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Playstation 2 U.S. Release Scaled Back
A reader submitted: "Sony has set back the release of the Playstation 2 due to component shortages. The Europe release date has been reset to Nov. 24th, but a US date has not been confirmed." We've been seeing a lot of conflicting submissions over the last few days -- and conflicting information from Sony. But what it looks like now is that the initial release, for the U.S., is set for Oct. 26th, and the number of the machines to be shipped has been scaled back by half.
Do you ever read /. ? 'Cause those of us that do saw this story a few hours ago.
I bet most readers would prefer to see twice as many PS2s being produced, and half as many stories about them being late to market :)
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Read your own site much? the playstation delays were announced two days ago, then we've got two stories within two hours of each other here. Perhaps you people paid good money to run this site should read the site before going off to approve stories.
-- Greg
Slashdot, would a spell-checker for posting be too much to ask? It's not rocket science!
2000-08-16 01:14:50 Caffeine added to Soda to create addiction? (articles,news) (rejected)
was posted on www.bottomquark.com on 8-15-00, a day before you submitted it to /.
If you like these sorts of stories, come on over to Bottomquark. You want articles, we want readers -- a match made in Heaven.
Ironically, we also had the PS2 story before Slashdot had it.
Come on Over!
OldSaxon
You like science?
You like science?
You like Bottomquark.
Abode, duplicate stories, I'd be careful in traffic dude!
Bleh!
ahem.
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Matt Singerman
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Back then, I'd read something on Slashdot that didn't make news anywhere else for at LEAST a day, and the stories were *interesting.*
These days, stories get repeated, and are usually covered elsewhere A) more in-depth, B) more accurate, and C) earlier.
Plus, redundant stories get posted, and potentially good stories are left out. Take some of my own submissions:
2000-07-06 16:24:29 Microsoft SQL Server Benchmarks withdrawn (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
2000-08-16 01:14:50 Caffeine added to Soda to create addiction? (articles,news) (rejected)
2000-09-25 17:45:31 Data Loss when shutting down Windows ME, possibly 98 (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
2000-09-27 19:15:09 Suspected Creator of 'ILOVEYOU' Chats Online (articles,news) (rejected)
Some of these topics are things that Slashdot readers would want to read about, but were ignored AND not covered at all!
People can easily say "Well, go to another site! Stop Complaining!" or, "If you can do a better job, make your OWN site! Stop complaining!" If I had the time and the resources to start my own site, I would. And the reason I don't trounce around other sites is because Slashdot compresses them all into one site.
If I didn't try to help, I wouldn't complain. But I *am* submitting cool stories. They're just getting passed over for redundant stuff like this.
I used to defend Slashdot against complaints like this....unfortunately now, they're actually substantiated.
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