The Slashdot Story Submission Queue

Yes. It is correct to assume that, on average at any given time, ⅕ of the stories in the submission queue are, indeed, trolls. Research conducted by me has revealed that this ratio is usually stable, but certain factors do cause it to shift.

For example, a Jon Katz story invariably leads to not only a higher story submission rate, but a higher troll-to-legit story ratio, something along the lines of 3⁄5. All flaming Slashdot about Katz. Imagine the headache the authors must have when dealing with such a crapflood of trolls! It's a wonder they even let Katz write for them anymore. Hell, Wired fired him. No one knows what is at the heart of the CmdrTaco/Jon Katz relationship. Probably a lot of semen.

Now, as for when one of the GNU champions is featured in a story, the submission rate usually stays the same but the troll concentration increases, usually to about two of the stories submitted. Many astute trolls will criticize the FSF's non-acceptance of the BSDL (primarily because it wasn't created by RMS) and the general malaise and stench of the Open Source/shit-fag gay community. Eric S. Raymond, go ahead and write another article! The trolls are waiting in the wings.

Lastly we must not forget another thing that'll cause all-around general trolling mayhem on Slashdot: Malda's detestable spelling habits. The one time he was commenting on a story about disabling the finger server on UNIX systems, he misspelled finger as fniger. WHOA.

The whole Slashdot community was up in arms over what was perceived as a barely hidden racial slur. To “stop the fniger server” was taken to mean that blacks shouldn't be using Linux!!! What an idiot Rob Malda is, whether or not the “fniger fiasco” was intentional. All story submissions that day were trolls, and the signal to noise ratio surged for three days straight after.

Hopefully you understand the consequences on the story submission queue when Slashdot delivers certain kinds of stories.