A Pre-History of Slashdot

Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by jandrese on Thursday October 05, 2017 @11:44AM (#15410061)

Funnily enough, every time I see the friend/foe dots/pills on a post my first thought is "that's an old-timer". I'm betting well over 75% of the current Slashdot readers don't even know it exists.

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by cannam on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:52PM (#15411063)

I have a four-digit Slashdot ID and I don't remember friends and foes. Is it after my time, or is it just that I don't remember anything any more?

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by kevstev on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:54PM (#15412099)

You just don't remember anything anymore. IIRC, it was implemented around 2001. It was little more than a curiosity though, you may have just bypassed the little colored "pills" on comments, but aside from being angry about having foes, or happy about getting a new friend, nothing was really done with the feature.

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by dotancohen on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:48PM (#15412472)

I think that friends' posts had an extra point of moderation calculated for your display, though that feature might not have been present in early incarnations.

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by marcosdumay on Thursday October 05, 2017 @06:59PM (#15413207)

The point of it was letting you give free pass from the moderation for some people's comments always appearing for you, or hiding other people.

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Re:A Pre-History of Slashdot by sethrin on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:52PM (#15412493)

It still exists if you have the original discussion system enabled. I never moved on to the javascript-based one.

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