OSNews

A perfectly good comment, moderated down because someone didn't agree with it. This is what happens when you try to moderate comments down that you don't agree with:
"Disagreeing with a comment or a user is not a valid reason to use the moderate. Comment votes are alloted to draw attention to insightful and informative comments and remove trash and trolls from our forums. They should not be used to remove comments with which you do not agree."

Read it people, those of you moderating me down like that are lying by saying it's for any other reason than your dissagreeing with what I've said. This is what's called abusing the voting system and I hope you get your accounts deleted for it.

This is just a wild guess, but they might have modded it down for being off-topic.

The article links to a video, as a curteousy I mentioned that some might want to turn their volume off during the video since not everyone would like the music (it does contain offensive language imo). The video was part of the article, and I was just trying to give people a friendly warning. That is not off-topic.

Edited 2006-01-06 04:49

Not to mention the band in question is a skinhead band.

"This is just a wild guess, but they might have modded it down for being off-topic."

Then your post should have been modded down too, right? Instead it was moderated up to 4. The whole situation doesn't make any sense. Celerate's comment wasn't even off-topic. I've seen other comments much more off-topic rated up instead of down. This is certainly not the first time.

Now I just have to wait and see how low this post will be rated.

Edited 2006-01-06 12:14

You have to remember that there are people in any discussion group that can not tolerate an opinion that disagrees with theirs and will mod you down if you post one. Personally, I don't feel that being off topic a bit rates using the moderate feature. And I must admit I did not find your post to be off topic.

That being said, I would hate to see accounts closed because of it. They are entitled to their opinion as well. Besides, it sometimes makes for lively discussions. :-)

Bill

You are aware that the DKM are skin heads.

This is off-topic so mod me down, that's OK. It is important though.

The DKM are not skin heads nor are they right-wing as that implies. For a kick-off, they're supporting the Pogues here in Ireland and there's no way a bunch of skin heads could get on stage in Dublin for more than 10 minutes without being bottled off.

Anyhow, hopefully a look at a picture of the band will disabuse you of your strange notion: http://www.dropkickmurphys.com/biography/index.html

"In addition to hopefully bringing people together for a good time, we hope to share some of our experiences and beliefs in working class solidarity, friendship, loyalty and self-improvement as a means to bettering society (i.e. You can preach till you're blue in the face but if you're lying in the gutter no one's gonna listen. If you pick yourself up by the bootstraps and live your life to the best of your ability you may set an example that others will follow)."

I was about to say, since when are the Dropkick Murphys right-wing? They aren't skin-heads at all, they're a bunch of Irish folk having fun making music. Reminds me of the whole Rammstein crap-- German industrial metal, and as such they MUST be nazis, some people said. Complete nonsense of course, but for some people, these words stick, and a stigma is born.

The DKM are regurlarly played at my local Irish Pub (Maguires in Alkmaar), and even though I don't particularly enjoy the DKM, they do add to the atmosphere in there .

---

Back to topic, I do like people messing around doing things like this. The people doing this might, in the future, make a great contribution by using their knowledge acquired here to create a really cool app, or to contribute to another project.

Learning is good, people!

Maybe, but BasiliskII supports MacOS 8.1, which was the last version released for the 68k architecture.

Yes, he is running mac os 7.5, probably because that one is freely available from apple here,
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Up...

It would be cool if they finally will make mac os 8.1 freely available.