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 peaceful
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.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Friday January 09, 2009 @04:03PM (#26391029)
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.
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 peaceful
Re: (Score:-1, Troll)
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: (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.
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
Wait a few weeks after they plant him and you'd be modded Insightful
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
Re: (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
Re: (Score:-1, Troll)
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.
Re: (Score:0)
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.