Best Meme in Slashdot's First 10 Years

1) Take away missing options option
2) ???
3) Profit!

You mean something like this?

1. Leave out missing option

2. ???

3. Profit!

You must be new here. The best option would obviously be a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans eating some hot grits, you insensitive clod! I know it's true, because netcraft confirmed it while I was trying to move a 30 MB file from one folder to another on my Mac...

Finally a story where "First post" would actually be meaningfull thing to write, and you go spoil it, you insensitive clod!

I don't know. Moderation abuse might be number 1. Interesting that so many of the *REAL* memes are negative--but weren't included on the poll.

Anyway, the problems could be fixed, but don't hold your breath.

For "missing options" they could use dynamic polls where people can add additional options.

For moderation abuse, I think they should eliminate anonymous negative mods. If you want to say something bad about someone, you should put your name on it. Also, they could reduce the abuse by giving out more mod points, but I think the main fix would be listening to the complaints about unfair mods in the context of knowing who made them.

ah, the meme-ories...

It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)

Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.

Take your pick....

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[ ] Another: [ ] Dupe [ ] Slashvertisment [ ] WTF [ ] $editor is a dork
[ ] Frist psot [ ] link to GNAA [ ] Link to goatse [ ] $random_drivel
[ ] I Haven't RTFA, but... $random_opinionated_comment
[ ] Slashdotted already!. I bet their server runs on $topic_item too
[ ] Soul_sucking registration required
[ ] Mod Parent [ ] up [ ] Down
[ ] Fsck: [ ] SCO [ ] Micro$oft [ ] DMCA [ ] DRM [ ] MPAA [ ] RIAA [ ] Google [ ] Bush [ ] You all
[ ] I for one welcome our new $topic_item overlords
[ ] Imagine a beowulf cluster of those
[ ] In Soviet Russia, $topic_item owns you!
[X] Meh!
[ ] Netcraft confirms $topic_item is: [ ] dead [ ] dying
[ ] But have the inventors thought of what will happen if $random_amateur_insight
[ ] Once again the USA is clamping down on my [ ] Amendment rights.
[ ] You insensitive clod
[ ] But people who download music from P2P networks are more likely to buy the album
[ ] Cue DVD Jon-type crack in 3..2..1
[ ] Torrent, anyone?
[ ] Here's a link to a patch: $random_linux_distro_url
[ ] Profit!!
[ ] Still no cure for cancer
[ ] Coral Cache: XXX.nyud.net:8090
[ ] Microsoft [ ] Google [ ] YaHoo! [ ] SCO is evil

And where's "...a Beowulf cluster of those"? "Netcraft confirms it"? The short-lived "-- in Japan!"? Bruce Perens posting contradictory comment after comment and raking in +5 for every one?

I don't think the Ogg Vorbis thing is even a meme, just genuinely delusional fanboys.

I know I'm weird, but I miss Goatse Man :(

Oh, indeed. His absence is like a giant, gaping void in our lives.

I'll second that.

I'm sorry to see that "All your base" is not an option...

I'm sorry to see "Goatse", it belongs as an option, but I'm simply very sorry to have seen goatse.

Did /. come up with the Overlords before the Simpsons did? I remember Kent Brockman saying it (possibly when Homer went into space) and always thought it came from there. I want anwsers!!!!!

why are "grits" and "Natalie Portman" separate choices? You can't have grits without Natalie, and you can't have Natalie without grits.

Because, young padawan, those are actually two separate memes that have been commingled by you young'uns: "Hot grit down your pants" and "Natalie Portman, naked and petrified".

Use Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], grasshopper.

And get off my lawn, goddamnit!

You know, that's an excellent idea! Someone ought to implement that... oh wait...

You people are among the smartest people I have ever met.

You're just seeing the advantages of collaborative moderation. The people you meet elsewhere would seem smarter, too, if real life let you filter out the Score:-1 idiots and Score:1 masses.

You're damn right! With 9/11 solved, it's time for the War on Weather, teach that mother nature a thing or two. Memes are just slang for brainwashing anyway.

FOR CHRISTS SAKE PEOPLE! HITLER USED MEMES!!

Okay, first off, you can't judge productivity just by the machines speed, you see Macs are human centric and... wait...

Oh shit. What am I doing with my life?!?