Hah! I had forgotten I took it down for an experiment.
And, yeah, I lost my mod points not long after (fairly) modding up a comment that failed to paint Microsoft as some sort of cartoonesque villain. I doubt that was a coincidence.
I'd say that the moderation system is working well.
One of the common complaints around here is that if somebody speaks against the common view on a topic people get heavily downmodded. The very nature of how people get mod points makes that outcome pretty obvious There are no enforced standards for how to 'properly' moderate
I've been reading since year 1, and feel the only reason I even come here anymore is just force of habit. The quality of the site has continually gone down, the stories are half flamebait and half trollbait, and has strayed far from the originally news for nerds idea.
Not the mention the comment moderation still remains horrifically broken and prone to abuse, the ugly layout has barely gotten any better. This place kind of reminds of myspace or RIM- early pioneer that couldn't innovate and adapt to changing times.
Just wanted to second this, even though I know I'll receive retaliatory moderation for it. Slashdot's approach of 'give random people a badge and a gun with no accountability' has created an environment best suited for long-term flame wars. Please fix either the reqs for being a mod or our ability to kick the assholes out of the mod-pool.
Yeah, this must be pretty frustrating to people on a website where people think NASA wouldn't be able to patent a working Warp Drive because it was portrayed on Star Trek.
B) I'm obviously not timothy, so it is natural to assume the question was rhetorical
It is not obvious at all. For all I know 'Zero__Kelvin' is a sockpuppet of his that he uses for a number of possible reasons. Anybody posting at +2 would see this as an obvious possibility. I really wanted to see you claim that you posted a story on Slashdot but not because it's an ad-driven site. The only problem is you're not the guy who submitted it, so your entire statement was a waste of bandwidth. Pity.
C) You clearly cannot understand what I wrote. Figure it out for yourself now that you know I am not Timothy D) I just looked at your posting history, and the brain damage is clearly on your side
Heh. Yep, it's my fault you attempted to pose as somebody else. "My post wasn't in error, it was uhh... just too sophisticated for your puny brain to comprehend! Uhh yeah that's it!"
Bet you wish Slashdot had a edit button, dont'cha?
So now you are saying Timothy has nothing to gain from it...
I reaaaallllllly don't know how you read it that way. See that little question mark at the end of my post?
I'll rephrase the question, hopefully your brain damage is only temporary:
Are you the person who submitted the story? I want to know why you said this: "I was pointing out that todays mobile devices are more powerful than supercomputers from the 80s just the other day, and I have nothing to gain monetarily from it."
Please take a moment to notice that there are no declaratory statements in there and that I did not in that, or in my previous post, say that you did or did not have anything to gain. If you have voices in your head screaming that I am somehow implying something instead of asking a very basic question, please take your medicine and ignore them. If you feel up to it after that, please answer my question so I can understand why you're declaring what you do or do not have to gain by somebody named Timothy posting a story.
In this article, it mentions that the revenue for Slashdot, SourceForge, and Freecode (the 3 acquisitions) was $20 million last year.
Wow. Who knew that all of our loving and hating of certain consumer products could bring that kind of money into a website. Now I understand why we had a story about a mobile device being more powerful than a Cray.
I've had this conversation in many different formats over the years, and I keep coming back to the peculiar nature of programming, or at least good programming. There is no doubt that technical background or training is highly desirable, but there is also an intuitive aspect that makes it more than just fitting blocks together. Given the right tools, I think anyone can code, but programming beyond basic HTML form processing or Excel macros takes something more.
The missing ingredient is 'interest'. Some people fiddle around with coding and think: "Oh.. hey if I learn how to do this, I can accomplish that." That's interesting to them and they move up to the next level.
I think a lot of people around here underestimate people's capability because of their lack of interest. "That guy's stupid because he doesn't know what the blinky lights do on his router." It'd sure knock his socks off if he knew that guy could take his car completely apart and put it back together.
I really wonder if there is any legitimate technical reason for not allowing IE8, or if it's just anti-Microsoft bias
The technical reason is that it takes resources to even test it in IE and Google has decided those resources are no longer available.
I realize that you were looking for a reason why the site wouldn't load, but really the simple explanation is that Google just doesn't want to spend the money on it. There's no reason it has to only be about ignorance or bias.
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don't see their own hypocrisy
Hah! I had forgotten I took it down for an experiment.
And, yeah, I lost my mod points not long after (fairly) modding up a comment that failed to paint Microsoft as some sort of cartoonesque villain. I doubt that was a coincidence.
I'd say that the moderation system is working well.
One of the common complaints around here is that if somebody speaks against the common view on a topic people get heavily downmodded. The very nature of how people get mod points makes that outcome pretty obvious There are no enforced standards for how to 'properly' moderate
Because I'm unaware of a technique where submitting a story will fix our moderation system.
I've been reading since year 1, and feel the only reason I even come here anymore is just force of habit. The quality of the site has continually gone down, the stories are half flamebait and half trollbait, and has strayed far from the originally news for nerds idea.
