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apple.slashdot.org — "Anything interesting or useful that rears its head on Slashdot will likely be ripped to shreds by what has quickly become the nets most vicious and petty peanut gallery...."

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  • jessebs, on 10/12/2007, -32/+1292I believe the same is true w/ digg
    • nsummy, on 10/12/2007, -32/+1076Unfortunately it is 10x more true with Digg than with Slashdot. Don't get me wrong, I frequent Digg a lot more than slashdot, but if I want intelligent discussion on a posted subject, I always turn to slashdot. It might have something to do with their comment ranking system, but it seems like there are always good points made regarding subjects that are always interesting. Sure the site doesn't update as much, but then again I don't have to sift through a bunch of blogspam about iphone and mac predictions. The "problem" with digg is the same people who get the stories to the front page are the same ones commenting on it. Many times you will get stories that are inaccurate and false and the diggers will make it worse by adding their 2 cents which is also inaccurate and false. Just a thought...
    • WalkerBurgin, on 10/12/2007, -50/+104Agreed... on both accounts
    • SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -146/+24Thrice agreed.
    • InfamousAtheist, on 10/12/2007, -25/+71The same is probably true about most user-driven sites, but that was elegant, cruel, and hilarious all at once. I found it funny and would have LMAO'd no matter who the target was.

      "Don't become a regular here, you will become retarded." ROFL.
    • omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -9/+129I think the Slashdot comment modding system is a little less prone to personal opinion (but this is my personal opinion, of course). For instance, I always have the right to digg or bury people's comments on Digg, so I often digg people with whom I agree with, and bury people I disagree with, based solely on their stance, not the evidence or thoughtfulness of their comment. On Slashdot, I would actually mod people according to the accuracy of their comment, the evidence given, or humor or insightfulness (is that a word?), or whatever other mod labels they have. I would specifically avoid modding people according to my personal opinion, because... it seemed wrong somehow. I can't very well say "-1 for you, asshat, because you're full of *****", but on Digg, that's entirely possible (and even encouraged, given the "Bury, OK This is Lame" option).
    • Lyph4, on 10/12/2007, -10/+46If Digg had a better comment and moderation system, it would be much better. See what slashdot has spent years working on, and take it to the next level. Web 2.0 the hell out of it.
    • Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -2/+187"Unfortunately it is 10x more true with Digg than with Slashdot. Don't get me wrong, I frequent Digg a lot more than slashdot, but if I want intelligent discussion on a posted subject, I always turn to slashdot. It might have something to do with their comment ranking system, but it seems like there are always good points made regarding subjects that are always interesting. Sure the site doesn't update as much, but then again I don't have to sift through a bunch of blogspam about iphone and mac predictions. The "problem" with digg is the same people who get the stories to the front page are the same ones commenting on it. Many times you will get stories that are inaccurate and false and the diggers will make it worse by adding their 2 cents which is also inaccurate and false. Just a thought..."

      A good percentage of Digg comments also tend to consist of "OMG LOL!!!" or "PWNED" or running jokes on slashdot that people don't really understand, but spread around on Digg regardless. I find that in general, the crowd on slashdot tends to be more well-spoken, and hold opinions that I find more interesting or valid than the general trends I see on Digg. Could be that Slashdot never carries stories about girlfriends getting dumped on the radio or guys getting hit in the nuts with rocket skateboards.
    • Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -14/+80"I believe the same is true w/ digg"

      Especially the part about Macs.
    • WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -6/+146@lyph4
      "Web 2.0 the hell out of it."

      Oh No! You Didn't!
      I've never heard anyone use the dubious concept of 'Web2.0' as a VERB!
      You should get Linuxed for that.
    • ipodsweatshop, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42The user-run nature of Digg automatically lowers the standard of anything on the front page due to the "Ooohhhh shiny!!!!" nature of the average person. Why do you think a "tips for linux n00bs" story hits the frontpage every few days or the 1,000,000,000,000,000th "Everyone must love Ipods but hate DRM and the RIAA!!!!" article?

      Most of the people reading and commenting are helpdesk nerds waiting for the next hapless non-nerd to call with a printer problem so they can make annoyed noises at the person because they refuse to give admin access and this person can't fix anything on their own even if they could. On Digg, they get to submit crap too. Slashdot at least filters the stories on their own and then lets the helpdesk crew ruin everything.
    • wreckingcru, on 10/12/2007, -42/+36I disagree. The reason I moved over to Digg from /. as a primary tech news source, was the exact reason listed in that comment.
      /. is full of Mac nazis who will jump onto the slightest bit of anti-Mac commentary with (-1, spam/troll) and eventually get you banned for commenting (like I was). Even if the story said "Bill Gates eats babies..blah blah", if you even TRIED to comment "hey, this is stupid/overblown/not true", watch the geeks bombard you with insults and nonsense that is (mostly) tangential and unrelated.

