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What is your favorite classic green site trope?
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It was all so different before everything changed.
(Score: 5, Informative) by cereal_burpist on Tuesday June 09, @04:04AM (2 children)
"First post!"
(Score: 3, Funny) by mhajicek on Tuesday June 09, @04:34AM (1 child)
First post with frickin' lasers!
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 5, Touché) by cereal_burpist on Tuesday June 09, @04:49AM
Well I, for one, welcome our new poll-ish overlords.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09, @05:04AM (1 child)
Based on the question, the "classic green site trope" has to be Cowboy Neal. It is the only trope that really belongs to the green site. The rest are all memes that either arose independent of Slashdot (hot grits, the Russian Reversal, Frikkin' laser beams, and insensitive clod), were a part of general Internet culture (Beowulf cluster, Netcraft confirms it, and can it run Linux). But good ole Cowboy Neal? That is pure Slashdot and only Slashdot. Other memes may have been used there, maybe even more than at other sites. But Cowboy Neal is the only one on that list that is truly and only home at Slashdot.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11, @01:13PM
+1 Pedantic
(Score: 3, Touché) by chucky on Tuesday June 09, @02:17PM (1 child)
I don't know what you're talking about, I hardly remember the green site, haven’t been there since this site exists.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 10, @04:39PM (3 children)
Some incredibly wise, witty, and handsome individual used to post shitty automobile analogies as a fun challenge... oh wait, that was me LOL.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday June 11, @01:48PM (1 child)
Does this individual still look like Roger Moore [soylentnews.org]? Hopefully not like he does now though... :)
"rancid randy has a dialogue with herself[...] Somebody help him!" -- Anonymous Coward.
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Thursday June 11, @06:30PM
I had to laugh. I'm the same age as he was in "Moonraker". I have fewer wrinkles probably from less sun exposure, and my skin isn't as red. I do NOT do the 1970s sideburns. But yeah I still kind of look like that dude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore [wikipedia.org]
"During filming for The Spy Who Loved Me, Moore suffered burns on his buttocks during a chair explosion stunt." LOL I have avoided that so far.
I was surprised to find out he died in 2017 I hope I make it to 90. I'll probably still be shitposting on SN into the 2060s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11, @08:05PM
Needs you have, to take the Trump Cognitive decline and Memory loss test. This true is not.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10, @09:04PM (2 children)
if only we had a cowboy cluster of Beowulf Neales, with linux poll beams, would it become year of windoze on in soviet bbs, where we would be free to spin up a distro on russian metal with bare basement, IMHO, TLDR, TFA WTF dis?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by DECbot on Thursday June 11, @04:00PM
I see what you did there...
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday June 11, @08:23PM
Cool the cluster with hot grits.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday June 11, @06:40PM
I remember getting pretty ticked off about the wednesday 2pm central time e-ink story. There began to be a pattern, then one last one came along at 2pm and that was essentially my last post on /.
I gave cmdrtaco a bunch of shit about it offsite and I also met at least one editor/jannie/wtf IRL in person at a computer conference and everyone insists the old site was not paid to post astroturf ads.
I think years/decades later, being as charitable as possible, during boring times of minimal news, they pulled from a pool of filler and "back in the day" the pool of filler at the time was pee'd full of e-ink, e-ink press releases, e-readers based on e-ink, e-ink e-ink e-ink. So it was coincidental that I'd be bored, the site would be bored, they gotta post something from the pool of filler, thus a MUCH higher than average chance of an e-ink story being used as filler material.
Kind of like you can set your watch by the righto.com blogposts being made stories. The difference between righto.com blogposts and eink stories is I really like righto.com blogposts so I don't mind that SN essentially has a RSS feed from Mr. Ken (and I suppose indirectly from Mr. Marc and friends etc)
I think maybe /. would have been better off posting nothing rather than occasionally posting slop during quiet times. Yeah yeah X posts per day to keep the buzz but if there just aren't X quality posts some days, well, I'd have preferred seeing "X-1" posts that day to seeing (X-1) good stories plus one story of slop.