Ender_Stonebender's Journal: This is why we browse at +2

Honestly, I had a hard time deciding how to moderate this. Troll, flamebait, off-topic? It's all of them! Not to mention completely stupid. I wish that Slashdot would run a yearly poll to let us pick a new moderation option - the options available are insufficient to describe things at the level of detail I'd like.

Not sure I agree

[damn_registrars]

... with moderating that one as "flamebait". I always took the "flamebait" label to imply that a message is inflammatory in nature. The message you point to has, in my mind, too little content to be inflammatory. If I can't tell wtf the message is supposedly concerning I have a hard time finding a way to be insulted by it.

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[Ender_Stonebender]

Obviously you've never gotten into the middle of flamewar over various flavors of BSD. Those people are psychotic about there chosen variant, I tell ya. Claiming that and flavor of Unix is "dying" is flamebait around here, as is claiming that it will never be the year of the Linux desktop because Unix doesn't belong on desktops.

You are right about one thing - the post I linked to is too stupid to be insulting.

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[tqft]

Isn't ignoring it the best option?

troll/flamebait or whatever - give them no satisfaction of being noticed there is enough crap in the world without giving any attention (+/-) to it.

Mod someone up instead?