Talk:Slashdot

This article was nominated for deletion on December 12, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

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Moderation

I edited the max total number of mod points under the moderation section, I have had six and can prove it if need be.

TheShadowZero 22:58, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see what you are saying - you can go down to -1 and then accumulate points to +5 - and thereby get six positive moderation points. But that's only because you aren't counting the initial -1 moderation point you automatically got for whatever reason. If you are going to count positives but not negatives, your score and go up and down all day long - so you can accumulate hundreds of positive points - providing you get enough negatives. Rather than be difficult and controversial - I've change the sentence to say that the maximum total score you can get is +5. SteveBaker 05:50, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think what TheShadowZero (and the article) is saying is that you are given 6 points with which to moderate other posts. It is not stating the maximum score for a given post (that is in the next para). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Testla (talk • contribs).

How can you get negative mod points? Your points can be used to neg a post or to make it positive. TheShadowZero 21:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Slashdot is down?!

Today, Sept. 13 2006, http://slashdot.org returns "503 Service Unavailable". Was this a planned shutdown, or has Slashdot been Slashdotted? Sure seems wierd.--Sboots 15:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

129.81.108.179 here, confirming Slashdot is indeed down with a "503 Service Unavailable" error. AFAIK it was up before 9AM CST this morning. UPDATE: Seems to be back up now. (15:50 UTC)--129.81.108.179 15:48, 13 September 2006 (UTC) 01:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC)01:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC)~~[reply]

Slashdot is often down for short periods, usually returning a 503 error. It is sometimes the butt of a few jokes. I would assume this is when they change the code. It doesn't happen often, but it happened semi-regularly for years. It used to be a joke that Slashdot must have " linked to itself", which is, of course an absurd reference to being /.ed . Pharmboy 00:30, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism

The criticism section is much too short so I lengthened. I'll put some more down as I find them. --Rotten 05:20, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Subculture and other deletions

Why was the Slashdot Subculture page removed and redirecting to the main Slashdot page? There was a lot of good information on that page, nearly all of which is now gone. Perhaps Slashdot has a lot of content on Wikipedia, but that doesn't inherently mean that the entire subject needs to be watered down to the mediocre content on this page. What's the problem with having more "specialized" topics? Slashdot is a significant player on the web, so it makes sense there is a lot of information about it. The comparison between the Slashdot and Social Security articles (from Archive1) is asinine.

Along with the Subculture page, many other pages were removed. When considering the amount of time and effort that went into those pages, and the fact they were removed on a whim of a few users, it's not surprising that people are becoming disenchanted with Wikipedia. I'm no wiki-expert, but from what I can tell there was no real discussion about deleting the articles, it was just done because somebody wanted to do it. --Nick, 71.195.213.70 06:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I generally agree with this. I think the pruning was rather OTT. Feel free to dig bits out of the page history and discuss them here. Chris Cunningham 08:24, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added back some of the subculture areas that I had previously written Pharmboy 23:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's interesting that even though they deleted those pages, they didn't remove any of the links to those pages. 24.89.87.41 02:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is further interesting that the discussion of the subculture deletion was so obviously controlled to the point where it is worth talking about the possibility (likelihood?) that the discussion and deletion was rigged. Every Wikipedia user who dared challenge the (pre-ordained?) decision to delete the article with a Keep vote was called out and challenged; it is pretty clear from reading the discussion page that every keep vote was going to be challenged, adding bias to the discussion and vote. The bias would have been on two fronts; users who viewed the vote in progress were going to see the challenges of the keep votes and been more inclined to vote against or would have avoided voting altogether to avoid being challenged by experienced editors (thus undercounting the tree keep votes). I am greatly disappointed in this capricious, arbitrary, tyranny of the vocal minority that took place in this vote. Everyone involved in the creation and promotion of this bias should be ashamed of themselves. SkydiveMike 00:22, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the removal of those pages, and the information they contained, is reprehensible. There was no reason they needed to be removed. Sometimes I think some folks here on Wikipedia are of the impression that Wikipedia has to be constantly edited down to a particular number of pages, like a paper encyclopedia. This is just not true; one of the strengths of Wikipedia is that it can have pages on lots of topics, even somewhat esoteric ones. It's the breadth, as well as the depth, of WP's articles that makes it useful. The deletion seems to be mostly the continuation of an ongoing Wikipedia/Slashdot pissing contest, where members of each try to denigrate the other, rather than any realistic attempt at self-improvement. --Kadin2048 05:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese Slashdot

Should a link to the slashdot website in japan be inserted? From what I read at the us slashdot page the japanese slashdot is run by it's own people.

Slashdot says as much here: http://slashdot.org/faq/editorial.shtml#ed860 If you were to make a section of slashdot versions in the different languages, I think you would have to make it VERY clear that they were not owned or managed by the same company that owns the US /. Pharmboy 21:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Subculture deletion?

Can anyone point to any AFD discussion for the Slashdot subculture page? All I can find is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slashdot subculture, but it survived that nomination. --Saforrest 16:30, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that this is it: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slashdot subculture (2nd nomination) --Apyule 11:09, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Ah, yes, thanks. --Saforrest 03:50, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

References

These are links that I posted to the AFD discussion:

These should be integrated as needed for specific claims and as general references. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 21:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hans Reiser

Should Hans Reiser still be mentioned in the "celebrity" slashdot users? I have a feeling he won't be posting his view for a while... ;) (check Hans Reiser)