First of all, this picture is doctored; there should be a company name under "Mouse", or else it would show an "Unidentified Publisher" warning instead. Also notice how 'Mouse' text isn't rendered with cleartype, while all other text is. Plus, it's from 'Uncyclopedia'.

Secondly, is Windows bashing what "Hacker News" is going to become? Might as well rename this site "Digg" and start upvoting "Top ten tips for using Ubuntu"-type stories.

Maybe I should add a way to undo votes. I bet a few people would like to.

Or maybe I should just not accept submissions ending in .jpg or .png. Images are the Nile Perch of social news.

Consider this a vote for "no image submissions allowed".

I don't think the "no images" solution makes sense. Images are just one of countless kinds of lame submissions; why single them out? I thought the whole idea of voting and oracles was to be able to avoid that sort of hand-to-hand combat. Why use a heuristic spam filter when you have a Bayesian one that works better?

Because if a 10-year-old could have come up with the media being submitted, then it probably shouldn't be submitted here. Having no newsworthiness, pictures contain boring, rehashed messages, and are dangerious because they stroke the group's ego with simplistic messages, and dangerious because they become the preferred submission over time, since they tend to falsely increase a user's confidence though no knowledge has been transferred, while original, analytical thought has been stimied.

I completely agree with you, but I don't see how that addresses my point. Picture submissions suck, but it's a waste of effort to ban them when we already have a more effective way of dealing with the broader problem of lame submissions.

Its a hard and fast rule that kicks in before the submission goes onto the site. Ways of modifying the effects of voting happen later and are more subtle.

Exactly. Because the "New" page is useful and should stay that way.

The new page as it stands will continue to be useful up to at least one more order of magnitude in volume, and I don't think PG intends to let the site grow any more than that.

I wish I'd thought to screencap this, but I had a similar error in Vista when I first tried to install my Nostromo, and again later when I thought I'd see what would happen when I plugged in my ergodex.

It was frustrating enough that it caused me to nuke my vista partition and go back to boot-camping XP.

Funny, it's that same frustration that keeps people going back to Gentoo.

edit: I actually like Linux. I'm using it now.

So how do you click cancel if you don't trust the mouse? That's why I always carry two mice around in my laptop bag, so each one can vouch for the other.

This is obviously a joke, people shouldn't take it so seriously. It's great because it makes a good point. I have a security background so I generally like it when OS's try to become more secure but annoying the user with constant warnings doesn't accomplish much in terms of security.