While I often found his stories and comments to be far reaching, overstated, overly optimistic & sometimes bordered on religious zealotry [wiktionary.org], I will miss his contributions and wish his family and friends well. I hope they know that Roland was a man committed to the proliferation of technology and advancements has done great things for both our community & society.
It is also comforting to see a soul survive and prosper in a technological field and end up where they want to live blogging peacefully. I hope my own retirement and passing are similar instead of some of the mindless inane existences I know my ancestors have lived out in nursing homes and/or in front of a TV.
Via con dios, Roland. You were a prick in this life and I can only suspect your ghost will haunt Slashdot for all eternity, posting/trolling your blog links as news. People like you were the reason a -1 modifier was made and I can only suspect St. Peter will give YOU a -1 when you show up before the pearly gates.
You mean-spirited asshole, I honestly hope you get your 72 virgins in the here-after AND I HOPE THEY ARE ALL MALE.
Good riddance, dipshit. I hope you share a puddle of lava in Hell with those brave GNAA members who died of AIDS. You deserve every bit of the eternal nigger gang rape you will get. Suck me cock!
Roland Piquepaille corrupted Slashdot with paid articles that were mostly dishonest, in my opinion. Supposedly big breakthroughs he wrote about were often "investment opportunities" in which investors would almost certainly lose all their money.
Roland Piquepaille lowered the value of Slashdot as a business by lowering reader's estimation of how much Slashdot editors can be trusted.
He was a disgusting, mean, dishonest person, and helped create disgust with Slashdot editors.
Perhaps that was right, but Roland has earned a place in the slashdot community.
I had a good time tagging all of Roland's articles as "ohnoitsroland". It made my days more bearable, and everytime I saw his stories tagged already, I chuckled.
Roland was a traditional part of Slashdot (for good or bad), and even if only in the form of a meme, I will miss him.
Funny, you write the basic truth while his corpse is still warm and are modded Troll. Wait a few weeks after they plant him and you'd be modded Insightful
Because there is something called "respect"... nobody will force you to speak beauty of a man you didn't like, but it'd be "respectful" not to throw shit in a post dedicated to his death...
Peace.
Drx
Roland was a well intentioned soul and will be sorely missed. I found most who mocked him did so in a jovial spirit, he sparked vigorous debate even from detractors and he encouraged a focus on fringe topics that keep this site unique and interesting. We all have our quirks, and his were more entertaining than frustrating. He will live on in all our hearts as more than just a meme, but as a kindred spirit, as one of us.
Really? Was he well intentioned back when all his posts here were to his blog where he made $ off the hits when you had to go to yet another site to get to the real story?
He was in with the editors and playing the system for cash. Well intentioned people would have just linked directly to the real story IMO.
Roland might have been short on netiquette when he first started submitting stories to/., but once the community started to speak out against his copy-and-paste blog entries and use of other people's content to earn ad revenue, he stopped doing all that. all of his submissions of late have linked directly to the source article.
if anything, Roland has contributed greatly to the/. community by submitting a ton of excellent stories--even after he stopped earning ad revenue from submissions--and starting many interesting discussions. so he clearly cared more about/. as a thriving community with a rich online culture than just another business to be monetized. and if you're more worried about Slashdot's value as a business than its usefulness to its users (which is primarily from the discussions that follow each submission), then you clearly don't understand/. as well as Roland did.
your blatant hyperboles and baseless accusations are more dishonest than Roland has ever been. and i doubt you will ever make as great of a contribution to the/. community as he has.
Thanks for the reminder. I can finally delete the "NoRoland" Greasemonkey script in Firefox.
Not just yet:
Suzanne said that Roland had a few posts in the pipeline and wanted them published. If she is able to pull them from Roland’s PC we’ll put them on his blog to complete his record.
I too agree that it is sad to see the passing of a Great One. He certainly contributed greatly and built a mighty pedestal. Unfortunately he also chose to dilute his high quality work with quite a lot of trite, enough to earn his own derogatory tag.
While it is important to speak when you have something useful to say, it is as important to Shut The Fuck Up when you haven't.
We have lost a bright spark in our community, and you compare him to an irritating pest. He might share the passion of Twitter, but in the way he interacted with and respected the community he was his antithesis. Roland learned from his mistakes, listened to his often vile and obnoxious critics and improved the quality of his submissions. He should be on his pedestal like GGP said as exactly the kind of people we want at this site. He was passionate about our passions, and tempered his tone for the sake of
Come on, Bruce.
Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?
Oh, anywhere that it's fashionable to have absolutely no taste or sense of the appropriate, and where flaunting your a sense of bankruptcy is in style.
Piquepaille was a dick who tried to get rich by posting ad-laden no-content stories to/. He was a dick and you don't get a free pass on "legacy" just cuz you're dead.
I was one of those folks who said bad stuff about his posts. If he read it I hope he didn't take it personally. He was a good guy and there's true bad things out there to have gotten riled up about instead. I am saddened by this news.
