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Thanks to reader sleepypsycho for the poll idea (Score:5, Informative)
(If you have your own poll ideas, you can always submit them via the regular submissions process -- use this form: http://slashdot.org/submission [slashdot.org])
Re:Thanks to reader sleepypsycho for the poll idea (Score:5, Funny)
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Hopefully soon readers will more automagically get credit for submitting a poll, too, just as with stories. There's a bit of an air-gap in the system right now, of the accidentally rather than security-related variety ;)
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Is that a byproduct of getting to bear the /. badge, or an expected consequence of rare posting?
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There's an option whether or not to post with Karma bonus. I always disable Karma bonus. I imagine Timothy does likewise.
There's no reason to scream... My reasoning goes that just because I've managed to get Score: 5 a few times in the past and by and large avoided to be modded down doesn't mean that the posts I make now or in the future deserve a higher default score.
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With apologies to Dead Alewives and Dr. Demento...
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I miss the Doctor. His syndicated show is no longer aired by any stations that I receive to the best of my knowledge and I have listened for him on channels that were more likely to be the sort to carry him. I have not investigated online solutions. I probably should... I think I will so thanks for the unintended mental prodding though I would not be surprised if he didn't produce his show any longer. I shall check and see what the mighty Google leads me to.
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Checking legitimate sources indicates that I can buy low quality versions of his show for a couple of dollars and high quality versions of some of those (some require membership to the site) for four bucks each. I have no issues with paying for the content and would love to support him by purchasing the content so I think I will go blow some money on the show and download them so I can listen to them while I travel. Thanks again for making me think about him and being the catalyst (even if that wasn't your
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You can disable the Karma bonus. The problem with the bonus is that it adds one to the displayed score, but is not counted for achievements. Once you have a score:5 (which is really score 4 + 1 bonus), people stop modding you up so you never make it to a "real" +5. They can still mod you up one more point, but most people don't know so they don't. And this makes you miss achievements that require a "real" +5 (comedian, for example)
caveat: maybe they have changed the system in the mean time, but I remember i
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Back in the old days there were +5 comments all the way down. It has changed.
Not to mention that I personally only get a 5-pack of mod points every 2 years or so. :D
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I am not sure why but it seems that I get a pack of mod points every time I post. That is what it seems like though I seldom post anything as of late. Basically if I come here today, as I have, in a posting mood and add some content then I end up with mod points even if I do not have my comments moderated. I am not sure how that works or why it works that way. The only thing I can think of is that the system notes my lack of posting as of late and thus it awards points, as an incentive perhaps, just for hav
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posting so I can remove the temptation to mod -1, Overrated ;)
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Seems the trolls are the only ones that get mod points these days.
Re:Thanks to reader sleepypsycho for the poll idea (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, that's an excellent idea! I mean, how else could you come up with these results? It is not like you have the database with all the comments and their scores...
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if they don't have a database, they should make one, as well as an interface for displaying the comments and their scores. If it was formatted nicely enough, people might want to check it regularly to find out what everyone else is thi..
-1, Redundant^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H +5, Funny
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IIRC there was a raw feed dump where everything going into the database was shown live -- i don't recall the url for it, but now they have the firehose... too lazy to check the source for how they do it, and google was no help finding it.
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I wish I could figure out why I haven't received mod points in two or three years, despite having a long tenure on this site and regularly receiving them for the entire time I had an account up until that point.
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I have to say I continue to be impressed with the quality of some of the polls. They consistently, IMHO, show original thinking
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Timothy - this poll is interesting because it speaks to people's perception of themselves.
Slashdot actually has these statistics. It'd be really interesting to go back and run the numbers, and see if the polling is inline with reality. We don't often have a way to verify the accuracy of any poll - but in this case, we do.
The (obligatory) Missing Option.... (Score:5, Funny)
I always post as AC you insensitive clod!
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I'm not in a rush to create a history of things I've said online. Unfortunately, because I am always an Anonymous Coward, comments I have made in the past get disregarded because of my AC status, independent of posting quality. I often have things I would like to add to a conversation here, but because I value my anonymous status more than earning credibility, I just don't bother anymore.
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Unfortunately, because I am always an Anonymous Coward, comments I have made in the past get disregarded because of my AC status, independent of posting quality.
Really? I always comment as AC, and more often than not my comment gets modded up. Hmmmm...
