How many Slashdot polls did you respond to last year?
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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 21632 votes
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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 40 comments
ambersand hash number semi-colon (Score:2)
nt
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Editors to the rescue!
Oh wait..
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None of them
1 â€" 3 polls
4 â€" 6 polls
7 â€" 9 polls
10 â€" 12 polls
12+
Re:ambersand hash number semi-colon (Score:5, Funny)
You're assuming that this is a mistake that will be corrected, while in fact, this is a deliberate test of the slashdot user base, who are expected to be able to parse the character encoding on fly. Anyone seen complaining about this or voting for the other options will be banned.
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That's not something that would happen, why would
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Anyone seen complaining about this or voting for the other options will be banned.
D'oh. My ability to properly parse unicode is nearly as bad as Slashdot's....
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>What about those of us who would complain about the unneeded pound sign and the general idiocy of the douche that made the latest /. theme?
Pedantry is not just allowed, but is encouraged here! Btiching about the redesigns is also allowed as a tradition by this point.
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And what's "ambersand"?
Proof-reading seems to be lacking everywhere these days.
Aw heck - just blame Autocorrect [damnyouautocorrect.com].
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And what's "ambersand"?
You've never heard of Orson Welles' classic film "The Magnificent Ambersands"?
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I'm afraid that was Edmund Wells. That's Ambbersands with two Bs, which I read when I was a sboolboy.
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Ambersand is sand that's the color of amber, which is a kind of yellow-orange-brown color.
A semi-colon is one half of the large intestine [wikipedia.org]
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Ambersand is a gelatinous compound that frequently misquotes TV show memes.
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I thought that was ambergris?
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why would they misquote ambergris? Plus, ambergris sounds suspiciously like a french hamburger that costs $40 and doesn't taste very good.
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Ambergris is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull gray or blackish color produced in the digestive system of and regurgitated or excreted by sperm whales. Source [wikipedia.org].
Any joke you have to explain ceases to be funny. :(
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I was thinking it was somehow related to amberlamps... just sayin'.
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That's my porn name.
Re:ambersand hash number semi-colon (Score:5, Informative)
If anyone did, he would notice that proofread is one word.
New poll (Score:5, Insightful)
How many times did you complain about /.'s lack of unicode support last year?
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U+221E U+0020 U+0074 U+0069 U+006D U+0065 U+0073 U+002E U+0020 U+7121 U+9650 U+5927 U+56DE U+002E
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put me down as also supporting the funny dominoes in slashdot.
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[x] Cowboy Neal
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Why wasn't there a cowboy neal option? Messy..
[x] Cowboy Neal
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Maybe the slashcode is smarter than us (replacing & with &)
From the source code...
1 â€" 3 polls
4 â€" 6 polls
7 â€" 9 polls
10 â€" 12 polls
I wonder if this is what the editors had intended...
1 â" 3 polls
4 â" 6 polls
7 â" 9 polls
10 â" 12 polls
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I once saw a beach with amber sand, very pretty. I've also read and written an ampersand or two in my day. But what is this ambersand you speak of? >:)
HEX
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Amber Sand was my favorite Playboy centerfold from the '70s. Back when pretty women had real boobs and noses, sported fur, and didn't show pink.
All of Them? (Score:1)
If you selected 'all of them', you must be anal enow (and without a life) to be a prime twitterer/facebooker.
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And of course, if you answered "None", you're a liar.
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Not necessarily, it says last year.
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Oxymoron time?
But if you registered for /. this year you can say None.
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It says 'responded to' not 'voted in'. I responded to most of the polls last year by complaining about the lack of options or ambiguously phrased question, not by voting...
Much like politics then...
Re:All of Them? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not sure what "anal enow" means, but do you really think it's that ridiculous to answer "all of them"? There aren't *that* many polls... I'm pretty sure I put in an answer for all of them, even though there were stretches last year where I didn't have internet access for days. When I'm at home I at least look at slashdot every day, and if there's a new poll, I vote on it.
Unless the intent of the question is, "How many did you leave a comment for?", but it's ambiguous. I guess based on the ranges of answers provided that may have been the intent, as I'm pretty sure there were a lot more than 12 polls in total. But when I put in my response, I didn't think about it that much. As usual, an ambiguous and poorly worded (not to mention the â" formatting disaster) slashdot poll :)
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I voted in all/most(can't remember which) of them and I don't use Twitter (have an account, but got bored with it) and Facebook (got kicked off for using false datas), nor do I care for them.
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Facebook (got kicked off for using false datas)
That must be an interesting story... I've always wondered what they'll detect / tolerate. Probably a more interesting discussion than this poll.
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Yeah. I was told that its rules require real datas. Bah. MySpace and Friendster didn't care. Frak Facebook.
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I think you probably meant "datums".
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However most likely he was thrown of for using a false name.
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it was a real name, it just wasn't his.
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That or they are one of those users who clicks on everything possible and ends up getting their system infected so it can be a zombie bot spamming the rest of the world or worse.
Those people likely have a life, would not be anal, but most likely very gullible and ignorant.
None (Score:3, Funny)
None. Mister Screechie, my helper monkey, does all my browsing for me.
PS: Save me from this moron.
Mr. S.
Comment only responses (Score:2)
Does it count if I commented but did not vote?
10 f*king polls (Score:2)
Missing Option (Score:1)
Only those with Cowboy Neil as an option.
