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Slashdot Launches User Achievements
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Wed Apr 01, 2009 08:28 AM
from the can't-believe-it-took-so-long dept.
from the can't-believe-it-took-so-long dept.
In a concerted effort to compete with more popular MMOs like World of Warcraft, we've decided to add an Achievement system to Slashdot. We've retroactively granted around 900,000 achievements to our logged in users. You can view them from your user page, or you can see my list if you're curious what a REAL achiever looks like. Many achievements have been sprinkled throughout the system and are awaiting discovery by dedicated Slashdot users, but a starter list of achievements is in the FAQ. I'll toss you one freebie: you can register your wow main for points if you're that kind of person.
Now go forth and achieve!
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Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Interesting)
Also, how are you computing the total number of Achievements? If you add up my achievements (and if I add the powers of two I get closer) but it doesn't come out to be the number you posted.
Also, if I have CmdrTaco's attention, why not leave this up? You've written the code for it and although it will certainly tax your database (default awards were handed out on different days) to update these values for everyone, why not leave it in place? Are you afraid this would increase karma whoring (it's in powers of 2 anyways) or produce negative effects?
For those of you without Warcraft characters, you add it to your user page and then it appears on the right of your user page as a hyper link to the armory (check out my user page). Then you get a +1 achievement with Level 80 (or I guess whatever level your main is) on your Achievements page.
Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought we were capped at Level 50.
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Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Funny)
There's going to be an expansion out soon, upping that to level 60.
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Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Funny)
Bah, everyone knows the real achievement is getting a frist post!
Except CmdrTaco. The one thing I'm actually proud of here and he leaves it out..
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Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Insightful)
I believe it's referred to as karma whoring here.
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Slashdot achievements (Score:5, Funny)
Get a first post
Link to goatse and get moderated +5
Get +5 troll
Get fired from a job for reading slashdot instead of working.
Start a new meme.
Be SO funny that someone spits coffee onto their monitor.
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Re:Slashdot achievements (Score:5, Funny)
posted here only for the april fools achievement, obviously.
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Re:Slashdot achievements (Score:5, Informative)
Obviously!
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Re:Slashdot achievements (Score:5, Funny)
So much for karma whoring... Now we'll have "achievement whoring". I want Pink Slashdot [goat.se] back! Whateva.
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Re:Slashdot achievements (Score:5, Funny)
- Make a "In Soviet Russia..." reference
- "Hot grits"
- Call someone a Nazi
- Use a car metaphor
- Actually read the article referenced
- Use "RTFA" in a reply
- Point out that the article is a dupe
- Get a dupe posted
- Mention that you are not a lawyer
- Point out a grammar or spelling error
- Flame a Windows/Linux fan boy
- Start a discussion that goes off topic for at least 5 generations deep
- Post a reply over 100 words long without using any punctuation and paragraphs.
- Reply to your own comment using a second account
Are there going to be Slashdot dailies also? "Get 100 karma points for reading 1 article from each of 10 different topics today."
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Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Funny)
My guess is its the Giant Sandworm from Arrakis "Shai Halud"
BTW I don't play WoW you insensitive clod!
Since its the first day of the fourth month please think of the poor children in Fargo who are unable to celebrate this 'holiday' with their teachers. (schools are closed due to the flood)
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Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, think of the poor children in Fargo who... ...live in Fargo.
Get out now, little ones! There's another world outside! And it doesn't shut down after 8pm!
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Remember Gmail? (Score:5, Informative)
Also, if I have CmdrTaco's attention, why not leave this up?
From the FAQ [slashdot.org]:
The achievements system was launched on April fools day of 2009 in order to allow for certain joke achievements, but the system itself is a real one. This allows Slashdot users to track accomplishments and milestones (and stroke the epeen, which is what it's all about anyway) as they use the site.
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Re:Remember Gmail? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Remember Gmail? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:4, Interesting)
I (and many many others) have an achievement [slashdot.org] called "The Maker" ... what does that mean? It's not listed in the FAQ.
