How about, please stop putting this on the front page. By definition nothing under idol should make it to the font page. You know "Slashdot, News for Nerds. Stuff that counts." Idiots on the Internet isn't news and none of this counts. BTW why can't you delete all the posts made by somebody? If they didn't post as an AC then a simple query should bring up their posts and then you could delete them or at least the body of the message. Of course it wouldn't take out replies or quoted text. Yes I do know the differ
How about, please stop putting this on the front page.
How about all you fucking whiners spend 5 minutes learning how to set a few preferences and STFU? You guys are as bad as the parents who want lily-white safe TV for their kids to watch but are offended at suggestions they simply use the on/of button on their remote instead.
"Slashdot is supposed to be a mature community " You must be very new here:) Slashdot is full of trip, flame wars, script kiddies, all flavor of zealot, intolerance, and a few sparks of brilliance that make it all worth while. In other words it mirrors life pretty dang well.
Funny but I don't think that they do. I have made a post and then found out that I was wrong thanks to a realy. Then the funny thing is my post got modded up and the post that was correct was modded down. It really sucks because I actually felt bad that more people got to read my incorrect post than the right answers. As to more mature than Fark/Digg/Engadget? Well I don't go to Fark I usually just use my RSS viewer to read Engadget. Digg? Well I have stated that Digg makes Slashdot seem like a nice place full
Slashdot is full of trip, flame wars, script kiddies, all flavor of zealot, intolerance.[...]
Yes, and until now the editors maintained a level of professional distance and restraint, which must have been supremely difficult to do and for which I have always had the highest respect. I've heard a lot of ill-considered gripes about Slashdot over the years, and I've rebuked them because I held the editorial staff in such high regard for exactly the reasons mentioned. This new direction feels lousy. It looks
1. ACs can not block it. Lots of people don't have accounts. 2. It still shows up on the RSS even if you block it. 3. It can not be block on the text only / Palm version of slashdot that people use on their mobils. 4. It isn't News or Stuff that Matters.
Notice that my "rude" email was a lot more polite than your reply. STFU? Feeling cranky are we? OMG did your BFF dis you:)
1. Maybe a good reason to create an account, or learn to ignore it. 2. Learn to ignore it. 3. Learn to ignore it. BTW, I use slashdot on my mobile with Opera Mini with www.slashdot.org, simplified, but with full functionality (including respecting my filters). 4. It's a lighter side of slashdot. Maybe it doesn't matter to you, but you might consider that some people might have other tastes.
1,2,3,.. Why learn to ignore it. I really already do but why shouldn't I say that I don't think it should be on the front page? And 4. I don't mind a funny story every now and then. The problem is this is I think the third time we got these stupid emails on Slashdot. The first time was mildly amusing, the second was "oh this could be bad", this one means that we are going to keep getting these on the font page! I really don't find them funny. I think a lot of other people feel the same way. I do consider that ot
I guess you can say what you think, and I guess we can disagree on the interest of these stories.
I'm sorry if I came out as rude, that wasn't my intention. It's just that I don't think that the level of hate these stories are getting is warranted, and I wanted to voice a positive opinion on this.
You probably know that most people are pretty vocal while complaining, while silent when approving. I know I'm usually guilty of this, but as I read the threads here I noticed that the editors might get an idea that
Honestly because If you see the my first comment I just said please don't put it on the front page anymore and that I didn't think it was news or stuff that matters. Simple comment. Then get a rain of hell fire and profanity for voicing my opinion in what I felt was a polite manner. At this point it has gotten to the point of defending my right to say that I don't like something in a respectful manner. Your response was not what I consider rude but why ignore something that can be fixed? Why doesn't the RSS a
Dude. It's not about people wanting to avoid the glorification of mean-spirited, exclusionary, Jr. High editorializing. It's about lamenting the slide of Slashdot into the same gutter which swallowed television with it's 'reality' TV, day time talk shows, and people who cry 'whiner' because they don't/can't understand the issues at hand but still want to impose their ignorance on the rest of humanity. If you don't want to hear people complain about this slide into check-out counter journalism, then you mig
Gimme a fucking break. If you hate it here, go do your own site, with blackjack and hookers, then. Otherwise, STFU. Whiners like GP and you are just adding to the noise they're complaining about.
they don't/can't understand the issues at hand
I understand perfectly, you moron. You clicked on the link, posted, and just felt you had to be heard. Again, what the fuck are you doing here if you hate i
Ha ha! I see we have another 'live' one. (And I say that in quotes for a reason).
