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How to Use the Firehose on Slashdot
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How to Create a Slashdot Account
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How to Submit a Story to Slashdot
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How to Use Rss Feeds From Slashdot
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Slashdot, sometimes abbreviated as /., is a technology-related news website owned by Geeknet, Inc. It features user-submitted and editor-evaluated current affairs news with a "nerdy" slant. Each story on the site has an Internet forum-style comments section attached. The name "Slashdot" is described by the sites owners as "a sort of obnoxious parody of a URL", chosen to confuse those who tried to pronounce the URL of the site ("h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-org").

The summaries for the stories are generally submitted by Slashdots own readers with editors accepting or rejecting these contributions for general posting. Slashdot itself is well known for its pro-open source bias. Though the site predates the modern concept of the weblog, Slashdots architecture is similar to that of modern blogs. The content management system, Slash, has long been available under the GNU General Public License.
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Created in September 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, Slashdot is now owned by Geeknet, Inc. The site is run primarily by Malda, Jeff "Hemos" Bates (who handles articles and book reviews and sells advertising) and Robin "Roblimo" Miller who helps handle some of the more managerial tasks of the site, as well as posting stories. The site is headquartered in Dexter, Michigan.

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To prevent abusive comments, a moderation system has been implemented whereby every comment posted (including those posted anonymously) has a starting score which can be incremented or decremented by semi-randomly chosen moderators. When moderating, the moderator chooses a given descriptor (such as "insightful", "funny", "troll") and each descriptor has a positive or negative value associated with it. As such, posts not only are scored, but characterized ("20% insightful, 80% interesting"). Users can configure the value of each descriptor. The descriptors available are normal, offtopic, flamebait, troll, redundant, insightful, interesting, informative, f read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot

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