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Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions
To understand why the system works like it does, you need to first understand that Slashdot is about to start accepting new ad formats. The large ads that you see on many other sites are coming here. We really don't have an option: these are what advertisers want, and if we don't provide them, we won't be around much longer. But we want to give you an option to see Slashdot without these ads. Second, you need to understand that Slashdot readers fall into a variety of types, and charging the same flat fee just isn't possible.
Slashdot subscriptions will essentially let you buy a thousand pages to be viewed without banner ads. And you will have some flexibility to decide what types of pages (Comments, Articles, The Homepage) you want ads removed from, and what types of pages you just want to see the ads.
The rates are currently set at $5 per 1000 pages. To put this into perspective, $20 (typical magazine subscription) will be enough pages for 82% of our readers to view Slashdot without ads for a year. Another 15% will need to spend $5 a month to accomplish the same thing. 3% of our readers would need to spend more than $5 a month- but they could choose to see ads on comments and in almost every case, still pay around $5 a month. (As an aside, it's also worth noting that more than half of all comment posters fall into this 3%)
We realize that this system is more complex, but Slashdot has a third of a million readers per day with different reading habits, and this is the best way to accomodate everyone fairly.
Currently we only accept payment via paypal. It was simply easy and fast. We intend to offer other options as time permits and readers request.
Eventually we intend to offer additional features to subscribers. Exactly what those plums are remains to be decided: Access to the rejected submissions bin? A 'Gold Star' in your comments header? Karma? (I think that would be hilarious) We really don't know. We'll decide and implement what makes sense as we have time to do it.
We are doing our best to learn from the mistakes made by other sites that have started charging for subscriptions. We won't create subscriber only features that cost more to maintain than they generate. But we do need support from you if we are to continue. So anyway, here's that link again if you forgot it ;)
Will you be charging extra for first posts?
Let me just put out a vote that I don't mind big ads. I'm not a freeloader, and don't expect a free ride to pay for something as expensive as Slashdot.
And yes, if you use Junkbuster, you are a freeloader.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
I think that paying users should have the ability to mod stories. That way we could mod out katz entirely.
"Blake is an idealist, Jenna. He cannot afford to think." - Kerr Avon, Star One, Blakes 7
Oh well, you couldn't blame them. Everybody succumbs to the succubus of greed from time to time. Sucks bad for the people in india who may only make 5 dollars a month. Have to blow the whole thing just to read slashdot without ads.
Oh, everything should be free EXCEPT banner free pages on /. !!!
Considering everything on this site is contributed by other news sites and or the open-source wackos writing in, you should be ashamed!
http://pages.infinit.net/fraktal/Images/eh.jpg
Hey, that's great. But if I pay I expect to be able to NOT get blocked from the site, no matter what I do or how much I troll. I also expect 500 karma points permanently and to post at +5 all the time. If I can't get this you don't get my $5. FUCK YOU SLASHWHORES! - Long time reader/poster since 1998, but I'm outta here once those fucking flash ads start up. Well, at least until I get junkbuster setup! BAHAHAHAHA.
Predictable, I know - but does this mean that Slashdot will actually be able to afford a spell-checker for CmdrTaco? Oh, and throw in a grammar-checker while you're at it. Probably a two-for-one going on somewhere ...
----- rL
Basing a business plan around the stupidity of your audience, after all, never fails.
Hey if i'm paying a subscription you better not even THINK about banning the ip or subnet of the subscribers.
gee YES i think i'll PAY money so i can be BANNED.
NO, i don't think so!
All of the bandwidth should be free, since the phone company is just a big corporate ripoff and all of the infrastructure was paid off a long time ago, so Slashdot is just trying to profiteer off of the people, just like Enron. We need Congress to investigate Slashdot and the mega-corp OSDN.
Yes, 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is $5 per issue and is without corporate ads. Subscriptions cost more, so do subscriptions to the New York Times. It is all because mega-corporations are ripping us off too, just like you.
It is an outrage, we need more action by politicians like Ralph Nader and Al Gore! If the Supreme Court had installed Nader as president instead of Bush this would be different, we could have surrendered to Bin Laden and not have this huge military waste traveling all over the world, but big capitalists are smothering the populists at every turn.
I am not allowed to speak freely in my own country. I can not even travel to Cuba and my government will not tell me why!
Slashdot (or is is "Slashgot") is a perfect example of why we need Campaign Finance Reform as well as real gun control in the Amerikkka.
