I’ve been an on and off reader and poster to Slashdot.org for years, I’ve had posts modded up and down, but this takes the cake! In this posting I responded to their somewhat biased Thanksgiving poll. I got modded down to flaimbait, and also banned from posting! When I try to reply I get the following message:

Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled.
If it’s you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner . If it’s someone else, this is a chance to
hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5′d
IPID and SubnetID, which are “md5hash-removed” and “md5hash-removed” and
(optionally, but preferably) your IP number “xx.xx.xx.xx” and your username “libertynews”.

I appears to me that they didn’t like me taking offense to the majority of responses being ‘Thanks for living outside the US’ and not having an alternate choice in the poll.