Most of the time when I am down-modded it is for one of two reasons: 1) I posted actual, fact-checkable data that is uncomfortable for some mod some where, or 2) I posted first-hand observations that are in conflict with some mod's world view.
Thank you for taking me up on my challenge of locating good posts that are unfairly moderated. The posts that you pointed out though have some factually correct information along some shit.
Now if you go and take a dump on a sundae and serve it to someone don't expect them to tell you how nice the ice cream was. That first post is a good example of that, and so far so is this post I am writing right now.
Don't forget the added costs of things like the Patriot act, where you must be an unpaid spy for the IRS and CIA and FBI, spying on your own clients.
Try and start your own store chain. Try and cut through all the red tape of all the licensing and all the labor regulations. Good luck
That is such a toss up, I think with some citations that would be +5 Insightful, but so much of what he says is conspiracy theories and hyperbole that makes it very easy to dismiss.
With your other ones many of them have upmodded posts that point out flaws in the original posts.
If he had stopped after the first sentence he would have been golden. Telling people not to make specific arguments does not help you case, neither does tossing out a slightly on topic advertisement without some explanation of why it may be on topic.
Never heard of Stack Exchange before this, but a quick visit to their website it looks more like a Yahoo answers website rather than a discussion website.
From their about page.
After someone asks a question, members of the community propose answers. Others vote on those answers. Very quickly, the answers with the most votes rise to the top. You donâ(TM)t have to read through a lot of discussion to find the best answer.
Maybe because most moderators does not have the patience to read through long comments so they do not stick. One-liners which at first glance may sound insightful, but really are just pointing out the obvious have a much higher probability of getting upmodded.
It is easier to agree with a sentence than a paragraph. Also the long informative posts may be over the head of whomever is currently modding. If I feel that I cannot make a valid judgement on a topic I don't mod it, but I'll still post usually to find out more.
People complain about the moderators here as though there is a group of moderators. If you have an account in good standing you will most probably mod at some point.
If this is the result of bribery I would have to say that bribery is apparently more effective than actual work.
We get a new phone system in a few days and after that we can tell who really is working and who is not. If I really am slacking chocolate won't save me.
Snickers appears to be king. I also stock 3 Musketeers, Twix and Kit Kat in the chocolate jar, this being the "fun size", not the little squares. In the hard candy jar I have butterscotchs and cinnamon disks.
I would not be able to achieve the desired effect if what I offered wasn't something people wanted. I sometimes take the least wanted and switch it for something else.
At the company I work at we don't have much of the software necessary to track the performance of employees. When I got promoted I got a nice big cube in a corner, away from everyone else. Very soon after getting moved I started getting accused of not being on the phones, not doing my work, blah blah blah. It aggravated me to no end, I was screaming mad about it, but that didn't help.
I did eventually solve my visibility issue.
The solution was chocolate.
I now keep a candy jar in my cube and have let everyone know they can come by my cube at anytime and help themselves. All complaints have ceased.
Facebook could still be sued because Merck invested time and money into their product at which point that product was given to a competitor.
It was bad that FB handed the account to a competitor, but it was worse when they didn't return it to the rightful owners.
A EULA is not a contract. It does not hold the weight of a contract in court, how much legal weight a EULA holds is in question and could go either way.
Yes, but if they go for an ID then personal information can be used to verify the identity of the person presenting the ID.
Such as Race, Age, Height, Gender, and a picture of what you personally look like. That information is not available to confirm a SS, but is for a drivers license.
Drivers licenses aren't national so they don't work well as identifying information and passports aren't common enough to work either.
The one piece of identifying document everyone has in the US is a social security number, until a national ID is standard the SS# will be used out of necessity.
It used to be that there were several ways to recover data from a wiped drive even after wiping the data and writing over it, but from what I understand that due to the size of a bit on a modern hard drive that it is impossible to read something that has been overwritten.
Just an FYI, here is a link to Slashdots topic icons. I have been checking this site out for nearly a decade and I don't think I have seen one third of these actually used.
I've never considered myself good at lying so I do tend to steer away from it, but people can get conflicting information from me anyway.
Someone asks me a question face to face and they want a simple answer for a complex problem I'll generalize an answer that might be technically correct, while in email I can sit there and lay out all points of the issue and put out a much better answer that might conflict with the shorter answer I gave earlier.
Slashdot Mirror
Usually it is very easy, just look for words like stupid, ignorant, asshole, shithead, or other words along those lines.
It is rare that someone will get down modded for a nuanced misunderstanding, usually it is very very blatant.
I do have to say that sometimes people could work on their reading comprehension.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2510108&cid=37951580
Most of the time when I am down-modded it is for one of two reasons: 1) I posted actual, fact-checkable data that is uncomfortable for some mod some where, or 2) I posted first-hand observations that are in conflict with some mod's world view.
Like this one?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2544718&cid=38168466
This is Slashdot, you collectivists are safe here. No need to hide your leftist opinion behind Anonymous Coward posting.
Thank you for taking me up on my challenge of locating good posts that are unfairly moderated. The posts that you pointed out though have some factually correct information along some shit.
Now if you go and take a dump on a sundae and serve it to someone don't expect them to tell you how nice the ice cream was. That first post is a good example of that, and so far so is this post I am writing right now.
