Slashdot Turns 15, What Are You Doing Later? 247
October marks Slashdot's 15th birthday. That's right, we're almost old enough to drive the PT Cruiser. Throughout October we'll be running a number of meta news articles about our history, plans for the future, and special interviews. We're also giving away T-shirts to people willing to organize and host the biggest Slashdot parties. It's easy to get started. Just visit the Slashdot Anniversary Party Web Page. Sign up to go to a party, or if there aren't any in your area, create your own during the official party period of Oct. 20-30. The details of your local parties are up to you. Each has a corresponding discussion so you can work it out amongst yourselves. Wherever several Slashdot readers gather, we'll attempt to mail shirts until we run out. Geeknet will host parties in San Francisco, New York, and Ann Arbor.
To be eligible for schwag, you need to schedule your party by September 27, or sign up to attend one by September 28. This will give us time to figure out where to send the shirts, and time to send them. Help us celebrate 15 years of news for nerds and stuff that matters.
What are you doing later? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What are you doing later? (Score:5, Funny)
eewwww. I would never touch slashdot... it's covered in goatse trolls, and judging from the articles on the front page, it's borderline retarded.
Re:What are you doing later? (Score:4, Funny)
And grits. Never forget the grits.
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What do you mean by "almost old enough to drive the PT Cruiser." Isn’t the minimum age to drive 14? (And yes, I did grow up in a farm state)
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What do you mean by "almost old enough to drive the PT Cruiser." Isn’t the minimum age to drive 14? (And yes, I did grow up in a farm state)
It's 16 here (Florida, USA). There's been talk for years of raising it to 18.
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" There's been talk for years of raising it to 18."
They talked about doing that here, too. They also did try some "restricted privileges" between 16 and 18.
Big mistake. The State needs to decide on an age that is "adult", and stick with it. Instead, they have been pushing these namby-pamby rules about "old enough to decide this for yourself, but not that".
It's all bullshit. Set an age, have done with it. We don't need all those lawyers. Really.
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Your layout looks CSS2, but your Ajax says you're web 2.0
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This has better be part of some truly not funny practical joke.
Re:Ok guys, this is how we're gonna party (Score:2)
WTF are Dice content standards violations? Wrong type of plastic?
Next to the plant in the corner (Score:2)
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We're gonna need at least a 20-sided room and lots of potted plants...
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Timmy's bring all his movies. Come on, it'll be FUN! My mom's making popcorn and pizza bites and we can stay up until 11PM.
Plus, and don't tell anyone this, there will be pr0n.
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Plus, and don't tell anyone this, there will be pr0n.
Yeah that's the good news.
The bad news is its all links where the text reads "click here for britney spears naked pics" however the URLs actually point to goatse.cx.
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I'm hosting a party. And in traditional Slashdot fashion, it will be a party of one and in my mom's basement. Attendees will be given a bowl of hot grits that they may or may not slather over Jane Foster MiniMates (http://www.artasylum.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/janefosterfrostgiantback39.jpg) -- aka. Petrified Natalie Portman.
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I'm hosting a party. And in traditional Slashdot fashion, it will be a party of one and in my mom's basement. Attendees will be given a bowl of hot grits that they may or may not slather over Jane Foster MiniMates (http://www.artasylum.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/janefosterfrostgiantback39.jpg) -- aka. Petrified Natalie Portman.
The name of the image file made it sound like Jane Foster is a frost giant.
Maybe an anorexic one.
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It will be easy to get them to engage. Bring a laptop running some obscure 10 yar old BSD variant. After a couple of minutes claim that you can't get the wifi configured correctly and that you need some help. After awhile you'll have 30 of the guys all huddled around giving suggestions.
If that doesn't work, bring out the D&D dice.
Hey Slashdot (Score:2)
What happened to the attendees lists for the 10th anniversary parties? The comments have been preserved, but they all seem to be registering 0 attendees. Losing that history is a bit sad.
Re:Hey Slashdot (Score:5, Informative)
Party? (Score:5, Funny)
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it is often more interesting to insult people vis-à-vis; an important part of the fun is to see the reaction. insulting/flamebaiting/trolling while (an|pseud)onymous is dull.
Hammer, corporate tool (Score:2)
Commenters are worth it! (Score:4, Interesting)
Thanks for all the news, and the great comments, who, most of the time are worth spending quite alot of time reading (more interesting than the actual news)
Have some nice parties, "overthere".
Ye Olde Slashdot (Score:2)
I started reading Slashdot some time in high school (late 90's), this was the beginning of my career in IT. I was hired sophomore year to be a member of the paid IT staff and never looked back. I'm also part of a loyal bunch of pot headed IT folk by the name of "Smokedot". We've been around for almost as long, but consume a lot more dorritos.
Thank you Slashdot, even though Rob called me a noob at LinuxWorld a while back, I still love you.
User ID vs year joined? (Score:5, Interesting)
Is there a way to see when I joined based on my ID? I think it was some time in 1997.
