Journal Pan T. Hose's Journal: How Big is Slashdot? Do you know a larger website? 3
Pan T. Hose writes "It is a well known fact that over ten million comments have been posted on Slashdot and soon we'll have the millionth user in our community. According to $$$$$exyGal and britneys 9th husband, we reached one, two and three million posts in unknown years, four million in 2001 and five in 2002. In the year 2003 we reached both six and seven million, while in 2004 we had eight, nine and an amazing round number of ten (sic!) million posts thanks to ObviousGuy whom I have proudly moderated up to Score:5 for breaking this record and interestingly enough never got any mod points since then. How many pages would it take if every single Slashdot comment was to be printed? How many thousand-page books would that be? Would it all fit in The Library of Congress? How long would it take to read it all out loud? How long would it take for Echelon to process when read over telephone? Would it be even possible for one person to read? I would like to ask Slashdotters, how much text do you have on your websites? Have you ever read or even seen a larger respository of knowledge than Slashdot? I think it is important to thank Slashdot editors for the amazing success they have achieved. Even five years ago no one would ever thought that a niche technology related weblog would eventually transform in one of the greatest achievements of modern journalism and the central point of independent exchange of opinion for the intelligentsia of the 21st century all over the world, and now after the brilliant idea of adding new Politics section only Google News might be considered a competition to Slashdot. I wonder if there are any websites which Slashdotters would consider equally important for the task of propagating human knowledge and increasing the overall level of intelligence. What are your favourite websites? Any interesting stories? Anyone?"
Story submitted on Sunday 17 October 2004. Status: Pending...
Rejected (Score:2)
Story submitted on Sunday 17 October 2004. Status: Pending...
Update: Foolishly rejected in less than 2 minutes.
frist psot (Score:2)
well, whatever. Slashrot sucks.
Indeed (Score:2)
Thank you. I do my best. You just reminded me of the last time my story [slashdot.org] was foolishly rejected while another inferior story [slashdot.org] was posted instead. A shameful day for Slashdot. I have solved that problem by posting a Score:5, Informative first post [slashdot.org] with subject "Many Informative Links" and words "first post" in the first sentence. Then I have posted quite a few Score:5 posts [slashdot.org] and concluded [slashdot.org]: "[...] even though my story has been so f