SS1 flight set for June 21

Charles Buckley writes:
(2) the moderation gives you a chance of cutting through the bull****.
Kinda.

Heh.. Make a derogatory post about the current state of gaming and see
what happens to your moderation in the future..

It's pretty clear that there are popular points of view among slashdot's
readership, but one of the great ideas of its moderation system is that
you _don't_ just moderate a post as `good' or `bad', you have to give a
_reason_ (which will be reviewed by others during meta-moderation), and
in my experience, this does actually does seem to make people more
reluctant to simply down-moderate something they merely disagree with.

What seems more common is that posting against the popular opinion will
make moderators less charitable: they'll be much quicker to stomp on any
_other_ abuses in your post. So for instance, if you post something
that's unpopular, but well-reasoned and articulate, many moderators will
grumble but let it pass, and it will get modded up by the minority that
agrees with it -- but if you thrown in some random insults, or are
posting off-topic, the majority who disagree with you will be quick to
mod it down.

[Note that obviously I can't read people's minds, but it is possible to
observe moderation practices when meta-moderating.]

-Miles
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[|nurgle|] ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that
will make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth?
[iddt] nurg, that's the goal

On or about Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:42:57 -0500, Pat Flannery made the sensational claim that:
Don't you remember? Jimmy is a reborn Christian...it may sink...but it
shall RISE AGAIN!
Hallelujah, brother! ;-)

Do you suppose it lusts in its reactor?
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On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:42:57 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Don't you remember? Jimmy is a reborn Christian...it may sink...but it
shall RISE AGAIN!

....Which begs the question: does an intact peanut shell float?

OM

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"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:30:02 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

I thought it would have been nice for Mrs. Carter to swing Nancy Reagan
into the sub to christen it. :-)

....I'd rather test the torpedo tubes with Rosalind and Amy.

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

Kevin Willoughby wrote:

Both suborbitals used the heat sink. In fact, Curt Newport says that
part of the reason that Liberty Bell was recovered in such good shape
after years on the bottom of the ocean was that much of the electro-
galvanic (salt-water and dissimilar metal) corrosion focused on the
beryllium heat shield, destroying it while preserving the rest of the
space craft.

When I went to see the Liberty Bell 7 at the Children's Museum here in
Indy way back in January 2001, I wondered where the heat shield went to.
I had thought that the shield had fallen off the landing bag on impact
and sank to the bottom well before the capsule did, and Curt and company
weren't able to find it. Sad to learn that the sea really did a number
on the shield, consuming it faster than it could the capsule -- or the
Titanic, for that matter.

--
Glenn Shaw
Indianapolis, IN USA
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In sci.space.policy Miles Bader wrote:
Charles Buckley writes:
(2) the moderation gives you a chance of cutting through the bull****.
Kinda.

Heh.. Make a derogatory post about the current state of gaming and see
what happens to your moderation in the future..

It's pretty clear that there are popular points of view among slashdot's
readership, but one of the great ideas of its moderation system is that
you _don't_ just moderate a post as `good' or `bad', you have to give a
_reason_ (which will be reviewed by others during meta-moderation), and
in my experience, this does actually does seem to make people more
reluctant to simply down-moderate something they merely disagree with.

Yes, but this doesn't really work.


What seems more common is that posting against the popular opinion will
make moderators less charitable: they'll be much quicker to stomp on any
_other_ abuses in your post. So for instance, if you post something
that's unpopular, but well-reasoned and articulate, many moderators will
grumble but let it pass, and it will get modded up by the minority that
agrees with it -- but if you thrown in some random insults, or are
posting off-topic, the majority who disagree with you will be quick to
mod it down.

[Note that obviously I can't read people's minds, but it is possible to
observe moderation practices when meta-moderating.]

You must do it really seldom then.


-Miles

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Sander

+++ Out of cheese error +++

In article ,
says...
Kevin Willoughby wrote:
Curt Newport says that
part of the reason that Liberty Bell was recovered in such good shape
after years on the bottom of the ocean was that much of the electro-
galvanic corrosion focused on the
beryllium heat shield, destroying it while preserving the rest of the
space craft.
When I went to see the Liberty Bell 7 at the Children's Museum here in
Indy way back in January 2001, I wondered where the heat shield went to.
[...] Sad to learn that the sea really did a number
on the shield, consuming it faster than it could the capsule -- or the
Titanic, for that matter.

Not said, but a happy circumstance. The loss of the heat shield was what
allow Liberty Bell to survive long enough to be recovered. To over-
anthropomorphize, the heat shield sacrificed itself to save the rest of
the spacecraft, so should be awarded the honors due a hero.

(My father was a metallurgist. One of his specialties was anodic
protection of metal structures exposed to salt water. I heard a lot
about corrosion and dissimilar metals at the dinner table when I was in
grade school. That kind of thing leads to things like anthropomorphizing
metal disks...)
--
Kevin Willoughby lid

Imagine that, a FROG ON-OFF switch, hardly the work
for test pilots. -- Mike Collins

Kevin Willoughby wrote:
(My father was a metallurgist. One of his specialties was anodic
protection of metal structures exposed to salt water. I heard a lot
about corrosion and dissimilar metals at the dinner table when I was in
grade school. That kind of thing leads to things like anthropomorphizing
metal disks...)

All hail the inanimate carbon rod!

Sander Vesik writes:
you _don't_ just moderate a post as `good' or `bad', you have to give a
_reason_ (which will be reviewed by others during meta-moderation), and
in my experience, this does actually does seem to make people more
reluctant to simply down-moderate something they merely disagree with.

Yes, but this doesn't really work.

In my experience it does.

[Note that obviously I can't read people's minds, but it is possible to
observe moderation practices when meta-moderating.]

You must do it really seldom then.

No.

-Miles
--
Would you like fries with that?

...Which begs the question: does an intact peanut shell float?

OM

As a matter of fact, yes.