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Here's the idea. Each person who wishes to participate generates a new account. You have 1 month to rack up karma(plenty of time to get excellent). At the end of this month, all participants will invade a main slashdot discussion(sectioned preferrably) en masse.

The main goal is to have this discussion garner as many if not more comments as the Fort Knox(hah take the space!) photo contest JE(3107).

We can be inflamatory, troll, or perhaps give the rest of slashdot an example of discussion done right. Burn off all that extra karma.

Scoring: I leave this up to you.

So what do you guys think? If you hate it.. it was Arb's idea!

The idea needs some work, and it would need some spreading. So no, start of such a thing right now.

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  • I'm up for it. Can't imagine that karma would last long enough to avoid modbans, but it could be fun.
    • It should last long enough to get a good couple hundred comments in if enough people are involved.
      • If we are just conversing among ourselves, then we should just reply to the article as opposed to the post. If we use blockquote html tags, mention who we are quoting & quote properly, then people will be able to follow the discussion. As it is, people are better off reading @ "Flat--Newest First (Ignore Threads)". This will make it harder for the editors to bitchslap us. They'll have to do it by hand. It should be a real laugh.
        • I assume that most
          people have
          their preferences
          in such a manner
          that the postings
          get cut off
          according to the
          number of words.

          I assume that the
          code doesn't factor
          in something like
          clicking the
          [Enter] key often.
          • I .found .out .that .if .place .a .period .after .a .space, .it .widens .the .page. .I'm .sure .that .there .is .a .script .out .there .that .we .can .use .to .add .periods .to .our .texts.
          • I forgot to mention that a good tool for page lengthening is xclipboard, because once it wraps your words, it wraps it permanently. So, you would basically load up xclipboard, then make the window really narrow, then start composing your response, & when you are done, you would basically Ctrl-V into the text box. For example:
            The quick

            brown fox
            jumps over
            the lazy dog,
            & this was
            composed
            using
            xclipboard.
            See how much
            longer the
            page is?
  • Could I still be naughty?

    ....Bethanie....
    • I'm sure you could, but I'm not the one making the rules up or anything.

      btw (ot, yes), can i ask why you unfriended me?

      • why you unfriended me?

        I'm glad you asked, if it matters to you in the least.

        To be honest, I don't remember unfriending you -- but it was probably because your JEs were too technical for me, and I just don't generally "get" them. So, to answer your question: No good reason.

        Consider it changed (if that's OK with you), since it seems important to you. But as an FYI, I read at -1, have no downmods for ACs, and upmod all friends, fans, and FoFs, so being a fan and an FoF, you show up at a +5, anyway. Sorr
    • You can be as naughty as you want.
  • If you hate it.. it was Arb's idea!

    BTW, that's arb - all lowercase. ;-)

    Given how many comments we were able to rack up in the photo contest JE hof-run with very few active participants, a bunch of us should be able to drag some obscure article into the realms of slash-history. However, a month puts us awfully close to Christmas, I'm not sure how everyone will be time-wise but I'm willing to give this a shot...

    [Now to toddle off and create a/some new account(s)...]
    • Shouldn't start right away(holiday season) or maybe the timeframe should be longer... take a while to come up with rules/etc, draw in participants, and shore up spare accounts. Get the idea spread around a bit more and come up with a scoring system.

      Personally I think it'd be a welcome distraction from all the interpersonal introspective BS LG leaving set off.
      • Get the idea spread around a bit more and come up with a scoring system.

        We don't want it to spread too far though! Only those in the circle should know about it - we don't every man and his dog to jump on the bandwagon!

        It's a shame they obfuscated the karma scores... We could have come up with a formula that worked out the number of posts per karma point lost. Although if we made everyone keep the email notifications of mods we could work out the exact values...
        • So, no one can post a link to it or what not on the main page. There aren't enough trolls that troll through journals to really spread it much beyond the circle.

