{"id":1404,"date":"2007-02-02T23:26:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T03:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2007-10-14T22:17:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T01:17:03","slug":"slashdot-and-then-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"Slashdot and then that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>oday, I noticed that the much linked-to and (generally) well-liked &#8216;Slashdot Subculture&#8217; Wikipedia page was deleted: the page now redirects to the more generic Slashdot page (as you can tell from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slashdot_subculture\">clicking this link<\/a>). I&#8217;m not the first person to notice: there&#8217;s an ample conversation going on about this on <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/design\/Guide_To_The_Inside_Jokes_Of_Internet_Comments\">this older post at Digg<\/a>. A complete breakdown of the Wikipedia deletion votes only seems to suggest that the page was deleted because it didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion\/Slashdot_subculture_%282nd_nomination%29\">look &#8216;encyclopedian&#8217; enough<\/a>. The good thing is that the deleted page can still be seen over at archive.org (<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060219093002\/http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slashdot_subculture\">right here<\/a>). It&#8217;s not that I think it&#8217;s a good article: however, it&#8217;s a pretty good breakdown of running jokes and typical &#8216;geek talk&#8217; at everyone&#8217;s favourite public forum, Slashdot.\n<\/p>\n<p>I went back through pages of Slashdot stories and ran into the following one: <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/12\/13\/019241\">&#8216;Why does everybody hate Microsoft?&#8217;<\/a>. This brought me to Chris Pirillo, who for only <a href=\"http:\/\/chris.pirillo.com\/2007\/02\/01\/microsoft-give-me-a-million-dollars-to-market-windows-vista-for-you\/\">1 million dollar (US) is willing to market Windows Vista<\/a>. Didn&#8217;t Microsoft just hire <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2006\/12\/08.html\">Jon Udell<\/a> for much less (much less, I believe) to do practically the same?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I noticed that the much linked-to and (generally) well-liked &#8216;Slashdot Subculture&#8217; Wikipedia page was deleted: the page now redirects to the more generic Slashdot page (as you can tell from clicking this link). I&#8217;m not the first person to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1404\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[55,183,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}