pummer's Journal: Modding System

WHY does this qualify me as a troll? I was just trying to make a funny comment. Sure, it wasn't funny at all, but then don't mod it down for TROLLING if it isn't a troll. Wait, let me go find out what a troll is. This site (and yes it's on aol, not my site) defines trolls as "people who delight in sowing discord on the Internet. [They] try to start arguments and upset people." Was I trying to upset anyone??? No. The Free Online Dictionary of Computing describes a troll this way: "Trolling aims to elicit an emotional reaction from those with a hair-trigger on the reply key." Now let's look at some of my other posts. This is not a troll, it's an observation which I still believe to be true. How that is trolling I have no idea whatsoever. If anything is trolling there, it's the guy in the replied post calling me a retard. I admit that this is an obvious troll, but it was my first FP ever, I couldn't resist (lame excuse I know). To end this rant, we'll examine this can someone please explain the redundancy to me?? Sure, it's redundant that Searchking does to Google what Google did to Searchking, but wasn't that the whole idea??

This is officially pissing me off.

Congrats Pumm

[unterderbrucke]

you finally figured out that /. sucks
welcome to the fold

god

[pummer]

look at this [slashdot.org] now. someone has it out for me and my lame humor. udb, you're right. /. does suck. bad.

Re:god

[Cadre]

Why do you care so much that someone modded your unimportant post? Yes, perhaps you intended it to be a joke, but as far as posts go, it was completely unimportant to the discussion, yet by your reaction to it being modded down you've attached much more weight to it than probably should be deserved.

Re:god

[jerde]

Why do you care so much that someone modded your unimportant post?

Duh! Karma is EVERYTHING! You're impotent without your Karma Bonus. Your very worth as a human geek depends on it.

The awesome power that is /. moderation... scarry, isn't it? ;)

- Peter

So what's new about this?

[dougmc]

Somebody modded your most down as a `troll'.

Happens all the time, especially when people don't agree with you or don't think your joke is funny.

It's hardly worth complaining about.

Re:So what's new about this?

[morgajel]

gotta agree with you.

taco and company have little to do with it. it's mob mentality for better or for worse.

don't take it so personal.
it IS only slashdot after all. And a note to the previous posters, if you don't like slashdot, leave. can't you find something constructive to do? bitching about slashdot on slashdot is, well, pointless.

agreed

[Stanley Feinbaum]

I have had several of my posts modded down as trolls, when they obviously aren't... what's wrong with these slashbots ?

Re:crybaby

[pummer]

maybe if you registered, i might actually LISTEN to what you were saying. Oh, you don't have even those kind of balls??? Yeah, that's what i thought.

Re:Pah

[wheany]

I once made a post how to make a 200 Gig hard drive out of 60 Gig platters. It went something like "a real gig is 1024 megs, muta a hard drive gig is 1000 megs. Add 3 real 60 gigs, you get close enough to 200 hard drive gigs"

And that kind of post was modded informative and interesting to +5. I thought it MIGHT get some random "funny", but informative?