I was initially rubbed wrong by the style of his advertising via Slashdot stories, but he did grow to be a significant fixture in this community. Like most people, there are those whose impressions of him and fondness for him slide off from center in both directions. Regardless, this headline evoked a great deal of sadness as it has clearly for so many others.
I can only join the community in giving my best wishes and condolences to his family, friends and his colleagues. Yet another in a line of wonderful p
I have no idea why everyone thought the world would collapse when he linked to a blog with ads from a site that amounts to a blog with ads. I found it quaint and charming, but then again I'm not one to RTFA. Which is another point, if no one reads TFA why make such a fuss about the links? I think it's just weak people trying to feel bigger by insulting people, just like the schoolyard any excuse will do.
This makes me sad. OK, I know that a lot of people on Slashdot didn't like rpiquepa, and I understand why. But truthfully, I never paid much attention to who submitted what, so I probably read hundreds of his articles. Am I a better person for being a little bit more informed? I think so.
And so are you. We're all just names on the internet to each other. Some of those names, like mine, are more or less anonymous. And some people, like Roland, use their real names on the internet. Are we mortal or not? Obviously, we are. One (more) of us is dead now.
What about our words, our ideas? When the checks to the hosting companies stop and their servers shut down, will our words- all that we really are to each other- not disappear? I'm just rambling. Good night, Slashdot. My condolences to Roland's family.
Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:5, Insightful)
It is also comforting to see a soul survive and prosper in a technological field and end up where they want to live blogging peacefully. I hope my own retirement and passing are similar instead of some of the mindless inane existences I know my ancestors have lived out in nursing homes and/or in front of a TV.
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Via con dios, Roland. You were a prick in this life and I can only suspect your ghost will haunt Slashdot for all eternity, posting/trolling your blog links as news. People like you were the reason a -1 modifier was made and I can only suspect St. Peter will give YOU a -1 when you show up before the pearly gates.
You mean-spirited asshole, I honestly hope you get your 72 virgins in the here-after AND I HOPE THEY ARE ALL MALE.
Re:Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know about that, but on Roland's approach St. Peter was heard to say "oh no, it's Roland".
And nothing of value was lost (Score:-1, Troll)
Good riddance, dipshit. I hope you share a puddle of lava in Hell with those brave GNAA members who died of AIDS. You deserve every bit of the eternal nigger gang rape you will get. Suck me cock!
Translation: This is what he is trying to say. (Score:-1, Troll)
Roland Piquepaille lowered the value of Slashdot as a business by lowering reader's estimation of how much Slashdot editors can be trusted.
He was a disgusting, mean, dishonest person, and helped create disgust with Slashdot editors.
Re:Translation: This is what he is trying to say. (Score:5, Insightful)
by lowering reader's estimation of how much Slashdot editors can be trusted.
Story submitters can't do that. It is the editors' jobs to separate the wheat from the chaff. Failure to do so is what reflects badly on the editors.
Re:Translation: This is what he is trying to say. (Score:5, Insightful)
Perhaps that was right, but Roland has earned a place in the slashdot community.
I had a good time tagging all of Roland's articles as "ohnoitsroland". It made my days more bearable, and everytime I saw his stories tagged already, I chuckled.
Roland was a traditional part of Slashdot (for good or bad), and even if only in the form of a meme, I will miss him.
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Wait a few weeks after they plant him and you'd be modded Insightful
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Roland was a well intentioned soul and will be sorely missed. I found most who mocked him did so in a jovial spirit, he sparked vigorous debate even from detractors and he encouraged a focus on fringe topics that keep this site unique and interesting. We all have our quirks, and his were more entertaining than frustrating. He will live on in all our hearts as more than just a meme, but as a kindred spirit, as one of us.
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Re:Translation: This is what he is trying to say. (Score:5, Insightful)
Roland might have been short on netiquette when he first started submitting stories to /., but once the community started to speak out against his copy-and-paste blog entries and use of other people's content to earn ad revenue, he stopped doing all that. all of his submissions of late have linked directly to the source article.
if anything, Roland has contributed greatly to the /. community by submitting a ton of excellent stories--even after he stopped earning ad revenue from submissions--and starting many interesting discussions. so he clearly cared more about /. as a thriving community with a rich online culture than just another business to be monetized. and if you're more worried about Slashdot's value as a business than its usefulness to its users (which is primarily from the discussions that follow each submission), then you clearly don't understand /. as well as Roland did.
your blatant hyperboles and baseless accusations are more dishonest than Roland has ever been. and i doubt you will ever make as great of a contribution to the /. community as he has.
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Yes, well, as someone with a userid of over 800,000 you're clearly entitled to appoint yourself Official Slashdot Historian.
Picklepail was no better than any spammer, just out to leverage the Internet for monetary gain while contributing nothing.
Re:Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:5, Funny)
No, actually St. Peter has no idea that Roland is coming. He was using an extension to block everything related to him.
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Not just yet:
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tagged ohnoitwasroland
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Hey rude boy, you might try "Vaya con dios" next time.
You'll still sound like an asshole, but at least like an educated asshole!