      Digg is almost equally balanced on right-wing (Mac/PC) and left-wing (PC/Mac) - however you prefer to lean it - blowhards. As a result, reading Digg comments on a particulary polarizing story can lead to some fairly good insight (given that you are willing to keep an open mind abt the story, however you personally feel about it).

      /. has become mostly irrelevant - as proven by that cartoon on Digg yesterday that illustrated the various social news websites (I think it went "hey, it's me /., look at me!").
    • lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -8/+101Is this internet nerd self hate day?
    • ThePict, on 10/12/2007, -23/+5I nominate nsummy's comment as the Best Digg Comment Evar.
    • solemnraven, on 10/12/2007, -20/+92I totally ***** that guys mom.
    • rancemo, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1Thanks, digger guy!
    • mcduckov, on 10/12/2007, -5/+113Slashcode allows for comment filtering that makes Digg's "forums" look like a kindergarten project.

      First, hate trolls and stupid comments? Set your filter at +1--this removes most ACs and trolls.

      Second, give a +1 to any user with good karma and -1 to any user with bad karma. This will help filter out the people who go from good one day to trolling the next.

      Third, bump your friends up +2 and your foes down -2.

      Fourth, give a +1 to all insightful, interesting or informative posts.

      Fifth, give a -2 to all posts under 40 bytes (goodbye 'me too' comments!)

      Sixth, tweak for personal taste, all these settings (and more) are customizable.

    • flazz, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5agreed, but to clarify why one would I and probably others use digg instead of slashdot:
      Slashdot has an edge with more intelligent comments.
      digg has the edge with having less wankers.
    • BigW, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Actually, I'd modify your post to say.

      I believe the same thing is more true with digg.

      I've been on /. a long time and its devolution in the comment space has been going on at a much slower pace than seems to be happening here at digg.
    • notjamt9000, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46This greasemonkey script allows you to easily create typical digg comments:
      http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7714

      screenshot: http://personales.ya.com/casitasoler/james/diggcomment/diggcommentpic.png
      Direct link: http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/7714.user.js
    • Ibanezfoo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15What do you expect from a bunch of highschool kids?
    • Ryanxv1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+58@lyph4
      "Web 2.0 the hell out of it."

      Let's get some rounded corners on this bitch
    • kcpwnsgman, on 10/12/2007, -6/+56next on slashdot, the best digg comment ever...

      "I saw a girl once"
    • JesseDidThis, on 10/12/2007, -18/+1+ 258 diggs?

      Where are all these people that agree?
    • PersonX2, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4@ linkedlist

      "I can say '***** you' to a total stranger online, I wouldn't do it off line."

      thats because you're a pansy-ass pussy....of course I wouldn't say that "off-line"
    • superKduper, on 10/12/2007, -13/+22DIGG == Slashdot. Except the average age is probably about 15 or 16 instead of 20-21. That's because Kevin Rose appeals to the "Teeeny Boppers"
    • rookkoss, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3"Don't become a regular here, you will become retarded."

      LOL COMMA SPLICE!
    • surgen, on 10/12/2007, -17/+4@superKduper
      You said "DIGG == Slashdot", surely you meant that DIGG = Slashdot, no?
      Digg == Slashdot is a test, while Digg = Slashdot is a statement. I believe this confusion where people try to insert a test stems from the fact that != (which is used in test cases) but is also decent alternative for =/= , as it can't even be recreated on a computer correctly (unless there is a Unicode char I'm unaware of, but even then, you can't use Unicode everywhere).
    • AkatsukiNoTobi, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1This sounds like what a modern Cicero would say. (I'm studying Cicero's Catilinarian Orations in Latin III right now.)
    • daxsymbiont, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2at least here it's obvious. the voting system is brilliant. if you're hated you're down, if not, up. simple and elegant. /.'s system of metamodding and rare voting points is witch hunt by idiots that spend 24/7 on a single domain.
    • vp0ng, on 10/12/2007, -4/+36There is not much discussion on Digg.
      Mostly hundred of comments which generally fall into some variety of one of the following statements:

