Just like many people predicted in the submission for asking the questions, it looks like the good, hard-hitting questions were totally ignored.
What's the point of having these/. interviews, regardless of who they're with, if all we get are answers to lame, uninteresting questions?
This isn't the only case where this has happened, of course. The same thing happened with the Linus Torvalds interview a few weeks ago. The best questions remained ignored, or if answered indirectly, the answers were pretty half-
You recently tweeted that no one who isn't transgender should voice opinions on transgender issues yet you regularly voice your own opinion on these issues. Is this a tacit "coming out" of your own transgender past, and if so, what does it mean for your own position as a representative and "megaphone" for women's issues and how you speak to the personal history of growing up as a woman?
You recently ran a successful campaign to get your game approved on Steam's greenlight. What approaches did you use to get your game ranked high enough to be greenlit. What do you feel had the biggest impact in getting the numbers? What suggestions do you have for other Indie Game Developers who want to get their games approved on Steam's greenlight system?
Considering you have spoken out in the past about female characters in games being overtly sexualized, could you explain why the protagonists of your own game Revolution 60 wear what appears to be skintight lycra to show off their perfect hourglass figures?
And that's just a few that didn't get modded down. Many of the +5 best questions early on got "mysteriously" modded down to -1 flamebait by.... somebody. Like this one which was at +5 funny when I remember reading it a few days ago:
Ms. Wu, when sending yourself harassment over steam [theralphretort.com] or twitter and faking having to leave your house [theralphretort.com] over harassment in response to trolling people, do you find TOR or a more traditional anonymous proxy to be more effective?
Definitely abuse of the modding system. People who saw troll questions like that and modded them up got away with it for a couple of days before other people noticed them and fixed them.
I wonder how many new Slashdot accounts were created from her Twitter whining and suddenly got mod points.
That or Dice decided to pull a Reddit and just hide them so they didn't appear "unfriendly to women in industry".
And right now I'd like to point out that Randi Lee Harper is speaking at OSCON this weekend.
TL;DR: A large and prominent tech conference (3.5K attendees) run by O'Reilly Media and sponsored by major tech companies is presenting Randi as an "anti-harassment" activist. When evidence of her track record of abuse and harassment was brought to the attention of the conference organizers last month, they publicly dismissed those contacting them about her as "trolls".
WHY THIS MATTERS: This is by far the biggest venue Randi has ever appeared in and the deception that she and the conference organizers are engaged in is shameful. If enough of us post evidence of who Randi really is to the #OSCON tag, there's a very good chance that future conference organizers (and their sponsors) will think twice before embarrassing themselves by giving Randi a platform.
DETAILS:
Although #OSCON was notified of Randi's antics when news of her speaking engagement became public last month, they chose to ignore the evidence, instead of taking seriously their obligation to their attendee's well-being. Adding insult to injury, a statement by @joshsimmons dismissed those who had raised concerns as "trolls":
They followed this statement up with a fawning "interview" in their online magazine in which they didn't ask Randi a single question about her atrocious behavior:
The conference starts today (Wednesday) and runs until Friday. Detailed information including the list of sponsors, can be found at http://www.oscon.com./ [www.oscon.com]
Here are some links to some resources about Randi's misbehavior, such as Milo's just concluded series of articles, Ralph's followup, and Stephanie Greene's series from a few months ago. Please post links to other resources, such as blogs, articles, images, etc., which you think are worth posting to the #OSCON hashtag, in the comments.
You do realize that new accounts don't get mod points right away, right? That's to prevent exactly what you're describing. I would wager most of the modding up or down was done by relatively established slashdotters with sufficient karma.
Both sides are doing it. First you get the GamerGaters come in early and block mod their sock puppet accounts up, while modding everyone questioning them down as flamebait or troll. Then later the grown ups and meta-mods come along and reverse it all.
The initial down-modding looks exactly like the screenshot you posted. It's what happens a lot of people finish/start work around the same time. It happens on every story - the early moderation is rarely representative of the final scoring because the 'Gaters a
So the good questions were ignored. (Score:5, Insightful)
Just like many people predicted in the submission for asking the questions, it looks like the good, hard-hitting questions were totally ignored.
What's the point of having these /. interviews, regardless of who they're with, if all we get are answers to lame, uninteresting questions?
This isn't the only case where this has happened, of course. The same thing happened with the Linus Torvalds interview a few weeks ago. The best questions remained ignored, or if answered indirectly, the answers were pretty half-
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Maybe they were really bad questions. Retard level stupid. :D
You have some links to the questions so we can verify or rule out?
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Transgender voice? [slashdot.org]
You recently tweeted that no one who isn't transgender should voice opinions on transgender issues yet you regularly voice your own opinion on these issues. Is this a tacit "coming out" of your own transgender past, and if so, what does it mean for your own position as a representative and "megaphone" for women's issues and how you speak to the personal history of growing up as a woman?