Re:The (obligatory) Missing Option.... (Score:4, Insightful)
I see this and am disappointed that people do this so frequently. Yup, on some occasions I have seen AC posts that are deserving of being up modded or down. Those posts are very rare, and points would be better spent on named accounts. If I see two posts with similar messages posted closely in time, I spend the mod points on the named account even if their post shows 2nd by wall clock.
I don't have any issues with people posting as AC, but it's called a coward for a reason. All anonymous people are the same account with no accountability and no ability for anyone else to know if they are having a conversation or trading off between multiple people. The guy posting an informative link looks identical to the guy posting the racist crap.
I don't receive mod points often enough to squander them.
As to the person above you not wanting a history of postings, I find it sad that people are afraid to express their opinions, and refuse to debate their positions.
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I'm a prolific poster (5000+ last time I looked), I was a subscriber until dice took over. My Karma has been stuck on excellent for a decade and I get mod points every few weeks, yet haven't meta-moderated in years. I'm also modded troll quite frequently but it's never
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Heh... Wow? You said what I was thinking (quite literally almost all of it - though I only subscribed for a few years before I felt that the quality hadn't dropped so much as it had become diluted. Now I seldom comment except in rather rare occasions when I am feeling "chatty" or the subject is of great interest to me which is where we differ it seems. Other than those minor differences your post is so on target that I probably could have just typed, "THIS." However, if I am going to type THIS then I probab
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How in the hell did you reach that conclusion?
Also, on my screen, you posted at 11:39 AM and s.petry replied at 11:19 AM. So, from the information I have at hand - according to /. actually, they replied to your comment before you posted it. That, right there, is more interesting than your absurd conclusion.
You have it backwards! (Score:2)
A dick is the person who does not care who gets a medal as long as they hand them out, not the guy making sure the right people receive them.
Do you think that the Military should launch medals up in the air so they rain down somewhere in a city, and whoever finds it deserves it? That analogy is exactly what rewarding ACs is.
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I don't mod to reward the poster, I mod to reward the post, so that more people are likely to see it.
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Except that the vast majority of threads are about topics so obtuse that even Kim Jun-un couldn't care about. I mean, what paranoid schizo government cares about a high school principal getting wound up about some pictures on Flikr? Or magnets? Or asteroids?
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I am a troll and often get modded up 1 or 2 and sometimes to +5.
Karma whore? (Score:4, Insightful)
Where is "I am a karma whore" (and I will post anything as long as it has a chance of being modded +5, although sometimes I get the crowd mood wrong and then I get modded -1, "Troll" ) option?
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- I'm rated -1 to 5 based on whether armchair warriors agree or disagree with my comment--and not the factual validity of that comment.
"I'm not a troll, modded to -1" (Score:5, Insightful)
The survey is missing the "I'm not a troll, modded to -1" option.
I rarely post, so it doesn't apply to me, but I see enough comments from other people that get modded down unjustly. It's why I browse this site at -1 at all times now. The most useless group-think comments get modded to +5, while the most original, thought-provoking comments end up at -1 a lot of the time.
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Reading at -1 is pretty unsafe for work, most of the time. I'd love to catch all the not-yet-modded anon opinions, but there's some pretty hideous stuff there too.
Re:"I'm not a troll, modded to -1" (Score:4, Insightful)
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ASCII art perhaps?
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Uh, most workplaces aren't going to be happy if a coworker walks by and you have a GNAA troll or similar up on your screen...
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Like this comment?
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... [slashdot.org]
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I've not found that to be true. I don't get a whole lot of troll posts, but they do show up from time to time. Occasionally they are deserved, most of the time it's clear that the moderator missed something obvious or just didn't like my attempt and humor or sarcasm.
But mod points seem to be pretty random....
And it would be awfully hard to define 'misbehaving' around here.
Google Crawler (Score:2, Funny)
I am a bot, you inconsiderate sod!
Missing option? (Score:1)
another missing option (Score:3)
Cogent & Pithy (Score:1)
I try to be, but there are exceptions.
Slashdot is dying; mod results confirm it (Score:5, Funny)
Ten to fifteen years ago, a whole lot of my posts were very frequently modded up to +5 and generated tons of replies and interesting discussion.
