Yakko's Journal: Burn the books. Squelch the voices. Rule with an iron fist.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26315&cid=2850660&threshold=-1

This thread was apparently nuked. Valid opinions (if off-topic) and all. the entire thread thrown in the rubbish bin. 5 pages worth.

It would've been enough to downvote the true crap, but it would've taken too much time.

Hurray for instant success. Fooey.

(Yes, I know it's not "censorship" when you can adjust the threshold... it IS aggrivating that you also must take the true trash (which should go into the brown rubbish bin instead of the red one) in addition to finding good but mis-moderated stuff)

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In retrospect: Reading this a week or so later, the editors were technically right in marking the lot of the posts as off-topic. Suggestions that a new article be created (why? because there were like 500 posts in this thread alone, iirc) were pretty good... just relocate the thread to there, and it'll suddenly be on-topic!

And folks won't feel like they're being silenced for dissenting. Then again, I'm writing this thinking the editors can wave a magic wand and make it so. :o)

(note of aggrivation: I really wish /. would do like deadjournal does with hard CRs -- make them automagically become <P>)

Update: Bad Slashdot! Nullifying my posts just because you don't want a particular post to be seen. No treat for you.