Slashdot Turns 100,000 443
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CmdrTaco
from the has-it-been-that-long-already dept.
from the has-it-been-that-long-already dept.
This entry represents the 100,000th story posted on Slashdot. Technically this is a bit late since we're missing the first few months of stories from the DB, but there are now 100k items in the story database and I thought that milestone was worthy of sharing with the universe.
We've come a long way in the last 12 years, and while the site isn't always exactly what I want it to be, I'm very proud of the work done by our thousands of submitters and by the editors our readers have "affectionately" referred to as "The Slashdot Janitors" for so many years.
Special grats to timothy who is just short of his 17,000th story and is far and away the most prolific person here. The hall of fame has a few other bits of trivia.
Here's to the next 100000 (Score:1, Funny)
100,000 stories? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:lowest account number? (Score:5, Funny)
>65,635 stories? (Score:5, Funny)
At least we know they used the right data type [slashdot.org] for the stories ;)
Re:Age and quality. (Score:5, Funny)
However (Score:1, Funny)
If you strip out the duplicates, it's about half that.
Re:lowest account number? (Score:5, Funny)
Only one way to find out:
``Pl'ngooi hglw'grtz Natalie Portman /. wgah'nagl b00bies petran''
(In a pool of hot grits at Slashdot, Natalie Portman lies naked and petrified.)
Thanks for 100,000, Taco and Company.
100,000 is not a round number... (Score:5, Funny)
...to a geek. We should hold off celebrating until the next power of two. Looking forward to the 131,072nd story!
-Stephen
Re:lowest account number? (Score:2, Funny)
This is my highest numbered account, my first one (three digits as I recall) got lost in some sort of database snafu in the early days and my second one I forgot the password to. I only ever read via RSS though... (and even then I mostly just skim).
Re:Age and quality. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Age and quality. (Score:5, Funny)
I haven't gotten mod points in quite a while either. That's why it's successful!
Wait a second...
Re:lowest account number? (Score:5, Funny)
You have to hold a four or five digit UID to wake them from the darkness, otherwise they won't listen and will continue to hide.
I have a five digit UID and am nihilistic enough to awaken eldritch horrors purely out of curiosity to see what would happen.
Is there a man page for it?
Congrats and thanks (Score:4, Funny)
Re:lowest account number? (Score:5, Funny)
Me too.
My really low account number was one lower than your really low account number, but I lost it. I think it's somewhere in a dresser drawer, next to the keys to my other car, which is a Porsche 911 GT3 RS and has a kicking sound system.
well (Score:5, Funny)
that woke me up, but I think I saw someone in double digits somewhere around here.
Re:Here's to the next 100000 (Score:3, Funny)
Now it's official.
Re:Age and quality. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, that one. Apparently it's been giving me all your mod points. Most weeks, I get more mod points then I can have time for.
Re:Age and quality. (Score:4, Funny)
Oi, 6-digit, get off my lawn :)
Re:lowest account number? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Age and quality. (Score:5, Funny)
Having all your comments rated highly and $1 will buy you a cup of coffee at your local diner.
My local diner coffee costs $1.50 plus tax you insensitive clod.
Re:Age and quality. (Score:5, Funny)
Putting the value of having all your comments rated highly at approx $0.50
Re:well (Score:2, Funny)
Re:100,000 is not a round number... (Score:3, Funny)
I don't understand why 32 stories is worth noting.
Re:lowest account number? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:lowest account number? (Score:5, Funny)
I remember a few times the "low UID" issue came up (for no other reason than asking who's got a low uid??)
Somebody was bragging about their low UID (2 digits) and Taco responded "pwned". ;)
Another time the discussion was about if people with low UID's posted useful info, and user #11 (I think) said "nope just pointless comments really".
I see Palpatine posted below, #94 that's pretty low!
Re:not to toot my own horn (Score:4, Funny)
What, were you waiting for the statute of limitations to run out before confessing or something?
Re:the days of old (Score:3, Funny)
Late 90s sometime. There were a few years I skipped. When was the uid wipe? Wondering if that is what changed my name from 'Phantom of the Operating System'
Re:lowest account number? (Score:4, Funny)
*blinks* Did someone say something? I thought I felt a "disturbance" in my "force"
100,000 includes the dups (Score:4, Funny)
What CmdrTaco failed to mention is that when you remove all the duplicate articles they're only at 75,654.
Re:Age and quality. (Score:3, Funny)
I hate to admit it but I usually skim the summary and dig straight into the comments section of any particular article. I almost never RTFA.
You must be old here.
How to get the llowest account number (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Age and quality. (Score:3, Funny)
Hell, my name has been in the title of a story on Slashdot before now.
Indeed! "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email [slashdot.org]
Re:the days of old (Score:5, Funny)
I remember reading posts like yours in the days of old, decrying the decline of /.
Back in those days, people really knew how to decry the decline of /.
Thats ok ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Age and quality. (Score:3, Funny)
plus an unknown constant vaguely related to pizza.
Re:12 Years, 100k stories. (Score:5, Funny)
but really, were would any of us be without Slashdot?
Working?
Re:Age and quality. (Score:5, Funny)
All your thought are belong to us.
Re:CmdrTaco (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Age and quality. (Score:5, Funny)
how do you determine your meta-mod status?
Guessing.
But it was fairly obvious. I was consistently given mod points for years, until I moderated the heck out of a story in which I was of the complete opposite opinion of 80% of the comments in the story. So I positively moderated those that agreed with my point of view (and made valid, logical points). Within one month of my moderation, I lost the ability to obtain mod points for 13 months (kind of an interesting-to-know timeframe).
Duplicates? (Score:1, Funny)
I'm just waiting for the duplicate story for hitting 100,000 stories when they subtract all the duplicates
Re: Memes (Score:3, Funny)
Funny that slashdot trolls have existed long enough to be a source of nostalgia. Somebody should post the "nullo" troll for old time's sake.
Re:Age and quality. (Score:3, Funny)
100,000th story, what's the comment count at? 30408632?
Re:Groan (Score:5, Funny)
# cowboyneal
there, fixed it for ya.
signed,
grammar nazi
Re:Age and quality. (Score:5, Funny)
I agree!
Re:well (Score:5, Funny)
Like this one? I only post in low id threads these days, if I stumble across one. Ha.
I still read slashdot, I just don't really have time to moderate/post comments...
Re:Age and quality. (Score:3, Funny)
and even the most intelligent fellow is liable to the ocassional episode of stupidity
That was only the *one* time, I told you. Jeez, cut me some slack will ya. Well, since you've been most gracious in not mentioning my name, I won't be the spelling Nazi right now, and we'll call it even. In fact, to top it off, on Monday I will even pretend you didn't even make this post.