Sincerely,
Eric Corley
Editor-in-Chief
2600: The Hacker Quarterly
Like I'm going to PAY for this crap? Ha!
It was bad enough when it was FREE!
Banner ads are small enough that I can easily tolerate them, but the popups, flash ads that play music, animated shoot the monkey or all this annoying stuff is forcing me to configure some serious anti-ad protection. This is sad cause I clicked on an interesting ad once in a while and I bought some cool softwares and stuff after clicking an ad.
But when you go too far with advertisement you start annoying people, people get angry when they are annoyed and angry people aren't good customers.
True warriors use the Klingon Google
i have waited for this day my whole life. Even before internet is what it has become today, i anticipated the collapse of slashdot. this is the day that its going to start to collapse. i would like to give madphat propz to Jesus, His Mother, His Heavenly and Earthly Father, the pope, JPR, and the antichrist, Rob Malda, for letting this all happen.
i am convinced that "/.ers" are homosexuals and imma make that my "sig"
Did your mommy help you find adequacy? Maybe she should have explained to you that it doesn't even try to be a news source, so how you decide it's similar to Slashdot is amazing... Perhaps what you really mean is Kuro5hin, but perhaps the language-equipped members of your clique have yet to introduce you to all of the hackneyed slash clones...
They're spying on us, people, how else could he know our money spending habits?
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One shall speak only if what one has to say is more beautiful than silence
ONE RING TO WANK THEM ALL
one ring to wank them all
ONE RING TO CUM THEM
one ring to cum them
ONE RING TO BRING THEM ALL
one ring to bring them all
AND IN THE DARKNESS RAPE THEM.
and in the darkness rape them.
FUCK YOU COMMANDER TUNA TACO.
YOU ARE JUST ANOTHER FOOLISH DOTCOM SELLOUT.
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE SPECIAL?
YOUR JUST ANOTHER DOTCOM LOSER.
caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling.caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling. caps is like yelling.
FUCK YOU TUNA TACO.
YOU FUCKING GREEDY PIG.
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TUNA TACO WANTS TO LINE HIS POCKETS BY SELLING YOUR OWN COMMENTS BACK TO YOU!
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WELL IT LOOKS LIKE YOU ANDS TUNA TACO FINALLY FOUND A WAY BLEED THE CONSUMERS DRY.
SURE YOU HAD THEM CREATING ALL THE CONTENT FOR YEARS.
NOW YOU CAN MAKE THE CONUMER PEONS PAY FOR THE CHANCE TO READ THEIR OWN COMMENTS.
WAY TO GO HOMOS AND TUNA TACO.
WAY TO EXPLOIT THE PEOPLE!
MICROSOFT WOULD BE PROUD.
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YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CREATES ALL THE CONTENT.
I THINK YOU HAVE CREATED ENOUGH.
DON'T BE FOOLED INTO PAYING TO READ YOUR OWN WRITING.
IF ANYTHING TUNA TACO OWES THE POSTERS $5 PER 1000 PAGE VIEWS FOR CREATING ALL THE CONTENT.
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WELL IF IT'S NOT COMMERCIAL THEN TUNA TACO DOESN'T GET TO LINE HIS POCKETS WITH FAT CASH FOR YOUR HARD WORK.
BUT I'M SURE HE WOULD LOVE TO PASS OFF THE BANDWIDTH COST TO THE USERS...AND STILL HAVE ADS.
TUNA TACO IS IN IT FOR THE BENJAMINS NOT THE WARM FUZZIES.
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ANT NON-COMMERCIAL COMMUNITY GO TO USENET.
TUNA TACO AND THE VA SCAM CREW ARE OUT FOR BIG DOLLARS NOT THE "COMMUNITY".
TUNA TACO IS A FUCKING THEIF AND A LIAR.
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FUCK YOU.
TUNA TACO IS A HYPOCRIT.
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Just doing my part in getting this post into the hall of fame. Please ignore. fuck fuck fuck fuck shit shit shit shit ass ass ass ass
slashdot is bunch of crap.
YOU CAN HAVE YOUR FLUNKIES MOD ME DOWN BUT I WILL STILL GET THE MESSAGE OUT!
TUNA TACO AND HOMO HEMOS ARE THEIVES AND LIARS.
DON'T BE SWINDLED BY THESE INTERNET SCAMSTERS!
DON'T BE FOOLED INTO SENDING MONEY TO THE GET RICH QUICK SCHEME!