Sometime between then and now, that diminished and now it seems like most of my posts don't get any moderation or replies or anything. Every now and then there's a thread that generates interest, but for the most part it seems like nobody cares about the things I want to discuss anymore.
Slashdot is dying. Or maybe I'm just dying. Maybe both. We're all dying.
One thing I will say that I still love about Slashdot is the infrequency at which I've ever gotten downmodded despite the controversiality of anything I ever say, so long as it's well-thought-out and stated in a civil manner (which I try to always do). In fact things that are controversial to both sides of a given debate, but well-put, tend to get the most upmods (a lot of +1 Interesting or +1 Insightful).
In contrast, on other websites with more basic +1 Agree / -1 Disagree voting, it seems like the only things that get seriously upvoted are the most inane, innocuous, unoffensive and mainstream things that don't make anybody think, or things that cater perfectly to the ever-fluctuating groupthink mood and put down acceptable targets; whereas anything that doesn't fit nicely into the popular mold of Us vs Them, or falls on the "Them" side of the groupthink then and there, just gets downvoted to oblivion. Makes for much less interesting discussion.
infrequently downmodded during controversy (Score:2)
ehhh I don't know about that
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uhhh.... "so long as it's well-thought-out and stated in a civil manner "
yeah definitely still see plenty of well thought out civilly stated arguments get modded troll or flamebait because someone disagrees
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Ditto. I have been downmodded more recently, but interestingly that always tends to be on articles that have country-polarizing issues, so I'm guessing that the Russian/Chinese PR team didn't appreciate some of my comments.
PR bots (Score:2)
Russian/Chinese PR team didn't appreciate some of my comments
that's been my exact suspicion as well
also, i think someone is testing an auto-commenting algorythm on here sometimes...like APK
Re:Slashdot is dying; mod results confirm it (Score:5, Insightful)
In my experience, getting modded is more about getting in the conversation early. Probably few moderators come back to topics, so posting a day later makes for very few mods. That is if they are will to read deep into the comment.
Maybe the change in the number of mods has to do with more posts or how quick you are to read a story. I don't know the formula of number of moderators either. Lots of factors could play into it, including "dying" depending on what you think it means for it to die.
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If you are not being down-modded you are not saying anything controversial. Particularly anything that suggests that there might be some sexism in CS, as an example, will be hammered down fast and hard by MRAs. If you are lucky you might get some counter-mods and end up in the black.
I think that's what has screwed up Slashdot's moderation system. There are now organized groups moderating in concert to push a particular point of view. Look back at some of the threads about GamerGate, for example, and you can
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I guess things like "all rent and interest should be eliminated", "all laws are death threats", and "anything requiring a license is antithetical to liberty", "all social services should be privatized and replaced with an aggressively progressive negative income tax", and "we can eventually get rid of the state if the government is investment-funded rather than tax-funded" aren't controversial then?
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Except it's not hyperbole because I actually mean all.
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Ten to fifteen years ago, a whole lot of my posts were very frequently modded up to +5 and generated tons of replies and interesting discussion.
Sometime between then and now, that diminished and now it seems like most of my posts don't get any moderation or replies or anything. Every now and then there's a thread that generates interest, but for the most part it seems like nobody cares about the things I want to discuss anymore.
If you want to get upmods and replies on Slashdot, the key is to post *early*. I know this is kind of obvious, but it is very much true in my experience. I would guess that at least 80% of comments are made within the first 8-12 hours of a story going live. Once the story has fallen off the "front page"-- forget it. Either people have moved on to other stories, or else the story has accumulated 500+ comments and your own contribution is going to be buried.
In other words... is it possible that you're jus
Just mine the slashdot data (Score:4, Insightful)
Why do we even need this poll? Anyone with access to the Slashdot user database could just generate the graph. It would even be accurate, unlike Slashdot polls.
Re:Just mine the slashdot data (Score:4, Interesting)
Maybe do both? It would be interesting to compare the perception of how users are moderated vs. reality.
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Many people tend to comment anonymously. The user database is of no help in those cases.
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I've been thinking about writing a scraper for a while now, to gather some stats on Slashdot and do some analysis. It's not really my area but isn't exactly difficult. I think there would be some very interesting data in there. You could see what periods people were active, and how moderation changed over time, and maybe even how the political centre ground shifted.
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
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I've read and enjoyed comments here for a long time, but I cannot figure out how to post one.
Keep trying, you've nearly got it.
