Post #84,235
2/26/03 7:13:09 AM
2/26/03 8:49:54 AM
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Booyah!
Hope it's on a good server, I'm about to submit it to /.
[Edit] It was rejected. If anyone else wants to write it up, maybe you'll have better luck.
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Edited by drewk
Feb. 26, 2003, 08:49:54 AM EST
Booyah!
Hope it's on a good server, I'm about to submit it to /.
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Post #84,276
2/26/03 10:35:43 AM
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My impression is: rejection by /. is a positive
"Stuff that matters" to who?
True, I haven't even looked at /. for years, it just never seemed to me like anything I wanted to tolerate.
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Post #84,278
2/26/03 10:41:58 AM
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Used to be worthwhile until fairly recently
Worthwhile in the sense that there is an incredibly large readership that will eventually see and post just about everything. I've had my preferences set to only view posts at +5 for a while. That used to give me about four or five posts on each front-page article. A couple of months ago they apparently started giving out about 10 times the mod points, as just about every article now has over 20 +5 posts. On front-page articles 40 or more at +5 is now common.
IOW there's just too much noise now. But it is still a good place to post press notices of something you want to get a lot of traffic.
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Post #84,287
2/26/03 11:12:35 AM
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A trick for /.
You can assign bonuses/penalties for different type of mod points - to, for example, get rid of all 'funny' posts, it's very simple to assign them a -6 value, and that will drop them out of the lineup VERY quickly.
Hell, I hardly ever go into one of the articles, so I have no idea why I know this...
Damn, I just went looking through there, and they have some hardcore ranking modification stuff in there now.
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Post #84,290
2/26/03 11:19:59 AM
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Doesn't help much
Moderation used to be useful for keeping the total number of posts down. It used to work just about perfectly for me. To get back to the same usefulness, they'd have to allow posts to get modded higher, have more granular control of what I see. Now there is no difference between a moderately interesting post and a really worthwhile one: they're all +5.
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Post #84,305
2/26/03 12:47:16 PM
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hits are coming in from slashdot.org now . .
. . so someone put something up there. LWN is still in the lead.
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Post #84,309
2/26/03 1:14:28 PM
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I linked it in my sig
Always wondered if anyone followed that.
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Post #84,611
2/27/03 10:15:54 AM
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Slashdot hits - must have been from rejectrion process.
They all happened before 6:00am PST and there were no more during the day. So far, Linux today is leading with about 700 referrals (out of 1700 views of their posting).
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Post #84,617
2/27/03 11:04:24 AM
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What's the Linux Today link?
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Post #84,623
2/27/03 11:40:07 AM
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Here it is:
[link|http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-02-26-015-26-OS-BZ-MS| AAxnet.com: 2003 and Beyond]
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Post #84,626
2/27/03 11:42:48 AM
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Yeah, just saw it
I don't generally follow LinuxToday. I didn't realize it was just a quote and link, thought there might be some discussion of it. I was hoping to see what some people outside our little piece of the world thought of it.
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Post #84,630
2/27/03 11:57:00 AM
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I like ganesh's comment #8 in the talk back
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Post #84,633
2/27/03 12:02:39 PM
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Oh hey, didn't scroll down and see that, thanks
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Post #84,634
2/27/03 12:06:04 PM
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Meesa think, yousa gonna be FAMOUS.
It is a helluva read, Andrew.
I'd take the advice of Ganesh.
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Post #84,641
2/27/03 1:18:47 PM
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Yep I agree
... and thanks for the plug, Andrew.
/me having just finished his last midterm, has some time to relaaax. For a day or so.
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Post #84,350
2/26/03 4:16:20 PM
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Splooge for nerds, stuff that splatters
I've hated /. from t=0.
-drl
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