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OK, the largest number ever. With another 9,950 or so posts to this article, someone *really* gets the 10,000 post on the 10,000 article. The prize will be a [drum roll, please] yes, a life! :)

This will lead to new depths of behavior. Lured by the not so lurid prizes, the cellar dwellers of the web will realize that the first post nonsese was just the beginning; there's plenty of cool numbers.
10,001 will be of interest for the symmetry. But it will be hard to top 12,321 and 12,345 . . . (except, of course, by getting post 666 in a microsoft thead :)

hawk, who should really know better . . .

This is the 23,114,038 "first post!" that wasn't.

Congrats, /.

Ben

I'm hoping to start a collection of The Worst of Slashdot. Send me links to the best Troll, offtopic, stupid, bizarre, and funny posts ever. I want Natalie Portman with hot grits using a Beowolf posts! I want BSD is evil/sucks posts. Send the links to xm@geekmafia.dynip.com [mailto] I want them all. THis will be no mere lame webpage. Think Yahoo-style directories
TOP::Natalie_Portman::With_Hot_Grits
TOP::BSD::BSD_IS_EVIL

Send them /.ers! and remember........ "Jon Katz is a Windbag!"

the most popular/controversial story I wonder?

JonKatz would probably kick everyone's ass with over 90% of the total bytes in body.

We can come up with better words than those...

"Pungent"
"Quixotic"
"Post-postmodern"
"Touching"
"Outré"
"Demented"
"Obvious"
"Bloodthirsty"

And one more really useful one,

"Wrong."

I might as well say it...

I'm the Monkey Moderator.

I feel that I've outdone myself with this latest Masterpiece of Monkey Moderation, and to celebrate... I'm revealing my secret identity.

I can't take credit for every one of the monkey moderations you've all seen, but I've posted all but a couple that I know of. I've actually hoped it'd catch on a bit more than it has, but alas... I was unable to keep up with so many trolls on my own.

You'll still see the occasional monkey moderation from me. I'm not going to let this die easily... but from now on, I'll honestly take the karma hits as they come.

Here's to Monkey Moderation in all it's Glory (hehe)... may it continue!

"It all started with a Monkey."

LouZiffer

Re:In celebration... (Score:5)
(-1 here I come...)

Has anyone else noticed that when someone posts "I'll probably be moderated down for this", "There goes my karma", or "-1, flamebait", they are almost certain to be moderated UP?

Hmm.. my karma could use a boost:
"Yea, I'll probably be moderated WAAAAAY down for this. I'm sacrificing my karma by posting this, but I think the original bears repeating."
That'll probably grab someone's attention. (-:

Maybe we should take a peek at the first few stories to see how things have changed?

Congratulations and continued good luck!

How about...

• Party-line
• Wrong
• Yes, I agree
• Spam
• h4X0r-speak
• pr0n
• Anecdote
• Waffle

Come on Moderators, Move this one up a little more. Hot grits posts are as much a part of this site as anything else, give him that +5 Funny, he's earned it, after all he's posted on just about every one of the 10,000. That's /. Commitment, even if it's a little misguided.

of postings, the next 10,000 will take roughly 2.5 weeks.

Damn,

I still have 9930 articles to go through...


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This is where I should write something
intelligent or funny but since I'm

how bout letting us moderators type in our own ?

I can see it now:

Re:In celebration... (Score:3.1415926539, Yes, I agree, Wrong, Yes, need write ins, Are you crazy, Not a bad idea, waffle, orange, cool, a troll moderator was here but I'm too lazy to make a real troll comment so I'll just moderate with a stupid write in, ok, great idea, bill gates sucks, Monkey, Hot Grits, MEEPT!!, fuck off, right, libertarian, Insightful, Troll, +5, Bruce_Perens., moderator whore, more... [slashdot.org])
by Zurk [slashdot.org] (zurk@SPAMSUCKSgeocities.com) on 09:49 AM February 24th, 2000 CST (#121)
(User Info [slashdot.org])

Hmm..you must have missed the Hellmouth stories. I remember the story you note, and how at around 400 posts it was EXTREMELY active. Of course, that number of posts was exceeded just yesterday by the mention of a potential GPL violation.

