Mensa Babe's Journal: Bad news.

I have some very bad news. I might not be able to post on Slashdot for some time. I am terribly sorry, but I am afraid it is inevitable. Unfortunately I cannot tell you any more details right now. I am sorry.

Great...

[shibbydude]

When will people realise that (insert your weblog here) is not the singular most important event in everyones' lives. Wow. I am glad that you are writing your thoughts down somewhere, I do that all the time, but I certainly do not appreciate reading someone's thoughts with random "bloat quote" entries begging for attention. Also, I really wish you would drop your username allong with your elitist bitch attitude. All it does is piss off the people who really do enjoy being a part of an organisation like

Re:Great...

[I Like Swords!!!]

Wow. Never heard so much crap in one paragraph before. Well, maybe that's a wee bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. You certainly don't sound like you are a member of an intellectual organization, so you have no room to talk, if you wish to call that talking. Elitist bitch attitude. Sounds like a personal problem to me. Most likely pure jealousy. Can't stand it when someone flaunts their stuff, eh? Pity... such a pity.

Have a nice day!

Re:Great...

[Uart]

Only the insecure feel a need to "flaunt their stuff."

The original poster was mostly right.

Re:Great...

[phunhippy]

yep... perhaps a little crude.. but right on the money.

Re:If I had mod points

[kruntiform]

You know, you and Mensa Babe have similar writing styles. I guess you must have a superiour intellect too.

Great... *sigh*

[Mensa Babe]

No doubt. Mensa Babe is Surak. Never have I been so sure of myself.

What do you think about it, Surak? Because I am starting to believe that I might indeed suffer from dissociative identity disorder... Strangely it's not the first time [slashdot.org] people think we are the same person. I wonder why... Do you think they are serious? I mean, I don't ask if they are right of course (that would be so dissociative-identitish), but whether they really believe they are right. Anyway, it's very strange and even somehow am

Re:Great... *sigh*

[Surak]

I think they believe they are right, actually. I'm obviously not you. Of course, if they had a fscking clue, there is one way to identify my writing style, as it is, I believe, a habit that is rather unique to me (as compared to most of the rest of the /. crowd), and one I do so automatically that you would be able to identify my posts even if they were AC almost 100% of the time.

C'mon, trolls, think REAL REAL hard. It's very identifiable, yet quite subtle.

Re:Great... *sigh*

[Surak]

Oh yeah, HINT: USTL

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[Randolpho]

Hmm.... well, at first I thought USTL actually meant UTSL, so I read through the HTML of this page looking for comment tags or something like that. Then I realized that /. won't allow those tags anyway, so now I'm very confused.

WTF does USTL mean?

Re:Great... *sigh*

[Surak]

It actually does mean UTSL, it was a typo.

I checked random comments, and actually a number of people have this habit, but Mensa Babe decidedly does NOT.

I'll give y'all a hint: I learned to type on an old manual typewriter in high school. ;)

I am a little bit confused.

[Mensa Babe]

I'm sorry, but what exactly are you talking about? I think I'm a little bit confused. First when you mentioned USTL I thought you might work at Lille University of Science and Technology, but now I searched Google for UTSL and have found "Use the Source, Luke" acronym in Jargon File, but to be honest, I have no idea what are you talking about. I am most curious about what do you mean talking about this habit, which you say I don't have...

The HTML source?

[Mensa Babe]

Do you mean the HTML source of your comments?

You make paragraphs with <br><br> while I enclose them in <p> and </p> if I write more than one paragraph? Do you mean the HTML style? No. I give up.

Re:The HTML source?

[Surak]

Two spaces between the punctuation mark and the start of the next sentence. You can only see it in the source (when rendered, the extra spaces are removed of course). It's a habit only those who were taught to type on a typewriter in an academic typing class would do. Most everyone else, including you, uses only one space.

Re:The HTML source?

[Surak]

Why in the world do you keep track of other people's spacing habits?

Well, I don't. I thought mine were somewhat unique to me, figuring most people on Slashdot do what you see more and more of today, only one space. So after I asserted that my spacing habits were somewhat unique, I looked at other people's and realized that about 40-50% of people use 2 spaces, the rest use 1 space.

Now I get it.

[Mensa Babe]

Two spaces between the punctuation mark and the start of the next sentence.

