jcuervo's Journal: Well, that lasted about a day.

What happened to that "day pass" I saw at the top of Slashdot once?

In case you haven't come across it, a big thing comes across the top of the front page saying something along the lines of "Yuo aer teh suq. Go look at an ad for fifteen seconds, and we'll give you a Slashdot day pass" -- which basically lets you look at articles from the Mysterious Future for 24 hours or so.

I thought it was going to become a regular thing, but I've only seen it once. Is it gone, or just hard to come by?

Twice

[Alioth]

I've seen it twice - about March last year or so (and someone on IRC saw it simultaneously). I saw it again perhaps 3 weeks ago. However, it seemed like the day pass was tied to your machine (probably by a cookie) not your username because it only worked on the computer I did the day pass thing on. It does seem incredibly rare.