Journal MondoMor's Journal: Predators improve the breed. 9
It's been a while since I posted a journal, and there's a few new happenings.
I got another story submitted. I'm really surprised I got this one, since I'm sure the stupid Lunix fanboys submitted this 500 times. Of course, the discussion that followed was purely anti-Microsoft, even though there are a billion LUnix systems out there that are vulnerable to other exploits, and can be just as big a pain to patch. Fucking hypocrites.
I'm improving in my ability to karma whore, as you can see. As I type this, I've got "Positive" karma, and I ping-pong pretty freely between Positive, Bad and Neutral. Not bad. Hell, I've even posted a blatant anti-michael post logged in and not been any worse for wear.
With positive karma, I'm metamodding several times a day now, pretty much marking everything as "unfair" (unless it's a troll, who's karma whoring and has been modded up. Then I either stay neutral or metamod "Fair" or "Funny"). $20 says I spend more time meta-moderating than most -- and I'm doing it for the sole purpose of getting the signal/noise ratio as low as possible. I wish my other accounts were able to metamod.
On to the subject of this little Journal: Predators improve the breed. It's occurred to me that my work, and the work of the many trolls (most of which are far more competent than I) might actually make Slashdot better if Taco were to begin listening to them. He's mentioned in his journal that he's heard all the grousing about moderation, which means grousing is not going unheard.
Don't get me wrong -- CmdrTaco is still an idiot, totally out of his league running a site like this. But the fact that he puts oil on the squeaky wheels means he has ears and can be annoyed. Unfortunatly the "oil" is an even more fucked-up moderation system, hamfistedly added to allow editors to put the "squeaky wheels" (trolls) into more-and-more-soundproof rooms instead of solving the problem. You know why divorces happen? Because the people in the relationship don't address their problems. Instead they push them aside and try their hardest to ignore them until they can't any longer, spending more energy ignoring them than they do dealing with them.
Why not just meet the issues head-on?
1) Ditch the irrational, unprofessional condescending LUnix fanboyism from the editors. As FortKnox says, "Lunix isn't always the answer. Microsoft isn't always the problem."
2) Before publishing articles, have the common sense to spellcheck and fact-check them. Is it a dupe? If you want to preserve the stupidity of the submitter, just put some "[sic]" marks in the article.
3) Don't pull a michael and add unnecessary snide remarks. It's unprofessional.
4) If you won't do #1, #2 and #3, please drop any pretense of being objective or even rational. It's insulting.
5) For fuck's sake, stop pretending you're not censoring. Stop insulting your readers' intelligence and just admit that the mod system is there so editors can ensure Slashdot reflects THEIR opinions, not those of the readers. Then you can do what you really want to do: delete comments and users that you don't like.
6) The only redeeming quality of michael is that he seems to post fewer (if any) duplicate articles. Fire him. If that's not enough, please fire him because he's the only editor with the sense to check for dupes, which probably makes the other editors jealous. Does he have rich parents or something? Is he paying Slashdot to keep him occupied so he can research his petty conspiracy lunacy?
7) I'm fully capable of reading Wired, The Register, CNN and The New York Times all by myself, and I won't get Slashdot's editorial bias or mind-numbingly stupid interpretations by Slashdot editors and article submitters. Sooner or later, even the stupidest of your drooling LUnix fanboys will realize this and leave. How about stopping Slashdot from becoming the unofficial comment board for these sites?
See, Taco, that's what a lot of the grousing seems to be about. If you were to truly embrace your Liberal sensibilities, you'd see that your Predators -- your trolls -- are trying to improve their Prey -- Slashdot. It's Darwinian, you stupid twat, but you're too dense to see it.
YHBT. HAND.
EDIT:
Hahhahahaha. CmdrTaco is predictable as drool from a retard. I posted the text of this journal entry in a CmdrTaco story, and I've been bitchslapped AGAIN! Here's some cut&paste HTML from my messages:
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:18 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:19 AM
Moderation of "Amen." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
Moderation of "Arrogant dick. You're helping them win." Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
See how the first moderation of my thread post occurred less than a minute after I posted it? Then all those other mods occurred at the same time.
I've been bitchslapped again! Taco REALLY doesn't like it when you criticise. Such a fragile ego!
what if (Score:2)
A more controversial post would be likely to receive more moderation, and so there would be a greater liklihood that all of those moderations would be processed in the same batch.
I have noticed a lag between when a post is moderated, when I receive the message, and when the post appears +- modpoints on the site.
Re:what if (Score:2)
The truth! (Score:2)
Without improvement there is only death.
Bravo for such a good post. One wonders why the editors are unable to take criticism and use it as an opportunity to improve. Only someone who really cares would bother to write more than a cursory "./ sux!" to get his/her point across. This is someone I would listen to, even if I didn't agree with what they had to say.
Wasn't admins (Score:2)
Hi, I just found your journal.
I thought you might be interested to know that those six mods were performed by five different users, and none of them is an admin.
In fact, looking back through your mod history a couple of weeks -- and that's a lot of downmods, you're a popular guy -- the only one I see by an admin is the Offtopic that I gave this one [slashdot.org] a few minutes ago.
(I'm not gonna make a habit of this, I just noticed your journal and had ten minutes to kill before dinner :)
Re:Wasn't admins (Score:1)
Also, why do you limit people with low karma to a certain amount of posts a day when you guys state that karma doesn't matter?