Slashdot Charity Buyers Donate Over $10,000 To the EFF

The Slashdot 10 Year Anniversary Charity Auction for the EFF is at an end and the numbers are in. We are still waiting for payment on one of the six items, but the grand total for the auctions is $9186.83. The big surprise was the anonymous reader who bought the Swag Bag AND the Low UID: he decided to donate an extra $1200 beyond his bids! Thanks to Daniel Peacock (who bought Hemos's burnt copy of Watchmen) and Michael Ravnitzk who bought Triton, the case of the first x86 that ran Slashdot in Feb 1998. He then turned around and told us to shelve it, to try to sell it again later. Instead he got a box of shirts. We're still waiting for payment on the email address, but hopefully nobody would be so crappy that they would scam a charity auction. And lastly, we would like to give special thanks to the University of Advancing Technology (here's a Coral Cache link) who paid $3,550.00 for that hyperlink you just read past. They wanted to express their support for Slashdot and for the EFF, and I think both of us appreciate it. Thanks to everyone who bid on items and congratulations to the winners. And the rest of you - don't feel bad that you missed it. You can always make a donation later - the EFF does good work. Tell them Slashdot sent you.

A view from a cynical bastard.

[iknownuttin]

I looked at the links and I didn't see any accounting of the money: how much received, how it was spent, how much for administration (a perfectly legitimate cost - BUT [see below]), etc....

I don't mean to make accusations, but where's the money going. I didn't see anything on the links.

Are the administrators buying Mercedes Benz's with their "pay"?

Just asking.

P.S. I have plenty of karma - don't be shy about modding me down. I'm using my karma for good - I think.

Re:Did low UID purchaser get a ## or ### ?

[jellomizer]

Eitherway I am going to discredit comments saying how you waisted your money by buying a Mac from anyone with a 2 or 3 didgit ID. Being they spent thousands of dollars on the ability to lie about being there before the rest of us.

Re:Damn

[OctoberSky]

You could have put in the meaning of life in that hyperlink, wouldn't matter, no one here reads the articles anyway.

Re:Anonomous Reader = netelder

[SpeedyDX]

They might have requested anonymity so people don't ridicule themabout paying for the low UID. Well, actually, it doesn't matter why they requested anonymity. The fact of the matter is that they did. It's a little rude to point out their account when they explicitly wanted to keep it hidden.

With all the concern about the right to remain anonymous on /., I don't see why you would purposely go out of your way to lift that veil off of someone else.

But hey, your curiousity is sated. What do you care. Mod me troll, mod me whatever you like. I think it was irresponsible and inconsiderate to do that.

Re:Damn

[sootman]

Agreed. Other problems:
- Someone finds a sarcastic joke unfunny and it gets modded "troll" or "flamebait."
- 3 people think I'm funny and I get a nice "+5, Funny" but one person thinks I'm not that funny and hits me with a "-1, Overrated." What crap. The guidelines say "focus on promoting, not demoting" but I don't think anyone reads those. Everyone just wants to form Slashdot into what they want to see, not realizing that it's (everyone hold hands now) all our differences that make Slashdot great. I see ideas and points-of-view here that I would never see in my own little world. (Usually by browsing at +3 early on.)

While they're at it, they need to add some new ratings like "-1, Factually incorrect."

Re:Damn

[Mr. Freeman]

Once moderation becomes non-anonymous, you'll end up with mod wars. Person X mods down person Y, person Y takes it personally and mods down all of person X's comments. This results in person X retaliating, a fuckload of emails to slashdot with the subject "MOD ABUSE!!", and every single user on slashdot is forced to sift though the comments themselves so see which are good and got modded down due to pissing contests, and which are bad and got left at 1-2 because all the mod points were used by people throwing their shit at each other.

This wouldn't fix the system at all, it would make it worse than useless.