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2006.03.22 23:56

As is usual, I started in my fan's list. I check the list prior to everything before I start reading a journal and writing a comment.
I noticed the name 'SamTheButcher (574069)' in the middle of the list. Once in a blue moon I opened my friend's list. It is not often, although I often click 'Friend's journals'. So when I saw his name, I thought I misclicked the friend's section. Sometimes when I misclicked my friend's section, I misunderstand I've got as many fans as I have in my friend's section. I registered 150 friends in which only 50 are my fans. Thus I never imagined seeing his name in my fan's list.
Finally I was recognised by one of the Slashdot giants. Banzai!
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Ah, but grasshopper, I am larger(Score:2)
by Ethelred Unraed (32954) * <john@grantGAUSSham.de minus math_god> on 2006.03.23 0:32 (#14971811) (http://www.grantham.de/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 21:01)
Digging out that old sdfriends.sh script from the_mad_poster:
[john@firebolt:john]$ sdfriends.sh samthebutcherYou have 246 fans. PATHETIC.[john@firebolt:john]$ sdfriends.sh ethelred+unraedYou have 266 fans. PATHETIC.[john@firebolt:john]
This means, of course, that I win...absolutely nothing.
To put it into perspective, though:
[john@firebolt:john]$ sdfriends.sh some+womanYou have 285 fans. PATHETIC.[john@firebolt:john]$ sdfriends.sh solemndragonYou have 278 fans. PATHETIC.[john@firebolt:john]$ sdfriends.sh tomhudsonYou have 392 fans. PATHETIC.
Once again I lose to Some Woman. Curses!
Cheers,
Ethelred
--I think those monkeys whose butts turn bright red are onto something. -- ryanr
Re:Ah, but grasshopper, I am larger(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.24 1:34 (#14981052) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
the_mad_poster
He stopped posting here, he was one of the faces in Slashdot though.
absolutely nothing
246, 266, 285, 278 don't make many differences. But 392 has some sense. Generally speaking if you became extremely popular in Slashdot, you tend to acquire tens of thousands of fans. Some user register few friends and acquire many fans becasue of their fame, so this is a criterion of our popularity among Slashdotters. But if Slashdotters became extremely famous among people in general public, the result is apparent.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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Giants?? **looks around** Where?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.23 0:37 (#14971853) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
Dunno about that. Have Ethelred run that script on FortKnox and see what comes up. I'll look like one of the dwarfs.
I'm glad you recognised me, though. Did you see my comment to you [slashdot.org] in one of your other journals? I was hoping you'd reply on that.
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut
Re:Giants?? **looks around** Where?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.24 2:06 (#14981296) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
You were the first to achieve 10,000 comments. gmhowell followed. Marxist Hacker 42 will follow next. It is not merely the matter the number of posts we made is but the quality of them. You have both in number and in quality. I see Slashdotters whose comments exceed more than 10,000 are Slashdot Giants.
When I started writing journals here 1.4 years ago, it seemed nobody was reading except for Marxist Hacker 42. The number of comments had been always 0,0,wondeful. Although I knew there's a message function, I didn't enact it. Now I welcomed the Slashdot Giant, I must enact it. I don't miss them anymore.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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Re:Giants?? **looks around** Where?(Score:2)
by SamTheButcher (574069) * <.samthebutcher. .at. .gmail.com.> on 2006.03.24 3:25 (#14981910) (http://www.samthebutcher.com/ Last Journal: 2006.04.28 23:32)
Wow...I didn't know anyone was keeping score. :) I'd say that a majority of my posts are short one-line posts, which wouldn't lend to the "quality", but I do have some quality here and there. :)
Now I welcomed the Slashdot Giant, I must enact it. I don't miss them anymore.
I have to say I'm not sure what this means.... I understand that nobody commented on your journals for a long time, but this part...I'm not sure what you don't miss. Unless you don't miss the zero-comment journals. Which makes sense. Enact, though...Hm.
Well, I'm just happy to be conversing with someone from Japan. I started writing with someone back when I was in elementary school and I failed to write back and I now wish I had. So, you're my new Japanese "pen pal". :)
Have you travelled outside Japan? If so, where?
--"If you want really want to hurt your parents and don't want to be gay, go into the arts" - Kurt Vonnegut
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Re:Giants?? **looks around** Where?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.24 4:03 (#14982248) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I have to say I'm not sure what this means.... I understand that nobody commented on your journals for a long time, but this part...I'm not sure what you don't miss. Unless you don't miss the zero-comment journals. Which makes sense. Enact, though...Hm.
I think you have already faced the problem with my poor quality in this language. Here's an explanation.
Now I welcomed the Slashdot Giant ( Now I had one of Slashdot celebrities in my fan's list, I will have comments more than ever from now so), I must enact it ( I have to set up a message section and I did so then). I don't miss them anymore. (I don't miss your comments or comments by others. In other words, I never fail to catch someone's comments whenever I received.)
I travelled all around North America, Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Phillipines.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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ns(Score:1)
by weierstrass (669421) on 2006.03.25 9:51 (#14992012) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.03.10 5:32)
you know you can get a message every time someone changes their relationship with you (becomes fan or freak, stops being one) ?
--Slow Down Cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait longer between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
Re:ns(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.03.26 8:49 (#14995532) (http://mercedo-compl.../2006/04/zen-ya.html Last Journal: 2006.04.28 3:11)
I didn't know that.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters
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and now(Score:1)
by subgeek (263292) * on 2006.03.29 6:35 (#15013495) (http://slashdot.org/~subgeek/journal Last Journal: 2006.04.28 4:40)
you've been friended by one of the slashdot ghosts, one of the faded slashdot memories.
--you probably shouldn't have read this. [slashdot.org]