Journal Laxitive's Journal: Lameness filter MUST go 9
Ok, this is a somewhat juvenile post I made to a poll thread about command prompts. Yes, I flew off the handle there, but my points are valid.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=108424&cid=9225476
Please people, let's try figuring something out to get the lameness filter removed from slashdot. Using a perl script to figure out the value of posts is NOT the right way to solve the probem. The moderion system already exists and works pretty well. What difference does it make if a post is lame because the guy makes a one-liner about natalie portman and hot grits (wow, blast from the past
There exists a good system to take care of lameness, let's use it, instead of giving up control to a tyrranical perl script.
If you support this idea, and want to try to change it, put the following text in your sig:
The Lameness Filter MUST go
and make it link to this journal entry.
Thank you.
-Laxitive
Sig text (Score:2)
If you want to, just copy this text to your sig field.
<a href="http://slashdot.org/~Laxitive/journal/72213
-Laxitive
Re:hey man (Score:2)
I really didn't want to insult Malda or anything either. I tend to fly off the handle when things annoy me. I've dropped kicked a keyboard once because a sticky key kept getting on my nerves.
I know that particular post is not the best way of getting my point across. But oh well, once you say something it's
You *can* post as code. (Score:2)
Re:You *can* post as code. (Score:2)
http://wolfwood.ath.cx/~kvijayan/screenshots/slas h dot-lameness-filter.png [wolfwood.ath.cx]
Anything more than small snippets is rejected.
By the way, if you are interested. The script can be found here:
The Script [wolfwood.ath.cx]
That doesn't actually set your prompt. You then need to:
PROMPT_COMMAND='PS1=$(bash path/to/genprompt)'
In your
And this is what it looks like:
Example [wolfwood.ath.cx]
I got tired of being on long paths.. and having my commands wrap onto another line. After that.. I got tired of being
Re:You *can* post as code. (Score:2)
P.S. I do know that it doesn't set my prompt, it's part of a much larger bashrc that eventually gets around to it.
Re:You *can* post as code. (Score:2)
ASCII art, I would think, wou
Re:You *can* post as code. (Score:2)
And the bashrc has several different prompts that I can switch, based on my mood. I just comment out the ones I don't want.
Re:You *can* post as code. (Score:2)
You can just copy the HTML I posted as the first comment in this journal entry, if you want.
Thanks.
-Laxitive