      1. That's cool!
      2. That sucks!
      3. You suck!
      4. DUPE!
      5. Buried for typo!
      6. Photo or it didn't happen!
    • verifex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Digg is a glorified echo-chamber. Slashdot is still a chamber, but there is less echo in there, simply as the number of people visiting Slashdot is less then Digg, but the quality of people is higher there then it is here (in terms of wit and actual knowledge of a subject), simply because there are less overall users there, and the users who are there are more 'nerd' as the subtitle "News for nerds" implies. Digg makes no assumptions about it's users, and therefore has a very diverse userbase, however diverse also means whatever conversation we have gets boiled down the least common denominator between all of us. The normalizing effect of thousands of people moderating has a very negative impact on overall conversation quality.
    • robdazomba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Sites like Slashdot and Digg start out great but once they become the "in place" online and draw the script kiddies and the wannabe haxx0rs, they start to suck big time. I watched it happen to Slashdot (although their moderation system is still far superior to Digg's and weeds out the crap a lot more efficiently) and Digg is currently succumbing to it too. I'm sort of disappointed, but it humors me that Digg users constantly take cheap shots at Slashdot for the things Digg is also guilty of.
    • quakenul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I guess Digg and Slashdot are no different to any other place in this matter. From any given persons perspective most other people *are* ***** and the only funny thing is that mostly everyone agrees on that. Why that is so, I don't know -- I really wished it wasn't true for me but I sadly can't say that.
    • Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8>"This sounds like what a modern Cicero would say. (I'm studying Cicero's Catilinarian Orations in Latin III right now.)"

      Cicero flamed sometimes too. Here's an exact quote from his Second Philippic Against Antony:

      "Sleep off your hangover -- breathe it out. Perhaps a torch ought to be administered to bring you out of your snoring over this far from unimportant matter. ... Concentrate please -- just for a little. Try to make your brain work for a moment as if you were sober. ... What is the matter? I am not embarassing you am I? For I doubt if you are quite competent to grasp the sort of dilemma in which this places you."

      He would fit right in on Internet message boards!
    • foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2How about an IQ test to join Digg?
      Or IP ostracism!
    • robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4@Wreckingcru

      "/. has become mostly irrelevant - as proven by that cartoon on Digg yesterday that illustrated the various social news websites (I think it went "hey, it's me /., look at me!")."

      Using your logic, I'm guessing you use the Sunday comics as your higher learning, you know, since they prove everything.

      You are irrelevant, retard.
    • ts8lemonade, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14I miss the days when digg was tech oriented.
    • OwdenBowden, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I think the only thing that was forgotten in this beautiful rant is that Cmd Taco is a Jack off who takes it up the ass. Other than that - I think it was a masterpiece and right on the money.
    • appleswitch, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2ugh... yea, everyone who visits this website is stupid and young and are not good at other things... also they are immature and stuff, and they are pathetic, and they are low...

      ( am I doing it right? I can't wait to get dugg up! If you digg me up, you can pretend your on my side and we're shining beacons of hope among the masses! despite the fact that my comment it grossly popular, quick! don't use logic! just digg me up and join my blind pedestal of pretentiousness! )
    • dbora, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I once explained the difference between Slashdot (which I rarely frequent) and digg (I'm on all the time) like this: Slashdot is where the grownups hang out. (I'm rapidly approaching 40)

      Edit: And there, someone ended their sentence with "retard." Need I say more?
    • jo42, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Like I've been saying "Digg is full of DiggIdiots."
    • Sms4001, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1so out of all you people saying how amazing and great this guy is.. nobody bothered to even mention how he still says "skillz" instead of skills? I smell a conspiracy.
    • idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Best /. thread ever:
      http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/08/180205
      Scroll down.
    • Volatile, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I've been waiting forever for somebody to finally say this and have it get recognized.
    • shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@verifex lets test that.

      ECHO!
    • tuningproblem, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@ notjamt9000: Is there a greasemonkey script to remove any submission that includes "family guy" and "funny"
    • tamrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I guess you have to agree with him or you will be labeled as the typical slashdotter/digger, right?

      So just reading over most of the peoples comments i have found most of you agree with what he says. I take it that most of the people here are the typical slashdotters/diggers, so to not be a slashdotter/digger i would have to disagree with that comment.

      So i disagree with it completely and believe that there are many comments on slashdot that are intelligent and have a great points.

      So when you think about it, you guys are only slamming down yourself by saying how dumb you slashdot/digg comments are. You guys are such the typical slashdotters/diggers and you are proving that clearly by agreeing with this comment.
    • AZNL473ncy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why are Diggers always throwing mud at the /.'ers?

      Remember last time with /. crashing because it went over it's comment threshold?
    • kjinx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I remember the days before the web (yes I really am THAT old) online discourse took place in "newsgroups". There came a point where the unwashed masses began to flood into the groups (specifically because of the growing AOL population) and everyone was !outraged! at the lack of n-etiquite and civility. I still feel now like I always have --- "This is what free speech looks like folks" ... don't whine about it .. it's BEAUTIFUL ..... that's right, in all it's crass ugliness, it is beautiful .... cherish the stupid, uninformed and downright asinine comments peeps, freedom is a wonderful and rare thing. It's hard to appreciate the lack of it when you've always had it. A lot of people died so the *****-wads of the world can have a voice. So please, *****-wads of digg, please respond to this post and make me proud and thankful.
  • matthendrix, on 10/12/2007, -9/+99His comment supports John Gabriel's most excellent "Greater Internet ***** Theory" http://www.bscene.com.au/greater-internet-*****-theory.jpg


  • jrob, on 10/12/2007, -12/+43meh ive seen better on /.
  • rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -122/+44I work for slashdot; So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you don't know about the topic....Don't make yourself sound like you do. Cos some diggers believe anything they hear.
    • Anrkist, on 10/12/2007, -6/+95Please refer to this part "They lie about their own experience to make their case", Mr. /.
    • devolved, on 10/12/2007, -3/+105"I work for slashdot" ... "Cos some diggers believe anything they hear."