Not the mention the comment moderation still remains horrifically broken and prone to abuse, the ugly layout has barely gotten any better. This place kind of reminds of myspace or RIM- early pioneer that couldn't innovate and adapt to changing times.
Just wanted to second this, even though I know I'll receive retaliatory moderation for it. Slashdot's approach of 'give random people a badge and a gun with no accountability' has created an environment best suited for long-term flame wars. Please fix either the reqs for being a mod or our ability to kick the assholes out of the mod-pool.
I'll get there early so I can prep my speech about how great Windows 7 Phone is.
Now nobody'll know how I feel about butt. :(
No, not even close. (I am curious where the word 'unlimited' came from...)
We pay for AT&T to deliver bits, we don't want AT&T to dictate what those bits can be used for and increase the price based on that.
Clear enough, or are you actually dumb enough to think AT&T has your best interests in mind?
No. But I do wish Slashdot had a delete moron button, because idiots like you have pretty much ruined Slashdot before Dice got the chance.
I apologize somehow making your point unclear.
Yeah, this must be pretty frustrating to people on a website where people think NASA wouldn't be able to patent a working Warp Drive because it was portrayed on Star Trek.
Hah. Been a while since I've seen mastubatory modding!
B) I'm obviously not timothy, so it is natural to assume the question was rhetorical
It is not obvious at all. For all I know 'Zero__Kelvin' is a sockpuppet of his that he uses for a number of possible reasons. Anybody posting at +2 would see this as an obvious possibility. I really wanted to see you claim that you posted a story on Slashdot but not because it's an ad-driven site. The only problem is you're not the guy who submitted it, so your entire statement was a waste of bandwidth. Pity.
C) You clearly cannot understand what I wrote. Figure it out for yourself now that you know I am not Timothy
D) I just looked at your posting history, and the brain damage is clearly on your side
Heh. Yep, it's my fault you attempted to pose as somebody else. "My post wasn't in error, it was uhh... just too sophisticated for your puny brain to comprehend! Uhh yeah that's it!"
Bet you wish Slashdot had a edit button, dont'cha?
So now you are saying Timothy has nothing to gain from it...
I reaaaallllllly don't know how you read it that way. See that little question mark at the end of my post?
I'll rephrase the question, hopefully your brain damage is only temporary:
Are you the person who submitted the story? I want to know why you said this: "I was pointing out that todays mobile devices are more powerful than supercomputers from the 80s just the other day, and I have nothing to gain monetarily from it."
Please take a moment to notice that there are no declaratory statements in there and that I did not in that, or in my previous post, say that you did or did not have anything to gain. If you have voices in your head screaming that I am somehow implying something instead of asking a very basic question, please take your medicine and ignore them. If you feel up to it after that, please answer my question so I can understand why you're declaring what you do or do not have to gain by somebody named Timothy posting a story.
You're Timothy?
Only with government regulation and government work program you can expect everything to go well for everyone.
But... surely if we keep trying the Free Market over and over again it'll eventually work. History cannot repeat itself forever!
In this article, it mentions that the revenue for Slashdot, SourceForge, and Freecode (the 3 acquisitions) was $20 million last year.
Wow. Who knew that all of our loving and hating of certain consumer products could bring that kind of money into a website. Now I understand why we had a story about a mobile device being more powerful than a Cray.
But... but.. but.. we can keep the great SmartPhone OS war alive, right?
What'd I do?
Press one if you'd like to see those links again.
I've had this conversation in many different formats over the years, and I keep coming back to the peculiar nature of programming, or at least good programming. There is no doubt that technical background or training is highly desirable, but there is also an intuitive aspect that makes it more than just fitting blocks together. Given the right tools, I think anyone can code, but programming beyond basic HTML form processing or Excel macros takes something more.
The missing ingredient is 'interest'. Some people fiddle around with coding and think: "Oh.. hey if I learn how to do this, I can accomplish that." That's interesting to them and they move up to the next level.
I think a lot of people around here underestimate people's capability because of their lack of interest. "That guy's stupid because he doesn't know what the blinky lights do on his router." It'd sure knock his socks off if he knew that guy could take his car completely apart and put it back together.
Acting on ignorance is.
Heh. I would have called it the 'Al Calavicci' patent.
Yeah, you can tell how obvious this was by the way it turned up only 12 years after Microsoft started working on smartphones.
Um, why was my post modded down? "Test our site on $Browser" is not free, even if the browser works 100% with 0 changes.
I really wonder if there is any legitimate technical reason for not allowing IE8, or if it's just anti-Microsoft bias
The technical reason is that it takes resources to even test it in IE and Google has decided those resources are no longer available.
I realize that you were looking for a reason why the site wouldn't load, but really the simple explanation is that Google just doesn't want to spend the money on it. There's no reason it has to only be about ignorance or bias.