TUNA TACO WANTS YOU TO PAY TO READ YOUR OWN COMMENTS!
COMMENTS ON STORIES YOU SUBMITTED!
TUNA TACO THINKS YOU OWE HIM SOMETHING!
IN REALITY TUNA TACO OWES YOU!
HE GETS RICH OFF OF SUBSCIPTIONS AND BLOATED BANNERS WHILE YOU SIT THERE SUBMITTING STORIES AND WRITING COMMENTS.
AND THEN TUNA TACO SELLS BACK YOUR HARDWORK TO YOU!
DON'T SEND THESE SCAMSTER 1 RED CENT!
FUCK YOU TUNA TACO! I WILL DO DANCE WHEN YOU GO OUT OF BUSINESS AND YOU GREEDY HANDS LOSE THEIR GRASP ON THE INTERNET.
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OCME ON TUNA TACO YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO MOD ME DOWN!
GO AHEAD CENSOR ME!
YOU PATHETIC GET RICH QUICK SCHEME WILL NEVER PAY OFF.
YOU GREEDY INTERNET SWINDLERS MAKE ME SICK.
BRING IT ON, CENSOR ME, YOU THEIVING FUCK.
TRYING TO MILK THE COMMUNITY SO YOU CAN LIVE HIGH ON THE HOG.
YOU ARE WORSE THAN MICROSOFT, TIME WARNER AND THE MPAA, AT LEAST THEY DON'T PRETEND TO BE ANYTHING BUT BLOOD SUCKING CORPORATE THUGS.
EVERYONE EXPECTS A MICROSOFT SHAKEDOWN.
BUT YOU ACT LIKE YOU ARE SOMEHOW "SPECIAL" OR "DIFFERENT" YOUR JUST ANOTHER GREEDY CORPORATE PIG TRYING TO BLEED THE INTERNET FOR ALL IT'S WORTH AND YOU KNOW IT.
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WHY ARE YOU USING PAYPAL?
SOMEONE WHO MAKES ME PAY TO READ MY OWN WRITING IS NOT MY PAL.
IT SHOULD BE PAY-CONTENT-THEIVES.
OR PAY-MONEY-GRUBBING-CORPORATE-PIG.
BECUASE ANYONE WHO PULLS A SCAM LIKE THIS IS NO ONES PAL.
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TUNA TACO IS JUST A INTERNET THEIF.
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slashdot is not worth crap.
paying money for this?
bwahahhahahahhahah.
just another internet get rich quick scheme in it's death throes.
slashdot is a big scam.
fuck you va software.
TUNA TACO IS A BIG RIP OFF ARTIST.
STOP TRYING TO RAPE THE COMMUNITY.
YOU ARE A DISGUSTING PIG.
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SLASHDOT IS JUST A TOOL FOR TUNA TACO THE GREEDY BLOODSUCKER TO LINE HIS POCKETS.
DON'T LET HIM GET RICH OFF YOUR COMMENTS.
USE AD BLOCKS SO HE DOENS'T GET ONE CENT OFF YOU.
DON'T LET TUNA TACO GET AWAY WITH THIS SCAM.
HE WILL BE LIVING LARGE WITH PILES OF CASH WHILE YOU ARE COUGHING UP YET ANOTHER 5 BUCKS NOT TO BE ASSUALT WITH OBSCENE ADVERTISEMENTS.
DON'T GIVE IN, BLOCK THE ADS YOURSELF, SCREW TUNA TACOS GET RICH QUICK PLANS.
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the day i pay for this crap is the day pigs fly.
ad blocker so va software can eat a penis.
you are such a stupid website.
you suck.
you don't deserve one penny.
i'll never pay jack squat.
and i'll block every ad.
so find a new get rich quick scam.
Maybe if /. just dropped ACs, they would save enough bandwidth. Whatcha think about that?
Pay the fuck up!
I really want to get ThinkGeek involved with the Slashdot subscriptions. Buy $X worth of stuff, get a Slashdot Subscription free... or else if you subscribe, you get a dollar back as a TG gift certificate. I don't know what the numbers would be, but I'd love to do it.
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
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ISSUE 1
With the announcement of Slashdot subscriptions, the question becomes "what is the most fucking effective way to fuck Slashdot out of as much fucking money as fucking possible?"
Nested mode.