          Well, you could calc it based upon final scores, and have a few subscribers go through and tally total karma gained, and/or total karma lost that way. Or save the email moderation notifications and keep a tally somewhere. I (or someone) could hack a site to do that together pretty quick, so long as we could rely on people being honest.

          And you c
        • Also, there are two ways to do actual discussion.

          Pick a topic and hijack a sectioned discussion. I would recommend the yro section as I like pudge and games is just awful looking.

          Or, pick any discussion and stay pseudo on-topic(which wouldn't be as much fun).

          With enough people posting, w/o an editor intervening, karma loss is going to trail off as moderators lose their mod points. Also, bear in mind we're gonna run head first into some of the troll filters. So comments are going to need to be spread o
          • What would be the point if it's not pseudo-on-topic. Wouldn't you just be doing what the trolls do everyday (only more so, perhaps)?
            • If we're gonna do it, it would have to be on-topic posts and/or seriously delicious trolls. Regardless of what some might think, I think it might be fun. Of course, that's no guarantee that I'll have the time/inclination to actually participate...
          • I think going with the pseudo on-topic is the best route to go. We might even get some other people to join in on the discussions if we get things moving, and not just by discussing random off-topic things. The more people participating, the better the chance of running the article into the HOF.

            Besides, things always tend to skew off topic eventually, if a thread gets deep enough, so if we just get things moving, there will be plenty of interesting side discussions.

            And done this way, we avoid any mass m
            • Heck, we could probably take our current accounts and run a random sectioned article up into hundreds in no time flat if we wanted to, and keep it all rather on topic in the process, just as a dry run to see what we're capable of. Anyone up for giving it a try with an article, say, in the science section?
              That sounds like an interesting idea. I'd be willing to give it a try to help out.
  • Not meaning to piss anyone off, but who's got the extra hours in the day to go do karma-pumping exercises here? Not me, that's for sure.

    There's a reason why I used to have the `Karma: Xi'an Coy Mahn` sig - I really don't give a monkeys how much of it Slashdot reckons I've got. A subscription gets you more benefits, for starters. And since it's no longer a numeric value, you can't really compare different users anyway.

    As for burning it all off in a big comment-orgy, what's the point of that? You potentiall
  • I Dunno. I might participate, I might not.

    But its gonna be different- the FK Photo contest FAD was fun-craziness; among all the posts that were just people posting "One more; yet another post" there were also a lot of manic and fun impromptu mini-threads. "The greatest sandwich story ever told" still sticks out as a winner in my mind...

    And I would be amazed if that same level of spontaneous fun can be re-created. I'm not saying it can't, I'm just saying that on the main page, there is more of an issue wi
    • But its gonna be different- the FK Photo contest FAD was fun-craziness;

      The best thing about that was it just happened. I doubt that we could recreate the feel of such an event on purpose. It'd be a hoot if it worked but!

      Slow Down Cowboy!

      Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.

      It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment

      Go away and get a life - or some sleep. You must be drunk or someth
  • Maybe we need a special account just for organizing our games. I can see that "Games" isn't taken yet [slashdot.org]. All the people who want to participate in games in general can friend that account. When a game takes place [ie: photo contest, HOF games] people can just discuss the issues there. This will help keep our amigos page cleaner.

    If we need to keep track of who is playing this trolling game, we would have to start a thread in a Games journal entry.

    It's just my 2 cents.
  • Now I need to come up with another flashy/clever nick :P...Hmmm I'm in I think
  • This could be where it all happens! [slashdot.org] No one is commenting in this article. Surely we could get something happening in there...
  • So... whatever happened to this idea?

    I started my "whore account" soon after this JE and so far, it's going ok. I forgot that Funny doesn't net karma, though, so I will have to spend less time on jokes, and more time talking about how good Linux is and how much Microsoft sucks.

    This is easy for me, though (because Microsoft actually does suck, and even though I don't particularly like Linux, I can think of good things to say about it).

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