Kiwi's Journal: I'm leaving Slashdot

To quote one of MaraDNS' users:

[Slashdot] is all nonsense. A bunch of nerdy kids who like debate but weren't popular enough to be on their highschool debate teams or whatnot get together and argue and debate and act like hysterical pundits while lame editors sensationalize every mundane DoS attack that happens (and repost it three times in the same week to keep the flames flying high!). A huge waste of time, energy, and bandwidth...

Seriously, Slashdot is little more than a flame-fest for kids who really need to get laid. I've had enough of the flames, the anonymous assholes who are allowed to insult people who actually accomplish something with their lives, people who think personal insults here are OK, etc.

The replies to any given post are pathetic when trying to divulge any real information and even more pathetic when people lose their basic decency and flame people for daring to have an opinion different from theirs.

Especially pathetic are the pirates who will never write a decent song (or, for that matter, any song) in their lives, who will never be part of the production of a movie, or bless the world with any creative input who have the gall to tell people who do make how that they must give their art away. All because they are selfish little brats who cry "gimme! gimme! gimme!".

Or, for that matter, the kids who spend all day downloading Linux ISOs, do not contribute one bit to any open source software, then whine when Linux companies are having financial problems. Again, acting like little six-year-olds saying "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"

I am changing my password to one which I will not remember; I do not think I will be logging on to Slashdot again.

- Sam