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First of all, this picture is doctored; there should be a company name under "Mouse", or else it would show an "Unidentified Publisher" warning instead. Also no
by wyday 19y ago
First of all, this picture is doctored; there should be a company name under "Mouse", or else it would show an "Unidentified Publisher" warning instead. Also notice how 'Mouse' text isn't rendered with cleartype, while all other text is. Plus, it's from 'Uncyclopedia'.
Secondly, is Windows bashing what "Hacker News" is going to become? Might as well rename this site "Digg" and start upvoting "Top ten tips for using Ubuntu"-type stories.
- icey 19y agoI wish I'd thought to screencap this, but I had a similar error in Vista when I first tried to install my Nostromo, and again later when I thought I'd see what would happen when I plugged in my ergodex. It was frustrating enough that it caused me to nuke my vista partition and go back to boot-camping XP.
- aston 19y agoFunny, it's that same frustration that keeps people going back to Gentoo. edit: I actually like Linux. I'm using it now.
- pg 19y agoMaybe I should add a way to undo votes. I bet a few people would like to. Or maybe I should just not accept submissions ending in .jpg or .png. Images are the Nile Perch of social news.
- mhartl 19y agoConsider this a vote for "no image submissions allowed".
- dfranke 19y agoI don't think the "no images" solution makes sense. Images are just one of countless kinds of lame submissions; why single them out? I thought the whole idea of voting and oracles was to be able to avoid that sort of hand-to-hand combat. Why use a heuristic spam filter when you have a Bayesian one that works better?
- vlad 19y agoBecause if a 10-year-old could have come up with the media being submitted, then it probably shouldn't be submitted here. Having no newsworthiness, pictures contain boring, rehashed messages, and are dangerious because they stroke the group's ego with simplistic messages, and dangerious because they become the preferred submission over time, since they tend to falsely increase a user's confidence though no knowledge has been transferred, while original, analytical thought has been stimied.
- dfranke 19y agoI completely agree with you, but I don't see how that addresses my point. Picture submissions suck, but it's a waste of effort to ban them when we already have a more effective way of dealing with the broader problem of lame submissions.
- greendestiny 19y agoIts a hard and fast rule that kicks in before the submission goes onto the site. Ways of modifying the effects of voting happen later and are more subtle.
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