Underground Mac Community Foils a Coup 253
An anonymous reader writes "In an attempted palace coup that would not have been out of place in a Shakespearian tragedy, a moderator faction at Mac Serial Junkie, one of the largest underground Mac communities, was shut out this weekend after it was discovered that many staff members were plotting a coup. The plans included a surreptitious takeover of the domain name macserialjunkie.com. In an Open Letter to the Community, the founders of MSJ explain how a number of people at the highest levels of the underground planned their takeover activities for almost two years, only to be foiled at the last minute."
Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
tag this whocares (Score:3, Insightful)
This Is News For Nerds?? (Score:4, Insightful)
Are you guys going to cover how Timmy is going to plotting to take over the treehouse next?
who fucking cares? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:tag this whocares (Score:5, Insightful)
No kidding. This is like the stories about scams and drama in EVE Online, but even more irrelevant.
Re:who fucking cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
Was anybody surprised Kdawson posted this? Seriously, anybody.
Re:tag this whocares (Score:5, Insightful)
Because no one cares.
Get this off the front page.
WGAF (Score:4, Insightful)
None of this shit means anything outside of your silly little group. Sheesh!
Subterranean Homesick Blues (Score:3, Insightful)
Thanks so far, for making sense out of this post, but:
WTF? No seriously WTF?
How the hell did this make the front page? (Score:4, Insightful)
tag: firehoseabuse (Score:5, Insightful)
I found it interesting.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Not sure who is in the "right" here but the domain owners kinda get the last word on what they want and how to do things don't you think?
It's also kind of curious that the first few posts here seem to be so vitriolic against the posting of this article. As I recall
Then again, I must be new here...
Re:I found it interesting.. (Score:3, Insightful)
File under "Who gives a shit" (Score:4, Insightful)
These guys really need to get a life.
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
Nice little Freudian slip there.
I'd wager that most of the successful commercial software companies treat their developers with a modicum of dignity. Sure, there have been dozens of exceptions over the years, but by and large it's hard to stay in the business if you treat your programmers like shit. It's a good way to make sure your company is a one-hit wonder. Perhaps that's why Adobe, Microsoft, and Google have all been on the "Best Companies to Work For" list, as have other software firms. They may not please all of their employees, but they generally have a reputation for taking care of their own.
It's often a meaner existence for programmers who work for non-software companies like financial or logistics firms--they're viewed as a "cost," not a revenue stream.
Hypocrisy (Score:4, Insightful)
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/26
By the way, don't give me any bull that one is free and the other is a paid for service... they're both internet communities. No one is forced to use them.
So, I guess the lesson is it only matters to you when it's a forum you happen to use.
Honor among thieves? (Score:4, Insightful)
Press releases for nerds, stuff that's made up (Score:3, Insightful)
Hey Apple stole FreeBSD (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Hypocrisy (Score:5, Insightful)
Most of the reason this is a non-story is that there's a total of four people with two servers involved. I'm far from certain that there's more than 100 people who even give a shit about the 'attempted coup'.
Re:I found it interesting.. (Score:4, Insightful)
It's also interesting how many people who don't care took the time to post flames about how much they don't care.
It's the difference between a mature human being comfortable with his or her place in the universe, and an immature person who thinks he or she is the center of the universe. The mature individuals know some things interest them and some things don't, but that some of those things that don't interest them do interest other people. They simply skip over anything that doesn't interest them. The immature people get upset that something that doesn't interest them was posted. If it doesn't interest them, why did anyone waste the time posting it? If anyone else is interested in it, they must be "losers".
The real problem at the core for them is, every time something is posted that doesn't interest them, it proves that the universe does not revolve around them, and they just can't stand that. So they must complain. Any time the universe does not appear to be specifically tailored for them, they must complain. Obviously something is wrong with the universe if it isn't arranged for their ultimate convenience.