SolemnDragon's Journal: Ask slashdot: Due notification

My question regarding the firehose/submittal question has been sent to CmdrTaco. If i get a response, i will post it.

Thanks,

sol

Did you write to Taco?

[Otter]

Seriously, he usually responds to questions like that.

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[RailGunner]

Yeah, I'd email this to CmdrTaco, and be sure to let us know what he says. I'm not particularly happy about it either, as I too use the "No Foes" option to keep out AC trolls and various people who have proven they can't be civil...

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[ellem]

Um yeah, about that... I want to comment in your JEs :)

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[RailGunner]

See that little blue ball? No, the one by your username, not the two in your pants. That means you can post to my JE's.

;)

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[ellem]

Yeah, right. Like I get to take them (whatever their color might be) out of the house!

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[stoolpigeon]

Last time I emailed him with some thoughts - including stuff about the fire hose - he responded that day.

I'm considering starting Troll Tuesday Early

[Marxist Hacker 42]

And posting a bunch of VERY inflamatory JEs until this is fixed.

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[nizo]

...posting a bunch of VERY inflamatory JEs...

So ummm, what were you protesting before today? :-) Ok everyone go and thumbs up this journal. Maybe this is just a sneaky way to advertise the firehose, since I never looked at it before today.

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

So ummm, what were you protesting before today? :-)

So far, I've been very serious about my Journal here- posting philosophical questions that actually matter to me. If I really wanted to troll, I could post all sorts of other interesting things- let's see, how about was the Prophet Mohammed's third sister's nephew really the chosen one of God or just another camel fucker?

And I wanted to vote this up

[GMontag]

The only firehose choice I had was "down"!

Need to check at home.

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[stoolpigeon]

I've seen some of the discussion on this already, but I am unclear as to what is happening.

When I look at this story it shows it as being restricted. So is the issue, that if for some reason it gets accepted as a front page story and then put on the front page that it will drop the commenting restriction?

I haven't seen it happen where a journal that wasn't submitted got posted to the front page yet so I'm not sure when that happened or who knows what goes on when it does. Can voting automa

I'm confused

[turg]

But your JE's are not going to be accepted by a Slashdot editor for a front page story -- which would have to happen before the restritions come off.

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[Iamthefallen]

Obviously it's unlikely that a random JE is published as a front page post.

But the problem for me is that suddenly I'm not the one making the decision whether or not is is. If I pose a question to my friends, or just think out loud, an editor can now post it as YRO or Ask Slashdot along with a trolling writeup, making it appears as if I sought the advice of several hundred thousand strangers when I just wanted to vent.