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Post #84,278 by drewk 2/26/03 10:41:58 AM Reply	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. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #84,287 by inthane-chan 2/26/03 11:12:35 AM Reply	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. [link\|http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=editcomm\|http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=editcomm] "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
Post #84,290 by drewk 2/26/03 11:19:59 AM Reply	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. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.

OK, this got waaaaay out of hand. - (Andrew Grygus) - (86) - Feb. 23, 2003, 10:11:39 PM EST

dunno if I'd trust that scary lookin guy in the tie - (boxley) - (4) - Feb. 23, 2003, 10:15:57 PM EST

Doesn't everyone have an Evil Twin? -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - Feb. 23, 2003, 10:30:52 PM EST

No, I *am* my Evil Twin! ;-) -NT - (n3jja) - (1) - Feb. 23, 2003, 10:39:37 PM EST

That's what my Evil Twin accuses ME of -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 23, 2003, 11:02:31 PM EST

My Evil Twin is named Kevin. - (orion) - Feb. 23, 2003, 11:27:26 PM EST

I think you are right on in many areas - (orion) - Feb. 23, 2003, 11:38:58 PM EST

A Tour de Force {ugh} - (Ashton) - Feb. 24, 2003, 04:59:14 AM EST

Haven't had time to finish much of it yet but... - (ben_tilly) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:53:34 PM EST

Edits - (drewk) - (5) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:32:11 AM EST

saw another one - (SpiceWare) - (2) - Feb. 24, 2003, 09:46:03 AM EST

Some more... - (Another Scott) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:08:24 AM EST

Yeah - should be Pope Johns Pizza - (tuberculosis) - Feb. 24, 2003, 06:48:20 PM EST

Longer time deltas between updates, please. :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:42:20 AM EST

Sorry - (drewk) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:45:47 AM EST

Andrew, if I may - (cwbrenn) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 09:51:07 AM EST

It's open for linking . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:06:07 AM EST

Edits - (Silverlock) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:14:22 AM EST

Blanket thanks for the edits. - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:53:31 AM EST

Content question - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:06:08 AM EST

Rewritten. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 24, 2003, 07:44:08 PM EST

ICLRPD (one of many) - (boxley) - (3) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:07:59 AM EST

Don't know that you'd want to say that publicly - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:15:35 AM EST

This isn't news to them. - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:39:51 AM EST

Guess we're a thumb. - (inthane-chan) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:26:23 AM EST

Something I'm curious about... - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:25:19 AM EST

Two client's were not fixed in time because . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:57:30 AM EST

More edits (other post was getting *waaaaaay* out of hand ;) - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 12:53:57 PM EST

Dude... - (admin) - Feb. 24, 2003, 12:08:49 PM EST

Bad link. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 12:22:52 PM EST

Well, that's what happens when . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 24, 2003, 12:31:57 PM EST

Yet more - (drewk) - (12) - Feb. 24, 2003, 01:30:28 PM EST

Well, that's a good number of corrections . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (11) - Feb. 24, 2003, 01:38:43 PM EST

Like I said in the first post - (drewk) - (4) - Feb. 24, 2003, 02:01:46 PM EST

Yes, please keep it all together. - (tseliot) - (3) - Feb. 24, 2003, 02:14:43 PM EST

Once it got big I thought of breaking it up . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Feb. 24, 2003, 02:21:45 PM EST

Agree on the "single repository"; suggested Intro for others - (Ashton) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 05:21:24 PM EST

Send it to Kevin! - (drewk) - Feb. 25, 2003, 08:59:20 AM EST

One minor error in fact - (Steven A S) - (5) - Feb. 25, 2003, 03:24:00 PM EST

Speaking of which... TheInq story. - (Another Scott) - (4) - Feb. 25, 2003, 03:37:02 PM EST

Yes, I have read the German site . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - Feb. 25, 2003, 04:12:18 PM EST

You *used to* get it all for free by clicking "Weiter>>" (1) - (CRConrad) - (2) - Feb. 25, 2003, 04:58:12 PM EST

Never mind. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Feb. 25, 2003, 05:01:47 PM EST

Uh... No, I'm only on the second page... Wha?!? Noooo! - (CRConrad) - Feb. 25, 2003, 04:53:36 PM EST

couple of minor edits - (cforde) - Feb. 24, 2003, 07:34:58 PM EST

Okay, just one more I promise - (drewk) - Feb. 25, 2003, 09:08:24 AM EST

Well, now it's really getting out of hand. - (Andrew Grygus) - (20) - Feb. 26, 2003, 03:36:04 AM EST

