Journal RLiegh's Journal: "Score 1:flamebait" (a whine about groupthink) 4
Slashdot was doing so well there for a while. I remember when I first started reading (and posting AC) in 99 or thereabouts and the groupthink was so thick you were left with only one of two choices:
1)troll
2)do your best to guess (and tow) the party line
Some time around 2002 it seemed as though Slashdot was genuinely making a good-faith attempt at cleaning up the groupthink, and whatever they've done has made a considerable difference. I'm no longer shocked when I see a pro-microsoft comment or a strongly liberal or republican comment modded up.
Once in a while, the groupthink rears its' ugly head, however. It did in this comment. At the time of this writing, I can afford the hit, but it's still offensive given that my criticism was tempered, and born from experience.
What's amazing is that I actually took it easy on slackware, too. The reason behind the X/Console freeze is a well-known bug in X.org; which Pat has (god knows why) prematurely decided to include in Slackware. I don't know what the console font problem was all about, and maybe if I had removed the vga= line from lilo.conf (as one poster suggested) that might have fixed it.
It's a shame. I won't be discouraged from posting (though I may investigate proxies and go AC for any "controversial" critiques) but it is a damned shame.
We've come so far, but Jamie and crew have so much further still to go (if they choose to do so).
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These days you do see pro-microsoft and anti-linux posts getting modded up. That's been a recent (in the last two years) development. The reason for that, however, is mysterious "measures" that jamie told me (during an irc chat w/ taco) the slashdot crew was in the process of taking steps to acti