Comments on: Hottest linkspam evar. Or something. (27th October, 2009)

By: Zack

Zack — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:54:12 +0000

My memory is less reliable than I thought — Slashdot didn’t even exist before 1997. So it must have been some time after that that I gave up on its comment threads. *shrug*

By: Gustavo Noronha

Gustavo Noronha — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:56:59 +0000

The comments on the ‘hottest geek girls’ are surprisingly civil. Most people seem to heartly admire the women who were profiled by their geekness and for the work they do, not only for their beauty.

I have found 2 not civil comments before I stopped reading. One was from a guy, standard sexism, the other was from someone who claimed to be a feminist, demanding that a ’12 hottest geek guys’ post was now mandatory =(.

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:33:24 +0000

Linkspam submission: from http://twitter.com/MitchellBaker/status/5235084528 Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker rags on http://www.mindtouch.com/blog/2009/10/27/most-influential-people-in-open-source/ this dumbass “most influential” list that doesn’t mention a single woman (and seems to be all about execs rather than coders, see also http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2009/10/27/whats-missing-from-the-most-influential-people-in-open-source-list/ )

(Disclosure: I work for MozCo.)

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:29:43 +0000

Slashdot hasn’t been where all the smart nerd kids hang out since, idunno, 1997 is when I gave up on it. Didn’t even last as long as (pockets of) USEnet.

Not that I have any idea where the smart nerd kids do hang out. I think they’re probably smeared thin across many different blogs.

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:31:58 +0000

WTF @ slashdot. Every time I think I should go see what’s going on over there, ’cause it’s clearly where all the smart nerd kids hang out, the comments quickly remind me that “nerdy” and “stupid” are not mutually-exclusive. It doesn’t help their case that the top story atm (neanderthals and ‘modern’ humans interbreeding) is old news. Like, “inspiration for Clan of the Cave Bear” old, which probably means it’s older than most of the posters themselves. WTF, again.

By: moose

moose — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:37:22 +0000

Wow. that person who wrote the post that included the “hatred towards fat disabled people” really pissed me off. And, yes, I said something.

They go on about how they’ve been “othered” and how their disability is just another thing to make them different.

And then they have the audacity to turn around and say that fat people using carts annoy them. Because, you know, fat people are just lazy jerks who never exercise, constantly eat (and always junk food), etc. and are of course deserving of scorn and 2nd class status. How dare they be disabled, too! The nerve!

Jeebus. PEOPLE PISS ME OFF.

*cough* sorry. Thanks for the links! :-)