JohnnyComeLately's Journal: Whats with the garbled articles?

I don't want to have to click, sign-in etc to read articles here. I don't know why it's changed, but if Slashdot was looking for a way to stop me from coming to this site daily (which I've done for many years), they did an awesome job.

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[JWSmythe]

It's actually a long respected tradition in journalism.

At least the pony prank was a prank. Eyeburning, but yet a prank. These were just dumb.

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[JohnnyComeLately]

Oh, it didn't really look like a prank, even now that I know it was April 1st. I thought it was an attempt to stop auto-mining, Google, or something I wasn't tracking.

Thanks for the reply which was constructive. The more I see of the world, the more I see we need more people like you...and a lot less of the other guy who replied. Unfortunately, you can't cure @$$hole syndrome outside of a warzone nearly as easily as you can in one (where "things happen"...or "Inshallah")

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[JohnnyComeLately]

Or, maybe I'm in Afghanistan, working 12-17 hour days, 7 days a week, and so not only would I not know it's April 1... I wouldn't even know what day of the week it is. If you're unable to login to reply to my question/comment/whatever, then please don't bother replying.