2014 opening lines!? I can't possibly be rejected by that many women! Sweet, gotta try these out.

Oops- forgot that I can't get (+1, Funny) on ticalc.org.

(+1,funny)?

It's part of the moderation system on Slashdot (link). A "+1" moderation increases the score of your post by 1, while "-1" does the opposite. The moderation system on /. is the reason that trolls (such as the "first post" one on this very page) are pretty much invisible to most users. People moderate these crap posts as "-1" until their score is just too low to be displayed.

I'm simplifying here, but you get the idea.

Okay, so they have different scoring type things for each post, or is it one universal score for each post that covers everything?

Off the top of my head...

+1 Moderations
Funny
Informative
Insightful
Interesting

-1 Moderations
Offtopic
Flamebait
Troll
Redundant

There's also +1 Underrated and -1 Overrated.

And one can only moderate if enough people moderate that one person's posts up enough. And moderations have to be meta-moderated fairly, or the moderation doesn't stick.

O yeah--see link for more information.

Well that sounds kinda neat, that way you can only see the good posts?

Maybe I should start visiting /. as well as ticalc and calcsoft.

Or lead a crusade to implement a moderation system on ticalc.org. Unfortunately, there are about 20 good reasons why that wouldn't work- there's probably not enough of a user base to moderate, there would be just too much abuse (probably even with metamoderation), etc.

@rmohr: Thanks for the link. I figured that if I mentioned Over/Underrated, someone would ask "what's that?" and I'd get sucked in to a looong discussion on the history of the mod system :)

Cool! Another ben! We will join forces and take over the world (or something like that).

Well, there's also lots of Michael's (chickendude and lord_nightrose to name a few)

Sounds good. We can create the B.M. alliance. Or maybe a different name. Hmm...

Yeah, but none of them use their real names. I'd be scared if anyone called their kid 'chickendude' or 'Lord_Nightrose'.

No, Michaele is my nick name, my real name is Chicken Dude Nock :p

Oops, I spelled my own nickname wrong! *embarassed*

I did that in an exam once.
'Twas an 'A' level.
I still got an A in it. I just don't know how.

And don't forget the all-important Michael Vincent.

Yeah, where's he gone? I haven't seen him on these posts for a while...

He usually doesn't post.

Unless there is some burning question about ASM (such as loading big numbers into de)

Huh? like ld de,$FFFF? LoL, I see why he'd rush to answer that question :)

lol I think he was reffering to before when there was a controversy over that

Yeah ... it was in the previous news article ... everybody was claiming that Kerm's mouse driver wouldn't work because he was loading a 16-bit number into a 16-bit register. And, of course, only Micahel Vincent had the authority to set things straight.

NO I DID! :)



Well, he said it first

So did I

The people here are being too immature for him. Guys, it's time to grow up. I may soon abandon TICalc, if for no better reason than the fact that I'm 20 years old and I *still* post here with a bunch of little children.

Hey I resent that remark.
I'm not childish.

You nasty old man.

Gasp! Another one knows my true name! nooo...

I didn't know Chickendude was a Michael. Heh.

of course, I could have just clicked his account info link, but I'm lazy. bah.

Whoah... three replies to the SAME post, m'lud!