It'd be cool to see how membership has grown....
User Ids:
1995 : 0 - 1000
1996: 1001 - 50000
1997; 50,000 - 200,000
etc...
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It's insane the number of people here now. Please note my low ID :)
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Everybody probalby thought 1200 users was a lot for the site back then. :) Once past 10,000 someone started saying how there are too many people and /. had lost its edge or wasn't cool anymore. Then around 90,000 people started registering for the low uids. Obviously I'm not a joiner. ;)
Re:User ID vs year joined? (Score:4, Insightful)
Some of us would just visit the site daily without siging up until a couple of years later to be able to submit stories, post or moderate.
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Yea, 90k is when it all went down hill.
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Back at the time, I actually purposely avoided signing up because it was right at the time that web accounts were ballooning and I didn't want to add to my set of disjointed accounts. Now I'm kind of sad that my uid is so high.
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When Slashdot finally implemented user accounts, there was a bit of paranoia about people losing their anonymity and I held off joining until finally one of the features was too juicy to have...I think it was one of the ways to sort posts :)
Back then, or a little before, you could essentially read every post every day without it taking TOO much of your time. LOL.
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And now we Google Plus with real IDs to fix all those disjointed accounts!
*ducks*
*ducks lower*
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Clearly I had more willpower than you did. And yes, I too was mighty annoyed at every other site wanting me to give them my full name, home address and my mother's first cat's favorite color just to access anything.
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Low ID? :D
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Hahaha, yes. You have me beat :)
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I was actually reading slashdot back in the 90s. But I didn't angry enough to subscribe until later :-)
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It's insane the number of people here now. Please note my low ID :)
I never think of mine as low, but the ones being given out now are over 3x mine. I think I got mine in '02 though, so that seems to scale if the rate the ids are given out remain static.
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1227 is truly impressive
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You didn't get yours in 1997. That is 15 years ago.
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I got mine at the end of 1998
Re:User ID vs year joined? (Score:4, Insightful)
I started reading late '97 but wasn't convinced to actually sign up until sometime in '99. My guess is that you signed up early 2000. There were a lot of people who lurked and posted anon back then rather than sign up, so slightly higher IDs aren't really an indication that people missed the early days.
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Something like that. Although with me it was probably first lurking, then registering, and only much later posting.
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Cue up a lame pissing match where people compete for the lowest number UID.
Oh, and mine is lower than yours. :)
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i assume you saw the ID of 53 a few lines above. 53.....now thats low.
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I remember chips & dips. And when the admins made us create users on the system to control the comments! :)
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Three cheers for 15 years of pedantic trolls like you who fail to understand context and higher-level thought patterns!
Hip hip! Yawn....
Host a G+ Hangout! (Score:4, Interesting)
Please host a series of G+ hangouts. Come on guys please? I'm begging.
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Interesting idea, we hadn't thought of that. I'll see if that's something we can do.
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You don't have to even log in to G+ to be in a hangout anymore.........
That must be some party ... (Score:5, Funny)
I can only imagine how that party plays out.
Several groups standing around flaming one another over something inane. A couple of people saying the party is a dupe. One guy in the corner talking about picking poo out of the toilet in the library. A couple of people walking around with the goatse picture trying to get people to look at it. And one or two people who seem to have Tourette's shouting obscenities for no good reason. One really loud guy saying the iPad is for hipster douchebags even though he's never used one. The odd mumble about our new Dice (or other) overlords.
Shame there's not one near me. ;-)
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I wonder if I could sell tin foil hats at a party?
i joined in 2000. or 1999. i forget (Score:2)
i visit at least weekly, if not daily, since then
thanks slashdot!
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but i did join in 1999 or 2000. really!
is there an objective chart somewhere to correlate year of join and uid?
Re:i joined in 2000. or 1999. i forget (Score:4, Insightful)
They're not necessarily correlated. I created an account a while back (over a decade ago) under my college email address. I'd consider that to be when I "joined" Slashdot. After I graduated I lost access to that email address. Since I didn't remember the password for that old account, and didn't have access to the email address to which the password change email would be sent, that account is dead and so I created this new one. In hindsight, I should have changed the email on that old account to use an address to which I would retain access even after graduation, but hindsight is 20/20 and my foresight is significantly worse.
I can't find it (Score:2)
Oh dear (Score:2)
You know, if you have to bribe people to hold a party... and with t-shirts... it's all a bit sad.
The old girl's looking pretty rough these days.
logo contest (Score:2)
Is this in addition to or replacement of the logo contest?
http://slashdot.org/logocontest.shtml [slashdot.org]
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It's in addition to the logo contest.
Has it been that long? (Score:4, Interesting)
15 years of an almost daily ritual, and yet 99% of the time I don't post myself. Still, good times!
How about some birthday presents for the users (Score:4, Interesting)
Let's give the users some birthday presents. How about bringing about some features that people have been asking for?
