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Journal Journal: Welcome to Political Troll Opt-Out

Slashdot is full of political trolls. These are people who advocate political ideas dishonestly and disrespectfully, and abuse and insult users who question or threaten their (often dubious) worldview. We cannot help the deficiencies in America's educational system, nor can we force people to have morals or civility, nor can we stop them from abusing the moderation system, and (this being America) we would fight to the death to defend their right to speak their mind (no matter how depraved th

Comment Re:Terrorist attacks, anyone? (Score 1) 522

Some people will just come back and order later.

It depends, because failures can lead to mis-attribution of the problem. Say any of Internet Explorer, Modem, ISP, DNS, etc. fail while a customer is trying to access Amazon.com but, by chance, the failure is over when they access Barnesandnoble.com. In this case, the person will probably think something is wrong with Amazon.com, when that isn't true (computers really are black boxes to nearly everyone).

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