Howzer's Journal: In a nutshell...

It (perhaps) goes without saying that Slashdot contains gems of information & truth and insight. That's what makes us keep coming back, right? That and the occasional witty comment that makes us laugh - and that we all immediately use in emails to friends! Heh.

But occasionally the crowd gets it completely and utterly wrong. And on those days Slashdot seems nothing more than a collection of non-article reading mouth-breathers. I hate those days.

Recently, we had this storm in a teacup about the Australian census. Three things became immediately clear. One, few had followed the link or read the CNN article. Two, even those who had a grasp on the basic facts seemed to have gotten it all bass-ackwards. And three, sometimes the editors of Slashdot seem to really skew the discussion by the way they advertise the stories, even though CmdrTaco put the "funny" spin on it, people took his bait.

I tried in my own way to set things right, as I saw them, but no-one was really interested.

And I do realise how much this looks like sour grapes, but it isn't. I don't post for karma - a quick glance at my info page will tell you that. I really do try to add something to discussion.

Mitigating facts? The amount of really genuinely funny posts about the topic, "They didn't lie on their census forms... *waves hand*" LOL!