Slashdot news for dolts

[bandwidth_pig]

Do any of you read Slashdot? I'm sure the majority of you do. I guess I feel compelled to comment on the fact that a good percentage of the people who post there don't seem real bright. For example, if you go over and read the "New 2.6.5 Kernel" thread you'll see all kinds of people *****ing. *****ing about drivers, how people who coded them did a half hearted job...how the 2.6 kernel is not reliable...all kinds of mindless swill that just isn't true. It's just a giant troll fest there.

[merclude]

I agree with you somewhat, I don't really read many of the comments anyways.. I look at slashdot kind of like the tabloid of the internet..in some ways, but yeah, the comments are full of trolls.

[GigaShadow]

I only go to Slashdot when I am in need of some humour.....I prefer other venues when I am in search of information, or intelligent comment and tend to stay away from sites that are really not much more than feeding frenzys for the functionally illiterate. Perhaps the saddest thing is that the majority of posters "appear" to be more concerned about their own "self importance" than actually submitting something of material value or simply keeping quiet and learning something. :p


G :D

[bwkaz]

What? 2.6.5 is out? Aww crap, I just compiled 2.6.5-rc3 Friday! I hate it when that happens!

Time to diff the 2.6.4->2.6.5-rc3 patch and the 2.6.4->2.6.5 patch to see if anything major was done at the last minute...

[serz]

Not here, I never liked Slashdot...

[bandwidth_pig]

Originally posted by GigaShadow
[BPerhaps the saddest thing is that the majority of posters "appear" to be more concerned about their own "self importance" than actually submitting something of material value or simply keeping quiet and learning something. :p


G :D [/B]

You hit the nail right on the head.

[JohnT]

Thanks for Slashdot...good troll bait...keeps 'em' from here;)

[Stween]

If you read the front page, and perhaps some of the more specific topics, they turn up good/interesting stories from time to time.

A site as big as Slashdot is going to attract a lot of the dregs of society :) If you're going to read the "discussions" though, it's normally a good idea to browse with a threshold of at least 2 or 3, so that the utter crud gets filtered out, and you start to see the people who actually know what they're talking about :)

[carrja99]

Slashdot became the stomping grounds of trolls and clueless idiots long ago. I only read these days for amusement or to chuckle at replies to articles written in perl (sometimes you find great bash scripts on there, like "color coded SCOx quotes updated in real time").

How can I take a website that still uses HTML 3.2 transitional seriously?

[TheBouleOfFools]

I skimmed through the comments and I didn't see many trolls... ?

[Icarus]

Originally posted by JohnT
Thanks for Slashdot...good troll bait...keeps 'em' from here;) I've seen some of the Trolls there work their way here...it's ugly

I like to read the comments sometimes because out of the 1000's of crap posts, there are a few very good posts

[dkeav]

call me crazy but i see a lot of the same scrolling through the posts here sometimes

[DMR]

Originally posted by carrja99
Slashdot became the stomping grounds of trolls and clueless idiots long ago. Yup. I've even heard a few people suggest that trolls be classified into subspecies, one of those subspecies being "slashtroll". Works for me. :D

[carrja99]

Originally posted by TheBouleOfFools
I skimmed through the comments and I didn't see many trolls... ?

Try changing your threshold to -1 sometime, you'll find alot of good stuff. :D

In fact, there are even "trolling groups" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_trolling_phenomena) whose sole purpose is to troll on slashdot. Heck, some of these groups even have their own ASCII art intros and perlscripts to automate trolling!!!

:rolleyes:

[andysimmons]

Originally posted by carrja99
In fact, there are even "trolling groups" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_trolling_phenomena) whose sole purpose is to troll on slashdot.
Wow. It's amazing that people have enough spare time for organized Slashdot trolling, and even more amazing that it's widespread enough for a Wikipedia write up.

[soda_popstar]

I've never read Slashdot. Well, I've visited it once or twice, but I don't see the appeal ...

[Hayl]

Originally posted by soda_popstar
I've never read Slashdot. Well, I've visited it once or twice, but I don't see the appeal ...

i supposed it's the same as people who are addicted to the "Weekly World News" or "The Enquirer". :) some people jsut like to read things that are mainly untrue. escapism maybe?

[carrja99]

Originally posted by Hayl
i supposed it's the same as people who are addicted to the "Weekly World News" or "The Enquirer". :) some people jsut like to read things that are mainly untrue. escapism maybe?

At the start of my workday, I enjoy a good laugh before I get started. A visit to userfriendly.org, slashdot.org, and google news for SCO always lightens my day :D

[sharth]

some of the high quality slashdot trolls moved to K5 instead...

[keyshawn]

Originally posted by carrja99
Try changing your threshold to -1 sometime, you'll find alot of good stuff. :D

In fact, there are even "trolling groups" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_trolling_phenomena) whose sole purpose is to troll on slashdot. Heck, some of these groups even have their own ASCII art intros and perlscripts to automate trolling!!!

:rolleyes:

ROTFLMAO :D

I've seen them a few times before [when i 'mod' on there once in a great while....]

Another 'troll' technique there is to proclaim their 1337|\|355 by posting the first comment and promoting their agenda.

-keyshawn-

[carrja99]

yep... it's always quite funny to change the threshold to -1 and see a post, about 20 posts down, titled very cleverly....

FIRST POST FSCKERS!!!

:D

[Zyglow]

I read Slashdot from time to time. Once in blue moon you can find a good discussion in the 'Ask Slashdot' section.