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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Q: What do you call a blind pre-historic animal?
A: Diyathinkhesaurus.
Q: What do you call a blind pre-historic animal with a dog?
A: Diyathinkhesaurus Rex.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05, @11:09AM (9 children)
This is getting ridiculous. It is not me, janrinok, it is the other AC who is complaining. I never complain. Once again you fall prey to the Dunning-Koeger syndrome, you are not smart enough to know that you don't know. If I were to tell you who I am, I would say, "Hey, janrinok, its me! You know, this AC!" and you would say,"Hey, unique and peculiar AC, how's it hanging?" And we would be friends forever. But this is not what is happening. You are leaping to conclusions without being introduced, and deleting and censoring based on your own illicit presumption. This is a very bad way to manage a discussion site. And now we are enemies forever! It did not have to be this way. And you can still mend your ways. And apology for mistaking me for a different AC would be a good place to start.
(Score: 2, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday April 05, @11:35AM (2 children)
Previously post 26 times. Spam
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05, @08:04PM (1 child)
This is getting ridiculous. It is not me, janrinok, it is the other AC who is complaining. I never complain. Once again you fall prey to the Dunning-Koeger syndrome, you are not smart enough to know that you don't know. If I were to tell you who I am, I would say, "Hey, janrinok, its me! You know, this AC!" and you would say,"Hey, unique and peculiar AC, how's it hanging?" And we would be friends forever. But this is not what is happening. You are leaping to conclusions without being introduced, and deleting and censoring based on your own illicit presumption. This is a very bad way to manage a discussion site. And now we are enemies forever! It did not have to be this way. And you can still mend your ways. And apology for mistaking me for a different AC would be a good place to start.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05, @08:54PM
You are the Great Cornholio [youtube.com] and I claim my $5.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 06, @05:08PM (5 children)
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 06, @08:52PM (4 children)
"Sometimes in politics, and in history, a malignant force must simply be defeated, and then defeated again, and then defeated again. That is where we are."
Dr. David P. Gushee, a Christian ethics professor
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 06, @10:51PM (1 child)
When will you defeat yourself as a malignant force and do something interesting with your life? It's a nuisance for us, but it must really suck for you.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07, @10:06AM
My least favorite stories are the ones where khallow takes an interest, and feels compelled to give us his "take" on it. Usually political, but endlessly boring, almost like he owned a company, and was on the spectrum. Science stories are good, even though they do not get a lot of comments, especially from khallow.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday April 07, @04:12AM (1 child)
Posted multiple times previously.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07, @08:13PM
Parent posted multiple times. Such pathetic and tiresome Spam!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by turgid on Saturday April 05, @11:34AM (6 children)
My favourites here are the really interesting science stories, particularly when there's something new in Physics and Astronomy. Next would be FOSS topics and programming languages. It's difficult to keep on top of all the things I'm interested in and I really appreciate when people submit good stories and journal discussions here. The ability to discuss the topics below the line is great. There are some very knowledgeable, helpful people here and I really appreciate their input. Which reminds me, I must try to renew my subscription again.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 5, Insightful) by zocalo on Saturday April 05, @12:25PM (1 child)
That said, I'd much prefer a decent mix of stories across all the poll options than a heavy bias towards any one in particular, including a few randoms and even political/financial/current affairs/creative arts type topics if there's a reasonable angle or it's just something that feels important enough to discuss. I'm quite happy with the current mix, really - you can always skip a story if it doesn't interest you.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 07, @10:47PM
Like most, I voted for Science, but really I'm here for the variety. I like the fact that we get a variety of stories, and presumably a more refined selection from each category.
I'd much rather see one good Cybersecurity story per day, mixed with a good Software, a good Hardware, a good Science story, instead of 15 Cybersecurity stories.
🌻🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Touché) by VLM on Saturday April 05, @05:37PM (3 children)
Huh good reminder, subscription reminders would be a funny future poll topic. I have also renewed as of this morning
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07, @05:11AM (1 child)
How long does it take for you to notice when your subscription to SN expires?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday April 07, @08:00AM
You can opt to have an email warning you of the need to renew the subscription by selecting the appropriate option on your personal page ('Messages' - 'Subscription Running Low' or 'Subscription Expired').
However, while a lapsed subscription prevents a few remaining perks from being available, there is no obligation to subscribe if all you wish to do is participate in discussions. That is entirely free and will remain so.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 09, @10:42PM
There, FTFY
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Vocal Minority on Sunday April 06, @04:57AM (3 children)
Articles have topics?!
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday April 06, @06:04AM (2 children)
Assuming this is a genuine surprise, each story has an icon attached to it which indicates under which topic it is published. You can also filter stories by topic (in your personal settings) so you do not see the ones that you do not want to see.
Part of the editors role is to ensure that we have a mix of topics and we try not to publish stories from the same topic next to each other. It isn't always possible but most of the time it is.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 2) by The Vocal Minority on Sunday April 06, @09:24AM (1 child)
Hmmm, fascinating :P
What I meant to say was that even though the topics are there, I barely even notice them.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday April 06, @01:58PM
I thought that you couldn't have gone 11 years without noticing them - but I have been asked some rather surprising questions in the last 2 years or so, things that I thought everyone knew.
I will accept the whoosh but my defence is as stated above!
Enjoy what remains of your weekend! (It is Sunday afternoon here.)
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by pTamok on Sunday April 06, @01:44PM
It's probably Meta - information about the running of the site itself. I'm interested in making sure that SN sticks around.
For the topics I'm most interested in, I have more focussed sites - SN is great for me sticking my head out of the echo chamber and seeing new interesting stuff. Doomscrolling on Mastodon is not nearly as effective use of my time as far as Signal/Noise ratio is concerned.
So, for me, the most interesting topic on SN is about SN itself. Which is either meta, or recursive, or both.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by KritonK on Tuesday April 08, @04:46AM
Um... all of the above? I wouldn't be visiting SN on a daily basis, if only some articles were interesting.