Oh, I see, now I get it. I didn't notice it while looking at the source. I focused on the markup.

It's a habit only those who were taught to type on a typewriter in an academic typing class would do. Most everyone else, including you, uses only one space.

I usually use TeX and it ignores the number of spaces, much like HTML, but unlike HTML it produces the right output, i.e. the double space in English texts. Actuall

Re:The HTML source?

[Randolpho]

Ahh.. I see. Like Mensa Babe I was looking for markup.

I was trained in an old-skool typing class, too, on mechanical typewriters, but I gave up the two-space thing many moons ago. Go figure. *shrugs*

What would have been really unique is if you created new paragraphs by return-tab rather than return-return like everyone else on the net. ;)

Re:Great... *sigh*

[Surakrout]

I've never believed you were Mensa Babe. She is signature Krout -- rewriting subjects, random italics, subtle trolling, randomly placed moderation terms (insightful, interesting, informative), posting before 6am PST, talks about Linux, purposeful misspellings, comments alluding to leaving, holier than thou attitude, etc. Plus, Krout's account on K5 went from 30-50 comments a day to 0 a day at the same time that Mensa Babe started posting. Krout mistakenly took responsibility for his last account (A Proud

Re:Great... *sigh*

[Surak]

Ha! You just admitted (indirectly) that you no longer believe that I'm Krout. :-P

Come on, Surak. How can you defend Krout (the person you hate the most) ? I understand why other people think you are Mensa Babe. Only Krout himself, and uninformed ignorant n00b's would ever defend Krout. I didn't take you for a n00b. Maybe your recent (near?)sexual encounters have clouded your judgment? Why do you help her?

Well, Mensa Babe *is* my friend and fan.

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[Surakrout]

You're not Krout. You're Krout's best friend. Together, you make me. Now does it make sense?

Why are you Krout's friend? Do you deny that Mensa Babe is Krout? If so, do you deny that Mensa Babe is a troll? Look at her postings, man! Look at the misspellings in her profile and signature! She refuses to fix them even though the misspellings have been pointed out to her dozens of times! Why are you defending a troll?!

You scare me...

[Mensa Babe]

First of all, I am not Krout. I have no idea who she/he is and to be honest I don't really care, unless this is someone interesting and I should be proud you confuse me with this person.

Actually, I was nicely surprised when people suggested I might be Surak, as his posts are always intelligent and well written (I suppose he should be a little bit less nicely surprised with this confusion than I was) so if you could tell me more about this Krout I might decide whether it is good or bad that you confuse m

Re:You scare me...

[Surakrout]

First of all, I am not Krout. I have no idea who she/he is and to be honest I don't really care, unless this is someone interesting and I should be proud you confuse me with this person.

you should have A idea who krout is, because surak has already told you. you should be Proud to be compared to krout because surak is his biggest American, fan. in other countries, in which people Eat insects, people's Shit smells better than your obvious trolling. could you fix the typoes in your bio And signature? i

Thanks.

[Mensa Babe]

If had mod points you'd be at -1: Flamebait. Get a life, dude. Seriously. You've got nothing better to do but to harrass someone because you're jealous. It's quite ugly actually. I would recommend counseling. Really.

Thanks... It's not very nice when someone posts such an offensive comment to my journal, a comment full of insults, invectives, even calls me a "bitch" and then someone moderates this post as insightful... If they really hate me so much, why on Earth do they read my journal? I can under

Re:I understand.

[I Like Swords!!!]

Give it a rest you morons. Seems to me you people that post AC comments in the derogatory nature are the ones that are the trolls. Does it matter who Mensa Babe is? I sure as hell do not care. That's none of my business. As for what Mensa said, you don't like what she says in her journal or even posts, don't read her journal and posts. Set her as a foe and mod your foe modifier to -6 with your message threshold to 0 or more so you never have to see what she says if you detest her so. That or get your

Re:I understand.

[SiMac]

So, because they post under an AC account so that they won't get modded down as offtopic, they're automatically trolls?

lemme guess...

[Hypocritical Guy]

you smoked crack this time? you dumb little transexual.

You should consider helping your friend, Surak.

[Surakrout]

Hi Mensa Babe,

As both a female friend and fan of Surak, you should consider giving him some relationship advice. He's been having some unique problems that I'm sure you could help him with. Go check out his journal for the latest. I hope to see you there.