{"id":82,"date":"2004-03-08T19:25:44","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T19:25:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-08T19:25:44","modified_gmt":"2004-03-08T19:25:44","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Slashdot karma boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, three very exciting things happened to me on <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a> &#8211; well, exciting if you happen to be very geeky &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I submitted a story and it was <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/03\/08\/1323241\">accepted<\/a> for publication on the front page &#8211; go me!  The story was about the advance release of the DVD version of &#8216;Lord of the Rings: Return of the King&#8217;;<\/li>\n<li>When the editors posted the story, they got the link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/film\/3542123.stm\">story at the BBC<\/a> wrong.  This meant that I had to post a <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=99678&#038;cid=8497558\">comment<\/a> with the correct link, fairly quickly, although nobody seemed to have noticed and was already discussing the DVD &#8211; I guess that&#8217;s the Slashdot tradition of Not Reading The Fine Article.  This comment was modded-up to &#8216;+5 Informative&#8217; within ten minutes, which was nice.  Another of my comments, about the <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=99678&#038;cid=8497633\">virtual-reality acceptance speech from Gollum<\/a>, also managed a &#8216;+5 Informative&#8217; too;<\/li>\n<li>All of which led my Slashdot karma rating to move from &#8216;Good&#8217; to &#8216;Excellent&#8217;, which means that all future comments will start at &#8216;+2&#8217; rather than &#8216;+1&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A very geeky day, then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, three very exciting things happened to me on Slashdot &#8211; well, exciting if you happen to be very geeky &#8230; I submitted a story and it was accepted for publication on the front page &#8211; go me! The story was about the advance release of the DVD version of &#8216;Lord of the Rings: Return&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=82\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}