Every user are given some amount of moderation points
Incorrect.
If they are on your friend lists, their moderation carries more value.
Only if that's what you specify in your preferences. I don't.
If they have moderated similarly to you, their moderation weights more to you.
I don't think I understand that sentence.
Incorrect how? I didn't state how the moderation system works currently. I stated how it should work. Read it again.
Let's face it, the slashdot moderation system has been broken for a long time.
How can you know that, having a 2.5M uid?
Slashdot's moderation system, although hardly perfect, is still about a thousand times better than the trollfests that pass for commentary systems on 99% of the websites that allow visitor contributions.
I have an six digit UID, but along the way I just got bored of trying to fix my karma because some asses went raging and modded down all my comments, resulting in me posting at -1. Easier to just make new account.
Maybe that comes from the fact that Asians are not as lazy and against "stupid jobs" (when they are in fact the most useful ones) as Americans?
So many citations needed here. Okay so you say "the fact" and I'm asking you where you get your "facts."
I challenge you to grow up and to stop relying on tired stereotypes.
Maybe for the fact that I have an Asian girlfriend who works for amount that seems crazy to me. Yes, I am a lazy European too, but only second after US. Her days are minimum 10 hours, sometimes 12 hours. At $200-300 month. Still, she is really happy when she gets back from work and we go out for a dinner and see friends, often talking, laughing, eating and drinking out until 3am. And in the morning she goes to work again.
So yes, I would say Americans are lazy. Hell, I as an European am lazy too.
Apple's $1 billion new data center in North Carolina has been a disappointing development for many residents, who can't comprehend how expensive facilities stretching across hundreds of acres can create only 50 new jobs
There it is. Proof of how wise Americans really are!
How about if people crying about "there are no jobs for me" would either make new products or services people want or improve themselves to be more useful to employers? But nooo, now they're crying how no one is giving money for what they think they want to do.
I learned this very skill in my teen years. You need to be useful to others to be successful yourself. It applies to work, woman and everything. Everyone is selfish and looking for their own good, in a way or another. Either with money, self-improvement, confidence, skills or experiences. Behind every action every human ever does is a selfish though. Leverage that knowledge, be useful and via that, make yourself successful.
'Digital' businesses like Apple employ far fewer people than traditional manufacturing businesses, Apple's 60,000+ jobs are not just in the U.S. — they're spread around the world.
Maybe that comes from the fact that Asians are not as lazy and against "stupid jobs" (when they are in fact the most useful ones) as Americans?
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan