Some classic trolls there like "egg troll", "The Turd Report", etc. with their quite absurd yet entertaining posts.
Then there was the rather ruder trolling, like not knowing if the link you were about to follow was yet another Goatse Man. Or the more helpful trolls, such as ones taking music requests to spam as the first post.
There was even a 'hidden SID' forum, trolltalk, which was rather amusing (and somewhat disturbing) until it was overrun by some Markov chain bot.
And spinoff trolling sites like http://adequacy.org - satire to rile uptight nerds and amuse the rest.
I think the bizarre trolling subculture, amidst the righteous frothing of Linux fanaticism, was what really made Slashdot.
Eggtroll was, and still is, possibly the best troll I've ever seen. He carried it over to the newsgroups with elaborate multi-page trolls and crossposts. Whoever you are eggtroll, thank you for providing so much entertainment. Here's one of the archives:
Some classic trolls there like "egg troll", "The Turd Report", etc. with their quite absurd yet entertaining posts.
Then there was the rather ruder trolling, like not knowing if the link you were about to follow was yet another Goatse Man. Or the more helpful trolls, such as ones taking music requests to spam as the first post.
There was even a 'hidden SID' forum, trolltalk, which was rather amusing (and somewhat disturbing) until it was overrun by some Markov chain bot.
And spinoff trolling sites like http://adequacy.org - satire to rile uptight nerds and amuse the rest.
I think the bizarre trolling subculture, amidst the righteous frothing of Linux fanaticism, was what really made Slashdot.
Anyway, good times.