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Only those with Cowboy Neil as an option.
Cowboy Neil is always an option.
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Cowboy Neil is always an option.
Just like failure!
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No. CowboyNeal is an option. So is the high-end GPS navigation system with integrated touchscreen display and entertainment system.
Failure, on the other hand, is standard equipment in every 2011 Slashdot 2.0
None (Score:4, Interesting)
I never participate in Slashdot polls. Nor do I post comments in response to them.
There. That should overload the Slashdot conundrum filter.
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Re:None (Score:4)
... most things humans say are lies.
That's not true.
Re:None (Score:4, Funny)
Norman, coordinate!
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Damn. /. isn't giving me the option of ditching my posts to give you the mod point you so richly deserve.
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Who programmed the AI? Maybe those damned humans have a sadistic sense of humor and like to watch their robots segfault and dump core all over the place.
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I never reply to sarcastic comments.
None? (Score:5, Interesting)
So as of this writing, "None of them" stands at 9%. 271 Slashdotters didn't respond to a single poll last year. Assuming than at least some of those have been reading Slashdot for longer than just a few months, what would motivate so many readers to answer this one after such a silence? Are they just trolling for someone to ask this? Oh, wait, nevermind. I get it now.
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From looking at the rest of the poll, "None of them" appears to be the comedy option :)
I miss the heady, rough'n'ready days when I could shake my poll at insensitive clods the world over. There's been so little mention of Cowboy Neal that he'll have wasted away in a couple of weeks.
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This is Cowboy Neal. Now think about that for one moment -- that does not make sense. Why am I talking about Cowboy Neal when a poll's integrity is on the line? Why? I'll tell you why: I don't know.
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I voted for "none of them", simply because I always vote for the most ridiculous poll option.
It is a metacontextual [wikipedia.org] realization of the inherent dadaism [wikipedia.org] of Internet polling methodologies; such auto-ontological [wikipedia.org] sample selection inevitably [wikipedia.org] results in absurdity. [wikipedia.org]
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I'd mod you up but I sadly just wasted my last mod point on some drivel about the theory and history of patents. Would someone else please do the honors?
Is there a poll RSS? (Score:1)
What do I tick if I responded to 12? (Score:3, Funny)
10 - 12 and 12+ are overlapping! I thought we'd all decided (in a poll last year, IIRC), that we'd get the poll options right from now on?
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12 must be the CowboyNeal Option
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good idea!
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good idea!
Those who answer this probably answered others (Score:4, Funny)
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very Douglas Hofstadter.
Darrell Huff is the one who came to my mind upon having the same thought.
Lies, d*mned lies, and statistics (Score:2)
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-Quote from Mark Twain. A better poll question would be "How many lies did you tell on Slashdot poll votes? (same response as this poll). Better yet, "How many of your votes were actually wishful thinking?
Or better yet, Groucho: I'd never vote on a poll that would have me as a voter.
I didnt count (Score:2)
But since slashdot has the responses maybe they can tell us. (at least as far as voting is concerned)
There were quite a few polls I did not vote on because the options didn't include my situation, but most of those I did post comments
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So, this is your version of "I'm a _____ , you Insensitive Clod" comment? Pretty poor attempt. ;)
This is a trap! (Score:2)
The same poll will be run next year, and then nobody will be able to select the first option! ;-)
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Missing option (Score:2)
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"Only the ones with a Cowboy Neal option".
What? (Score:3)
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A poll for your workplace: "How many times did you stamp yourself in last year?"
Re:What? (Score:4, Funny)
Indeed. Perhaps this is somekind of Slashdot poll result validation scheme? ^.^ I mean, they have the replys, don't they...
A poll for your workplace: "How many times did you stamp yourself in last year?"
Despite what anybody says, it's not my fault my tie got caught in the postal machine. Also, I don't think I should have been made to reimburse the company for the postage.
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I like teh funny. So don't take what I say here as being too pedantic.
My memory is pretty good. I can actually think back and remember a lot of things if I really put my mind to it. So to me I just had to think for a second and tally up a rough number and vote based on that.
Of course I don't think anyone should count but if you can't remember what you have done when you put your mind to it then I might have to ask for your geek card.
Skewed results (Score:2)
People who want to keep a non-response streak going cannot vote "none" in this poll. I demand a recount.
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Can't remember (Score:2)
I can't remember the number of polls, but I definitely voted in more than half the polls overall.
Calculate it yourself (Score:4, Insightful)
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You've got the data, slashdot. You figure it out.
And give us an actual vs. voted comparison and the percentage of users who lied (or were mistaken) about their voting history.
Can't you tell me? (Score:3)
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I would think that Slashdot could tell me how many polls I took last year. I can't remember that far back and wasn't intentionally tracking. But I was always logged in. Can't Slashdot tell me how many polls I took? And what my answers were? Personally, I think that could be some might fine entertainment value right there!
You fool! These are tax deductible!
At least that's what my accountant, Bombastic Bushkin tells me. I may have to check with him during visiting hours.
RSS kills the front end... (Score:2)
Not that it matters a whole lot...
None of them (Score:2)
YOu know what would of been cool? (Score:2)
If after voting it told you how many you voted on last year.
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Too late on the train to success...
But to comment TFA - I missed a few either due to not being online or because none of the answers were applicable - the Cowboy Neal option seems to have died.