      I applaud you, sir, for your subtlety. (polite, golf-like clap)
    • jaredseth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Moving Fark cliches to digg? And there's still no cure for cancer?
    • borchard76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I see someone also frequents fark.com

      And I'm beaten to it by _jaredseth_.

      The point is, I think that most of these sites share a large common base of readers. Thus what applies to one probably applies to another. Slashdot and Kuro5hin have the best comment systems, and slashes new system is even better.

    • KyleRayner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+73Hey, I work for Slashdot also. Now step into my office. Why? Because youre ***** fired.
    • itsme7g, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Hey at least some of us got it rompom.
    • Samus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2i get it now :)))
    • profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Ah. I see what you did there.
    • Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -7/+34The problem with Digg and Slashdot isn't because their stupid, It's because they're kids.

      They have arrogent childlike qualities and where they can't find fault with an argument, they find fault with grammer.

      That's the thing with teens however, eventually their opinions will change as they grow up and see the real world.

      Part of the problem is the fact that when you see kids, you dismiss their comments because they are so small. On the internet however you can't say "no sprogs under this height".
    • HisTumness, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50"They have arrogent childlike qualities and where they can't find fault with an argument, they find fault with grammer."

      You mean grammar.
    • millyuns, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@Philluminati
      Looks like you caught one but not a very smart one. Better throw him back.
    • aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2@rompom7

      You work for slashdot? I'm guessing you came to digg for the jobs section and stumbled across this article.
    • Klaumbaz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@jaredseth

      Its just a streetlight.
  • emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18by vicious and petty peanut gallery, you're referring to digg I presume
  • santo71, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38replace "slashdot" with the name of virtually any other online forum and the same commentary still applies.

    the universal issue with the whole mess, is unfortunately, the loose nut behind the keyboard.
  • seandfeeney, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1He speaks the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me Slashdot... and digg!
  • Backwards2, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3The difference between Slashdot and Digg is Slashdot has editors who COULD fact check, but don't. Especially if they have an opportunity to slander someone whom they disagree with. Right Chris DiBona?
  • Coldstreak, on 10/12/2007, -7/+66The only problem I have with digg is how comments get dugged up or down.

    Intelligent, well thought out posts should be dugg up regardless of the opinion of the poster.

    Instead, posts get dugg down if the majority disagrees with said opinion, regardless of the validity of the argument. Its quite tiresome seeing well-laid out arguments dugg down so quickly.
    • h00paj00, on 10/12/2007, -3/+53That's the problem with mob rule.

      When 20 people in the crowd can out yell the lone speaker... Everyone loses.
    • babaki, on 10/12/2007, -30/+6yes, i totally agree. diggin down comments is a bad idea. if people disagree with your opinion, it gets hidden. that nonsense.
    • natenovs, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9im going to digg you down for fun.
    • ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I think another major issue is that we have two options UP and DOWN - we cant mod something INSIGHTFUL or FUNNY or INTERESTING, etc.

      So its either - I agree or I disagree - there isn't any room for anything else
    • Nonchalant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Yes, mob rule mentality is the purest form of democracy - which is why our nation is NOT a democracy.

      Remember, a lynch mob is democracy, too.
    • verifex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12On Slashdot there is moderator accountability. They have something called "Meta-moderation" which is essentially when peers evaluate the moderators decisions individually. Plus Slashdot has karma, so if you are a jerk, your comments will start out at 0 or less. Slashdot rewards intelligent discussion, digg rewards idiotic knee-jerk reactionary posts. I've said this over and over again, but Digg needs to change the "first comment" thing, so that the comment system is not so focused on "first come first served". The "sort by date" filter has basic threading, "sort by most diggs" does not have any threading.

      PLEASE DIGG, ADD MORE COMPLEX COMMENT THREADING SYSTEM!
    • BigCalhoun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I'd agree except that it takes half a second to view a buried comment and another half a second to understand how it ended up in that disposition in the first place.
    • kelbear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@bubaki

      If you're wondering why you're being dugg down while the two posts above you said the exact same thing got dugg up...

      The reason is because the two posts above you said the exact same thing.

      If you have nothing useful to add, don't add anything. And the majority of people have nothing useful to add, which is fine and natural. Taking up space with "I agree" decreases the signal to noise ratio of the internet. Speaking only when your words have purpose increases the significance of the times that you do speak. You don't need to be embarassed either, everybody learns this lesson on their own at their own pace; it's just that the faster the population learns this, the less bloat there'll be on the internet.
    • po43292, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree.
  • Bahimiron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Man, anyone who thinks Slashdot is bad has never spent any time reading the World of Warcraft forums.

    If internet forums are where empathy and humanity go to die, the WoW forums are the shallow grave where they're buried and eventually eaten by coyotes.
    • digitalarcanum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0You're delusional if you think World of Warcraft is anywhere near as bad as the original hive of scum and villainy on the internet: the 4chan.org /b/ forum. Humanity is a wasteland. Morals are discarded. Welcome to 4-chan. ***** or GTFO.
  • guitarromantic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+77I've been seeing this doing the rounds on Reddit, del.icio.us, Slashdot itself, and now Digg. It's almost 5 years old. Let's get over it. I post on Slashdot and have Excellent karma and moderate pretty regularly. It wasn't too hard to get that karma, I just posted good comments and the system did its work.

    If we're criticising the commenting policy of tech sites, let's not ignore Digg. The lack of multiple threading in comments means that people try to reply to the first comments knowing it will put their responses higher on the page. Because everyone can moderate comments, it means that comments at the top get hypermoderated, because Average Joe User sees "oh, this first comment has been dugg 42 times, I better digg it too!" and you end up with a hugely overrated score. What I like about Slashdot is that a) you only get five mod points and b) a comment can only get a maximum of 5 points. This system means that you value your mod (or "digg") points much more and use them to promote worthwhile stuff rather than digging (or undigging) something purely because everyone else did.

    I realise that Slashdot has its faults too; notably that everyone tends to be Linux zealots and often like to think they know much better than you on whatever the issue of the day is. Likewise though, I always wonder what will happen to my comments on digg since there's every possibility a well-intended post could end up with -50 diggs because a few people didn't like it and everyone else committed groupthink.

    People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, ya dig(g)?

    EDIT: and look, the first two comments here have 80 diggs and 59. Below that it drops off to almost 2 or just 1 digg per comment. See my point?
    • Bahimiron, on 10/12/2007, -19/+4No one will ever see your point, because we're going to digg you down now.

      The system is corrupt!
    • powerpants, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've been thinking about this very problem and I think two changes might help the digg system:
      1) Arbitrarily deep reply threads.
      2) Shuffle the order of the threads.
    • kelbear, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I've wanted the shuffled thread order as well. It'll reduce worthless "first post!" (or the thinly veiled "first post!" comments that have no substance since the article wasn't read.) comments.

      Also, when moderating on /. I notice that the top threads are constantly modded up because everybody reads from the first to the last. I've made some pretty mediocre comments, or sometimes I'm simply asking a question, and it gets modded to +5 only because more moderators saw it and eventually those with extra points to spare threw them my way.

      It also encourages comments since there's a higher likelihood of late comments still being read after being shuffled to the top.
  • tont0r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+88Atleast on slashdot I wont see a post saying 'BEST DIGG COMMENT EVER!'
    • CatalystDM, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6zOMG BEST COMMENT EVER! I SAY TAHT ALL THE TIME TO MY FRIENDS WHEN I'M AT eLEMENTERY ShCOOL UM... U ROKK!!!1
  • booozeninja, on 10/12/2007, -22/+6pffft what a ***** article. the same is true of this place you dumb *****.

    its just the NEW flavor-of-the-week news site (digg) sticking it to the OLD king of news sites (/.) in an attempt to paint itself as superior. both "communities" suck balls. its all about advertising revenue so get ***** one and all.
    • surgen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Very true, but who are you trying to call a dumb *****? The guy who submitted this to digg after seeing it on reddit?
  • ETHANOPIA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43The most important thing about slashdot is that they do get substantial amount of very intelligent people who have very specific knowledge about a very specific subject. There are a lot of scientists and researchers who follow it, and they comment pretty regularly about some really cool stuff. But you have to wade through the idiots to get to the good stuff.

    This is true of life in general as well, its mostly populated with idiots, the goal is filtering those people out and concentrating on the good folks.
    • AlmostEvil, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Why was he dugg down?

      He's got a very valid point. When was the last time you saw John Carmack post on digg?
    • Crispin, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4If you think that half the people claiming to know anything on /. are actually intelligent and not just people who are quick with google and wikipedia then I'm an architect and a salesman, and there's this bridge I just built...
    • Locke2053, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8You get all sorts of industry-leading minds posting to slashdot. If you set your filter to +3, then you get to see the good stuff without all the ***** posts (like most on digg).

