

What Your Favorite Web Sites Say About You 163
Jimmy writes to tell us that CNET is running an article on what your favorite Web sites say about you. One example takes a look at the possible origins of Facebook readers; "The typical Facebookers are what you'd get if YouTube and Flickr went halves on a baby. Yes, the site was created to help university students connect and have a good time, but connecting and having a good time generally involves unruly, drunken behavior, which is inevitably caught on film and posted for your entire friends list to see.'" The article also takes a look at eBay, Flickr, Slashdot, and several others.
Not very interesting.... (Score:5, Interesting)
If you read the other entries, it is less an info piece and more of a fluff piece for c/net to blow their own horn when you get to the end. How do articles like this get posted to Slashdot?
That said, while there are those of us that have been around since '98 or so, many Slashdot users that started participating in this forum back have continued to participate and additionally have created their own blogs. All in all, I'd have to say that whether or not I visit a website says less about me than the content that goes into my blog [utah.edu] does.
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you think the mods made it to the
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That's a stereotypical response.
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That's a stereotypical response.
Yeah, yeah...your type always says that.
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Stereotypes are wrong? Please explain (Score:2)
Please explain and back that up. Because from where I stand, stereotypes can be dead on accurate. Not all, mind you, but enough of them to make the case there is some basis in reality.
Case in point: women. The stereotype is that they are more emotional beings than men.
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stereotypes are wrong about as often as they are right, we usually feel bad about applying them in either case.
the question i have is this: does a stereotype come about because the target group often engages in one or more of those behaviors, or does the target group engage in one or more of those behaviors because of the stereotype?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_bias#Why_the_fundamental_attribution_error_occurs [wikipedia.org]
INSULTING PICTURE (Score:4, Funny)
How the fuck would they know? Aren't we all buff über mensch!?
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On the Internet, no one knows you're a god.
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If we get enough posts with this kind of response in them, we might just be able to buck that stereotype!
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I didn't come here to judge peoples comments based on their looks, but on the content itself! For all I care you can be purple with pink polkadots!
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Did you read the bit about CNET?
CNET.co.uk attracts a wide variety of users but they almost always have one thing in common: they're gorgeous. Oh, and they like technology. Sure, they use MySpace, Facebook and once, misguidedly, even created a Twitter account (but they're sorry for that last part).
They're the best sort of people to be around. They're highly educated, well-travelled and they possess the sort of qualities every mother tries to instil in her child. They'll one day go on to broker world peace, cure the incurable and are the very reason we wake up for work in the mornings. They're great and we love them all. Even the ones who think we sold them something and ring us up to complain.
Don't start trying to fact check a joke piece...Unless you're doing some meta-humor by living up to their "Suspicion and Pedantry" snark.
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Mod article... (Score:2)
Hmm, it sounds like that should get the article modded -1 Flamebait! :-D
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"10 ways to..."
"6 not so smart cats"
"30 things to do with..."
The structure is so simple: The headline hook writes itself, and the content can be complete horseshit but once it hits digg, you've got a front page post.
I challenge you to try it: go to flickr, grab ten random photos based on a meta tag. Assemble them in a list, with perhaps some witty comments, but even that's not needed. Get
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1.) Post a question that is answered in the summary (or better yet, the title).
2.) Use a Slashdot meme in an unfunny way.
3.) Be kdawson.
4.) Post obvious karma whores, such as "text of article in case of Slashdotting".
5.) Write your comments in list form.
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7.) Profit!
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As far as #2 and #5 are concerned, in Soviet Slashdotistan, lists write you!
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The one thing that some of us who've been around long will remember is that apart from the dupes and the bad editing, Slashdot has changed a lot over the years.
When it started out, it was for geeks of a certain age and demographic. Over the years, those users have grown up, and with them, so has Slashdot.
Compare the number of actual technology articles from the older versions of Slashdot with the number of articles relating to business, politics and management of technology on today's Slashdot. Slashdot has broadened its horizons, and the discussions tend to be a lot more balanced (if you do not believe me, just go over to Digg and see the trolls and the flamebaits out there).
And yes, the average Slashdotter was (and is) probably a geek or a nerd, but I think that as they have matured, so has the website? Do we see the occasional crap posting and foam-at-the-mouth zealotry? Of course. But compared to the amount of actual, sane discussion, the percentage of idiocy is surprisingly less.
Secondly, Slashdot is not just about the main articles - it is also about the posters having their journals and having sub-communities of posters.
Over simplification and stereotyping has been the bane of many an analysis, and this article (if it can be called that) is no different.
Bleh.
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I use my +3 shield of suspicion and +2 helm of sarcasm to counter that.
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It's a little hard to have a multi-sided discussion about the theory of evolution (as a whole), since there is currently no alternative theory for the "other side" to take. Specific aspects/new findings about the theory generate a lot of (often interesting) debate that is anything but one-sided.
This sounds like the prevailing misconception on Wikip
I'll tell you one thing (Score:2)
But I can tell you with reasonable confidence that crave.cnet.co.uk has roughly zero chance of becoming my favorite site until they clean up their web pages and put more substantive material and less junk on each page.
Can't say that I thought all that much of the content either. Not very insightful and not especially funny. I don't think this is one of those little things that get's pasted
Not very accurate either (Score:3, Funny)
I think I am probably also pretty indicative Slashdotters. I think that the slashdot comment system is a pretty good way to hold authors accountable for what they write, and
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If you ask me, 12oz curls is a sign you need to cut back on the hair gel, dude.
