Well, that makes you a "troll", who is "ignorant", who is missing "the truth".

ROFLCOPTER!

Keep it up guys, you're killing me.

Visit my website to check em out.

I've been reading /. close to daily for about 6 years, although I didnt sign up until about 4-5 years ago, then forgot that password, lost access to the email account I registered it with, and eventually registered this account goodness knows when.

Being the UK, I rarely post comments, because by the time I read most stories that interest me, they already seem have 300+ comments, the moderators have moved on to newer stories, and it seems pointless to post something which realistically will never be read. So I've only made a dozen or so posts here ever, almost always tucked away in an obscurely nested part of a threads, almost always receiving no moderation.

For the first time today I decided to explore my /. account and found that I have a fan.

I can't understand why? How can someone with essentially zero visibility in a community possibly garner a "fan"? Beyond me! :)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. In fact I often wish I could get really involved in /. - its just that I'm in the wrong timezone, with the wrong politics (I consider myself fairly left-wing, but a British "fairly left-wing" is a US communist :D ), the wrong OS (XP) and the wrong hobbies (coding used to be my biggest pastime but got thoroughly displaced by music)....... So I always figured I'd never "fit in" here.

Nice to see at least one slashdotter is proving me wrong...haha...