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Re: Stop with the [News] postings already!!!

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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:31:13 -0500,
 Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:17:18 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>
>>  5: [News] More on Rootkits; Vista Holey Even Before Release?...... :    65
>> 17: [News] US Senator Wants to Tax FLOSS........................... :    29
>
> BTW, notice that only 2 of the top 20 threads contain [News]?  And one of
> them was a totally fabricated story, while the other was basically an
> argument over open versus execute.
>
> The fact is, few of Roy's messages get any response at all, and almost none
> get anything other that a few brief comments.  (which is no suprise, since
> the vast majority of his articles he submits to Digg also get few comments.
> He has one of the lowest response ratios of the top posters).

so you judge the "value" of a post, by how many comments it generates? 

wierd.




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