Journal Fordiman's Journal: Mod Griping
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Honestly, what is the point of modding someone 'Troll' for asking for accuracy?
Case in point: An article here, concerning some dude installing a batch of toolbars on IE7. It was a good and humorous article, and from the article, it was actually difficult to install all the crapware on IE7.
Still, the article summary gave the impression that it was easy to do so mistakenly. So, I called 'FUD' on the post, but noted that the article was not.
So? I got modded troll, and recieved a number of responses accusing me of astroturfing for MS.
The claim of astroturfing is hilarious, though. I'm quite possibly the last person to extol the virtues of Microsoft. Being a linux user at home - Slax, specifically - and using Firefox exclusively at work, I'm kinda a non-prorietary guy. Hell, I use the Gimp, Inkscape, OpenOffice, and FileZilla at work. I even submit bugs to KDE and do a little OSS programming on the side.
Still, I get posts calling me an "anti-social Microsoft Fan". It occurs to me, in a revelation that shouldn't be this shocking, that some people are complete idiots.
Is Slashdot really so embedded in linux groupthink that even a call for accuracy is considered a troll? I mean honestly.
It's a shame Digg's got much the same problem, except it seems to be OS-X groupthink.
Honestly, what is the point of modding someone 'Troll' for asking for accuracy?
Case in point: An article here, concerning some dude installing a batch of toolbars on IE7. It was a good and humorous article, and from the article, it was actually difficult to install all the crapware on IE7.
Still, the article summary gave the impression that it was easy to do so mistakenly. So, I called 'FUD' on the post, but noted that the article was not.
So? I got modded troll, and recieved a number of responses accusing me of astroturfing for MS.
The claim of astroturfing is hilarious, though. I'm quite possibly the last person to extol the virtues of Microsoft. Being a linux user at home - Slax, specifically - and using Firefox exclusively at work, I'm kinda a non-prorietary guy. Hell, I use the Gimp, Inkscape, OpenOffice, and FileZilla at work. I even submit bugs to KDE and do a little OSS programming on the side.
Still, I get posts calling me an "anti-social Microsoft Fan". It occurs to me, in a revelation that shouldn't be this shocking, that some people are complete idiots.
Is Slashdot really so embedded in linux groupthink that even a call for accuracy is considered a troll? I mean honestly.
It's a shame Digg's got much the same problem, except it seems to be OS-X groupthink.
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