OldMiner's Journal: Total Dork (n):

1. One who can't make humour appreciated by his peers
2. One who gets excited when his Slashdot karma transitions to a new adjective

I still don't see what makes this quite so interesting. Do not question the moderators, for they work in strange and mysterious ways.

On a semi-related subject, it seems that one of the surest ways to insure that one gets modded up is to make meta-commentary about Slashdot at the end of a cynical comment. This seems to especially be the case if one refers to the general Slashdot populace as pimply-faced teenagers generally younger than 20 without a whit of useful sense.

I'd like to see real statistics on that. Because either a lot of pimply-faced teenagers are incredibly open-minded, welcoming harsh criticism of themselves as 'Insightful'; these similar pimply-faced teenagers are on an even higher level than that and manipulate comments with moderation to display different ideologies; or we just plain have a lot of old, curmudgeonly geeks reading Slashdot who don't quite realize they're not alone.

Regardless, it appears that among the commenters on Slashdot, there's a fair amount of knowledge and experience, often missed by the very knowledgable and experienced. Interesting articles sometimes get posted which I honestly don't even know where to start a write-up on, and then after a few hours, I go back at 5 and learn something about ground-loops.