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Sorry, And yes, my ID isn't exactly low, but this is not my first account! ;)
There a lot of us in that boat, thus the user id number a person has is a poor indicator of how long they've been around. Hell, I've been reading Slashdot since '98, and have probably gone through six or seven different accounts because I'd lose interest for a while and promptly forget my login or password. Still, it is fun to see some low uids show up. The thread the other day in which people kept trumping each other with a progressively lower user number had me roaring with laughter. Silly stuff like
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It can be fun to read such things, and recognize yourself in all the groups that you belong to.
I am a bit puzzled by the comment that Windows is "not a bad operating system". By all the rating criteria I know of, it's easily the worst
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The average male Slashdot user probably looks a lot like our model -- but has more acne and bigger glasses. Users are 23 years old but look twice their age and steadfastly refuse to accept the fact that Windows is actually not a bad operating system.
Hrm.. looks down... yep definately breasts... and not man-breasts either...
Looks at nick and sig file... they got it part right about the Windoze reference...
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My favorite site (Score:5, Funny)
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Another child.. (Score:2)
They bismirch /. Gasp!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Scotty load the missles.
Aye Sir, fully loaded with 25 Gigatons of sarcasm
Add pedantry
Yes sir, 45 Teratons of pedantry added
And some anonymity too
Aye Sir, anothe 12457 Teratons of anonymity added
Fire at the abominable site
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You know, "buttload", "assload", "shitload", "fuckload"... you're only supposed to reach "butt-ton", "asston", etc. until after you exhaust all the *loads, and that's several orders of magnitude too much for just one article.
10 pages of advertisements? (Score:5, Funny)
no printer friendly page link, check
no interest in reading this article, check.
No thanks slashdot. Next?
Am I a Karma whore, or what? (Score:2)
"SLASHDOT
What's the story?
Slashdot is a well-respected science and technology news aggregation Web site. It lists user-submitted news stories with a bias towards geeks. Each story is vetted by a moderator before being posted, at which point visitors can leave their opinions in Slashdot's highly active forums. It was created in September 1997 by Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda, who s
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Block one ad, but no printlink,
11 pages of ads on the site.
Resistance is futile
Target Audience (Score:2, Insightful)
The website doesn't make your personality your personality choses to revisit the website.
IP Violation (Score:5, Funny)
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Wow! (Score:5, Funny)
A list of what I like says something about me.
Truly, is there no bounds to what science can reveal?
I am well and truly stunned.
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All of the above. (Score:4, Funny)
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There's a site for those. It's called "digg".
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And finally, CNET readers: (Score:3, Funny)
and almost NSFW! [cnet.co.uk]
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Why do I have a sudden craving for a roast beef sandwich?
At least they have good taste in laptops. Thinkpads with the IBM logo (why is that still there?) Photoshopped out.
AD-FREE VERSION (Score:4, Informative)
Missing entry: 4chan.org (Score:5, Funny)
4chan.org ... 'Linguini' being a street term for crack cocaine.
What's the story?
4chan.org is an increasingly popular hangout for those who call themselves 'Anonymous'. It breeds misfits, criminals, and The Internet Hate Machine, which is a term that is used to describe the collective processing power of the thousands of hackers on steroids who frequent the site.
Did you know?
Disturbingly, 4chan.org is the source of almost every popular internet 'meme' that has surfaced since 2004 or so.
What 4chan.org says about you
If your favorite site is 4chan.org, you're a terrorist who likes to blow up vans, and should be locked away for a very, very long time. You also like to say 'LULZ' a lot, which is a diabolical corruption of 'LOL', which means 'Let's Order Linguini'
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What about Live Journal [livejournal.com]?
My sites says... (Score:3, Funny)
So... (Score:2)
Another article aiming just to get hits while producing nothing that would be seen as being anything more than 'mi
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Actually, it's describing a caricature of each site's target audience. It's more of a humor piece than anything else.
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Hypothetically speaking of course. NSFW!! I repeat NSFW!!
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I'm disgusted!! Don't they know the difference between a cup and a tumbler?!?
What does pr0n mean? (Score:2)
Insulted (Score:2)
Now, if you noticed that as well, then yes, you are a geek too, and Slashdot is your favorite site to visit regularly.
Dan East
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And not only does that guy have fake glasses, he doesn't really have any acne either. And what's with the tie? Everyone knows Slashdot users wear T-shirts which have likely never seen the inside of the washing machine, no tie. He's a total poser.
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Tasty (Score:2)
A plateful of bones?
Slashdot is more diverse (Score:4, Insightful)
I know you're just doing it for the laughs, guys, but that's short-sighted. Slashdot is one of the more diverse (in terms of opinions, not genetics and gender) web sites I've run across, much more so than myspace, for example. Libertarian Christians and Mac-using bisexual Buddhists can agree on the necessary traits for any BIND replacement here without much rancor.
I think the article sells it short.
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Did anyone else read it as this: (Score:2)
My favorite websites all say the same thing (Score:2)
What?! When did they start talking?? Oh God...... (Score:2, Funny)
How about Orkut? (Score:2)
ORKUT
What's the story?
Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Orkut Büyükkökten (sëë älsø: hëävÿ mëtäl ümläüt). It's something like Friendster and MySpace, but it also allows users to create "communities", that is, mini-forums about any theme you choose.
Did you know?
Orkut is not very popular in the USA, but it is extremely popula
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Very true; the mere sight of a couple of Brazilians will often destroy any pretense of civilisation.
Oh, you meant citizens of Brazil...
NOBODY expects the Slashdot Inquisition! (Score:2)
CNet? (Score:2)
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Me, too. Many people tell it makes me look five years younger than my actual age instead of ten or twelve.... At least now that I've hit 30, they've stopped carding me in theaters....
*sigh*
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I like linux, and I advocate linux, but I'm not a zealot. Use the tool that'll get the job done best.
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Got any evidence to support that claim? And if it does turn out to be true, do you suppose there's any chance we can pass on some of that knowledge to the (cough) "editors"?