Booyah! - (drewk) - (15) - Feb. 26, 2003, 08:49:54 AM EST

My impression is: rejection by /. is a positive - (Andrew Grygus) - (14) - Feb. 26, 2003, 10:35:43 AM EST

Used to be worthwhile until fairly recently - (drewk) - (2) - Feb. 26, 2003, 10:41:58 AM EST

A trick for /. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Feb. 26, 2003, 11:12:35 AM EST

Doesn't help much - (drewk) - Feb. 26, 2003, 11:19:59 AM EST

hits are coming in from slashdot.org now . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (9) - Feb. 26, 2003, 12:47:16 PM EST

I linked it in my sig - (drewk) - Feb. 26, 2003, 01:14:28 PM EST

Slashdot hits - must have been from rejectrion process. - (Andrew Grygus) - (7) - Feb. 27, 2003, 10:15:54 AM EST

What's the Linux Today link? -NT - (drewk) - (6) - Feb. 27, 2003, 11:04:24 AM EST

Here it is: - (Andrew Grygus) - (5) - Feb. 27, 2003, 11:40:07 AM EST

Yeah, just saw it - (drewk) - Feb. 27, 2003, 11:42:48 AM EST

I like ganesh's comment #8 in the talk back -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Feb. 27, 2003, 11:57:00 AM EST

Oh hey, didn't scroll down and see that, thanks -NT - (drewk) - Feb. 27, 2003, 12:02:39 PM EST

Meesa think, yousa gonna be FAMOUS. - (admin) - (1) - Feb. 27, 2003, 12:06:04 PM EST

Yep I agree - (jake123) - Feb. 27, 2003, 01:18:47 PM EST

Splooge for nerds, stuff that splatters - (deSitter) - Feb. 26, 2003, 04:16:20 PM EST

That might be my fault :-) - (ben_tilly) - Feb. 26, 2003, 07:50:12 AM EST

Re: Well, now it's really getting out of hand. - (deSitter) - Feb. 26, 2003, 04:21:52 PM EST

Blame Ben - (kmself) - (1) - Feb. 26, 2003, 11:59:10 PM EST

Went up on Linux Today - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 27, 2003, 04:51:53 AM EST

404s - (SpiceWare) - Feb. 27, 2003, 03:35:50 PM EST

Need updated link. 404 - Not Found - (n3jja) - (4) - Feb. 27, 2003, 07:02:08 PM EST

Not here either. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Feb. 27, 2003, 07:37:09 PM EST

fine here is $MS at work? -NT - (boxley) - Feb. 27, 2003, 07:56:28 PM EST

Found Register retraction / apology - (n3jja) - (1) - Feb. 27, 2003, 09:46:36 PM EST

Oh shoot - now I'll have to dig up another story . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 27, 2003, 11:33:20 PM EST

Oooff! I'm finally done . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (8) - March 2, 2003, 03:16:23 PM EST

Only complaint... - (kmself) - (2) - March 2, 2003, 03:49:39 PM EST

OK, I finally answered that one. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - March 2, 2003, 05:46:35 PM EST

(and that's just surfin the high spots ;-) -NT - (Ashton) - March 3, 2003, 12:04:05 AM EST

What Karsten said :-) -NT - (ben_tilly) - March 2, 2003, 04:09:43 PM EST

Just in time, too. - (inthane-chan) - (3) - March 3, 2003, 12:14:23 PM EST

Of course - (drewk) - (2) - March 3, 2003, 12:59:13 PM EST

Also note... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - March 3, 2003, 07:38:28 PM EST

Worth reading... - (admin) - March 3, 2003, 07:40:29 PM EST

It's on The Inquirer now. - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - March 4, 2003, 04:39:10 AM EST

Irony would be if Infoworld picked it up. - (Silverlock) - (1) - March 4, 2003, 09:07:46 AM EST

Wonder if slugbug has seen it yet? -NT - (boxley) - March 4, 2003, 09:27:12 AM EST

Bundeswehr banning MS software research flaw? - (admin) - (1) - March 4, 2003, 11:27:37 AM EST

I will look into that more. - (Andrew Grygus) - March 4, 2003, 12:22:25 PM EST

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