Slashdot Announcements/T-Shirt Contest Ends 50
First off, congratulations to Tom Lam
and Jim Sproull who are the
winners of the Slashdot T-Shirt Design contest. They each
get a $100 credit at CopyLeft.
The designs will be available in a few weeks (don't worry, we'll
announce them), and Tom, please email me an updated URL or your image
since your server seems to be down right now and your email is bouncing.
Second, I added
some new code in the User Preferences: Short Comment Penalty and
Long Comment Bonus. It allows you to +1 and -1 comments based
on their lengths- nice for filtering out "Me Too" kinda comments.
Finally, CowboyNeal,
Slashbox poo-bah has notified me that we now have Slashboxes
for
I, Cringely,
LilithFair.org,
Myther.com,
PBS Online,
Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast, and
Riva Extreme. So login and play with them if you are interested
in these things.
T-Shirt Designs (Score:1)
Re:Tshirt Design (Score:1)
Re:Now we can show the world! (Score:1)
Release early, Release often. (Score:1)
I don't think Rob & Co. really care about Slash being used in this manner. Atleast not enough to get a CVS server up an running with the Slash code. I think they care more about keeping Slashdot running and the content. I can't blame them, it is that which has made them rich, not the Slash engine itself.
Still I would really really really like to see Slash put on a CVS server. Then I could download it and tinker with it. It would be pretty cool to do an all hardware site with the slash engine. Or any number of other specialized topics.
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Slashdot stats! Damn it (Score:1)
Before adding more boxes fix the ones that are broken.
Leather? Think about what you're saying, man! (Score:1)
"'Me, Too' considered Harmful" Considered Harmful (Score:1)
Re:Tshirt Design (Score:1)
Tom Lam
Re:Slashdot stats! Damn it (Score:1)
Re:Tshirt Design (Score:1)
You might want to think twice [slashdot.org] about that..
MOSR slashbox (Score:1)
Me too! ;) (Score:1)
I regularly skip "windbag" posts. Thoughtful discussion is great, but when people post long, boring repetitious posts, well, I find that I just tend to pass them. We need to encourage people to post shorter, succinct posts, not longer ones. I don't know, maybe it's the intimidating length and mass of multiple paragraphs that gets me; when there are 200+ posts and replies to wade through on a particular subject, often it is the succinct one liner that cuts through the rhetoric, peircing through the tangle of words like a... a.. a big..umm....
(Aww hell, I was going to make my point by going on and on about this for four paragraphs, but I just don't have the heart.)
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wet /. (Score:1)
I would enter in a heartbeat! AND WIN! lol
Goddess help me seek the truth, but spare me the company of those who've found it.
Hall of Fame (Score:1)
Or, if you are too lazy:
http://slashdot.org/hof.shtml [slashdot.org]
Quantity != Quality (Score:2)
Quantity and quality are not the same thing. That's why they get their own words.
There are times when it is necessary to speak.
Re:Now we can show the world! (Score:1)
Re:filter this (Score:1)
AfterY2K's slashdot t-shirt contest (Score:1)
And the image is... (Score:1)
Now we can show the world! (Score:1)
Short and long comments? (Score:1)
Now we'll probably get a relly long list of "me too"s stringed together.
More slashboxes... (Score:1)
How about one for lwn.net/daily?
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Put Hemos through English 101!
Slash Box selection (Score:1)
Short comments are good, not bad (Score:2)
Comments are like functions. Too long and they become unreadable.
Yes, but... (Score:1)
Re:Where's the cheapest place to buy a hard disk? (Score:1)
Re:Short and long comments? (Score:1)
If you look in your preferences, you'll see two new options to customise. These are the +/- Rob was talking about. Basically, it's a per-user option, not a global thing, so don't worry.
Re:Now we can show the world! (Score:1)
Slashdot the breakfast cereal!
Slashdot the flamethrower! (I'd buy that)
John Casey
Gif Frobber
Andover.net
Re:Slash Box selection (Score:2)
And action figures and tacobell cups (Score:3)
The Hemos action figure comes with toy light saber and a tiny linux box*.
The JonKatz voodoo doll. 'nuff said
The CowboyNeal signature collection all leather riding outfit.
Slashdot merchandising, because Rob and Hemos aren't rich enough yet.
*Internet connection not included.
Re:Hall of Fame (Score:1)
pricewatch (Score:1)
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Reveal your Source, Unleash the Power. (tm)
Some suggestions (Score:1)
Though I like the system, it'd be nice if I can tell where it kicked in. Maybe you could change it so the point totals showed up like: "(2+1: Interesting)" or "(3: Interesting, Long Comment Bonus)" or somesuch. Maybe it's just me, but I'd prefer to know when somebody else liked (my) post and when it was just my preferences.
Characters (was: Short and long comments?) (Score:1)
'Me, Too' considered Harmful (Score:1)
~Anguirel (lit. Living Star-Iron)
"Veni; Vidi; Vi C++"
Re:How about some models (Score:1)
Tshirt Design (Score:1)
Jim Sproull
Hilarious! (Score:1)
Re:Code changes == cool!! (Score:1)
Yeah, right.
Do you think that if I came up with a site called Dotslash.org [slashdot.org] anyone would go? They'd try to split the market, and lose.
Maybe someone will make an unrelated site using slashdot's code, like a site discussion the creation and distribution of water pools, called www.Splashspot.org [slashdot.org], or a site discussing the saving of the Endagered Idaho Potatoe, called www.Mashstop.org [slashdot.org]
I think
Not quite... (Score:1)