      The only other site with real celebrity posters is fark. It has Will Wheaton (Wes Crusher from Star Trek).

      Face it. Slashdot is the only site on the web where meaningful tech-discussion is even possible.
    • mrhaines, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Agreed...story of life.
    • surgen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14@Crispin
      If someone on /. doesn't know his *****, but hits google and wikipidia to see if his opinion is valid before commenting, there is some intelligence to that person. I admire anyone who checks the validity of their point before spewing their ***** unto the world.
    • Crispin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Surgen, Google and wikipedia do not make you an instant expert on a subject. Most of the posters on /. (or anywhere on the internet really) depend on you not noticing that and try to pass themselves off as much more important than they really are.
  • civperc, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1truth be told, I stopped visiting slashdot months back and am glad I did.
  • h00paj00, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1!firstpost
  • dynamojoe, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8i couldn't read it. It's below my current threshhold.
    • CZzyzx41, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5If you're trying to bait a "what threshold? First Grade?" comment out of me it won't work.



      DAMN!
  • krc1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27My favorite comment was from someone that didn't care for the new beige Slashdot IT theme:

    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=116003&cid=9818444


    Re:Old News Indeed
    (Score:5, Funny)
    by Anonymous Coward on 09:39 PM -- Tuesday July 27 2004 (#9818444)

    I dunno, it's kind of an achievement, "Radioactive Beige". Until now, no color scheme had ever acheived simultaneous DayGlo and Drab. By rights, it just shouldn't be possible. Yet there it is, making my eyes scream and my ears bleed. BEIGE BEIGE BEIGE BEIGE BEIGE.

    THE BEIGE OF A DAMNED ELDER GOD YEARNING TO ENFOLD YOU IN THE HORRIBLE CLUTCHES OF ITS CLOYINGLY INSIPID YET AGGRESSIVELY MALEVOLENT TINT.

    Not the merely mortal 70s beige of the hospital waiting room, nor the beige of thick yet laddered tights concealing the varicose veins of the embittered nurse in attendance in the waiting room, nor yet the beige of the liver spots on the back of the crabbed hands of the coughing patient in the waiting room. IT IS THE BEIGE OF THE END TIMES. THE BEIGE THAT CONSUMES ALL.

    All worldly beige is a mere shadow of the HORROR THAT IS SLASHDOT IT SECTION RADIOACTIVE BEIGE.
  • serth, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0This is true about alot of community websites that allow comments to be posted.


    Hilarious, but true, which is turn making it more hilarious.
  • ScoobyG, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6I didn't think it was that funny. I've seen a lot funnier on both digg and slashdot.
  • Raian, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4That is why I don't use Slashdot anymore-- everyone pissing their pants over the dumbest of topics-- at least here you can be irreverent and not get beat up about it.
    • Crispin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Don't forget: Everything on /. boils down to a car analogy.
  • chubbymidget, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Whats Slashdot? Why would you command a taco?
    • Userfaulty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@chubbymidget

      "Whats Slashdot? Why would you command a taco?"

      I can think of a couple reasons I would want to command a taco! GIGGITY!

      I used to frequent /. a bit before I found digg. Digg is better to just find random useless information while /. is more for high tech/science "discussions".
  • katanaswordfish, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Best way to make use of the internet and sites like digg & slashdot?

    Don't read comments. You know you don't have to scroll down and look at the comments!
    Listen, people are intentionally going to make comments that they know will make others want to argue with them.
    imagine this situation if you will.

    digg.com : story (New Breakthrough in Linux Distribution [...]! Great News for Linux Fans!!!)
    comment : "wow ur all retarded! any1 who uses linuks sux cause [my favorite operating system] is way better!!111!! fahgz! lol"

    Face it, this occurs everywhere within the internet. From any and all user based websites to video submission sites to online games. The fact is, there are a lot of people on the internet, which equates to a lot of different (dare i say opposing?) opinions on just about every topic possible. But its just like the real world, and when people are being total douchebags for no reason, the best course of action is to just stay away from them.

    What i'd like to get across is:
    I don't let real-world assholes ruin my day, or my experience with a certain person/place/thing.
    AND I don't let internet assholes ruin my experience with a certain site/service/game.

    I tend to stay away from comments on digg unless i want to post one, and if i do see something i disagree with, i dont bother digging it down or making a argumentative response. Theres just no point. I use digg to see interesting stories and links, thats all, and im not going to let some ***** in a pseudo-forum ruin that.
    • tnwake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"I tend to stay away from comments on digg unless i want to post one, and if i do see something i disagree with, i dont bother digging it down or making a argumentative response. Theres just no point."