Laying it on a bit thick, aren't we?
No. Not at all, and you are an excellent example. "Juvenile, mean-spirited and exclusionary."
Incidentally, I see this kind of attack pattern repeated with these Billo types all the time. Rather than deny the truth in what you are saying, they instead attack your manner of describing it. One step removed from ad hom, it's the schoolyard equivalent of shooting down an argument because the
You are seriously trying to tell me that really, I'M the one spewing profanity while supporting the new editorial direction whereby Slashdot editors post front-page their "Let's make fun of people" news items? --That, really, it wasn't YOU doing this? That your posts, wherein you called everybody who disagreed with your position, "fucking whiners", were all an elaborate illusion I somehow managed to create for myself and that really, all along, YOU
Finally some sense (e.g. someone who agrees with me:-)
People who don't like idle should use the damn setting or learn to ignore it. Believe it or not, some of us still enjoy these articles.
BTW, the comparisson with the banning of violence and sex on or media because of the children is totally apt -- don't like it, don't use it, but don't ruin it for everyone else.
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
This makes me want to send a rude email. (Score:5, Insightful)
How about, please stop putting this on the front page. By definition nothing under idol should make it to the font page.
You know "Slashdot, News for Nerds. Stuff that counts."
Idiots on the Internet isn't news and none of this counts.
BTW why can't you delete all the posts made by somebody?
If they didn't post as an AC then a simple query should bring up their posts and then you could delete them or at least the body of the message.
Of course it wouldn't take out replies or quoted text.
Yes I do know the differ
Re:This makes me want to send a rude email. (Score:5, Interesting)
How about all you fucking whiners spend 5 minutes learning how to set a few preferences and STFU? You guys are as bad as the parents who want lily-white safe TV for their kids to watch but are offended at suggestions they simply use the on/of button on their remote instead.
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Slashdot is supposed to be a mature community with articles that pertain to important items.
Visitors to the website will see this because they don't have a "Setting" to adjust.
I believe that this doesn't portray what Slashdot is about, and I think it needs to be moved off the front page.
Now chill....
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"Slashdot is supposed to be a mature community " :)
You must be very new here
Slashdot is full of trip, flame wars, script kiddies, all flavor of zealot, intolerance, and a few sparks of brilliance that make it all worth while.
In other words it mirrors life pretty dang well.
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They all get modded down.
For most visitors, the comments you read in articles are the more mature ones. I see Slashdot as more mature than Fark/Digg/Engadget etc....
I've also been a fark reader for years.
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Funny but I don't think that they do. I have made a post and then found out that I was wrong thanks to a realy. Then the funny thing is my post got modded up and the post that was correct was modded down.
It really sucks because I actually felt bad that more people got to read my incorrect post than the right answers.
As to more mature than Fark/Digg/Engadget?
Well I don't go to Fark I usually just use my RSS viewer to read Engadget.
Digg? Well I have stated that Digg makes Slashdot seem like a nice place full
Standards. (Score:2)
Slashdot is full of trip, flame wars, script kiddies, all flavor of zealot, intolerance.[...]
Yes, and until now the editors maintained a level of professional distance and restraint, which must have been supremely difficult to do and for which I have always had the highest respect. I've heard a lot of ill-considered gripes about Slashdot over the years, and I've rebuked them because I held the editorial staff in such high regard for exactly the reasons mentioned. This new direction feels lousy. It looks
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Even if you block idle from the front page, you still get it in the RSS feed.
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Then ignore it.
Or do you have to have a setting for everything in life?
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1. ACs can not block it. Lots of people don't have accounts.
2. It still shows up on the RSS even if you block it.
3. It can not be block on the text only / Palm version of slashdot that people use on their mobils.
4. It isn't News or Stuff that Matters.
Notice that my "rude" email was a lot more polite than your reply. STFU? Feeling cranky are we? OMG did your BFF dis you :)
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how do I get to the palm version of slashdot? I fucking hate fighting with blazer!
