(-1, Troll)

(-1, Troll)

I read /. daily, post infrequently.
As I’ve said before, I am really, when you get down to it, a geek, who’s just looking for validation from his fellow geeks. So being asked for an interview by them was pretty goddamn cool…and the scariest thing, ever. I knew that the server would crash. I knew that I’d go so far over on bandwidth that I’d have to take out a 4th on the house. I knew that the other people hosted by logjamming would get hosed…and I was scared shitless that the trolls would come, and eat me alive.
Thankfully, things have been okay, so far. I read /. at 3, so the signal to noise ratio is very good.
Anyway, I wanted to share something that I thought was hilarious, and very cool.
The story at /. was “Ask Wil Wheaton Anything.” There are some REALLY great questions there, and I’m going to have funtimes answering them…but, as I was reading, I saw the opportunity for a joke, and I had to take it.
I was asked:

Do you have an account here ?
Have you ever posted here ?
Have you ever submitted ?
Have you ever got a submission accepted ?

I was tempted to answer all the questions there, using my Slashdot UID, but I resisted…except for this one, because I saw the chance for some operation mayhem:

Do you have an account here ?
Yeah, I’ve had it for quite some time. I never put my name to it because I was afraid I’d automatically get modded down.
Have you ever posted here ?
Yeah. But not too often. My motto is “if you don’t have something to say that’s worth at least +1, don’t say anything at all”.
Have you ever submitted ?
Yeah.
Have you ever got a submission accepted ?
Are you kidding me? If I had a submission posted, that would make me cool, and that would begin the slow unraveling of the very fabric of space-time.
If this post isn’t the poster-child for karma whoring, I don’t know what is.
I am Jack’s.sig

Now, the humor of this will be completely lost on you, unless you are familiar with Slashdot’s moderation system…but this post got modded up, which I suspected it would…but the Operation Mayhem kicked in, and the joke paid off, when someone moderated it down…(-1, Troll).
If the person who modded it down is reading this, I must say thank you. You totally got the joke, and I am giving you a personal (+1, Funny) and a (+1, Insightful) along with a (+1, Underrated).
With my feet in the air, and my head on the ground.