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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @09:01AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Monday March 17 2014, @09:01AM (#17462)
We need higher quality posts than this (... with comments from "wankers" and "batmans") if we want to survive. The other possibility is to disappear into oblivion like so many sites before us. Consider the two.
Act civil! Be smart and literate! Don't post shit! Don't be a dick!
I'd like to see this as an experimental post, this site came up quick with the help from the community. There were a lot of hard hours put in with lots of encouragement and participation by the community.
I think this post was trying to appeal to the human side of people in an attempt at having a post talk about the members and to have a place for people to find out about all the others out there. I don't think it has worked out as intended but I guess thats how you learn in life. Things are still new so I am sure things will get better over time but I don't think comments like you have written are going to help one bit.
I think this post was trying to appeal to the human side of people in an attempt at having a post talk about the members and to have a place for people to find out about all the others out there. I don't think it has worked out as intended but I guess thats how you learn in life.
Likely story- In reality, the Soylent staff is trying to mine data about us for the NSA and Google- hidden, thuper-thecret data that these dastardly organizations couldn't find anywhere else. The fact that nobody is required to post a reply is a malevolent ploy at reverse-psychology that nobody can resist. I mean, really... God only knows how you intend to use this wealth of information... Wait- you guys are working for/., aren't you! You're going to cross-reference this sensitive inforomation to, to, -do something bad- to us in revenge for our waning loyalty to our Dice overlords.
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As a side-note, could we please have a \conspiracy sub-soylent?
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Oh, and before I forget: Bioinformatician
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PS- A bit more whitespace for the HTML "p" tag, please.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @09:01AM
We need higher quality posts than this (... with comments from "wankers" and "batmans") if we want to survive. The other possibility is to disappear into oblivion like so many sites before us. Consider the two.
Act civil!
Be smart and literate!
Don't post shit!
Don't be a dick!
https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/20 10/08/17/dont-be-a-dick-part-1-the-video/ [discovermagazine.com]
(Score: 2) by TheloniousToady on Monday March 17 2014, @12:39PM
Good suggestions. In particular, following those guidelines would be a great way to distinguish this site from Slashdot. ;-)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by elf on Monday March 17 2014, @02:07PM
I'd like to see this as an experimental post, this site came up quick with the help from the community. There were a lot of hard hours put in with lots of encouragement and participation by the community.
I think this post was trying to appeal to the human side of people in an attempt at having a post talk about the members and to have a place for people to find out about all the others out there. I don't think it has worked out as intended but I guess thats how you learn in life. Things are still new so I am sure things will get better over time but I don't think comments like you have written are going to help one bit.
(Score: 1) by Peristaltic on Monday March 17 2014, @11:33PM
Likely story- In reality, the Soylent staff is trying to mine data about us for the NSA and Google- hidden, thuper-thecret data that these dastardly organizations couldn't find anywhere else. The fact that nobody is required to post a reply is a malevolent ploy at reverse-psychology that nobody can resist. I mean, really... God only knows how you intend to use this wealth of information... Wait- you guys are working for /., aren't you! You're going to cross-reference this sensitive inforomation to, to, -do something bad- to us in revenge for our waning loyalty to our Dice overlords.
.
As a side-note, could we please have a \conspiracy sub-soylent?
.
Oh, and before I forget: Bioinformatician
.
PS- A bit more whitespace for the HTML "p" tag, please.
(Score: 2) by xlefay on Tuesday March 18 2014, @09:59AM
Wait, how did you know?
(Score: 1) by Peristaltic on Tuesday March 18 2014, @06:53PM