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http://slashdot.org/palm [slashdot.org]
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And we started caring about the welfare of ACs when?
It still shows up on the RSS even if you block it.
Meh. Can't really argue that point since I find RSS highly overrated.
It can not be block on the text only / Palm version of slashdot that people use on their mobils.
Yeah, you're getting the full
It isn't News or Stuff that Matters.
Who gives a shit? Slashdot, like
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1. Maybe a good reason to create an account, or learn to ignore it.
2. Learn to ignore it.
3. Learn to ignore it. BTW, I use slashdot on my mobile with Opera Mini with www.slashdot.org, simplified, but with full functionality (including respecting my filters).
4. It's a lighter side of slashdot. Maybe it doesn't matter to you, but you might consider that some people might have other tastes.
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1,2,3,.. Why learn to ignore it. I really already do but why shouldn't I say that I don't think it should be on the front page?
And 4.
I don't mind a funny story every now and then. The problem is this is I think the third time we got these stupid emails on Slashdot.
The first time was mildly amusing, the second was "oh this could be bad", this one means that we are going to keep getting these on the font page!
I really don't find them funny. I think a lot of other people feel the same way.
I do consider that ot
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I guess you can say what you think, and I guess we can disagree on the interest of these stories.
I'm sorry if I came out as rude, that wasn't my intention. It's just that I don't think that the level of hate these stories are getting is warranted, and I wanted to voice a positive opinion on this.
You probably know that most people are pretty vocal while complaining, while silent when approving. I know I'm usually guilty of this, but as I read the threads here I noticed that the editors might get an idea that
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Honestly because If you see the my first comment I just said please don't put it on the front page anymore and that I didn't think it was news or stuff that matters.
Simple comment.
Then get a rain of hell fire and profanity for voicing my opinion in what I felt was a polite manner. At this point it has gotten to the point of defending my right to say that I don't like something in a respectful manner.
Your response was not what I consider rude but why ignore something that can be fixed? Why doesn't the RSS a
Whiners. . ? (Score:2)
Dude. It's not about people wanting to avoid the glorification of mean-spirited, exclusionary, Jr. High editorializing. It's about lamenting the slide of Slashdot into the same gutter which swallowed television with it's 'reality' TV, day time talk shows, and people who cry 'whiner' because they don't/can't understand the issues at hand but still want to impose their ignorance on the rest of humanity. If you don't want to hear people complain about this slide into check-out counter journalism, then you mig
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Laying it on a bit thick, aren't we?
It's about lamenting the slide of Slashdot
Gimme a fucking break. If you hate it here, go do your own site, with blackjack and hookers, then. Otherwise, STFU. Whiners like GP and you are just adding to the noise they're complaining about.
they don't/can't understand the issues at hand
I understand perfectly, you moron. You clicked on the link, posted, and just felt you had to be heard. Again, what the fuck are you doing here if you hate i
Just when you think it can't get any lamer. . . (Score:2)
Ha ha! I see we have another 'live' one. (And I say that in quotes for a reason).
Laying it on a bit thick, aren't we?
No. Not at all, and you are an excellent example. "Juvenile, mean-spirited and exclusionary."
Incidentally, I see this kind of attack pattern repeated with these Billo types all the time. Rather than deny the truth in what you are saying, they instead attack your manner of describing it. One step removed from ad hom, it's the schoolyard equivalent of shooting down an argument because the
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And it's pretty creepy, yikes.
Either that, or you're still new to this trolling stuff.
Either way, try harder.
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One word: Projection.
Projection?
Let me get this straight:
You are seriously trying to tell me that really, I'M the one spewing profanity while supporting the new editorial direction whereby Slashdot editors post front-page their "Let's make fun of people" news items? --That, really, it wasn't YOU doing this? That your posts, wherein you called everybody who disagreed with your position, "fucking whiners", were all an elaborate illusion I somehow managed to create for myself and that really, all along, YOU
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Finally some sense (e.g. someone who agrees with me :-)
People who don't like idle should use the damn setting or learn to ignore it.
Believe it or not, some of us still enjoy these articles.
BTW, the comparisson with the banning of violence and sex on or media because of the children is totally apt -- don't like it, don't use it, but don't ruin it for everyone else.