Missing Option (Score:1)
Re:Missing Option (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe you were just modded down for using the term "sheeple".
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Maybe you were just modded down for using the term "sheeple".
I would. Mainly because anyone who uses the word "sheeple" ironically points out that they aren't creative enough to come up with a semi original or at least entertaining insult.
I have the same policy with a variety of other brainless insults that have no meaning, things like PC, SJW, Fanboi, Hater (especially this one, see my sig).
Also this topic has reminded me of this topical and classic XKCD (for extra karma whoring points).
https://xkcd.com/1013/ [xkcd.com]
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oh to be able to mod and comment in the same topic!
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I made a mistake (Score:2, Interesting)
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Long ago I made a stupid comment and I have been forever doomed to Karma: Bad.
Well, with your opening comment being:
I find that pretty much everyone where I work over the age of 30 is a moron.
[sarcasm] I can't imagine why you would be doomed. [/sarcasm]
I voted "You can comment on /. ?" (Score:1)
But it was a joke. I don't know how my comments are modded, as I don't care.
I post a comment, rarely, and go on with life.
Life is more important than /. is - Imagine that!!!
Cowboy Neal always gets there first (Score:2)
Whenever I have something clever or interesting to say, it turns out that Cowboy Neal had already posted a comment along those lines. So all I have left is this dreck.
Missing option (Score:4, Funny)
You Can Comment on Slashdot? (Score:2)
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Markov chain [wikipedia.org].
You never studied [youtube.com].
This is a Slashdot database query (Score:2)
How do I get mod points? (Score:2)
I'd like to moderate now. How do i get re-included? I can't find an option for it.
Changed demographic (Score:2)
Missing options (Score:2)
7 Not modded consistently one way or the other
Supposedly, I start out at 2. Some are modded up, some down. Hence I'd have to choose that last one.
Is this part of something else? (Score:2)
Which would be a cool thing to do.
100% of my comments get modded to +5. (Score:2)
I often get ... (Score:2)
Mixed (Score:2)
I get modded up, I get modded down.
My complaint is people modding down because "I have a different opinion therefore you are a troll". I accept it, just think it is fairly lame.
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Having said that, when I started reading this site I was probably about 10 or so years ago when I was about 18, so maybe it hasn't changed but I have.
Re:Missing option (Score:4, Interesting)
Well, all the old articles and discussions can still be found, so you can always compare.
From 2005:
- Apache 2.2.0 Released [slashdot.org]
- Overclocking Calculators? [slashdot.org]
- The Ultimate Leatherman? [slashdot.org]
- Torvalds Says 'Use KDE' [slashdot.org]
- BitTorrent Inherently Illegal? [slashdot.org]
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Well, all the old articles and discussions can still be found, so you can always compare.
From 2005:
- Apache 2.2.0 Released [slashdot.org]
- Overclocking Calculators? [slashdot.org]
- The Ultimate Leatherman? [slashdot.org]
- Torvalds Says 'Use KDE' [slashdot.org]
- BitTorrent Inherently Illegal? [slashdot.org]
You don't even need to compare the articles content just look at your titles.
The closest thing to a political, article there is the bittorrent
today we have the demographics of U.S. major parties.
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Having said that, when I started reading this site I was probably about 10 or so years ago when I was about 18, so maybe it hasn't changed but I have.
You haven't changed, Slashdot has. I'm a long time Slashdot Anonymous Coward since late 1999... The conversations here have gone drastically down hill. I remember in the early 2000s Slashdot was such an awesome place because the technical discussions were great and there was also more tolerance for well thought out opinions that went against the Slashdot "hive mind" group think. Rock star geeks like John Carmack would frequently post on stories (just to use him as an example of a former poster).
The averag
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soylent?
Wow, that reminds me. Must resurrect my account over there, I'm sure they've missed me.
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not merely a love-in, it's a Marxist sausage fest.
Bring your own KY.
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I do not wish to seem like an ass but, perhaps, you should not come back then? If you are displeased then, well, it seems logical that you would spend your time seeking somewhere that you are more comfortable and enjoy the content more so than you do here. Nobody is forcing you to enter the URL leading here (as far as I know) so you are the direct cause of your displeasure. Also, just to make sure that this is out there and not subject to debate, I am - by any stretch of the imagination - a leftist.
I do hav
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That's the spirit!
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