Moderation Tranparency... When?
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Ask Rob Malda
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Along those lines, "When will long time users, such as myself, who have not had mod points in *years* be given an explanation as to why they haven't seen them?"
When will Slashdot stop pretending it's a user moderated site?
With all the moderation abuse and infinite point exploits, a little moderation transparency would go a long way. What good is the friend/foe tag, if abusers can simply hide who they are, not to mention escape meta-moderation with the overated-tag exploit, even when a comment has not yet been rated?
Wow! I've been on the internet since it was pregraphical. But pretextual! That must have been a really long time ago. No wonder they fired him for being old.
Another sign of being too old is if you remember 'do not be evil', which has now been replaced with 'do not be generally unlawful'.
Most of the time it's not that people wish to deny Freedom, but that they disagree on what freedom is.
From the 5th Amendment: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". So jailing someone, because you think they could unlock some data, that would incriminate them, would violate their rights. Of course this is from the USA Consitiution, but UK citizens might have something similiar.
Somehow Microsoft has been elevated to a mythical godlike status. They are omnipresent, all-powerful, and strongly despised. Similiar to other myths like the Illuminati that secretly runs all world affairs, or Area 51 that hides extraterrestrial beings and spacecraft from the public, combined with a bit a rabid frothing hate like those that believe George Bush is Neo-Con Hitler.
One stop automated sharing. Now I don't have to worry, that all my data isn't being shared with Google, Microsoft, any of their bussiness partners that would like to target me for advertising, the FBI, Homeland Security, etc...
So the numerous comments on every Slashdot story about programming languages claiming that Java users aren't man enough to use C, because only sissies need garbage collection, are racist ?-)
Heh, if you could define a programming language, as a trait to ones ancestory, then yes. If not, then it would simply be an insightful comment:-)
First, negative mods should not be anonymous (and there should be a configuration setting to sign all of your mods). Second, everyone should have mod points, though some people deserve to have slightly more than other people.
I like both those ideas. I've always wonders how much moderation was due to Slashdot readers (limited points), and how much was do to Slashdot Editors (infinite points) like kdawson. Being able to filter out bad kdawson moderations would make the site much more readable.
That joke was neither ignorant nor racist. I happen to be American and my wife is French.
I provide links to the current government census data, and state facts. Your defense and excuse, is that you are American, and have a French wife. Ok, my father's mom & dad are both French (born), is that how I'm supposed to respond? How about some facts, how about you read and educate yourself before regurgitating old racist jokes, based upon ignorant sterotypes.
In my local area, WE provide voting materials in Spanish, English, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. So tell me again how WE "are way behind other cultures".
Wait. That joke was racist? I don't see race mentioned, and I believe it comes from the perspective of Europeans...
and European isn't a racial group? The link lists Europeans, Asians, Africans, Oceanians, Latin Americans, & Northern Americans. So when you say that Europeans, have an inaccurate and biased view of Latin & Northern Americans, it's not racist? Ok, so if I assume ALL Europeans are as ignorant as you, then I won't be racist either.
What do you call a person who knows 1 language? 'American'.
The latest census (2006) here my own state (California) revels that 42.3 percent of people speak a language other than English at home. So while this Slashdot story may remind you of an old joke, we are all reminded of how much of a joke you anti-American racists are.
because he's right. Too many politicians are spineless and corrupt, changing their viewpoints everytime the wind blows, instead of standing on principles.
Nice move making the mention of Meridian59 at the end. I can't tell you how many posts I've seen where people claim Everquest or something was the first MMORPG. Which is pretty funny, especially since the term MMORPG was coined in order to describe Meridian59. Too bad they were unable to adequately describe a good reason to pay $5.95? a month for a game, when people were already paying $29.95 at the time for dial-up.
The Space Shuttle program ends in 2010, and Orion won't be operational until 2015. So all station access will be limited to Russian launches for those 5 years, so how much sense does it make for NASA to continue funding it at the expense of other science and space programs?
As for 'like-a-spoiled-child-on-to-the-next-toy dept' editorial, you can always go buy your own toys if that's how you show your appreciation. Listen, we all understand that America is greater in many areas, so a little envy is expected and tolerated, but a spiteful entitlement attitude is too much, and only reveals the depth of your lack of character.
I don't think it's conscionable to expect the seventh company down the food-chain (say Johnnie fixing the neighborhood computers) to pay for Award infringing on someone else's patent.
And a jury would agree with you, if someone brought a case against poor Johnnie. There is no guarantee of a winning case (against Johnnie), just as there shouldn't be a guarantee of a lost case (against criminals) due to a 'first sale' legal loophole.
Wouldn't discovery expose a shell company like that? RICO covers that sort of thing, doesn't it?
A shell company is not an active bussiness, often holding zero assets. A puppet company would be a real company, that passes on cheap (patent infringing) items, but not passing on the legal liability.
If you deny legal redress, with exception for 'first sale' defendants, then you could certainly expect to see shady companies simply subcontracting out for any possible patent infringing items.
1) Setup a puppet company
2) Infringe all you want
3) Profits!!! stay safe (safely stolen) from patent holders
As in real life, using sex to exploit another person would be immoral (unless there is a cultural double standard). The same principle applies online, if the situation is such that one could reasonably assume so. But a game, especially a role-playing game, where everyone is running around an elf, ninja, wizard, hacker, orc, alien, commando, or whatever, and the purpose is to have fun playing a game, then one cannot reasonably assume so.
