Treebeard the Ent's Journal: The Demise of Slashdot

I am so tired of the ridiculous changes Slashdot continues to put in their rules for posting. I can understand banning proxies. 95% of posts sent from proxies were/are crapfloods and stupid trolls (as opposed to good trolls).

Then I start having issues, posting bans when you post one maybe two posts that piss some people off, or people miss the joke and you get modded down to -1. This happened to me. I posted a joke that people obviously didn't think was funny so they modded it down. (hint: if you don't want this type of joke posted, then don't tell readers he will answer their burning questions). Also on a side note to moderators: Don't be such an ass to mod something down as overrated, if you aren't sure that it will stand up to metamoderation, then maybe you shouldn't down mod it.

Next the 2 minute between posts ban. as has been pointed out to me, this only stops humans from posting, not scripts.

In general, I have a problem with the lameness filter. If I want to look like and ass by posting all caps, then let me. Maybe after being flamed enough, I would stop. If a troll just does it to piss someone off, then they will just find another way to do it.

Now they require you to read this illegible image and type the text in before you can post. This pisses me off anywhere that uses this. It takes too much effort to try to figure out. At least make the text REAL WORDS.

How long will it be until they do this with journals too? I could fill several people's email boxes up by writing a script that puts a bunch of journal entries in within seconds of each other. Don't worry, I won't do that.
There are plenty of other sites that allow you to post with out having to go through a bunch of shit in order to post. They aren't having these problems that /. has. The people who make these decisions to try to quell tolling/crapflooding with these posting rules need to understand that by further restricting posting rules, you are pissing off that many more people who are going to eventually either stop posting/reading or they will begin abusing the system themselves.

Am I the only one that feels this way?

Ding ding ding

[FortKnox]

Hit the nail on the head, here.

What slashdot needs to do is have a trusted level of people who will moderate and such for them. Remove the crap and all that. That's how sites like fark do it. There are people with nothing else better to do than constantly check posts, and remove offending ones well before anyone reads them.

Using AI is a good idea, but its getting to the point where the AI has more false positives than actual good filtering...

no

[robi2106]

you aren't the only one. But I have the good fortune to not have a bunch of idiots (as far as I can tell) that go to work at HP and post crap on /. I happen to know that lots of people at HP read slashdot, os it is possible.

sounds like a crappy deal. Sorry to hear about it. I found apathy a great solution. :-\

jason