Okay. I'm rather annoyed.
I made a rather valid point in the article about the Australian traffic department's statement about their switch to Mac being based on it being 'open standards and systems' being rather odd, since Apple is known for being rather closed when they can. Hardware, software (OS-X isn't open, even if its Kernel is), whatever.
While the article was being read by the general slashdot populous, it was modded +5 insightful. Granted, +5 may have been a bit excessive, but that's besides the point. The point is that as the story moved off the main page, but stayed high on the 'Apple' page, the Apple fanboys started (ab)using their mod powers. Because my statement wasn't pure praise for Apple (it DID contain a positive statement about Apple) it was modded down as "Flaimbait" and "overrated". Now the statement is listed as "
-1 Insightful". Moreover, it dropped my Karma from Good, to positive, to neutral, to bad.
Gee, thanks. Take a +5 post making valid claims, and trash it because you don't like the statement made. It's reasons like this I fucking hate Apple users sometimes. Rather than dealing with criticism, valid or not, they dismiss it as 'stupid windows users'. In the future, I'll take specific note to mod down Apple fanboys, simply for being in the same crowd as those assholes. You want to ignore criticism? I'll ignore the dumbass remarks of the 'inherent superiority' of Macs by its zealots.
Like I said in a post in that thread, there are few memories longer than that of a geek scorned.
