mentioning Natalie Portman on Slashdot is counterproductive

created by yerricde

(idea) by yerricde (8.8 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Tue Oct 24 2000 at 3:21:07

Slashdot nowadays is littered with garbage about hot grits, penis birds, Beowulf clusters, and (ironically) Natalie Portman. Portman comments are particularly worthy of being moderated down:

They are off-topic. Comments to Slashdot stories are generally expected to relate to the article mentioned in the story; Natalie Portman is (Score:-1, Offtopic) except in stories about Star Wars prequels.
They're getting old (Score:-1, Redundant). This Natalie Portman nonsense has been going on for months; it's not funny anymore.
Portman is an actress. She works for a motion picture studio affiliated with the MPAA. The Slashdot community hates the MPAA because the MPAA hates interoperability and considers anyone who thinks otherwise to be a (Score:-1, Troll).

Slashdot Troll's Greatest Hits	Natalie Portman	hot grits	Female Goth stereotypes
Beowulf Cluster	That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore	What's it like having a curved penis?	deCSS
"Getting to know you in the Biblical sense" nodes	Slashdot	naked and petrified	A Brief History of Trolls
troll	MPAA	Tyler Durden	my birds masturbate
What to do about trolls	Kuro5hin	Redundant	slashdot troll
Conversation overheard between birds	actress	Garbage	anagram

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