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.
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.
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
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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.
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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)
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.