Steam Greenlight [slashdot.org]
You recently ran a successful campaign to get your game approved on Steam's greenlight. What approaches did you use to get your game ranked high enough to be greenlit. What do you feel had the biggest impact in getting the numbers? What suggestions do you have for other Indie Game Developers who want to get their games approved on Steam's greenlight system?
Regarding your own game [slashdot.org]
Considering you have spoken out in the past about female characters in games being overtly sexualized, could you explain why the protagonists of your own game Revolution 60 wear what appears to be skintight lycra to show off their perfect hourglass figures?
And that's just a few that didn't get modded down. Many of the +5 best questions early on got "mysteriously" modded down to -1 flamebait by.... somebody. Like this one which was at +5 funny when I remember reading it a few days ago:
On Managing a Patreon Campaign [slashdot.org]
Ms. Wu, when sending yourself harassment over steam [theralphretort.com] or twitter and faking having to leave your house [theralphretort.com] over harassment in response to trolling people, do you find TOR or a more traditional anonymous proxy to be more effective?
A bunch more were mysteriously modded down. [slashdot.org]
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You're asking why a flamebait answer got modded flamebait?
It often happens that more sensible moderation comes along later, as grown ups are often working, and not reading Slashdot right through the day.
Re:So the good questions were ignored. (Score:5, Informative)
Bullshit.
Several questions were at +4 or +5 for days, and then suddenly got modded down to -1. That is pretty blatant abuse of the modding system by someone.
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Definitely abuse of the modding system. People who saw troll questions like that and modded them up got away with it for a couple of days before other people noticed them and fixed them.
Re:So the good questions were ignored. (Score:5, Informative)
I wonder how many new Slashdot accounts were created from her Twitter whining and suddenly got mod points.
That or Dice decided to pull a Reddit and just hide them so they didn't appear "unfriendly to women in industry".
And right now I'd like to point out that Randi Lee Harper is speaking at OSCON this weekend.
TL;DR: A large and prominent tech conference (3.5K attendees) run by O'Reilly Media and sponsored by major tech companies is presenting Randi as an "anti-harassment" activist. When evidence of her track record of abuse and harassment was brought to the attention of the conference organizers last month, they publicly dismissed those contacting them about her as "trolls".
WHY THIS MATTERS: This is by far the biggest venue Randi has ever appeared in and the deception that she and the conference organizers are engaged in is shameful. If enough of us post evidence of who Randi really is to the #OSCON tag, there's a very good chance that future conference organizers (and their sponsors) will think twice before embarrassing themselves by giving Randi a platform.
DETAILS:
Although #OSCON was notified of Randi's antics when news of her speaking engagement became public last month, they chose to ignore the evidence, instead of taking seriously their obligation to their attendee's well-being. Adding insult to injury, a statement by @joshsimmons dismissed those who had raised concerns as "trolls":
http://www.oscon.com/open-sour... [oscon.com]
They followed this statement up with a fawning "interview" in their online magazine in which they didn't ask Randi a single question about her atrocious behavior:
http://opensource.com/life/15/... [opensource.com]
The conference starts today (Wednesday) and runs until Friday. Detailed information including the list of sponsors, can be found at http://www.oscon.com./ [www.oscon.com]
Details about Randi's talk can be found here: http://www.oscon.com/open-sour... [oscon.com].
Here are some links to some resources about Randi's misbehavior, such as Milo's just concluded series of articles, Ralph's followup, and Stephanie Greene's series from a few months ago. Please post links to other resources, such as blogs, articles, images, etc., which you think are worth posting to the #OSCON hashtag, in the comments.
http://www.breitbart.com/londo... [breitbart.com]
http://www.breitbart.com/big-j... [breitbart.com]
http://www.breitbart.com/big-h... [breitbart.com]
http://www.breitbart.com/big-j... [breitbart.com]
http://theralphretort.com/pill... [theralphretort.com]
http://s2b20blog.mukyou.com/hi... [mukyou.com]
http://s2b20blog.mukyou.com/th... [mukyou.com]
http://s2b20blog.mukyou.com/th... [mukyou.com]
http://s2b20blog.mukyou.com/bl... [mukyou.com]
http://theralphretort.com/prol... [theralphretort.com]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak... [reddit.com]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak... [reddit.com]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak... [reddit.com]
Most recent #OSCON tweets:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%... [twitter.com]
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You do realize that new accounts don't get mod points right away, right? That's to prevent exactly what you're describing. I would wager most of the modding up or down was done by relatively established slashdotters with sufficient karma.
http://slashdot.org/moderation... [slashdot.org]
(scroll up to "Who")
Slashdot jumped the shark (Score:2)
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Both sides are doing it. First you get the GamerGaters come in early and block mod their sock puppet accounts up, while modding everyone questioning them down as flamebait or troll. Then later the grown ups and meta-mods come along and reverse it all.
The initial down-modding looks exactly like the screenshot you posted. It's what happens a lot of people finish/start work around the same time. It happens on every story - the early moderation is rarely representative of the final scoring because the 'Gaters a
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I wonder if it's related...