links were for... now we know, it's Google's Analogue Tracking System (GATS).
But how does the Chinese kid report back to google? Paper aeroplane "packets" over the border, or TCP/IP over Avian Carrier? :P
Osama isn't dead, I've already posted to this effect once today :P. I got in his taxi only yesterday...
The Lone Gunmen? Oh how I've missed those guys... "She's not my chicky-doo!".
Everyone here knows that he doesn't have a wife, that you two wouldn't stand a chance if he did, and that there are no real girls on /. ... </troll>
I think he's a foreign-language spelling troll.
This post makes me ashamed to troll slashdot. I hope you get run over by a bus full of Jamaican tourists before you can post another... blind justice and all that...
Warning: Very Graphic Gay Porn Troll Ahead!
Warning: Very Graphic Gay Porn Troll Ahead!!
Actually, despite being a trolling b**ch at times, I do not abuse the mod system in the way outlined in my GP post, and I often post perfectly sensible, constructive posts which contribute positively to the discussion at hand.
Also, the fact that gmhowell, tomhudson and myself are mentioned here tells me that you're probably the person who modded me down. Thanks AC. Why not sign up for an account here, and be accountable for your actions, like myself and others? Or are you under some sort of perma-ban for abusing the system?
I have mod points, but I can't do this post justice with just one. OMG I'm still laughing!
Reminds me of saving programs to tape, and then copying them for friends on an old hifi double tape deck...
I did not! :-P
You know you've been mod-bombed when a clearly insightful, intelligent post which points the finger at no-one in particular but makes a succint point
is modded "Overrated" when it's at it's default (Score:1)
If there's any oversight or monitoring going on here, I implore you to investigate other recent mods by this user - either they are modding me down personally, or are serving a particular political agenda (I suspect the "tea party" and "pro-iraq") agendas.
Regardless of political views or your feelings about the value of the post itself ("Troll" or "Flamebait" wouldn't have been nearly as insulting, nor would those mods have caused the suspicions outlined here), it is obvious at this point in time, and can be proved very easily from server logs that the moderation described here is a clear and blatant abuse of the system, which we all claim to abhor. Users who abuse the system should be disallowed from using it, surely we can all agree on this? Describe to me how a post can be "overrated" at 1 with no other mods done yet?
I find that the 20+ year-old 70-210mm f/3.5 that I got with my 2nd-hand Nikon D70s purchase provides everything from a wide enough angle for landscapes to close zooms for shooting police activity. This and the 5 or so frames per second forces me to feel exactly the same way - I don't care about any of the DRM/JPG crap not working or being "forgable" as long as they don't ever, ever take away my RAW - which isn't editable anyway as it's a one-way format like a hash - raw data from the sensor, tagged with the current camera settings and adjustable losslessly in post.
In other words, This news isn't going to put me (or most other shooters) off Nikon.
(sic) before you start...