sucker_muts's Journal: The slashdot system actually works...

Whenever there is something appealing to me to comment on, nothing stops me from thinking twice. I mean, my confidence on the slashcode working correctly and fair was pretty strong.

So the other day I see a specific post and write this about it: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=136725&cid=11421902.

I'm Belgian, but have a general dislike about the ignorance from the average Joe in the USA, for various reasons. Being the war in Iraq, voting for Bush (>50% anyway), being so religous (I'm an atheist), thinking they can rule the earth unconditionally...
Pretty standard European, although not as subtil.

When for once I do not care about dollars mentioned instead of euros (see my comment), What do I get? 2 Idiots mod me -1 flamebait, 4 people flame me for being so stupid/pro-American/don't care what else.

Very nice! My karma went from Positive to Bad.
Just great. (After being stupid in the beginning to comment on a first post, I got a -1 Offtopic, actually deserved by the way. I needed some lucky 'karma whoring' to set it straight, by giving some interesting links about Belgian food specialities.)
And bothersome also was the fact I'm kinda anti-American, and people flame me for being pro.

Just 2 fuckers bomb my karma way down, just like that. That really made me mad up to thinking I wanted to express my feelings (in dutch) right here to tell about how wonderfull the slashdot system works.

Untill today. I see that my karma is restored to positive. It must have been that metamoderators slammed the f*ckers for nailing me, and they give my dignified points back. Thanks a lot for that by the way. The only thing that bothers me is that my particular comment still remains a 'flamebait'.

I wonder wether my fuckers got their karma send down.

I sure hope so.

(Slashdot works after all :-D )

Swearing

[IpalindromeI]

Why do you substitute the asterisk in for the 'u' in 'fuckers'? Obviously you want your reader to see the word 'fuckers'; it's not like any other word could fit there with just the 'u' missing. It seems silly to act like you don't want to swear when it is apparent that you do. And if you truly don't, why even intimate it? Why not use a different word to convey the anger/annoyance? Then you won't have to feel guilty about it.

fuckers!

[sucker_muts]

Well, I just did not know if there was a filter, taking out certain swearwords. I'm not feeling guilty or anything.

So I removed the stars. :-)
(Thanks for bringing it up anyway)

Re:fuckers!

[Garion Maki]

been looking at that post for a while and I'm still wondering how anybady could consider that flamebait...
so used some spare mod points to adjust it a little ;)

btw, I'm belgian and sick of ignorant people to, and they aren't all americans ;)

Re:fuckers!

[sucker_muts]

Ahh, you're belgian too. How did you get to know me?

Re:fuckers!

[Garion Maki]

to be honest, I have no idea...
it's just that when I'm reading /. and see sombady that catches my eye with a good post who seems to know what he's talking about, or notice sombady making allot of good posts, I add them to the friendslist...
So that when I see the green friend dot, I know to expect a good post (haven't been disapointed yet) and you seem to be on that list ;p
(1 of 8 that are on there)

Re:fuckers!

[sucker_muts]

Hmmm.. That gives a nice fuzzy warm feeling. Thanks! (Although I'm pretty black and white sometimes, but hey! Somebody needs to get people discussing some important stuff, right? :-D )