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It's more benevolent than the Goatse man [NSFW] that used to be common on Slashdot via disguised links. In the end they had to put the domain next to the link text so people couldn't get caught.

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I'm upset that you made me remember that meme.

The curse comes in many forms: I can’t remember the last time I felt comfortable looking at a schematic diagram of a coil/ferrite transformer:

https://circuitglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ideal-tr...

Apologies for the puerility.

I feel you. I have a similar issue with the logo of this Norwegian company: https://www.bus.no.

Good old days

The wild west days of the late 90's, early 2000's Slashdot...

I always reference that as my example for why you have to have moderation on social media services.

Slashdot was moderated so that wasn't enough.

Slashdot was user-moderated, so you just needed enough people to find something +1 Funny or +1 Interesting. And rick rolls were always +5 Funny. The fun really started with the meta-moderation though. I’m still not sure how that experiment turned out.

It’s strange to think how changes in moderation and up-voting have led us from Slashdot to Digg to Reddit (and HN).

As someone who was a pretty early Slashdot user -- apparently, my user number there is 3616 -- I think the meta-moderation mostly worked. That's not a universally shared opinion. :) But I thought that the discussion level was consistently decent throughout the 2000s, and I think the moderation system definitely helped there. On the other hand, the multiple layers of user moderation require at least a handful of users to be regular "comment gardeners," which probably requires a fairly large user base to be viable.

(I drifted away sometime around when they were bought by Dice; I can't swear there's a causal connection, but it seemed to me the site kind of lost its mojo through the 2010s.)

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