This 'cat and mouse game' is a result of a legal loophole in the DMCA, one that prevents consumers from being locked-in to a single phone service. We need more leaders to step forward, and foil these hackers from cracking our iPhones.
1) Threaten to void warranties
2) Force frequent updates and patches
3) Send DMCA notices to stop sharing of unlocking software
4) Moderate down anyone slandering our Great Leader
5) Moderate down any Grammar-Nazi that tells us it's libel, not slander
6) Profit!!!
So if we continue paying past the cut-off date, will MS keep giving support and patches as usual?
We continue? Don't you mean if Microsoft continues to pay, then the programers will continue to program? I imagine any good programers that worked on XP code, when their '90 days' are up, would then be offered a job working on Vista code for '90 days'.
Cars, TVs, VCRs, and even Operating Systems get old over time, but I don't think one can credibly claim that XP is being 'artificially' ended too soon, as it is arguably one of the longest running, most useful OSs of all time.
Actually, in Canada it is illegal for a federal politician to accept corporate or union donations.
Hmm, are you confusing 'lobbying deals' to mean 'buying off'? An example of a deal, that the MPAA might lobby for, would be an cross-country agreement declaring mutual respect for the others copyrights. By respect, that means pursing prosecution of pirates and infringers.
How so? If someone contracted you to work for 90 days, paying you in advance, would you continue working past 90 days, for free? When those 90 days are up, it's not an artifical deadline, but a real one.
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When will Slashdot stop pretending it's a user moderated site?
With all the moderation abuse and infinite point exploits, a little moderation transparency would go a long way. What good is the friend/foe tag, if abusers can simply hide who they are, not to mention escape meta-moderation with the overated-tag exploit, even when a comment has not yet been rated?
Somehow Microsoft has been elevated to a mythical godlike status. They are omnipresent, all-powerful, and strongly despised. Similiar to other myths like the Illuminati that secretly runs all world affairs, or Area 51 that hides extraterrestrial beings and spacecraft from the public, combined with a bit a rabid frothing hate like those that believe George Bush is Neo-Con Hitler.
If they gave it away for free, like their browser, then they would face an antitrust trial, like their browser.
One stop automated sharing. Now I don't have to worry, that all my data isn't being shared with Google, Microsoft, any of their bussiness partners that would like to target me for advertising, the FBI, Homeland Security, etc...
Wikipedia is your friend, and dictionaries aren't that bad either.
A bigoted joke where one group of people, ignorantly belittles another group of people, is in fact racist.
I provide links to the current government census data, and state facts. Your defense and excuse, is that you are American, and have a French wife. Ok, my father's mom & dad are both French (born), is that how I'm supposed to respond? How about some facts, how about you read and educate yourself before regurgitating old racist jokes, based upon ignorant sterotypes.
In my local area, WE provide voting materials in Spanish, English, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. So tell me again how WE "are way behind other cultures".
An ignorant racist joke gets moderated funny.
But an actual fact from the latest government census is marked flamebait, not informative?
Now here's an opinion, Slashdot moderation needs a serious overhaul.
In Burma we don't have pro-democracy protesters like in your country, I don't know who told you that.
because he's right. Too many politicians are spineless and corrupt, changing their viewpoints everytime the wind blows, instead of standing on principles.
Nice move making the mention of Meridian59 at the end. I can't tell you how many posts I've seen where people claim Everquest or something was the first MMORPG. Which is pretty funny, especially since the term MMORPG was coined in order to describe Meridian59. Too bad they were unable to adequately describe a good reason to pay $5.95? a month for a game, when people were already paying $29.95 at the time for dial-up.
The Space Shuttle program ends in 2010, and Orion won't be operational until 2015. So all station access will be limited to Russian launches for those 5 years, so how much sense does it make for NASA to continue funding it at the expense of other science and space programs?
As for 'like-a-spoiled-child-on-to-the-next-toy dept' editorial, you can always go buy your own toys if that's how you show your appreciation. Listen, we all understand that America is greater in many areas, so a little envy is expected and tolerated, but a spiteful entitlement attitude is too much, and only reveals the depth of your lack of character.
If you deny legal redress, with exception for 'first sale' defendants, then you could certainly expect to see shady companies simply subcontracting out for any possible patent infringing items.
1) Setup a puppet company
2) Infringe all you want
3) Profits!!! stay safe (safely stolen) from patent holders
As in real life, using sex to exploit another person would be immoral (unless there is a cultural double standard). The same principle applies online, if the situation is such that one could reasonably assume so. But a game, especially a role-playing game, where everyone is running around an elf, ninja, wizard, hacker, orc, alien, commando, or whatever, and the purpose is to have fun playing a game, then one cannot reasonably assume so.
This 'cat and mouse game' is a result of a legal loophole in the DMCA, one that prevents consumers from being locked-in to a single phone service. We need more leaders to step forward, and foil these hackers from cracking our iPhones.
1) Threaten to void warranties
2) Force frequent updates and patches
3) Send DMCA notices to stop sharing of unlocking software
4) Moderate down anyone slandering our Great Leader
5) Moderate down any Grammar-Nazi that tells us it's libel, not slander
6) Profit!!!
We continue? Don't you mean if Microsoft continues to pay, then the programers will continue to program? I imagine any good programers that worked on XP code, when their '90 days' are up, would then be offered a job working on Vista code for '90 days'.
Cars, TVs, VCRs, and even Operating Systems get old over time, but I don't think one can credibly claim that XP is being 'artificially' ended too soon, as it is arguably one of the longest running, most useful OSs of all time.