Slashdot

Well, it's all done! And I think we can call it a success. Throughout the week of April 22nd, 2002 the members of the Slashdot community employed their power as users of a free news/discussion board site to do whatever the hell they wanted to do.

The result of this was a noticable decrease in the number of overall postings on each new item displayed by the editors of /. This implies regular posters joining the Slashdot Black-out were actually doing something else, or refraining from commenting. Reports of the Slashdot Weevil Blackout appear to indicate a success in the dramatic reduction in weevil postings during that week as well. And finally, there have been no reports as of yet from the Slashdot Whine-out indicating the success of this effort.

In other news, my tea has gotten cold waiting for the All-In-One-Spam-Master-Filter to be developed to protect my innocent mailbox from the ravages of enlarged penile and mammory ads as well as the deluge of teenagers who appear to all want to have sex with me.

Thank you for joining me in this Slash-out. It's been fun. We should do it again sometime.