Slashdot

Well, part of one.

I wrote this post that comments on abuse of the word "troll". I guess it was inevitable that it should be modded down as "troll"!

If you block banner ads, you'll have missed the recent series of ads on Slashdot from Lane Bryant, a clothing chain that caters to "plus size" women. There have been a lot of ads, mostly for, uhm, intimate garments. I wonder what that's about? Or maybe I don't want to know!

I recently made this post, asserting there was no such thing as an "analog disk". Several people responded to point out the flaws in my logic, all of them describing real-world technology that contradicted my theory.

Not a big deal. Except my post continued to accumulate "informative" mods after I admitted I was wrong! Now that's sad.

Here's my recent post about Google and their permanent betas. The mods follow a common pattern: quickly modded up, then eventually modded back down with the usual cowardly "overrated".

I don't give a shit about the mods. (And as usual, I ask people not to waste their mod points "fixing" the situation.) But something else does bother me. A dozen or so people responded, and not a single one of them seems able to grasp the idea that I admire Google, but am still critical of their screwups. Apparently you're only allowed to love or hate.