SlashTweaks Let YOU Micro-Edit Slashdot 257
Here at Slashdot, we watched as Twitter
discourse to just the perfect 140 characters, while
showed us that everyone's voice mattered equally when creating the
experience. We've taken the next step with SlashTweaks. Within each Slashdot
you will be presented with several opportunities to make micro-edits: ranging from factual errors or tonal shifts to simple typos.
Since Tweaks are just a single word, there is very little barrier to entry... you have no excuse not to participate. Stories will incorporate the highest rated
socially and mathematically guaranteeing the best story possible. Our highest
users can start new tweaks on individual words, while everyone else will be rating existing tweaks. Thanks for your participation and patience while we iterate on this, making sure that we are able to stay ahead of the
edge of webbovation!
Can we have this on comments too ? (Score:5, Funny)
Can we have this on comments too ?
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"karmawhoring" has fallen 5% below 85% tolerance.
Re:Can we have this on comments too ? (Score:5, Funny)
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To hell with this micro-editing!!! Where is my OMG PONI3Z??????
Re:Can we have this on too ? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can we have this on comments too ? (Score:5, Funny)
Can I get a +5 funny please.
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Re:Can we have this on comments too ? (Score:4, Funny)
Mod {parent/me} {up/down}.
Needs more Irony! (Score:2)
Can I get a +5 funny please.
I sure hope so.
Can I get a +2 Troll?
Re:Needs more [Bacon]! (Score:2)
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Today it does, thought I'd get in early.
Re:Can we have this on comments too ? (Score:5, Funny)
I can't believe this was modded [mod]. You're obviously another rabid [OS] fanboy worshiping at the feet of [Tech CEO]. The summary was horribly written, but what do you expect from [Slashdot Editor]? Why is this even filed under [Slashdot category, not 'Idle']? I should have been filed under [Slashdot category, use 'Idle']. While IANA[letter], I do know about [random subject] from reading [website] and you'll notice I have a [number from 1 to 100] Slashdot ID. What needs to be done is [personal opinion]. Of course, it'll never work because [conspiracy theory]. Finally, in [political organization] [country], [object] [verb] YOU!
Please mod this comment [cardinal direction]
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Please mod this comment [cardinal direction]
Will do, as soon as I figure out how to mod you "East".
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Ooh, Slashdot madlibs!
I can't believe this was modded [Insightful]. You're obviously another rabid [DOS] fanboy worshiping at the feet of [Steve Jobs]. The summary was horribly written, but what do you expect from [CmdrTaco]? Why is this even filed under [Your Rights Online]? I should have been filed under [Idle]. While IANA[X], I do know about [geology] from reading [XKCD.com] and you'll notice I have a [42] Slashdot ID. What needs to be done is [visit Disney World]. Of course, it'll never work because [Bi
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Can we have this on comments too ?
Yep. Next April fools' day. I give you Cmdr Taquito's word on it.
No dice on comment mad-libs (Score:2)
It [appears][looks][sounds][smells][CowboyNeal] like that [is not][is][might be][takes][eats] the case.
(I tried the exact HTML syntax of TFA plus some variants, no dice on actual <select> and <option> tags)
Maybe I can still get the "The April Fool" Achievement? (this is my first April 1 post in years).
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Maybe I can still get the "The April Fool" Achievement? (this is my first April 1 post in years).
Hey, good point... don't think I have that achieve myself.
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Er why (Score:2, Interesting)
Mostly I come to slashdot to read the commentary, the actual summary isn't bothering me that much. In fact this just makes it harder to read. I'd be a lot more concerned that I can't click on links in threaded posts because the site now wants to just open every post in the thread above it first - stop that please! The KISS principle applie shere.
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If the summaries were more accurate and fact-checked, the discussion could start on the topic. But since we often times get wrong statements, opinions are raised based on the wrong assumptions, those have to be refuted and checked etc. etc.
I think better summaries would start better discussions.
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I'd be a lot more concerned that I can't click on links in threaded posts because the site now wants to just open every post in the thread above it first
You have that problem, too? I thought it was because I was working on a system with limited tech in it. When I moderate, I click on the dropdown, but suddenly my screen shifts above as the parent post is expanded. So I scroll down, click the dropdown again, but suddenly my screen shifts above as the GP post is expanded. So I scroll down, click the dropdown again, but suddenly... until it has expanded the entire thread and I can then finally make my choice.
