Slashdot's Disagree Mail 489
Our first entry starts off by explaining:
"Every time I try to login it tells me that my password is bad! I know I'm using the right password why won't you let me in? My account is *******"
I'm sorry but I don't see an account with the name *******. I also don't find an account with the email address you're using associated with it. Do you happen to know what your uid is?
"Try lookin harder cause I was using AOL a few days ago just fine but now I can't! I'm mailing you from the library right now cause you won't let me on the internet!"
AOL? Can you not log into Slashdot or is the problem that you can't get online at home?
"Whats Slashdot why am I given you guys money for internet if I cant use it?!"
Slashdot is the website you are writing to. If you were banned here for some reason I might be able to help you but I'm not in charge of the whole internet, at least not yet. It sounds like you need to get a hold of AOL tech support and hopefully they can solve your problem.
"If you can't help me why are you on google when I type in help with the internet? If you don't want to help people when they need it maybe you shouldn't be on google!"
Our last email this week demonstrates something, but I'm not exactly sure what it is:
from ***************
to banned@slashdot.org
date Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:46 PM
subject stop sending me mail
"If your so fucking smart that you created the great and awesome slashdot why can't you figure out that I don't want your stupid bulshit mail! Everyone here acts like they are so much smarter than everyone else and that a teenager can't know what is right because he isn't fat enough from sitting around eating twinkys and playing games on the computer. You never even had a girlfriend I bet because you're to busy being smarter than everyone else. Fuck you stop sending mail just because you can't handle me!
P.S. Sorry I didn't write that my little brother did but I really don't want to get mail from you anymore can you help me please?"
Re:It is most munificent of you, (Score:4, Interesting)
Well seeing as there really isn't anything to discuss here ( unless they expected other website owners, sysadmins, etc. to write in with their user experiences)....
Maybe I would like Backslash... back.
Rehashing popular topics, picking some of the top comments, etc. is a vastly more interesting thing to do than reaching into the hatemail grab-bag.
For the curious:
http://backslash.slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org]
For the curious as to why it's seemingly-dead:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=588277&cid=23846333 [slashdot.org]
( summary: Tim got too busy )
Do they speak English in What? (Score:5, Interesting)
Seriously, "Slashdot's Disagree Mail"? Do you people speak and/or understand English on any kind of working basis?
(Feel free to file this message with the "disagree mail".)
First one is actually a useful lesson... (Score:4, Interesting)
Many, many users have the problem that the first writer had, namely, they have no idea where the "internal boundaries" are between various entities available on their computer. From their point of view, the modern GUI desktop is an undifferentiated sea of icons and buttons and text boxes. Users know what sequences to use to achieve a desired effect, but as far as how it works or even what the components are, or which ones are local and which ones are remote, they may not know, and the interface doesn't always tell them.
I recently had this experience doing tech-support for my father, who was visiting me. His e-mail stopped working, because his local POP/SMTP mail client will only talk to his ISP's servers when connecting from within the ISP's domain. At home, he's on the ISP's cable modem, and it works. I have a different ISP, so it doesn't work at my house. I switched him to the web client, which he was able to adapt to, but I'm not sure he ever really understood why he had to do that.
I can easily imagine that the guy in the first example normally had his browser default to open to his ISP's portal page, and it might have even had an e-mail link that send messages to the ISP's support team. So he goes to another computer and does what he thinks is the same thing -- opens a browser, fusses with it until a page comes up with something that looks like an e-mail link, clicks on it and asks for help. He's at the library, maybe some joker has set the default home page to slashdot, maybe it autocompleted it out of the history, who knows.
Ignorant, yes. Stupid? Only if it persists...
Re:It is most munificent of you, (Score:4, Interesting)
Or how about yellow on blue?
ANUS.com letters are worse... (Score:1, Interesting)
http://www.anus.com/metal/about/letters/ [anus.com]
Be thankful the people who write to you are only semi-literate.
Re:It is most munificent of you, (Score:2, Interesting)
white text on a green background is soothing, (Score:2, Interesting)
v1.1 (Score:3, Interesting)
I forgot the "Post Reply" standalone page:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain(slashdot.org) {
.inline_comment .generalbody {
.inline_comment .generalbody textarea, #postercomment {
padding-right: 30px !important;
}
width: 100% !important;
}
}
Re:It is most munificent of you, (Score:3, Interesting)
In computer terms, *Windows 95* is some kind of ancient history... An XT is the bronze age, and earlier stuff like the DEC PDP is the stone age. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine is early single-celled organisms floating in pond scum.
But I was referring the comment about "amber screen if you were lucky"... I still remember playing Police Quest 1 on an amber-scale hercules monochrome, having to use the siren to go through traffic lights because you couldn't tell whether they were red or green. And that was on an XT. :)
Consider the jihad (Score:1, Interesting)
Slashdot's editors' crimes are not revealed in this article. Visit anti-slash.org to learn the full extent of their transgressions.
In Jihad,
jihadi_31337
What to google? (Score:3, Interesting)