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Vaya con Dios
(caps)
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Hey rude boy, you might try "Vaya con dios" next time.
You'll still sound like an asshole, but at least like an educated asshole!
Agreed, but for Roland, one should say, "Allez avec Dieu."
adieu (Score:4, Informative)
Just one word.
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Know your limits (Score:2, Insightful)
While it is important to speak when you have something useful to say, it is as important to Shut The Fuck Up when you haven't.
Re:Know your limits (Score:5, Funny)
In honor of him, we should flood news sites with releases for this subject that redirect readers to a blog.
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You are right. He was just a self-aggrandizing douche.
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Even so, his stories were far better than anything submitted by Twitter The Troll. Twitter The Troll repeated stories such as "Teh M$ sux0rs"
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Even so, his stories were far better than anything submitted by Twitter The Troll. Twitter The Troll repeated stories such as "Teh M$ sux0rs"
Granted, but simply being better than Twitter is no claim to fame. That's like saying "more nutritious than sand".
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We have lost a bright spark in our community, and you compare him to an irritating pest. He might share the passion of Twitter, but in the way he interacted with and respected the community he was his antithesis. Roland learned from his mistakes, listened to his often vile and obnoxious critics and improved the quality of his submissions. He should be on his pedestal like GGP said as exactly the kind of people we want at this site. He was passionate about our passions, and tempered his tone for the sake of
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Quite a lot of trite what? Trite is an adjective, not a noun. Did you mean tripe?
Re:Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:5, Insightful)
Agree. While I didn't always like his choice of articles, he was one of us and I'm sorry to see him leave.
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If you want to get technical, Hitler was one of 'Us' too.
And I'll miss Roland less.
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Oh no! Who's going to contribute stories to Slashdot to generate Google Adwords revenue now???
Slashdot (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't have them, and I'm not looking at this story again, because I'm grossed out by some of the folks here.
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Come on, Bruce.
Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?
FWIW, I didn't care one way or the other for Roland, but I'm still sorry to hear of his passing.
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Oh, anywhere that it's fashionable to have absolutely no taste or sense of the appropriate, and where flaunting your a sense of bankruptcy is in style.
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Re:Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Moral bankruptcy was so 2008 - fiscal bankruptcy is all the rage in 2009!
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No! FUCK good taste... (Score:-1, Troll)
Piquepaille was a dick who tried to get rich by posting ad-laden no-content stories to /. He was a dick and you don't get a free pass on "legacy" just cuz you're dead.
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Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?
On Fark, Digg, and many other sites.
Re:Slashdot (Score:5, Informative)
4chan.
Yeah, definitely 4chan.
And of course here [darwinawards.com] where it's expected to laugh yer ass off.
A taste of Slashdot (Score:3)
"Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?"
I wonder if your mourners would mind if I laugh all the way through your eulogy?
Re:A taste of Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
On slashdot?
I'd actually be very pleased if my death made it to the front page.
Re:A taste of Slashdot (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A taste of Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Make a wish! (Score:0)
Filter error: You can type more than that for your comment.
Make a wish! (Score:0)
http://i42.tinypic.com/wrdn40.png [tinypic.com]
(damn those bad HTML habits, posting again)
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Post your home address and we'll see what we can do.
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Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?
You can't, and 4chan.
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I'm glad the asshole is dead! DIE FUCKER Rot in HELL
Re:Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:5, Interesting)
Agreed.
I was one of those folks who said bad stuff about his posts. If he read it I hope he didn't take it personally. He was a good guy and there's true bad things out there to have gotten riled up about instead. I am saddened by this news.
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I was initially rubbed wrong by the style of his advertising via Slashdot stories, but he did grow to be a significant fixture in this community. Like most people, there are those whose impressions of him and fondness for him slide off from center in both directions. Regardless, this headline evoked a great deal of sadness as it has clearly for so many others.
I can only join the community in giving my best wishes and condolences to his family, friends and his colleagues. Yet another in a line of wonderful p
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I have no idea why everyone thought the world would collapse when he linked to a blog with ads from a site that amounts to a blog with ads. I found it quaint and charming, but then again I'm not one to RTFA. Which is another point, if no one reads TFA why make such a fuss about the links? I think it's just weak people trying to feel bigger by insulting people, just like the schoolyard any excuse will do.
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He submitted stories, as far as I know he never contributed to the "community".
Re:Rest in Peace, rpiquepa (Score:5, Insightful)
This makes me sad. OK, I know that a lot of people on Slashdot didn't like rpiquepa, and I understand why. But truthfully, I never paid much attention to who submitted what, so I probably read hundreds of his articles. Am I a better person for being a little bit more informed? I think so.
And so are you. We're all just names on the internet to each other. Some of those names, like mine, are more or less anonymous. And some people, like Roland, use their real names on the internet. Are we mortal or not? Obviously, we are. One (more) of us is dead now.
What about our words, our ideas? When the checks to the hosting companies stop and their servers shut down, will our words- all that we really are to each other- not disappear? I'm just rambling. Good night, Slashdot. My condolences to Roland's family.