▲ 121 ▼ Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours (www.theregister.com) submitted 1 year ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world 17 comments fedilink hide all child comments Who, Me?: 'This, many considered, was bad'
[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 94 points 1 year ago (4 children) 20 years ago. That should have been in the headline. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago 20 years ago? Shit, that was nothing compared to modern day amazon. permalink fedilink source parent [+] MHLoppy@fedia.io [S] -18 points 1 year ago (2 children) Eh, that assumes that all posts are news posts. When I first saw this headline I didn't assume it was current news, but I'm also familiar with the "Who, Me?" column I guess. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (1 child) In communities like this, yes, it's generally assumed that it's current events. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MHLoppy@fedia.io [S] -1 points 1 year ago That's not the precedent set by other similar, recent submissions though, - nobody complained about this other submission talking about an event in 2004 (also ~20 years ago): https://lemmy.world/post/32137161 If you want to police submitting to this community with an unwritten rule about editorializing titles to include chronological information: get the rule added to the sidebar instead of assuming people can somehow figure it out when there's no existing evidence of this precedent enforce it consistently It's not my favorite thing to have a few people who don't even make submissions getting upset at me for following the diabolical process of (1) reading the rules, (2) looking at previous submissions, and (3) copying a title verbatim from a reasonable source. If there's something that people are expected to follow, make it a written rule or give me access to your secret mind-reading device. This community isn't called sysadmin_news so I'm not sure how I'm reasonably expected to know this. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago 20 years ago? Shit, that was nothing compared to modern day amazon. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] MHLoppy@fedia.io [S] -18 points 1 year ago (2 children) Eh, that assumes that all posts are news posts. When I first saw this headline I didn't assume it was current news, but I'm also familiar with the "Who, Me?" column I guess. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (1 child) In communities like this, yes, it's generally assumed that it's current events. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MHLoppy@fedia.io [S] -1 points 1 year ago That's not the precedent set by other similar, recent submissions though, - nobody complained about this other submission talking about an event in 2004 (also ~20 years ago): https://lemmy.world/post/32137161 If you want to police submitting to this community with an unwritten rule about editorializing titles to include chronological information: get the rule added to the sidebar instead of assuming people can somehow figure it out when there's no existing evidence of this precedent enforce it consistently It's not my favorite thing to have a few people who don't even make submissions getting upset at me for following the diabolical process of (1) reading the rules, (2) looking at previous submissions, and (3) copying a title verbatim from a reasonable source. If there's something that people are expected to follow, make it a written rule or give me access to your secret mind-reading device. This community isn't called sysadmin_news so I'm not sure how I'm reasonably expected to know this. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (1 child) In communities like this, yes, it's generally assumed that it's current events. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MHLoppy@fedia.io [S] -1 points 1 year ago That's not the precedent set by other similar, recent submissions though, - nobody complained about this other submission talking about an event in 2004 (also ~20 years ago): https://lemmy.world/post/32137161 If you want to police submitting to this community with an unwritten rule about editorializing titles to include chronological information: get the rule added to the sidebar instead of assuming people can somehow figure it out when there's no existing evidence of this precedent enforce it consistently It's not my favorite thing to have a few people who don't even make submissions getting upset at me for following the diabolical process of (1) reading the rules, (2) looking at previous submissions, and (3) copying a title verbatim from a reasonable source. If there's something that people are expected to follow, make it a written rule or give me access to your secret mind-reading device. This community isn't called sysadmin_news so I'm not sure how I'm reasonably expected to know this. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io [S] -1 points 1 year ago That's not the precedent set by other similar, recent submissions though, - nobody complained about this other submission talking about an event in 2004 (also ~20 years ago): https://lemmy.world/post/32137161 If you want to police submitting to this community with an unwritten rule about editorializing titles to include chronological information: get the rule added to the sidebar instead of assuming people can somehow figure it out when there's no existing evidence of this precedent enforce it consistently It's not my favorite thing to have a few people who don't even make submissions getting upset at me for following the diabolical process of (1) reading the rules, (2) looking at previous submissions, and (3) copying a title verbatim from a reasonable source. If there's something that people are expected to follow, make it a written rule or give me access to your secret mind-reading device. This community isn't called sysadmin_news so I'm not sure how I'm reasonably expected to know this. permalink fedilink source parent