Journal cyborg_monkey's Journal: Urban Legends of Slashdot 8
There are 2 documented cases in which people who HAPPENED to read Slashdot did questionable acts (one committed suicide, the other (a group) committed murder). In both cases, the readers were also social outcasts and cocaine addicts, and had been so before beginning reading. The second case is notable because they made a movie about it ("The Crying Game", I think), and because the people actually tried to claim the Slashdot had warped their minds. Sorta like the twinkie defense, I guess.
Anton Levei's "The Satanic Bible", a book VERY LOOSELY based on the first case. In this book, a whole slew of folks who read together have their lives ruined, and one commits suicide. The book uses the fictional weblog Adequacy as a linking element for their individual problems, but for the most part, Slashdot gets blamed by readers. Many people believe this story really happened, and are adamant about it.
Jon Katz, who will get a very big surprise when he dies and finds himself descending. It disgusts me that a pop icon has nothing better to do than pick on homosexuals, Hindus, and gamers (and all in the same show, no less). Anyways, Jon has in all likelihood no idea how write a story, and is just freaked out by the "Satanic symbols" on the book cover.
BTW, for folks who are not Slashdotters, this IS how weblogs like Slashdot (and it is not the only one of its kind, thank god) ARE read: a bunch of people sit around a table with laptop. Each of the people has a dildobelt which they control, deciding his/her actions as they moderate. One player, called "Goatse", referee, or whatever, commands the readers to spank him and tell him that he is a very bad Taco.
I've read Slashdot (the proper verb for being a Linux zealot) for 10 years now, and I started at a very impressionable age. I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that my psyche has suffered.
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Ever hear of Planet of the Apes?
The movie, or the planet?