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Yeah, it's a {bug/feature}. You {get/have} to open every post above it before you can click the one you want. And clicking the score to find out how a comment was moderated also collapses the comment and hides its replies.
Reading the parent post (Score:2)
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Mark Slashdot as untrusted in NoScript. Switch your user preferences to the Classic Discussion System. /. becomes usable again.
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Mostly I come to slashdot to read the commentary, the actual summary isn't bothering me that much. In fact this just makes it harder to read.
Still easier to read than when it's written in bright pink and peppered with text speak.
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" The KISS principle applie shere."
rock and roll all night and party everyday? I couldn't agree more.
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And here I thought you were just a Yakov Smirnoff fan.
Interesting (Score:5, Funny)
Surely the editors have been using this feature all along?
Good to see Kuro5hin is getting the respect (Score:2)
it deserves, being equated with goatse and all.
Rusty must be so proud.
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Can we lose the links? (Score:5, Funny)
While we're at it, can we get an option to remove all the hyperlinks from summaries? None of us follow them anyway and they tend to distract from the flaming.
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Really, the title is enough to have a proper debate on here. That's all the scientists use.
Or just post 'Microsoft', 'Apple' or 'Google' as the title and allow the debate to begin. Its not like you need any additional words ;)
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1 April 2006, the most magical day on the internet. Slashdot gave us this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/121120624_5b9fb34dcb.jpg [flickr.com]
Confused... (Score:3)
April Fool - what part of the world is /. base in, where it's only just turned April 1st? Somewhere in Russia maybe? Or possibly Fiji? I've been waiting 13 hours for this to happen.
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You're quite correct of course. I was looking at my world time zone chart, and failed to notice that the time-line I was looking at was actually just gone midnight on Saturday morning - so I was an entire 24 hours off. My cock-up. I meant, of course, somewhere like Honolulu.
Oops...
You're slipping. (Score:5, Insightful)
The best April fools jokes I've seen so far today are the Canterbury Distribution and the ThinkGeek "Apple Store" Playmobil set, and the ThinkGeek "Lightsaber Popsicle"
Just close enough to reality to catch you unawares.
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BMO - OMG PONIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re:You're slipping. (Score:5, Interesting)
The best April fools jokes I've seen so far today are the Canterbury Distribution and the ThinkGeek "Apple Store" Playmobil set, and the ThinkGeek "Lightsaber Popsicle"
Just close enough to reality to catch you unawares.
Actually, xkcd's effort [xkcd.com] this year is (a) fun and (b) is a cool hack. Not so much a "gotcha" though since (like last year) they've actually been and gone and done it (Don't just look at the latest cartoon).
Sorry, Slashdot pranksters, to rain on your parade, but you needed to add tweaks to every single article to compete...
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Sorry, Slashdot pranksters, to rain on your parade, but you needed to add tweaks to every single article to compete...
Every article published after this one uses it. Close enough without getting annoying. (Though it's too bad submissions can't do it.)
yay, april fool (Score:5, Informative)
I only wish the most recent redesign was the april fool joke.
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If you flip on the preferences to the equivalent of "use the old stuff", the changes aren't that noticeable (but maybe you liked the middle redesign more than this one or don't like to stay logged in).
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Forget the previous version - I wanna see ponies!
Too late (Score:2)
madlibs live! (Score:2)
The purpose of this is ? (Score:2)
also the "do-my-job-for-me dept." joke didnt escape me.
In soviet Russia (Score:3)
In soviet Russia, Slashdot microedits/goatse's/karmawhores/grits YOU!
Great, yet another moronic April Fools Day (Score:3)
At least Taco remembered some of the old school Slashdot. Props to the natalieportman and grits mention.
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1999 is old school for /.
Google's is better... (Score:2)
They have a new Gmail motion link on the search page. It's a way to write your emails using body language and your webcam.
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If I used my webcam to write emails, I'd end up facing several sexual harassment lawsuits.
Need more choices (Score:2)
That's nice (Score:2)
But can we micro-edit in UNICODE???
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lack of write-in candidates (Score:2)
Though I applaud the collaborative edit = Fool notion.