Don't forget the added costs of things like the Patriot act, where you must be an unpaid spy for the IRS and CIA and FBI, spying on your own clients.
Try and start your own store chain. Try and cut through all the red tape of all the licensing and all the labor regulations. Good luck
Current moderation on that is
Moderation -1
40% Offtopic
30% Troll
30% Informative
That is such a toss up, I think with some citations that would be +5 Insightful, but so much of what he says is conspiracy theories and hyperbole that makes it very easy to dismiss.
With your other ones many of them have upmodded posts that point out flaws in the original posts.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2550750&cid=38212350 (I may disagree and think he is wrong, but it's a fair comment, not deserving of downmod)
If he had stopped after the first sentence he would have been golden. Telling people not to make specific arguments does not help you case, neither does tossing out a slightly on topic advertisement without some explanation of why it may be on topic.
Never heard of Stack Exchange before this, but a quick visit to their website it looks more like a Yahoo answers website rather than a discussion website.
From their about page.
After someone asks a question, members of the community propose answers. Others vote on those answers. Very quickly, the answers with the most votes rise to the top. You donâ(TM)t have to read through a lot of discussion to find the best answer.
Maybe because most moderators does not have the patience to read through long comments so they do not stick. One-liners which at first glance may sound insightful, but really are just pointing out the obvious have a much higher probability of getting upmodded.
It is easier to agree with a sentence than a paragraph. Also the long informative posts may be over the head of whomever is currently modding. If I feel that I cannot make a valid judgement on a topic I don't mod it, but I'll still post usually to find out more.
People complain about the moderators here as though there is a group of moderators. If you have an account in good standing you will most probably mod at some point.
If you post a comment, even a really insightful and interesting one that the general user base doesn't like, it will be modded down.
More often the downmods are due to insults and strawmen arguments. you will not be downmoded for making a respectful informative response.
If you think I am wrong in this please do some searching and find examples.
You get those rewards for being a social butterfly, not from being a good worker.
Due to exactly how well this has worked, it has actually been a concern of mine that it is just bribery.
It worked that good.
If this is the result of bribery I would have to say that bribery is apparently more effective than actual work.
We get a new phone system in a few days and after that we can tell who really is working and who is not. If I really am slacking chocolate won't save me.
Snickers appears to be king. I also stock 3 Musketeers, Twix and Kit Kat in the chocolate jar, this being the "fun size", not the little squares. In the hard candy jar I have butterscotchs and cinnamon disks.
I would not be able to achieve the desired effect if what I offered wasn't something people wanted. I sometimes take the least wanted and switch it for something else.
At the company I work at we don't have much of the software necessary to track the performance of employees. When I got promoted I got a nice big cube in a corner, away from everyone else. Very soon after getting moved I started getting accused of not being on the phones, not doing my work, blah blah blah. It aggravated me to no end, I was screaming mad about it, but that didn't help.
I did eventually solve my visibility issue.
The solution was chocolate.
I now keep a candy jar in my cube and have let everyone know they can come by my cube at anytime and help themselves. All complaints have ceased.
Facebook could still be sued because Merck invested time and money into their product at which point that product was given to a competitor.
It was bad that FB handed the account to a competitor, but it was worse when they didn't return it to the rightful owners.
A EULA is not a contract. It does not hold the weight of a contract in court, how much legal weight a EULA holds is in question and could go either way.
I was thinking the old formula for 7-up that included lithium.
Because that is what the marketing firm told them to do.
How much is a verified NJ identity?
You may be able to get unverified ID's for $5 each in bulk, but not verified ID's with all the information that was being given by the DMV.
Yes, but if they go for an ID then personal information can be used to verify the identity of the person presenting the ID.
Such as Race, Age, Height, Gender, and a picture of what you personally look like. That information is not available to confirm a SS, but is for a drivers license.
If the cheapest you can get them is $200 it doesn't matter that someone else can get it for $5.
When dealing with illegal substances or information the markets are rather fragmented and you work with what is available to you.
Drivers licenses aren't national so they don't work well as identifying information and passports aren't common enough to work either.
The one piece of identifying document everyone has in the US is a social security number, until a national ID is standard the SS# will be used out of necessity.
If the person cared about others they wouldn't be working at the DMV.
How so?
Now you can find lots of online videos of people dis-assembling smartphones and laptops.
Youtube, it's for more than just stupid kitten videos now.
Don't you mean box?
Why look at the little fancy pants who gets his wine in a box.
Real alcoholics still get it by the bottle.
http://bumwine.com/
It used to be that there were several ways to recover data from a wiped drive even after wiping the data and writing over it, but from what I understand that due to the size of a bit on a modern hard drive that it is impossible to read something that has been overwritten.
Just an FYI, here is a link to Slashdots topic icons. I have been checking this site out for nearly a decade and I don't think I have seen one third of these actually used.
http://slashdot.org/topics.shtml
The Mars icon or the Space icons could also have been used for this topic.
I've never considered myself good at lying so I do tend to steer away from it, but people can get conflicting information from me anyway.
Someone asks me a question face to face and they want a simple answer for a complex problem I'll generalize an answer that might be technically correct, while in email I can sit there and lay out all points of the issue and put out a much better answer that might conflict with the shorter answer I gave earlier.
Which one is the lie?