+1 - Like an onion, there are layers to this story which have not been peeled.

I wish I could mod you up. :)

The problem is the people who own the site(s) and not the users. Treat your site like your living room - do not tolerate people who piss on your living room floor. Bounce them out, clean up and apologise to your other guests.

You're right. For me this has involved ejecting many regulars who take on an air of self importance - that the community would not survive without them. But guess what - it does and a regular ejection of a bully just makes things better for everyone and several more members rise - an a couple of them go down the route of ejection.

We try so hard on our communities to prevent this sort of behaviour - which usually spills over from places like Facebook and Reddit. Tough moderation then turns into complaints about freedom of speech. (Yes, I know your reply has been moderated as 'funny' - but this is so true! Civil online spaces are disappearing.)

Anyways, this could be an opportunity to develop a new-ish community. Yep, I never give up on this shit despite everyone telling me that communities are dead, long live facebook / reddit. :(

But, we're no longer sprites in a material world. :)

Assuming reddit updates their git repo, the changes over the next few days should make the vulnerability more obvious.

Better yet, BizX has flipped /. and renamed it ./ and sold it to Monster (Dice's competitor?). A new CSS signifying a move to the 2.0 interwebs would have been nice, after all flippers are known to use some spit and polish.

Does that mean we can expect cordova based apps (perhaps even Meteor?) to run on an Xbox One?

Now I wish I had started a company called Continuum.

+1 for having a sense of humor. :)

You paid money for Slashdot and could not work out a lower user id than 4433507 as a part of the sale?!??!

I'd go for 666 if you were you. :)

And I thought it was some sort of MoDeM software which would enable you to use your phone as a modem. :)

BUT .. it is big-data in the clouds, so everything is forgiven.

One of my favorite TV shows is Rocket City Rednecks. Changed my opinions (just a little bit!) about people from Alabama. :)

Hate to say this, but NO, NO and a big NO.

Designers yes - web designers NO.

A good web designer needs some fundamental architecture skills that are derived from math or science classes which teach you how to break down a problem into smaller bits, which bits to solve first and some fundamental boolean logic.

A good web designer is not someone who throws in bootstrap, jquery and some pretty shit on a website. He/She understand how to break down the HTML/JS/CSS into smaller meaningful bits, how to include these bits depending on where and when they're needed. They understand how benchmarking goes (how long does it take a web server to respond, if the stack is sending a 1MB response from Alaska to Brisbane ..).

I could go on and on about how much I've started to HATE people who copy paste shit, buy a theme, tweak a few colors, find some jquery snippets and animate a headline and go on to call themselves web designers.