Due to recent fears that "zaxios" will become misused and misrepresented, I hereby declare "zaxios" as an unregistered trademark. I had it first (and well before that with my email address). I should have it last, and I should brutally crush any third world countries that disagree and think that royalties to me should not excede their GDP. Consider the trademark enforced by the

I've been using Slashdot for 67 posts now and I think it's time I offer some views on Slashdot's moderation system. Firstly, I think it works surprisingly well. With discussions of Slashdot's size, anyone actually using Slashdot as a news site who wants to read interesting comments depends and can depend on outsourcing their earlier levels of discernment ("this is interesting, I'll think about it more" or "this is not interesting") to moderators.