If there's one bright side to this whole pandemic, it's been fascinating watching the world's scientists start to piece together the puzzle on SARS-CoV2.

Because no one is ever murdered with an illegally purchased weapon, right?

Wish I had mod points...

I don't say this often, but I wish I had modpoints. +100

That is a great explanation. Thank you.

Happy Birthday, Slashdot!

For all your cruftiness, and all the complaints, you're still also the source of some of the most interesting discussions I run across on a day-to-day basis.

My vote: keep the moderation system, but expand it to a high score of 100, and a low score of -100. Let users set the default value penalty/bonus they want to apply to ACs, and what bonus/penalty they want to apply to UIDs with 6 digits or less (which should help weed out all the astroturfers).

Also, it would be nice to make EVERYONE a meta-moderator: allow users to see all the moderation on a comment, and if they notice a pattern (such as liberal or conservative shills downvoting things they don't like), allow users to decide to ignore moderation from specific users.

That should allow trolls to be downvoted to oblivion, while helping to nullify the effects of censorship from right/left wing idiots downvoting things they don't agree with.

Something like this is my guess:

https://arstechnica.com/securi...

I'm an old-timer, so I can understand not RTFA, but you didn't even RTFS?

I doubt that's going to happen. The 2-day shipping is a loss-leader to get you introduced (and hopefully hooked) on the rest of Amazon's ecosystem.

Wish I had mod points...

(Score:-1, Dumbass)

+5, Informative

I had no idea. Thank you for explaining how that works.

See people, sometimes Slashdot really can be a place for the thoughtful exchange and discussion of ideas. And trolls. Lots and lots (and lots) of trolls.

That looks very interesting. Thanks for the informative response!