I think a more accurate metric of the most active story would be total posts / total number of currently active posters (defined as, maybe, people who've posted within the last week). A more accurate metric of most visited stories would be total hits / total number of registered users. Thus a story commented on three times by every poster when there were 100 posters would be more active than a story commented on by half of 10,000 posters.

Who has the highest average reply rate (i.e., JonKatz usually gets 200-300, and not infrequently in excess of 400 or 500)?

Who is the "favorite" author on Slashdot (who has the highest number of hits per story, on average?)

What is the most frequently appearing topic? Linux, Microsoft, Star Wars Prequels, The Internet, Links, Quickies (when are we gonna get more quickies, anyway?), Science, or something else?

Who has posted the most comments, besides the Anonymous Coward?

What, in your opinion, were the coolest stories you've posted on Slashdot (yeah, the Netscape Open-Source thing was the indicator that Slashdot was "respectable", but what have you guys gotten the biggest kick out of posting?)?

Any regrets?

Anything you would do differently?

Did you ever imagine anything like this happening 3 years ago?

Where do we send congratulatory "Who" box sets?

So that would make this the 9999th story...
Now that everyone has forgotten the entire "when does the millennium start" fiasco, I needed something to bitch about.

Seriously tho, congratulations.../. has gotten me through more than one seriously boring computer lab.

Andrew

The first "naked and petrified" post on any open-source website was made by me on Segfault.org in July of 1999. I started with "Natalie Portman naked and petrified" because Ms. Portman had the greatest mass-market appeal and name recognition potential of any young lady I could think of.

I started "Mae Ling Mak naked and petrified" after becoming enamored by reading a couple of Ms. Mak's Segfault articles. I soon extended "naked and petrified" to others as well, and of course as it gained in popularity others took it in all new directions.

It wasn't me that took "naked and petrified", my beloved love-child, to Slashdot. In fact, I don't know WHO it was. But once comments were disabled on Segfault, SOMEONE did, and I decided to review my decision that Slashdot wasn't the right place for "naked and petrified". In fact, Slashdot was a *WONDERFUL* place for "naked and petrified".

I think it was roughly around September that Segfault disabled comments. I've been posting "naked and petrified" messages (including the famous "Open Letter to ESR" which ESR himself wound up reading) here ever since then, on and off, and so have my many loyal fans and followers. I've also engaged in a few other projects when my "naked and petrified" muse wasn't helpful, such as PR0J3C7 31337-H4X0R-5P34K, which never really got off the ground, although I am rather proud of its first work, "1 H4V3 4 DR34M".

Of course, petrification-related stuff has been around the Internet for as long as anyone can remember. As long as the Internet has existed, people with an interest in petrification have been able to find each other and talk about their interests. Only in the past 10 years, though, have the websites and newsgroups and stuff started to spring up related to that interest.

Well, it was a good 10,000. Here's to 10,000 more... NAKED AND PETRIFIED.

Does this include the 2,000 stories that were repeats of stories that were posted earlier?

I will now pour 10,000 bowls of hot grits down your pants !!!

(By the way, this is the 100,000,000th troll)

thank you.

100,000,000 trolls on Slashdot, 100,000,000 trolls,
Moderate one down, move your mouse around,
99,999,999 trolls on Slashdot...

I submitted this a months ago !

Hot ants down my pants, ouch !

In between all the flaming, we never take the time to really tell CmdrTaco and the rest of the team how we feel about the site. It really is a fine work, and I feel like it has changed my life to be able to come here and get an update on the latest News for Nerds, as well as good discussion of all the stories. So hat's off to all of you.

And hat's off, too, to all the people who have taken the time to post insightful, interesting, informative or funny comments; the site is as much about you, because the net has enabled you to participate as much as the authors of the stories and the editors who select them.

Despite all the whining about the acquisitions, it sounds like CmdrTaco has done the truly noble and honorable thing and guarded the independence that makes the site what it is. I can't tell you how much I respect that, and thank you for doing the right thing, and understanding what the right thing was to do.

And that means that the next 10,000 stories will give us all as much reason to come here as the last 10,000 did.

