Journal KGIII's Journal: I'm not dead... 6
I haven't been around much. Other things have consumed my time. Slashdot lost some appeal.
But, I decided to revisit and I even posted a few comments. I've visited some in the interim, but seldom commented.
How the hell are there 10,000,000+ user accounts?!? Are they all bots? Was there a massive bot invasion that registered *millions* of accounts for the purpose of spamming the site?
There aren't that many comments these days. With 10,000,000 human users, I'd expect an increase in the number of comments. I don't think there is an increase, but actually the opposite.
Mayfly accounts now required to post/submit (Score:1)
Until a few years ago they could just submit or post as "anonymous coward" without signing in.
Re: (Score:2)
Ah, so it's people generating junk accounts to post anon?
Also, who (or what) is 'Mayfly' in this instance? Is that a new owner or something?
I get a 'lameness' filter when I try to mention the owner that last owned Slashdot from the last time I was here regularly.
Re: (Score:1)
A mayfly is a fly who has a very short adult-stage lifespan.
In this case, it's a throwaway account.
Re: (Score:2)
Ah, now I get it.
Thanks!
A part of me is actually a bit surprised that Slashdot still exists at all.
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"It's Alive!" (Score:2)
Wow! That's the best news I've heard in a while here! I was hoping that was the story, and after a while it was clearly the case for most of us. Its a fluke I even noticed your posting before another six months ticked by... It really slowed down after they nuked AC postings at some point, but before that it was getting to be a bad Turing Test. Anyway, early on my imagination went crazy. Also, notably absent was Barbara Hudson, who I was worried about actually, if you're still in touch. Anyway, I h