Slashdot Slashdot "Anonymous Coward" is a term applied within some online communities to describe users who post without a handle; it is a dummy name attributed to anonymous posts used by some weblogs that allow posting by people without registering for accounts. The practice originated on Slashdot, where the mildly derogatory term is meant to chide anonymous contributors into logging in. Some weblog engines such as Scoop use the term "Anonymous Hero" instead, perhaps to avoid the name's confrontational nature. Others use stronger varieties, like Plastic.com's "Anonymous Idiot". ...more on Wikipedia about "Anonymous Coward"
CowboyNeal is the online nickname ("handle") on Slashdot and other websites of Slashdot editor Jon Pater. His handle was inspired by a Grateful Dead tribute to Neal Cassady in their song, That’s It for The Other One, the lyrics of which run: ...more on Wikipedia about "CowboyNeal"
"First Post!" is an Internet phenomenon on Internet discussion groups (notably Slashdot and LiveJournal), where participants strive to be the first person to "post" a comment to a new article or discussion thread. This terminology dates back to the days of the BBS, when one would post a comment, much as one would post a reply on a physical bulletin board. The phenomenon is largely confined to sites that have reached a high degree of popularity, such that users are genuinely surprised to see an article without any associated comments. There is also the necessary condition that comments are displayed in chronological order (meaning the first message is the most prominently displayed). It is prevalent among user-commentary sites and does not often appear on conventional webboards, community journals, etc. ...more on Wikipedia about "First post"
The Gay Nigger Association of America (better known by its four letter abbreviation GNAA) is a self-aggrandizing Internet troll pseudo-organization that primarily targets Internet communities in an effort to cause havoc and disrupt their normal activities. The GNAA designed their name to be offensive and it is generally assumed to have been chosen because of the perceived shock value that is associated with homosexuality and the impact of the racial slur " nigger". Although it is termed "Association of America" the organization also has participants from countries other than the United States of America. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gay Nigger Association of America"
Most often used in the context of being revoked. A geek license is an abstract object belonging to any geek. A geek's license is "revoked" when they do or say something very un-geek-like, such as not knowing what Babylon 5 is, not recognising that a site is a Wikipedia clone, or forgetting to check if the computer is plugged in before calling in tech support. The term appears to stem from Slashdot culture (1) , where it was used as a meme to inform other posters of posts that were not thought out well enough. ...more on Wikipedia about "Geek license"
This article is a timeline of the most important major events in Slashdot history. Since its inception in 1997, the geek/ technology web site Slashdot has had a long chronology of events that have contributed to its unique subculture. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Slashdot"
Jonathan Katz (born 1947) is a U.S. journalist and writer. He is mostly known for his contributions to the online magazine HotWired and the technology website Slashdot. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jon Katz"
Lameness filters are textbased filters used by SlashCode-based websites to stop junk comments from being posted in response to stories. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lameness filter"
A meta-moderation system is an arrangement used on some Internet websites (such as internet forums, blogs and news websites) which invite user comments. ...more on Wikipedia about "Meta-moderation system"
The Overlord meme is a snowclone using the following template: ...more on Wikipedia about "Overlord meme"
Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976), also known as CmdrTaco, is the founder of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rob Malda"
Slash (a backronym for Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage) is the open source collection of Perl scripts which runs Slashdot, one of the oldest and most popular collaborative weblogs in existence. Slash was originally written by Rob Malda. It was later rewritten for version 2.0 by Brian Aker, Patrick Galbraith, and Chris Nandor. Today slash is maintained by Jamie McCarthy and Chris Nandor, among others. The package is often incorrectly called Slashcode, which is the name of the website and SourceForge project. ...more on Wikipedia about "Slash (weblog system)"
Category:slashdotThe term Slashbot refers to a stereotypical participant of the technology-oriented weblog called Slashdot. It's generally a pejorative term -- although some wear the badge proudly -- and implies one or more of the following habitual behaviors: ...more on Wikipedia about "Slashbot"
Slashdot (often abbreviated to /.) is a popular technology-related website, updated many times daily with articles that are short summaries of stories on other websites with links to the stories, and provisions for readers to comment on each story. Front page stories generally receive at least 70 such comments, with especially popular or controversial articles reaching totals of more than 1,000. The site resembles a blog in many ways, albeit with threaded comments. The summaries for the stories are generally submitted by Slashdot's own readers with editors accepting or rejecting these contributions for general posting. The site also sometimes features movie or book reviews, interviews, and "Ask Slashdot": queries from users requesting information from the readership. ...more on Wikipedia about "Slashdot"
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The Slashdot effect is the term given to the phenomenon of a popular website linking to a smaller site, causing the smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic. The name comes from the huge influx of web traffic that often results from sites being mentioned on Slashdot, a popular technology news and information site. Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable – either their bandwidth is consumed or their servers fail to cope with the high number of requests. ...more on Wikipedia about "Slashdot effect"
The Slashdot subculture is a mixture of juvenilia, sarcasm, deliberately bad jokes, intellectual arrogance and highly developed and artistic attempts to provoke outraged responses from other forum users, amuse them, or challenge their thinking on the popular Slashdot technology website. Many of these are older phenomena which originated in common slang culture, later migrating to Usenet and eventually Slashdot. ...more on Wikipedia about "Slashdot subculture"
Slashdot trolling phenomena make up a large subset of the bizarre and complex subculture found on the popular technology website Slashdot. They are a mixture of juvenilia, sarcasm, deliberately bad jokes, tasteless nonsense and highly developed and artistic attempts to provoke outraged responses from other forum users, or amuse them. Slashdot trolling is a subset and a microcosm of Internet trolling in general. Some of these behaviours are usually considered to be more offensive or insightful than others. On Slashdot, many of these phenomena have become the object of parody. ...more on Wikipedia about "Slashdot trolling phenomena"
Trolltalk (also known as 20721, sid 20721 or sid=20721) is a hidden story ID on the online news discussion forum Slashdot, where Slashdot trollers used to converse amongst themselves, sometimes demonstrating new trolling techniques, bragging about successful trolling and insulting each other. Trolltalk is the oldest active SID on Slashdot, and has received more posts over its lifetime than any other SID, but due to Slashcode's purge feature, only the most recent two weeks of posts remain at any given time. Although the two-week post count is usually in the thousands, at least 95% of the posts are intentionally content-free "crapfloods" generated by automated posting scripts, with the remaining handful being written by the various people who visit the forum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Trolltalk"
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