      Actually there is a point.. it's the main point of this, or any other, SOCIAL news site to discuss stories. If you stay away from comments and don't make use of the digg up/down feature, then why get your news from digg instead of from CNN, MSNBC, Google News, etc.? The whole reason I read news on digg is to discuss it. If I don't feel like discussing news then I go somewhere else to get it.
    • kelbear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Digg and /. are social sites, they just use the news to provide topic material. On /. I tend to read comments first, and only go back to the article if I decide I want to post something, don't understand a reference, or the comments describe the article as being interesting material. And the criticisms on /. promote proper inspection of what you say. If your post there isn't solid, it gets chewed to bits in the replies, so this reduces talking-out-the-ass somewhat. On Digg I don't really care since it has a much more casual atmosphere.
  • tnwake, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4After taking a look I have to say /. is not near as ugly as it used to be, but I still don't like it. To me digg is much easier to navigate and read than the full pages of extra white space, jumbled comments and non-intuitive links on /. That's just me.
    • tont0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12its called multithreaded comments. its nice when you dont have to 'reply' to the parent when you really want to reply to someone half way down the comments.
    • tnwake, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2"its called multithreaded comments. its nice when you dont have to 'reply' to the parent when you really want to reply to someone half way down the comments."

      Yeah, I just don't like the design on /. compared to digg. I think this site, and others, are a lot more fluid and easy to browse. It's not that I couldn't get used to it, but why should I when there are other sites that are more appealing to my taste?
    • hansonc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14how is Digg even remotely easier to read than Slashdot? This crappy giant single thread crap should have ended years ago but this new fangled Web 2.0 site couldn't even get that right. It's like using a flat text file for comments around here.
    • tnwake, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1"how is Digg even remotely easier to read than Slashdot?"

      Sometimes simple really is better. I'll agree that /. is cooler to look at from a visual perspective, but for readability I'd take digg any day.
    • wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Unfortunately, the multithreaded contents tend to get out of hand on /. On many of the topics there are so many daughters and daughters of daughters, etc that I can't figure out what the hell somebody is actually replying to. Also, given this, thread hijacking is incredibly common.
    • surgen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Are you ***** kidding me? Digg's website easier to read than slashdot? Slashdot is fine, even the old slashdot was fine. Or are you "lolmg web2.0!" people who never have to use websites like this: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator/ were there are no rounded corners and gradient heavy graphics but is still a great information source?
    • SatNav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Or are you "lolmg web2.0!" people who never have to use websites like this: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator/ were there are no rounded corners and gradient heavy graphics but is still a great information source?"

      Wow, someone should make that website into a wiki or something
  • bouche, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8best ever = instant inaccurate.
    • gingernut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't know why you are being dugg down. You're absolutely right.
  • DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0This thread is diggity. Dugg.
  • tnwake, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2digg down
  • lokalhost, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Comments aside, the best sig I've seen on slashdot was: "I set my homepage to MSN search with the default query of 'how to replace office with openoffice and firefox'" Cracked me up for some reason.
  • hal2814, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3You guys aren't even close. This list of Gizmondo packages is far and away the best Slashdot comment I've ever seen:

    Link: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=165803&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=13831733

    The $399 version "allows you to turn off" ads.

    The $229 version forces you to watch them.

    The $179 version randomly spews profanity and flatulence sounds at high volumes.

    The $149 version kicks your shins and sheds asbestos.

    The $99 version calls your girlfriend and tells her you never loved her, then puts out a mafia hit on you.

    The $49 version only shows episodes of 'Caroline in the City', and is glued permanently to your face.
  • grandpajesus, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3boring...welcome to the internet idiot.
    it is like this everywhere online.
  • drmobutu, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6oh please, digg is way more petty and stupid than slashdot, ever since yahoo closed down its disussion boards.
  • beercosoftware, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0bury
  • poonaka, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3dug cause it's true
  • SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3At least /. doesn't report things that happened almost three years ago as offbeat NEWS.
  • Lark7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Digg: Where people go to comment on posts about comments on posts on Slashdot.
  • mrhaines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah...maybe this wisdom of the masses thing was a mistake. Turns out, the masses are a bunch of raving lunatics.
    • FearlessFreep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just remember that 50% of all people are below average.

      And the top 50% probably have something better to do with their time anyway...
  • farksucksmasack, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2As bad as you think either /. or Digg are, try Fark. Basement dwelling mods that willy-nilly go on ban rampages cause you said, "fat chicks are gross" in a post and the mod themselves are fat chicks. The great thing about Digg and to a lesser extent, /., are that the value of the comments are created by the users. Fark has a voting system, but it's just self-masturbation. It's only available to the people that pay cash for the "priviledge" and doesn't matter in the scheme of what makes it onto the front page, or as the TF guys call it, Liter-Land.

