From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 07:41:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70CD037B401 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:41:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empire.explosive.mail.net (empire.explosive.mail.net [205.205.25.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6283743FA3 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mykroft@explosive.mail.net) Received: (qmail 27579 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2003 14:40:30 -0000 Received: from kingdom.mykroft.com (HELO explosive.mail.net) (205.205.25.113) by empire.explosive.mail.net with SMTP; 11 Jul 2003 14:40:30 -0000 Message-ID: <3F0ECDFE.1090506@explosive.mail.net> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:47:26 -0400 From: Mykroft Holmes IV User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" References: <20030711001942.683F537B401@hub.freebsd.org> <200307101908.47976.andrewr@uidaho.edu> <013201c347b8$df5d15c0$d037630a@dh.com> In-Reply-To: <013201c347b8$df5d15c0$d037630a@dh.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Andrew Robinson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *BSD is dying X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:41:04 -0000 Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > The fact that it is a moderated forum leads me to believe that the slashdot > operators are themselves FreeBSD bigots. I for one have much less respect > for Slashdot for allowing that drivel through. > > Tom Veldhouse > Slashdot is a user moderated forum. Registered users periodically get mod points, and they can then bump a particular post by +1 or -1 in the comments section of any article they haven't posted a comment in, The posts are rated on a scale of -1 to +5 and you can browse at at any rating, browsing at 0 or +1 is common. The operators only determine what articles are posted, not what the comments are, and the 'BSD is Dying' troll is always a comment in a Unix related article. Note that the slashdot operators are often accused of being pro-BSD and Pro-Mac bigots, simply from the number of BSD and Mac articles they post. Posts are almost never deleted (The only time I'm aware of that posts may have been tinkered with involved a lawsuit from Microsoft). While Slashdot has many faults, censorship is not one they practice. Adam