Mobile Application - how does a technology based website /not/ have a mobile application? /whatever/
Mobile Support - actually trying to use slashdot on a mobile platform is painful.
Simple Status Change - a simple delta of how people have modded you or commented on your comments?
A disagree button - it's 15 years on and their is still no simple 'disagree', instead fanbois simply -1 any comment against their pet
Comment activity - if you've got a comment that's being heavily modified you can't get the stats for it anymore, as memory serves you used to.
Your user stats - once upon a time these were available, now your limited to your number of +5 comments
Better shill detection - I wouldn't think this would be that hard to program, but I'm not a programmer
Editor - enough said!
Re:How about some birthday presents for the users (Score:5, Interesting)
We've got a couple presents coming. We're just about done wrapping them.
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Awesome, look forward to seeing them.
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That's what someone says when they forgot to buy the present!
Makes me feel old. (Score:3)
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It's nothing near as bad as that September when Usenet died.
Most memorable article? (Score:2)
For me, Kathleen Fent Read this Story [slashdot.org] which proved to me that geeks can be loved.
You still look 12 (Score:3)
...or 26, depending on the lighting.
While we're at it:
"This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations. "
So your new foster parents are a little uptight about stuff, eh? Too bad about that. You may be no fun to play with soon, but at least the worst trolls will be dismayed. For a while.
Re:You still look 12 (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, that's just people finding a new way to troll by pasting that line into their comments. No posts are being deleted.
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Of course not...
Re:You still look 12 (Score:4, Informative)
*shrug*
You're welcome to believe or not as you choose, but a quick browse through at -1 should provide plenty of evidence that even the most uncomplimentary or impolite comments are staying in place.
Gunzerk this (Score:2)
What are you doing later?
Borderlands 2 four player co-op. No, you are not invited.
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I'm lucky to have exactly three with very similar gaming tastes, although we do have wildly different schedules at times.
There's drop-in drop-out matchmaking if you don't.
T-Shirt sizes (Score:4, Insightful)
Please ship the t-shirts somewhat like this:
10% Small 50% Medium, 30% Large, 10% XLarge
and not only "large" (or was it XL?) like the 10th anniversary...
Cheers and happy birthday! :D
Re:T-Shirt sizes (Score:4, Insightful)
This is slashdot ... Try 1% Small, 9% Medium, 30% Large, 40% X-Large and 20% XXXL
The real question is... (Score:2)
Where is OOG? What will he smash now that there are no more open souce CDs? OOG SMASH TORRENT LINK.. just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Is Natalie Portman still naked and petrified after all these years? :-)
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You know, you really haven't had the full Slashdot experience if you haven't browsed at -1 at least for a while. There are trolls, and then there are some truly dedicated individuals that have taken it to the next level.
I suspect the grits are still hot.
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..you're doing WHAT to that Yoda doll?
I don't remember most of the articles, but there's art in some of the trolls.
SlashApp (Score:2)
I got a email awhile back about a slashdot app, has this come out yet? I figured they would on anniversary.
First post! (Score:2)
Montréal's party (Score:3)
Le voilà:
http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=843 [slashdot.org]
Same name, different critter? (Score:3)
Only it's not really the same "Slashdot" any more now, is it? It's like a sex slave being passed around from one plantation owner to another, but none of 'em likes her enough to cough up a weddin' ring.
One thing's for sure (Score:3)
This party is going to be a sausage fest.
Anyone here have a lower user number than me? (Score:2)
Mine is 422
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I see alexandre (53)!
Who's got a single digit?
Thanks, Slashdot! (Score:3)
Thanks for providing one of the best internet forums for intelligent discussions. Some people will claim that this site isn't what it once was, but many other sites have come up and none of them provide a better format for progressive discussions. Don't ever lose that, Slashdot!
it was good (Score:2)
It was good while it lasted.
Happy Birthday.
Oklahoma and Southern Kansas... (Score:2)
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You forgot to count the dupes
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Looking at your list of submissions I wouldn't throw any stones there chief.
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Re:Should have just held it a little early... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to have to see a birth certificate to validate your UID.
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I'm going to have to see a birth certificate to validate your UID.
You want tax returns with that birth certificate too..?
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I'll get there early so I can prep my speech about how great Windows 7 Phone is.
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You won't. The real Anonymous Coward always disguises him or herself by posting under an UID. Those who post under that name are impostors.
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How exactly does anything to do with story submission fix the moderation of comments that follows? See, you're precisely the sort of shoot-from-the-hip knee-jerker that the moderation system should exclude. You would moderate before you think. What's done is then done, even if you do belatedly bring some introspection to bear; you can't change your mods. Well... you could if you posted in the discussion, but would we really wanna hear what you have to say after you shot from the hip in the first place?
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I started a local Slashdot Meetup (meetup.com) years ago, but I guess the interaction with real people was too much because it fizzled in six months.
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