    Digg is great for this feature. Unfortunately, Fark had jumped the shark now that Drew is making cash off his cow, the community has gone south BIGTIME.
    • AllnightChemist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@farksucksmasack (hey, you've been on digg for almost a week! Way to go!)

      Fark still has photoshop contests. Those threads are always more interesting than Digg threads (especially the ones where everyone argues pointlessly about politics.)
  • codmate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Replace 'Slashdot' with 'The Internet' and the post still applies.

    Is it a sad indictment of human nature?
    I don't know.
    I hope one day we can evolve better ways of dealing with each other.
  • Jack9, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I happen to be a professional programmer and have been for over 10 years. Most of my /. friends are also, since I've worked with them in the past or engaged them in productive discussion. This post is just plain wriong to claim that /. denizens are know-nothings that do nothing. Marked inaccurate.
  • superKduper, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18If you weren't aware of it before, you probably know it by now. Anything interesting or useful that rears its head on DIGG will likely be ripped to shreds by what has quickly become the nets most vicious and petty peanut gallery.

    DIGGers know nothing, they accomplish nothing, and their opinions are worth nothing. They are uniformly bitter, small-minded geeks who overestimate their own importance and their own skillz. They are, for the most part, losers. Their biggest accomplishment is in insulting others' spelling and grammar, attacking the GPL license despite their grade level understanding of it, and tricking people into clicking on goatse.cx links. They are know-it-all blowhards who use their computers primarily for Pornography and online gaming, at which they cheat regularly to offset their complete lack of motor skills.

    Despite touting the wonderous greatness of linux and open source, they all use Windows and Internet Explorer. They like Macs because of OSX, but want it to run on X86 so they can steal a copy and give nothing back. They will eventually buy a Mac due to their inability to run Windows without crashing it constantly by their own stupidity, and become raving unbalanced lunatics who do more harm than good for the Mac community by claiming that the G4 is quadruple the speed of a dual 3Ghz Xeon box.

    They lie about their own experience to make their case, and when you win an argument with them, they post anonymously in order to tell you they've had sex with your mother.

    Don't become a regular here, you will become retarded.
  • funkspiel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1You don't like it, try two Dixie cups and a string.
  • maddendude, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2That basically sums up the internet.
  • t35t0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@Waterdragon: "You should get Linuxed for that."

    wtf is that supposed to mean, huh?
  • FearlessFreep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Anybody notice that the given Slashdot post is from Nov 4th 2002??
  • TheToecutter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I hate to say this, but...Digg has more people, /. had more intelligence.

    But the internet now is all about quantity, not quality.
    • AllnightChemist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Agreed. If slashdot moved faster, I'd frequent digg a lot less. But my appetite for something new every ten minutes cannot be sated. (Although, "faster" seems to mean promoting more blogspam.)
    • lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Their firehose feature would be nice if you could comment on it. The sad thing is this article truly is about the internet in general. The internet community's quality has declined a lot in the last 6 years or so. Sad thing is most of the people on the internet today were not here in the 90's. That's why we have so many posts on Digg to things I saw 6 - 10 years ago. Silly kids.
  • SirBotchness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3copy/paste post on digg
  • LotusStarscream, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5This was 4 years ago....this guy saw the future, and somehow his post was ignored until now?
    • ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3You have a completely ridiculous user name.
    • LotusStarscream, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Thanks, I didn't know.
    • sctechguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2You got any evidence for claiming that it's four years old?
    • LotusStarscream, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No actually my original post was supposed to be a reply to "Fearless Freep" saying "Anybody notice that the given Slashdot post is from Nov 4th 2002??"

      I can't find the 2002 part anywhere though, it was supposed to be a joke but, ***** me oh well
    • FearlessFreep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4" can't find the 2002 part anywhere though,"

      Click on the actual article that the quote is posted from . The date of the article is Nov, 3 '02, the post itself was Nov 4th
  • daxsymbiont, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7at least here it's obvious. the voting system is brilliant. if you're hated you're down, if not, up. simple and elegant. /.'s system of metamodding and rare voting points is witch hunt (by nerds that spend 24/7 on a single domain).
  • Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"Despite touting the wonderous greatness of linux and open source, they all use Windows and Internet Explorer."

    Windows, perhaps, but Internet Explorer?
    Anyone who's properly used Firefox will know it beats the living crap out of IE, and will consider IE a painful last-resort to be used only when a page doesn't render properly in Firefox.

    (Posted from a PC running Windows XP and Firefox. I have an excuse though - my Mepis broke.)
    • sctechguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Even then, there's IE Tab. I haven't touched IE in....well, in a very long time.

      My system is happier now.
  • cr4ft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I like how most people here are agreeing that digg is very similar to slashdot in regards to comments, meanwhile it's people like you who run this site.

    Oh the hypocrisy!
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