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Slashdot's Disagree MailComments:251
Posted by
samzenpus
on Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:26 PM
from the sell-outs dept.
from the sell-outs dept.
There is no shortage of comments about us selling out or running advertisements as stories. As you might expect there is no shortage of mail with the same theme. What I enjoy most about them is all the different corporate entities and sometimes political parties, that we are supposedly working for. If even half of them were true, I would have a stack of W-2s as long as my arm every year for the tax man. The truth of the matter is, nobody here sits in their Microsoft smart chair, talking on their minion iPhone, while playing in the Google money pool. (If someone knows how to get into the Google money pool, please send me a mail.) Conspiracy theories have been around as long as man, so I guess it should come as no surprise that Slashdot has a few of it's own. Read below to find out who is pulling our strings.
Traditionally the Slashdot community has had a harsh view of Microsoft, its software, and especially its management. All the more reason for us to become pawns in the evil Windows army, and it would have worked if it wasn't for this guy and his irrefutable statistics.
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 ******* wrote:
"I can't understand how you managed to convince so many *smart* people that you support the open source and free software movement. It couldn't be more obvious that you sold out to Microsoft in 2004. I've kept careful records of your stories for many years and I've got the evidence. Pre-2004 showed a negative Microsoft story rate of 87% and a positive Microsoft story rate of 13%. From 2004 until today the negative story rate has crashed to a mere 62% while the positive story rate has climbed to 38%. Am I to believe that a 25% increase in positive stories is not significant. When i comment on this trend I get marked as a troll, nice. I suppose that is a coincidence to. Good work I'm sure the current political administartion will own you soon. I used to enjoy your message before it became Bill and Bush's."
With the failing health of Steve Jobs, we thought it would be the perfect time to get firmly entrenched into the Apple hierarchy. It's a shame that our rabid love for Apple and all its products made our actions so transparent.
On Fri, 2 Feb ******* wrote:
"Apple sure does pay good don't they! Is there anyone not on the Apple payroll at Slashdot? If you're going to become an Apple mouthpiece you might want to try and hide it better! How much does a frontpage Slashdot story cost anyway? I hope it's a lot. If you're going to become Apple whores you might as well get paid well. Just know that I know it's rotten to the core!"
I have to give him credit for the, "rotten to the core" Apple thing. Usually the rants I get aren't so poetic. Most of the time they are rambling and confused, like this.
On Wed, 23 Apr ******** wrote"
"I noticed today that many Slashdot stories are listed on Google. I thought you were supposed to be a neutral internet party? I can't believe what you have as "news" if you are in cahoots with the "do no evil" gang. Almost everything I used to believe in is on Google now I was hoping that Slashdot would be strong enough to resist the Google money pool but I guess I was naive. Google is going to slowly absorb everything is that ok with you? it doesn't seem so bad when your playing volleyball or bringing your cat to work but it is. A cat is no trade for integrity. Look back at what you used to stand for and not greed or I will have to find a news source that hasn't been swallowed by Google."
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Yawn (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, this disagree mail segment thing has run it's course.
Kill it.
Re:Yawn (Score:5, Insightful)
Agreed. Either kill it or post the email addresses of the people who write the "disagree mail". That would at least make things interesting.
Re:Yawn (Score:4, Funny)
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Good advice there!
Yours,
Rob Malda <malda@slashdot.org>
Re:Yawn (Score:5, Funny)
That's just what Google wants us to believe, since clearly someone has caught on to the conspiracy!
Re:Yawn (Score:5, Funny)
...Google is going to slowly absorb everything...
Google announces Google Sponge (Beta)!
Re:Google Sponge? You're thinking small. (Score:4, Funny)
Come on; if Google were going to get into the business of absorbing things, surely we'd be seeing Google Shamwow! or something along those lines.
Google Black Hole (Beta), obviously. Bet you didn't know they'd been pouring money into the LHC.
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Re:Yawn (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yawn (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Yawn (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yawn (Score:5, Insightful)
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Yeah, we all know that
Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
These aren't even funny.
We get a handful of boring emails each update.
Yes, the people who write them are dumb. But it's like reading 3 random /. posts, with 0 context, that got modded "+10, Idle".
Anyone who's been on /. has probably seen far more outrageous/stupid complaint emails (some of which are bound to be real).
These emails do not provide drama or comedy.
In fact, I propose the following (and will submit it email!):
Add a "+1, Idle" modifier for comments.
Add a separate "IdleScore" field (so "+1, Idle"
Re:Yawn (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, this disagree mail segment thing has run it's course.
Kill it.
I suggest that you mail this request in to the slashdot editors. I understand the read their email diligently.
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Actually, I love it. In my opinion, it's the best and funniest thing on slashdot these days (kinda sad I know). I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that gets completely nutso, hilarious emails.
See, my random opinion completely cancels out your random opinion. Isn't it awesome how that works?
Plus, my UID is a good bit lower, so my opinion is inherently more valuable. Checkmate.
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Do not despair. It is not very glamorous.
Dude, my UID gets me chicks! ..... Just not the ones that I'd want to date..... :(
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The best way to accomplish that goal will probably be with an angry email or two.