I don't have that, so it's something you did that I didn't. Does that help?
You also got "The Contradictor". Any idea how you got that? And any idea how I got "The Tagger", considering I don't even know how to tag an article (I think you have to be a paid subscriber or something, which I'm not).
I'm beating you on the number of consecutive days of Slashdot reading. Wait, should I be proud of that?
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Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Informative)
But then you'd never get it because the achievement for getting all the achievements is part of the requirement for getting the achievement!
*head explodes*
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Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score:5, Insightful)
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[2. Trade] (Score:5, Funny)
Does this mean we've stopped doing the sack races? (Score:5, Funny)
This is a violation of my privacy. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is a violation of my privacy. (Score:5, Insightful)
So just do like everyone else, and don't log in unless you want to post. Then it won't know when "you" have visited unless you actually write something.
And if you do write something (not as AC), you've violated your own privacy, no not much right to whine there.
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Missing Achievements (Score:5, Funny)
* UID is a prime number. (no wouldn't get it myself, i'm a couple of digits off)
* Has been moderated (-1 troll) more than 5 times
* " " Flamebait " " etc
Any others?
Not the worst idea ever (Score:5, Insightful)
This isn't the worst idea I've ever come across but I can't help feeling it's walking down the idle route. I like achievements in games I'm not really sure they fit into a news discussion site. Still there's a good chance they won't be around tomorrow anyway.
Whatcouldpossiblygowrong (Score:5, Funny)
I've been a member for what...4 years now (Score:5, Funny)
No category for self discipline (Score:5, Funny)
Ding (Score:5, Interesting)
Don't mind me... on my way to achievement whoring.
Re:Very funny... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Very funny... (Score:5, Insightful)
Except, they didn't just throw a static "haha, gotcha" page up... Slashdot really has implemented this system.
They might not leave it up after today, but I don't know if you can call an actual, working system of award-tallying a proper "April Fools" hoax...
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Re:Come on (Score:5, Funny)
Not necessarily... Don't you remember OMGPONIES!
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Re:Come on (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Come on (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:The real question here is... (Score:5, Insightful)
Comedians are Funny. Be funny, and you can be a comedian.
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To be or not to be... (Score:5, Informative)
P.S. - Mods, this one is informative or you'll break the chain.
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Re:I'm....stumped... (Score:4, Funny)
Then how come I've gotten about 10 "page load error" messages this morning?
I figure the server was Slashdotted.
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Re:I'm....stumped... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:I'm....stumped... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Oh good god... (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly. For example, those less-than-six digiters now get in achievements to rub it in even more, as if the number accompanying their every post wasn't enough. :(
One day, I'll have a one-digit user ID. You all just wait.
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Re:bugged (Score:5, Interesting)
For a number of years I've wanted a slashdot greasemonkey extension called something like "slashback" which would restrict all comments to people with UID lower than your own, thus returning slashdot to the same user community that got you to sign up in the first place.
I tear up a little just thinking about it, of course not enough to actually write such a thing.
Maybe next year, Taco? And, please keep the achievements, I love them! I'll come back tomorrow and be logged in, I promise!
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Re:bugged (Score:5, Funny)
For a number of years I've wanted a slashdot greasemonkey extension called something like "slashback" which would restrict all comments to people with UID lower than your own, thus returning slashdot to the same user community that got you to sign up in the first place.
I'd respond to this, but unfortunately I can't see your post.
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Re:bugged (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:bugged (Score:5, Funny)
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No Such Luck, Sorry (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Dear slashdot (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh, come on... This is the least obnoxious Slashdot April Fool's so far. Do you want them to go back to the entire day being fake stories? Or OMGPonies!!!?
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Re:So ... (Score:5, Funny)
A new Firefox extension appears!
> Fight Spell
Item Run
Command?
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Re:ME ME ME! (Score:5, Funny)
ME TOO!
Oh, and in case anyone needs help getting the "Spend all my modpoints" achievement, I'd be happy to accept Funny mods. Here, I'll even tell a penguin joke.
I can has funny? :D
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