Slashdot's Disagree Mail 354
There is an old Japanese proverb that goes, "Better than a
thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."
This week's mail is all about teaching. Whether it is about the
seriousness of psychic ability, a short history of trolls or
explaining how much free time and malice your dad's attorney has,
these people just want to impart information. If what they sent me is any indication, they had a lot of sick days. Click on the link below to
become enlightened.
This lady doesn't like the message you get on our banned page because
it belittles psychics and the good work they do.
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 ******** wrote:
"I normally don't take the time to write to anyone on the internet because they are so rude and closed minded but I must object to your flippant use of the term psychic in the banned message I received. First off I did nothing wrong on purpose to you. If something was wrong it was a mistake. My mother has done a lot of work with local law enforcement and once for FBI. She helps people while you punish them. I've not yet developed my skills enough to help anyone but I do have glimpses. Many reputable brokerage houses and even former presidents rely on psychics for decisions. Maybe if you opened your mind you wouldn't need to punish people for no reason."
Here is a guy that knows a lot about trolls
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 ******* wrote:
"Dude your troll option don't make sense! I know yall think that it means someone bad but trolls used to be good. They'd build stuff if you left them bread or wine and they made the viking gods armor and spears. Don't let a few years of internet people destroy what something means. Be smarter than that! Yall don't have to play follow the leader. learn about trolls. I guess some were bad and you have to trick them into cutting open his belly in an eating contest but that doesn't even matter when it comes to what your saying. Do some research."
Finally we have a man who wanted me to delete all of his comments. When I explained that I couldn't, he sent me this.
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 ******** wrote:
"Holy Shit are you guys fucked! If I own my words your fucking page says so! I asked my dads lawyer and he said you are fucked to. He doesn't do much because my dad is honest not like your users bunch of liberal fags! My dads lawyer is a mean sonabitch and would love to sue you back into the darkages he said so. I almost hope you don't change your mind. I'd love to be there when it all goes down in court. You could do what you know is right and what is right for a place that is supposed to be about customers (readers). If you don't try and do what your reader wants you to do without having him tell you all the time then you are a good business. If not then you are getting YOUR ASS SUED!! If you made cars and I wanted you to crush it and you said no you wouldn't be in business long. Get a fucking CLUE. If I don't want people to see me I can go inside but if I don't want people to read me you won't get rid of my posts? BULLSHIT!! you have to or youll get a call from my dads lawyer buy Friday and then hell will rain down on you. DO WHATS RIGHT AND GET RID OF ME!!!"
Trolls.. (Score:2, Informative)
the banned page (Score:5, Informative)
For those of you who have never been lucky enough to witness the "pink page" we display to banned users, here's the text of the template [github.com] we generate it with. I confess I'd never before thought about how offensive that might be to psychics.
Just in case... (Score:3, Informative)
TOS (Score:3, Informative)
Quoth the Terms of Service:
With respect to text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as forums, comments and bug trackers ("SourceForge Public Content"), the submitting user retains ownership of such SourceForge Public Content; with respect to publicly-available statistical content which is generated by the site to monitor and display content activity, such content is owned by SourceForge. In each such case, the submitting user grants SourceForge the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable license
Re:Trolls (Score:2, Informative)
Except it gets the etymology wrong. [catb.org]
Re:Might As Well Try to Discuss This (Score:5, Informative)
Re: Troll - If I correctly remember an earlier reading on trolls on Wikipedia, the term derives from the verb "to troll", as in the ships that troll the ocean for fish--not to the mythological creature.
Re: Ownership of comments: You own the copyright on that particular set of words attributed to you (or your username), and you implicitly grant Slashdot permission to publish those comments. If you were to grant a newspaper permission to reprint your comments (i.e. by sending a letter to the editor), you cannot ask them to collect all copies of their newspaper and cut out your letter after it's been printed.
Re: Idle's comment box: Holy fuck, this thing's annoying! And the comment formatting doesn't work.
- RG>
Re:Good advice (Score:5, Informative)
For anyone looking, the option is on this page: http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome [slashdot.org]
That's the last you'll hear of me on this /. section :-)
Re:This makes me want to send a rude email. (Score:2, Informative)
I enjoy getting it on the front page. Besides, as a user pointed out in the first installment, there's an option in your user controls to not show them on the front page.
From the top of this page click on "Preferences." Then click on "Help & Preferences." Now find the "Index" section under "Your Preferences" and click on the link for "Sections." Find "Idle" in the list and select the radio button in the column headed by a red circle with a line through it. Click the "save" button and you're all set.
Re:Might As Well Try to Discuss This (Score:5, Informative)
It's not Norse, but it is Norwegian (or scandinavian, I'm actually not sure).
It's referring to a story about a guy named Askeladden who got captured by a troll, and challenged him to an eating contest using porrige. Askeladden put his backpack and as the eating contest went on, filled his backpack up. When it was full, he said to the troll: 'It's no problem, I'll just slit up my stomack and I'm ready to eat more', and he cut open his backpack.. A while later the troll was full too, and askeladden persuaded him to do the same :)
Re:Good advice (Score:3, Informative)
It seems to have done (I just clicked "rss" at the bottom of the page and Firefox gave me a preview). Presumably, you'd need your RSS reader to send the appropriate login cookie.
Re:Psychic not banned, yet! (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Might As Well Try to Discuss This (Score:4, Informative)
Nope, he really did mean "troll" [wikipedia.org]. Not only is it a real word, they even make motors [wikipedia.org] for that purpose. (In contrast, there is no such thing as a "trawling motor.")
Re:Might As Well Try to Discuss This (Score:2, Informative)
Re:TOS (Score:3, Informative)
PLEASE FUCKING LEARN TO QUOTE PROPERLY!
Your posts are very hard to read and it's not nice! Use <blockquote>!
I'm using the <quote> tags, but idle's CSS is totally screwed, so blame slashdot.
Re:This makes me want to send a rude email. (Score:3, Informative)
"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.
Trolls built Valhalla, you insensitive clod! (Score:3, Informative)
Wotan promised he'd give Freya to the trolls Fafner and Fasolt if they'd build him a big temple where the souls of dead warriors could fight all day and feast all night. They did it just like he asked, and then he reneged. The trolls took Freya anyway, so the gods all became weak because they didn't have her golden apples any more, and Wotan and Loki figured they'd better do something quick, so they tried to buy the trolls off by giving them a magic ring made of Rhinegold that enabled the wearer to rule the world. This worked and the gods got Freya back, but then Fafner killed Fasolt for control of the ring, and... oh, just go see the opera.
Re:TOS (Score:3, Informative)
Quite draconian
... welcome to web 2.0. You may not have heard of it, or the business model it uses, but it goes a little like this...
1. Make a webpage
2. Have users upload content
3. Make money of their content
4... Proff.... oh, wait, that was step 3.
Re:TOS (Score:1, Informative)