joe_bruin's Journal: you fail it

i think we must ask ourselves, where are we, as the slashdot troll and troll-hobbyist headed in this new millenium?

we have seen some good memes (all your base, in soviet russia, ...) come. we've seen innovations such as the goatse.cx ascii art and redirection through yahoo and others. the first post remains a favorite, and i dare say more-exciting by the anti-fp countermeasures implemented. troll-turned-running-gag such as 'bsd is dying' and 'stephen king is dead' are everpresent. but natalie portman and hot grits have nearly died off. others have turned into pop-culture cliches, and no self respecting troll would even consider ('beowulf cluster'). i'm sure i've left out many others.

some of my favorite innovations have been the "you lose it!" and "'lose' not 'loose'" trolls. continuing in the fine tradition of comp.unix.shell's "unnecessary use of 'cat'" award, these up the ante on posting. i see a "'you're', not 'your'" in the near future. this (when applied to traditional non-troll posts) may open up a whole new field of grammer trolling, once they are sufficiently recognized and copied to strike fear in the hearts of posters.

here are some predictions for the coming years:

longest-subreplies in one thread troll. this requires cooperation, but no planning (if people get on the ball). how many levels of nesting does the slashdot comment system allow? only one way to find out.

duplicate claims. while i have a feeling this is going on already, it seems to me that sending a reworded copy of each story to every slashdot editor might not be such a bad idea. the winner who has had his story dupe-posted can then claim victory and point out the editor's inadequecies in first-post proximity.

comment sequence guessing. simply a comment that contains within it the comment id number that it approximates it will get. haven't given much thought to feasibility yet. might turn into an artform.

binaries. in my experiments, i've found slashdot comments top out at 50 kilobytes. here is a nice test posting of ~40kb of uuencoded binary (50kb encoded). i think there is tremendous potential in putting binaries on a public server with good speed.

robots. yes, trollbots are for pussies, but they have their place. how about a "duplicate story" bot, that attempts to recognize dupes by keywords and posts the original story. it might then proceed to post all 5-rated comments in the new discussion too, to raise its own karma.

html injection/corruption via the slash url-previewer mechanism. someone has to be able to exploit this. i've tried some interesting things involving recursive urls and some other ideas, but no luck so far.

Dupe-bot

[wheany]

That is a great idea! I hope someone codes one just to piss off the Slashdot janitors.