Slashdot not so April fooled

Slashdot released MMO like achievements for their April fools joke, but even Taco may have indicated it's here to stay in some form:

Truthfully, achievements can serve a nice function to the site: we actually intend to use a few of them for legitimate purposes, starting with tutorial type functions: all major parts of Slashdot have an corresponding achievement, so getting them all requires you to explore much of the site's functionality