Does this remind anyone else of a certain Dilbert episode?

I don't care about beta anymore. Deleting posts and modding down stuff that they don't care is MUCH WORSE - THAT'S whats really killing slashdot.
So farewell. See ya at reddit.

^ THIS
I wish I still had my mod points.

Once I was in Toronto, ON, and watched a local band perform rock covers. When I asked for the name of the band for a girl in the audience, she just waved and said "it's just an irish band".

What is an irish band, other than and band from Ireland?

Although one can always wear a tinfoil hat.

The question is, how they managed to do this despite of Microsoft Economical Power. How they avoided bribery of the involved politicians?

Yes. I attended meetings of the board of directors and it's normal behaviour to text. Detail, the average age of this board is above 40.

If you answer a call, it better be important but people will understand

AKA zaphod beeblebrox

When you read TFA, you might notice that 14 journals were suspendend - four of them are from Brasil. So keep your crap to yourself.

When did loud became a synonym for worse? I mean, the amplitude level in which an album is mixed is the only factor affecting the quality of music?

So I guess that's the best music in the whole history of the world.

There's the conflict solving forums, I'm no Wikipedia expert but seems the right place for that. But juries are not random, AFAIK.

You never think you know why.

An anedocte: I had a website which the only page which is accessible for a non logged user is the user request page.

I got a lot of user requests with bizarre usernames. Denied them all. But I started getting 10-20 per day, and increasing. That only stopped when I put a captcha on that page.

The "merge proposal" is quite interesting actually.

Would you mind pointing a few articles where we can see that happening?