users.pl's Journal: I submitted a serious story!

I've never submitted a story before, mostly because I don't feel like clogging up their submissions with crap. Call me an honorable troll.

I submitted my first story, a serious Ask Slashdot question:

Remembering Goatse.cx: How Did It Affect You?

users.pl writes "As a Slashdot troll, I very rarely have anything serious to say. I accept my terrible karma as a fact of life and post my nonsense when able to. But this time I am serious. It's been some time since the infamous goatse.cx was taken down. While not the most glorious of Slashdot traditions, there are very few among us who haven't graced it's image. How did it affect you the first time you saw it? Your friends? Your family? Whether you loved or hated goatse, it was undeniably a part of Slashdot's culture and it should be commemorated. By commemorating this formerly vibrant Slashdot troll tradition, we can hopefully remember goatse in a positive way and find ways to move on and get over the loss."

I hope the community can see past my trolling nature to accept this as the serious exploration of the sociological characteristics of Slashdot that it is.

Re:Story was insta-rejected

[Mod Me God]

They seem to have totally ignored the demise of goatse.cx - not even YROL (internet censorship etc). Probably will never publish anything related to gatse.

The editors have really gone down in my eyes for this error.

Remember we still have goat.cx [www.goat.cx], goatse.cx is dead, long live goat.cx!