Re:Yawn (Score:4, Informative)
Please stop trolling. SECTIONS >> Deselect IDLE >> SAVE. 3 clicks is all it takes!
Also a harsh view of . . . (Score:5, Informative)
white-on-green and mis-used apostrophes.
Re:Also a harsh view of . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Also a harsh view of . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Mis-used the apostrophe's what?
In Google's pocket (Score:4, Funny)
A cat is no trade for integrity. (Score:3, Insightful)
I have to believe that people are now writing intentionally schizophrenic emails in the hopes to appear in this section, and as such still retain their cats.
No we're not! (Score:3, Interesting)
Meow, we are!
Getting into the google money pool (Score:3, Insightful)
I was in the Google money pool for a few years. Getting in is easy, as long as you can pass 4 hellish interviews and wait 6 months for HR to respond.
Having said that, what you really need is a time machine. Go back to August 2004 and get hired. Even if you get a meager grant back then, you'll make out pretty well. Getting hired now, well, they aren't as forthcoming with the stock as they once were, and the base pay is pretty terrible. Free food, though.
-B
Microsft own from 2004 (Score:3, Informative)
Being by 2004, I think Windows XP SP2 came out and solved lot of the origional problems with XP. As well most modern computers can run XP smoothly and easilly. As well XP solved a lot of the problems that 95, 98 and ME had. Windows 2000 was still consiered Pro-Grade so not a lot of people used it. But XP being the first consumer focused using the NT Kernel. Also many of the virus and such started to clear up. Code Red and such... So yea there are less MS Bashing as they did fix a lot of the major problems they had.
Damn sellouts! (Score:4, Funny)
Simple (Score:2, Funny)
Avarice is easy, just sell your soul to Balmer
Amusing read (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Amusing read (Score:5, Insightful)
I like it, too, but you gotta remember: this is the internet. For every 10 happy people who won't post, there is 1 whiner who will.
Okay, I get a lot of value out of this (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: (Score:2, Troll)
You must be new here.
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Thinking that diverse opinions are limited to slashdot is a mistake. You might as well go read Conservapedia if you want to make a social study of various, erm... perspectives. I'd rather have this site be about news for nerds and stuff that matters.
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You know, I agree with everything you just said. Makes me wonder .....
Hey! Are you my Clone?
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...and then there's the concept that for every one person that actually writes in with an incomprehensible rant about anything, there are a thousand or more equally disturbed and marginally functional individuals, who, sitting in their parents' basement all day, sleep-deprived and sunshine-deficient, are just thinking about writing something oh-so-clever to them, but virtually unreadable to the normal world upstairs, if not even to their blogmates and fellow fraggers who are equally incomprehensible but hid
SHhow their names (Score:3, Interesting)
Hate to comment twice in one article, but I have to say: Show the names of the people writing you! Maybe not their email (though that would be OK), but at least their slashdot ID, if they have one. Shit, make it a requirement that they have a slashdot account before they write in.
It'd be much more fun if there was some accountability...
-B
its not that bad (Score:5, Insightful)
No one makes you read these stories, if you don't like them, don't read them, that simple.
Although this batch isn't funny, some of the stories were so random that I actually did laugh (of course after my headache stopped due to the bad coloring scheme.) Post more pointless stories imo, like the guy talking about racism...
Man, (Score:3, Funny)
Uhuh... (Score:2)
"I will have to find a news source that hasn't been swallowed by Google".
You do that.
Stuff that matters? (Score:2)
Here's some more disagreement: keep "idle" off the front page.
These might be funny if they weren't so lame (Score:2)
C'mon, /., is that all you got? All of these geeks on Red Bull, off their meds, raging on hormones, and this is all we get? Puhleeze. Do us all the favor and just pull this thread's plug. Now-- before you make the rest of us growl, gnash our teeth, and wail. Mod me incredulous.
I know, I know ... !! (Score:2)
There is no shortage of comments about us selling out or running advertisements as stories.
I know, I know, because you are running advertisements as stories!
Sometimes the answers are just so, right there for me.
Has it started yet? (Score:2)
People composing "Disagree" emails in an attempt to get them published here?
Publish the names (Score:2)
Why not publish the names of these folks? If they didn't write them as anonymous cowards, publish their names like every other slashdot post.
Misunderstanding (Score:3, Insightful)
I think the reason most people bitch about the Idle articles is not due to the fact that there is an Idle section or what it's about, but rather because it kind of a let down. I can't believe that after more than 10 years of being on the cross hairs of every nutjob and bored teenager on the internet, these are the weirdest emails you've received or the strangest stories you can tell.
If you're going to take up space on the front page with this, you better make it worth the while for people who read the site.
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I read it and replied to it. You didn't read it but clicked the link and replied to it anyway?
Man, I only have enough free time to read and comment on the things that interest me. Can I borrow some of your free time to have the luxury of not reading but commenting on boring, uninteresting things?
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Man, I only have enough free time to read and comment on the things that interest me. Can I borrow some of your free time to have the luxury of not reading but commenting on boring, uninteresting things?
You must be new here. Free time?!? For most of us, this is a freaking job!