Oh man, I always hated April fools day on slashdot, because all frontpage articles would be "jokes". It became even worse when slashdot started lagging all the other aggregators in speed. So, today they found a way to even top that with this stupid rot13 shit.
Is today the day slashdot jumped the shark? Probably not, because i see that this article only got around 160 comments. That used to be different five or ten years ago.
Slashdot is dead. The founders knew when to leave, but it is a pity the current owne
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-- The Wall Street Journal
More BS (Score:5, Insightful)
More April 1 bullshit. Can't they at least come up with one thing that is actually funny?
Or just rename it April 1 troll day and be done with it.
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Their best one was OMG PONIES, but they can't do that one ironically anymore because people actually like ponies now.
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Their best one was OMG PONIES, but they can't do that one ironically anymore because people actually like ponies now.
Not in Tehran they don't.
http://bronies.meetup.com/members/ir/tehran/ [meetup.com]
Granted they probably have to meet in secret if they don't want to end up with their heads on pikes in the name of most merciful Allah.
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funny, cute, or just makes you think. (Score:2)
I don't care. I look forward to it each April 1st. I certainly don't begrudge them not being funny to all people. April 1st is like National Nerd Day.
Its fun to be a geek, humor is what you make of it, my suggestion, take a step back and enjoy the day.
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Oh man, I always hated April fools day on slashdot, because all frontpage articles would be "jokes". It became even worse when slashdot started lagging all the other aggregators in speed. So, today they found a way to even top that with this stupid rot13 shit.
Is today the day slashdot jumped the shark? Probably not, because i see that this article only got around 160 comments. That used to be different five or ten years ago.
Slashdot is dead. The founders knew when to leave, but it is a pity the current owne