New /., much worse than the old. (Score:2)
Since the /. redesign, the number of comments visible at any browse level is very different from what the slider says it should be. It's very evident when you browse at +5, it says that there are five comments, and yet only one is visible.
Same problem on various versions of firefox on WinXP, OS X, and Ubuntu.
Any chance of this being fixed? Is there even a bug on this?
Or have people pretty much given up hope complaining about this? It's a shame, because I always looked to the /. comments for insight into t
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Yeah, I hate to be a party pooper, but wasting time on gimmicks like this instead of actually making slashcode work properly is pretty poorthetic.
Seems normal (Score:2)
If both survive the loof lirpa (Score:2)
April Fools (Score:2)
Do not want (Score:2)
Stories will incorporate the highest rated goatse guaranteeing the best story possible.
Highest rated? What, are you going to do a hot or not with goatse?
A real question (Score:2)
Why wasn't Webbovation boxed?
Mad-libs! (Score:2)
editor wars (Score:2)
If we get microediting for the comment section, it would make those threads where people argue over the relative demerits of (vim)|(emacs) delightfully confusing. Which is well, because we wouldn't want the (vim)|(emacs) morons to know how crappy their editor is.
What does the karmawhore's interface look like? (Score:2)
Our highest [rated][trolling][karmawhoring][paying] users can start new tweaks on individual words, while everyone else will be rating existing tweaks.
What's the threshold? What does it look like to those that qualify?
Assuming this is an April fool's Day joke, (Score:3)
then I can wait a day for sanity to return to my reality. If not, I'm more than disappointed.
You know just how frakking messed up micro-editing is, right? It renders your RSS feed unreadable.
And then there's the complete devastation of IE7 users. I'm stuck with this at work. Browser snobbery is counterproductive, even if there are security issues, which my corporate security has so far solved so well that IE7 doesn't work here any more. More pus.
Slashdot code is not getting better. Hopefully this is part of a cycle of break/fix.
What if something actually happens... for reals (Score:2)
MadLibs!! (Score:2)
Wrong Answers (Score:2)
Sometimes when I pick an option, it turns green and writes itself in, but other times it turns red and makes me pick another one.
It makes me feel like I'm not smart enough to get a subtle joke. :(
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Nowhere near as funny as ChatRoulette.
Now with more penises!
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I'd rather have ponies.
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Yes, 10:04 PM -- Friday April 01 2011. The fools have been filtering in all day
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That's often what happens with April Fools jokes. Most are silly, but some are silly enough that they actually raise a point.
I'm just worried that the one I'll be posting in a few hours on @climagic [twitter.com] will not end up with someone patching the source to accomplish such a thing.
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That didn't come out right. I mean I would be worried if it did result in a patch.
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>but some are silly enough that they actually raise a point.
Like OMG Ponies!
Re:Actually sounds useful (Score:5, Interesting)
In a strange, altered mindset way I miss OMG Ponies. Nothing said April First like a pink tech web site. Now it is just bland articles we have to guess as to real or fake. I guess there can be only one Pony moment.
Re:Actually sounds useful (Score:5, Insightful)
While I have too high a number to attempt to discuss how the level of discourse has fallen around here, the number of joke articles on April 1 has truly sucked. I'll take a couple GOOD joke articles but that's it.
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OMG Ponies!
Re:Actually sounds useful (Score:5, Funny)
they weren't Ponies, just under-privileged horses that didn't get proper nutrition while growing up in the inner-stables
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If we switch this from single words to whole phrases or sentences, we might save 40 "summary sux" comments at a time, so your useful comment begins just past the MicroShill guys, instead of half way down the page after word finally gets out that the inflammatory wording is totally misleading.
Re:Turdshine (Score:4, Informative)
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Hey, lay off Microsoft. Those jokes aren't funny anymore.
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It's been years since I'd looked. The whole front page is nothing but crappy forum troll posts. I get a feeling this isn't just an April Fool's thing. It's like /b/ but sadder.
Kuro5hin: like /b/ but sadder. (Score:2)
Even Rusty doesn't post there anymore.
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Obligatory (Score:3)
WINNING!
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This does not qualify as a joke more like a pathetic feeble attempt at one
Re:Just gotta say (Score:4, Insightful)
Well, at least someone should be editing slashdot. Even if it's only pretend.
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Somebody can't read a calendar~