Pan T. Hose's Journal: The Unexpected Surprise

Dear Slashdotters,

As all of you remember, in "I Was a Victim of Another 'Mod-Bombing' Censorship Attack," my previous journal entry, I wrote, I quote:

Dear Slashdotters,

I am sure some of you might remember my last journal entry entitled The Slashdot Forum Seems To Be Broken, where I have written, I quote:

Dear Slashdotters,

I am not sure whether anyone will be able to read this article, as there seem to be rather strange problems with the Slashdot forum lately. Just few minutes ago, when trying to send a long post explaining the often overlooked but remarkably essential difference between capability system in the sense of Norman Hardy's research and the POSIX capabilities as implemented in the GNU Hurd kernel and why it will not be straightforward to implement native capabilities in any POSIX-compliant Unix kernel using the example of the famous BSD port to KeyKOS system, I got this erroneous message and completely lost the effect of nearly two hours of writing:

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Call It A Night, Cowboy!

Slashdot only allows a user with your karma to post 10 times per day (more or less, depending on moderation). You've already shared your thoughts with us that many times. Take a breather, and come back and see us in 24 hours or so.

If you think this is unfair, please email [e-mail] with your username "Pan T. Hose". Let us know how many comments you think you've posted in the last 24 hours.

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As you can plainly see, something is apparently broken. I will not email [e-mail] because probably many other Slashdot users are experiencing the very same error and have already reported it, and I don't want to slashdot Slashdot (pun not intended) overwhelming them with another instance of the same error report. [...]

Now, this new journal entry is an update to the two abovementioned older ones, the most important and equally unbelievable issue being the fact that soon after publishing the very last journal of mine, the whole ISP I am using was banned from using Slashdot! That's right. When trying to post a comment (in my own journal, I might add) I got this erroneous message:

Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet [as I found out it was a subnet, actually a class B network] comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email [e-mail] with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, [...] and (optionally, but preferably) your IP number [...] and your username "Pan T. Hose".

So, I have not written to [e-mail] last time but I have written to [e-mail] this time. Of course I thought "this [was] unfair" to punish most of the city I live in for four of my comments even if (I said if) those comments were indeed inappropriate.

At the time of this errour I already knew I was going to be able to post only few comments per day (all of them with Score:-1) but as soon as I tried to actually post one, it turned out that I (and, in fact, the city as a whole) was not going to be able to post even one post ever again. So, after few days of "sit[ting] in the timeout corner" I said "That's it!" and decided to contact [e-mail]. I wrote a long letter explaining in details why I strongly believe it is not fair for the whole city to suffer for what I did and that even though I cannot agree with the degree of inappropriateness of said four posts of mine, I am more than willing to personally take full responsibility nonetheless, asking the Slashdot management to stop censoring every citizen of my city except myself, for they had not done anything wrong whatsoever.

What was the Slashdot reaction, you might ask? I am hereby proud to announce that almost instantly after my intervention, not only my entire city (to my great surprise, including myself) got access to Slashdot back, but also my "Karma" was restored to the exellent state from before this sahemful "moderation-bombing" incident! I am still impressed. Thank you, Slashdot, and have a Happy New Year!

(And now please excuse me because I feel that I'm falling down. It looks like the next major depressive episode is starting or something. God damn it... I can't even write normally. Sorry. Fortunately I will get some drugs soon. I can't think. I feel that my head is empty. Thinking is so hard and painful. This is hopeless. I'm sorry. Happy New YEar.)

Sincerely,
Pan T. Hose, PhD.