GreatBunzinni:

Dude, you're still doing this? I don't care what bonch's signature is. Your trolling got me modded down for praising an Android tablet. So that's what I put in my sig since I wasn't able to post. My karma was totaled for no reason, so I won't be posting regularly anymore. This site totally sucks now because of all the trolling.

I'm getting sick of responding to these. I am not any of the 14 accounts you claim I am. Your past trolling has already gotten me modded down so harshly that my karma is -1, so I've stopped regularly posting. Now you're getting modded up by other people for this shit? I'm taking advantage of the new flagging feature and reporting your post. This is organized corruption of the moderation system.

The most common vaccine that conflicts with egg allergies are the influenza vaccines, which are now recommended annually for every child 6 months to 18 years. Even then, it's such an important vaccine that we only avoid it if the child has anaphylaxis (the most severe reaction) to egg.

These statements are incorrect. For one, JWs get most health care routinely. There is an institutional opposition to the use of blood products, but this also doesn't apply to all individuals and is sometimes circumvented with technology (more routine use of self-transfusions). While many of the vaccine refusers I meet do belong to faith groups, their rationale is not often related to religion. For example, one of the big groups of devout individuals are those who choose to home-school their children because they don't like turning over control to public schools. I think these are the same types of people who independently research the mercury/MMR/autism rumors as a matter of correlation rather than causation.

Incidentally I was doing a google search from a Win8 VM and did not see this behavior. I _did_ get a notification to update my spyware/malware definitions for Windows Defender as well, so maybe my definitions did not yet include this snafu.

Of course I have updated post Vday, so cannot confirm this behavior now, even with an older snapshot.

I'm a subscriber, so I see the stories before they're public. I don't know why the star isn't showing up, but I bought a 2000 page subscription.

I'll tell you why. Because troll moderators have taken over the site and are trying to subvert it. Because the IT readership that used to visit Slashdot has been bleeding from the site in the last few years, leaving behind the more extremist posters. Because if you say something that those posters don't like, they abuse the moderation system to drive you off the site rather than reply and explain why you're wrong.

The latest thing is to accuse absolutely everyone of being a "shill" so that others will follow along and do their dirty work. My post didn't go down to -1 Flamebait until someone else accused me of being a shill and got modded +5 Insightful (!). Because of the default filters, +5 comments are automatically expanded while less than +2 is collapsed, so now every moderator reading the comments for the first time will see that post first and likely not even read what I wrote.

CmdrTaco promised a new moderation system for years, and it never arrived before he left the site. This limited moderation pool concept is terrible. It makes it so that a single point in either direction has a drastic effect on karma and effectively restricts people from posting something that's unpopular, even if it's legitimately true.

This is off-topic, and so I'd be justified in getting downmodded for this, but since my karma is getting completely destroyed right now anyway, I may as well post it before I'm limited to two posts a day. Thanks, Slashdot. Thanks, troll moderators.

Yeah, but if you notice the moderation, my karma gets punished while the accusers get rewarded, because I guess I said something too positive about Apple or something? It's really getting to the point where every discussion must be a given party line, or you get censored. Hell, even this will probably get modded down.

It's a rumor article about the iPad 3. So I wrote additional rumors that have been known about the iPad 3, which is that the iPad 2 would continue to be sold but at a lower price. What in the hell is "canned" about that?

Should I have written "first p0st" instead of putting in any effort? This place is really starting to suck as a community.

What was canned about my post? I think I made legitimate points. I even hyperlinked them, for crying out loud. What does "cranberry" mean?

I'm looking over my post again, and I don't even get what would be controversial about it since it's just stating commonly known facts. The last part about tablets becoming the dominant computing devices is my own opinion, of course.

Okay, you people are retarded. What jabs at Google? And of course it quickly went to +5 (or whatever it's rated now), it was the first post that moderators saw.

Normally, I don't respond to comments like this, but the goofy paranoia on Slashdot whenever anyone dares to--gasp--say positive things about a really popular tech gadget is really nutty.

Google's advertising revenue is the primary reason they're the last browser vendor not to include support for Do Not Track. Really a shame.

Yes, that's literally the only thing that separates the iPhone/iPad's design from everyone else's, the fact that it's a rounded rectangle with a flat surface and glossy paint. It's certainly not the radius of the corners, the 1-inch black border with chrome backing that peeks over just enough to frame it, the grid of icons, the thievery of artwork, the touchscreen gestures that originated with iOS, etc.

Tablets didn't start looking like the iPad until the iPad came out. That really should clue you into the idea that the design comes from Jonathan Ive's design studio and isn't some obvious thing that has been around forever. Of course it seems obvious now, because the iPad is so successful. There's a cognitive bias going on where the thing that succeeded now seems obvious in retrospect even though it didn't before it came into existence.

...did you even read my post?

I seriously doubt they will shoot so low.

To be fair, everyone also thought the original iPad would be $1,000. I can absolutely see the iPad 2 going for $200-$250.