Let's say hypothetically a slashditor (let's call him "Supnezmas"), when not posting duplicate articles from 2 days before, has a major erection for some web commenter (let's call him "Notlesah, Ttenneb").

How could I edit my settings so that worthless shit articles from "Supnezmas" referencing this "Notlesah, Ttenneb" were somehow downrated to oblivion so I don't see them anymore, ever? Is there a filter I can apply?

Can I "foe" an editor based on context?

I'd like to know who the flip is XanC, since you asked the SAME question I did, and I got -1,Troll while you got +5 Insightful?

http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

Note however that I *entirely* agree with you.
Is there a /. editor trying to build a buddy into a web celebrity?
FWIW, I *still* don't really get why Ze Frank is a weblebrity, either. How does one make a living doing that?

Seriously, your answer to crime is "people should be moral people"?

Wow, no wonder it's working so well.

If not, throw them into a wood chipper.

Seriously, if the potential reward for crime is in the $million$, the odds of getting caught are probably low, and the punishment is a handful of years in prison - why would anyone NOT commit such a crime?

Most of the people I know work their lives as wage-slaves for 8+ hours a day, for decades, for a fraction of that (and what they get, a giant chunk goes to taxes).

..."examine historical temperature data going back 500 years"

Because "climate cycles" are never more than 500 years long? Seriously?

It reads like it was spewed out by a markov chain generator trained on a tiny subset of language to make sure that its rambling stays on topic, but still makes no guarantees that it comes out in English.

Maybe that's what the MK means? I had a look at the other stories on the site:

The issue is these venues value their transactions off of the distributed costs on the exchanges – in addition, if those costs need uprightness, then “darkpool” evaluating will itself be twisted.

-- http://www.mkobserver.com/high...

Whatsoever it is, the tinkle about the blip demonstrates that individuals are looking at the rover photographs nearly. An imaging master at NASA’s laboratory imparts his hypothesis: An “cosmic beam hit” influenced Curiosity.

-- http://www.mkobserver.com/nasa...

Some of the less gibberish articles have writing/editing citations at the bottom, maybe they are generated by a computer then cleaned up afterwards? Others are quite clearly press releases.

I would also point out that the "US" - commonly condemned in such statistics - is probably the least homogenous country in the world. As such, it's probably useful to look at the state by state rankings, both positively and negatively:
(ranked by deaths per 100k)
1. District of Columbia 30.8 http://www.city-data.com/forum...

Are all these faculty members likewise PERSONALLY *completely* divested from fossil fuels - ie no driving, bus riding, train riding, electricity from oil/coal/natgas sources, etc?

Because otherwise they're pretty much hypocrites.

Plus three extra steps: compiles without warnings, passes Valgrind, and makes it through an intensive test suite.

"The number of people who have actually paid, out of these 7 million, remains a closely-guarded secret."

Ooh, I know that one! I know! (raises hand and waves it furiously)

THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER...since Obamacare *guaranteed* payment to the insurers.

Awesome, so what was intended as a way to get insurance care to the needy, ends up being another exercise in wealth theft by the government, and redistribution to the massively profitable insurance companies.

Almost like it was a scam from the fucking start.

That's the Open Minded Liberals you're talking about, right?

I know a girl who worked for Deja Vu in the 1990s as a stripper, was invited on some sort of tour of Israel, and made just under $30,000 CASH in those 2 weeks dancing.
(She said that she suspected there were several other girls who did some "extra" shifts (so to speak) that made significantly more than she did.)

I also know a shit-ton of programmers that would love to make $15,000 cash per week.

Is that "significant enough" wages?

That's a pretty common ad-delivered site that's been around for a while. It has an "onunload" function that pops up an error message when you try to leave the site. Chrome added a checkbox to disable the message, so they made their error message so long it goes off the bottom of the screen and since its a dialog box, you can't scroll the text to get to the checkbox, you just have to trust it's there after the third or fourth alert: hit tab, space to check the box, tab again, space to hit ok.

Let's change the context:
If men are a genuine minority in the exotic dancing field (because there are far, far more female strippers than male) would you say that the industry is discriminatory, and that there should be subsidies for men who want to get into that field?

Personally, I'd say that's stupid.

I personally believe that Google can do what it wants with its money - if it wants more coders with tits for some reason, that's their choice. But let's not try to rationalize it away and say that it's not blatant gender discrimination. You may say it's entirely justified, but then be prepared for that same argument in reverse when people say that we can discriminate against women in firefighting or the military.

It's been a mantra of the Victim Lobby (ie the Left) since the 1960s that racism, sexism, etc are not absolute values, they're vectors, as such '-isms' can only come from a position of power.

So if a white man fires a black man, that could be (and probably is, according to dogma) racism.
If a black man fires a white man, that cannot be racism because the black man is not contextually, culturally, or historically empowered; anything he does to the white man is so far outweighed by the evils done to him, it's at the very least justifiable and in no way racist (regardless if, for example, the white man and black man both immigrated to the US in 1994; the logic is that regardless of either individual or family lines' lack of participation in actual slavery or Jim Crow era racism, we're talking about a cultural preponderance of racism, which impacts all people of color regardless).

Same with gender.