Of course, the number 10,000 is only significant to those of us who use a base-10 numeric system as their preferred counting device.

I would guess that many of us geeks who reed /. are able to count and manipulate numbers more easily in octal or hex, making this story (number 023420 or 2710h) pretty meaningless.
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31,000 hot grits pouring
22,000 Natalie Portman references (slowing down, guys)
33,000 Jon Katz flames
5,000 references to the supposed sexual preferences of Slashdot staff
10,000 "is this really news posts?"
10,000 First Posts
100,000 First Post wannabes
5,000 "I submitted this months ago" posts
and maybe
300 good trolls.

[Note that these numbers are based on recent averages]

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auntfloyd

Oh? It's early slashdot stories you seek?

You can't get much earlier than "Chips and Dips", and you can also get some insight into Taco, the Man, instead of Taco, the Commander...

So here are some screenshots for your enjoyment:

Taco's first e theme, Flaunt [cmdrtaco.net]. It was designed for 1600x1200, and DR11. And boy, if you don't see "Chips and Dips" right there on his screen. Talk about a little self-promotion!

And what else do we have? We have his DR12 theme, Obsidian! [cmdrtaco.net] Obsidian features a few irc chats here and there, and we get to see taco lurking (as an op no less) in #linuxwarez. Woo!

We also find out that, originally, his themes were hosted at mandrake.net, in the "TacoWare" directory on the ftp. Hmmmmmm. TacoWare. I think we have a competitor for the Dilberito!

Congrats guys, it's good to see all the progress that's been made.

Oh, and for all those of you looking for early slashdot articles, check these:

Nov 19, 1998 [slashdot.org] -- Taco announces kernel 2.1.129 on slashdot. Amazingly, no one trolls!

March 23, 1998 [slashdot.org] -- Java news! The most interesting thing about this one, is the link address, and the lack of any and all comments. Hmm. (For a hidden surprise, try incrementing the link a few times!)

Well, that's enough time wasting for me for today (har har, I just got q3a for linux)

Regards,
Ed Fisher

It's here [slashdot.org]. Some very interesting statistics :)

I would be pleased with this, but wasn't I reading this on Wired and Salon.com last week? Come on guys! This is old news.

[disclaimer] Every /. article needs someone flaming the story to be old. [/disclaimer]

A story for the sake of being the 10,000th story? Sounds to me like this is CmdrTaco's way of saying "FIRST POST!!!" ;)

Perhaps now that 10000 has been reached, /. can celebrate by putting in a couple more moderation words, such as "surreal" or maybe "BFG Bait"...

(-1 here I come...)

After 2 and a half years I'm happy to announce that this is the 10,000th troll posted on Slashdot. Uncountable Firsts, Off-Topic mods, repeats, Flames meltdowns, lost nights of Karma, Songs, Natalie Portman Threads, hot grits, flame mails, broken links, 'Score:-1', karma whores, rants, submissions: its been a great ride... along the way we've posted a lot of sweet trolls and had some great discussions. We promise to make the next 10,000 suck less! Congrats to NPG (2153 Trolls) Gnarflanger (700) Trollmastah (693) and AC (9664). Course Hot Grits Guy rule all over them with 4478 (He's posted on all 10,000 ;)

Seriously guys, Congratulations, It's been a fun ride so far.

(POSTIN') ON THE THREAD OF THE DAY Postin in the morning sun
I`ll be postin when the evening comes
Watching the stories roll in
And I'll watch 'em roll away again
I'm just postin on the thread of the day
Watching the time troll away
Postin on the thread of the day
Wasting time.

I lost my job 'cause of Slashdot
And watched the site hit 10K
I've got no karma to live for
Look like nothings gonna come my way

I'm just postin on the thread of the day
Watching the time roll away
Postin' on the thread of the day, Wasting time

Postin' here resting my bones
Cause this moderator won't leave me alone
10,000 stories I've trolled, Just to make this site my home

So I'm just postin on the thread of the day
Watching the time troll away, ooh
Postin on the thread of the day Wastin' time

Seriously Guys, Congratulations, you've done a great thing here.