Indeed, except in English.

Ghoti: gh, pronounced /f/ as in tough; o, pronounced /I/ as in women; ti, pronounced /sh/ as in nation: read aloud as "fish".

Ghoti: gh as in though; o as in people; t as in ballet; i as in business: read aloud as ... silence.

About minus 90 years?

That is exactly what we are doing. You'll see what happens when we stop keeping it coming between February 10th and 17th.

Without over two days of thread hijacking we wouldn't even had this discussion here. We did what was necessary for the survival of Slashdot. Ask the people who DID have mod points: they used their excellent karma to mod posts like "Mod parent -1 ontopic" up to +5.

Indeed. The work that was put in creating the Beta would have been better put in fixing the current site gradually without alienating the user base.

We want unicode, we don't want stock photos. I don't know how to explain something like that to an MBA, but everybody around here can understand it.

We want a powerful comment system, anything that does not have that as a starting point is wrong. That is something you can explain to an MBA, just call it "strategy". Put it in the mission statement of Slashdot Media: the comments system is holy.

You make it sound as if it is a science.

Here's a clue for you: slashdot users can tell the difference between hype and marketing speak versus facts.

OK, I'll take being a whiney cunt with a big smile, just because you wrote that the Beta blows & is a travesty.

Thanks for joining the fight on our side (even if that is not what you intended to achieve).

No, he is not. He is defending the existence of Slashdot.

Anyway, just wait until February 10th: then you'll have a whole week of stories without any comments, except perhaps for some cowards like you who have nothing to say but "first post".

Is that why suddenly our comments get massively downmodded now?

Folks with mod point get the complaints to +5 and suddenly they are back to "0 Offtopic".

Their actions speak loud enough: they are mass-downmodding all Beta comments.

We post these things because we care. Our overlords are trying to stop making us care.

For posteriority: many of these "-1 offtopic" and "0 offtopic" posts that you see in today's threads were at one point "+5 interesting", "+5 insightful" or "+5 funny". That was the opinion of the people with mod points, what you see now is what the editors were told to do by Dice management.

The slashdot editors are mass-downmodding the Beta comments.

We post these things because we care. Our overlords are trying to stop making us care.

For posteriority: most these "-1 offtopic" and "0 offtopic" posts that you see in this thread were at one point "+5 interesting", "+5 insightful" or "+5 funny". That was the opinion of the people with mod points, what you see now is what the editors were told to do by Dice management.

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