What's with the people on Slashdot who can't read a joke and take it at face value?

A line from "Office Space" brings a vitriolic look back at high school.

A joke about the sheer size of the Internet attracted some guy who decided to opine about backup storage methods. This reply was moderated to +4, sadly.

They're jokes, people. I know there's a way to automatically deduct points from "Funny" comments, but what about "Didn't get the joke" comments?

How about that. I'm being mod-bombed. Some poor soul is wasting his (or his) mod points to knock all my comments down to zero. Whatever, I've got karma to burn.

Slashdot now displays my e-mail address properly. Of course, I've already had to modify my killfile to get rid of some spammers.

Earlier this year, I chose to change my displayed e-mail name to "slashdot@weill.org", an alias which was very successful in trapping a lot of SirCam-related e-mail that I was getting. However, when SlashCode was "upgraded," I was surprised to see that "slashdot@weill.org" is now my official e-mail address and "jweill@cmu.edu" is my displayed name. Needless to say, this is the exact opposite of what I wanted.

I submitted a bug on SourceForge. Any response? Not really. Jamie casually pointed out that this was done on purpose, and that I couldn't change my display name (except to something incomprehensible like "jSwPeAiMlIlS@BAD.cmu.edu.NOSPAM.STOP") without making a whole new account.

Saying that something was "done on purpose" doesn't justify a bug like this.

Hello, world. Journals are fun.