Nested mode draws a monumental amount of bandwidth compared to Threaded mode, with fewer page views (for subscribers) or banner ads (for non-subscribers)
Let's say that the first page of comments on a heavily-discussed story in threaded mode is 100KB in size. A person reading that story will read some of the sub-level replies to those comments comments, but not all, so let's say he pulls perhaps 200KB of bandwidth maximum, and it will cost him many page views/banner ads. Now, someone viewing that same page in nested mode is entirely likely to pull 500-1000KB, with only a single page view or banner ad. More cost to Slashdot, less income to Slashdot, therefore less PROFIT for Slashdot.
This goes without saying, but we also need to set our thresholds to -1 (yours IS already set to -1, right?), set our "max comment size" to very high (so that gigantic garbage comments display in full), as well as setting "Limit" very high aslo. Crapflooders need to focus more on posting replies to high-rated or early-posted comments instead of (or in addition to) posting top-level comments, because many people don't bother visiting the second page of comments when there's more than one. And we all need to use Junkbuster, of course.
Let's summarize:
Threaded mode:
Less bandwidth (small cost for Slashdot)
More page views/ads (large income for Slashdot)
small cost + large income = PROFIT
Nested mode:
More bandwidth (large cost for Slashdot)
Less page views/ads (small income for Slashdot)
large cost + small income = FUCKED
Now, the question becomes, can we cost them more money by subscribing, or by not subscribing? I'd be more than happy to throw $50 at Slashdot if by creative page-loading I could cause it to cost them $100 -- I'd be out $50, but so would they, so I think it'd be worth it. It would definitely do more for the world than throwing $50 at those gay starving African children in Africa. But can we cost them more money by subscribing or by not subscribing?
Most large-scale bandwidth providers charge a few dollars or so per gigabyte. Let's be generous, and say that Slashdot pays $5 per gigabyte. With subscriptions, you pay $5 for 1000 pageviews. Unless your 1000 pageviews average 1.024MB each, Slashdot isn't meeting expenses, they're making a profit. Subscribers will not only be paying their own way, they'll be subsidizing non-subscribers. Slashdot is lying to subscribers, and it's important that potential subscribers know this.
So basically, if you subscribe to Slashdot it's harder to fuck them than if you don't subscribe. So don't subscribe. And encourage your friends not to subscribe
Although this particular message is aimed at trolls / crapflooders / culture jammers / anarchists / discordianists / etc, it's important that we recruit the "normal users" to this crusade without them even knowing what our true purpose is -- just educate them that they'll get better value for their money if they use nested mode (much fewer pageviews than threaded mode, thus their subscription lasts longer), without pointing out to them that this'll also spike Slashdot's bandwidth usage.
In short, encourage subscribes to use NESTED MODE and to lower their thresholds to cut down on the pageviews they spend (actually to increase Slashdot's bandwidth usage)
Once subscribers realize that they can cut their page views down to a fraction by always using only nested mode, Slashdot's bandwidth usage will start to rise and they'll be forced to use larger and more intrusive advertisements to generate more income or make the site even crappier to drive people away to reduce expenses, or both. More intrusive ads will lead to more people joinining the FuckSlashdotNow campaign, or to quit Slashdot, or to merely Junkbuster the ads, fucking Slashdot's income stream further.
Summary:
Trolls / crapflooders / culture jammers / etc / should do this:
1. Junkbuster
2. Use Nested mode, -1 threshold
3. Set max comment size very high.
4. Not subscribe
5. Load as many pages as possible
6. Consume as much bandwidth as possible
7 Load as few advertisements as possible
8. Recruit others to the cause
9. Re-post this message to every thread
10. Rate this comment up whenever you see it posted
11. Stay tuned for more updates.
We should (covertly) encourage non-subscribing normal users to do the following:
1. Not subscribe, because it's not a good value for their money.
2. Use Junkbuster to block banner ads.
We should (covertly) encourage subscribing normal users to do the following:
1. Use Nested mode for the duration of their subscription, so that they'll spend fewer pageviews and get better value for their money.
2. Not resubscribe.
Thanks for reading this first issue of The FuckSlashdotNow Report! I'm currently soliticing ideas for upcoming issues; please e-mail me (e-mail address is in profile) with any comments or suggestions!
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ISSUE 1
With the announcement of Slashdot subscriptions, the question becomes "what is the most fucking effective way to fuck Slashdot out of as much fucking money as fucking possible?"
Nested mode.
Nested mode draws a monumental amount of bandwidth compared to Threaded mode, with fewer page views (for subscribers) or banner ads (for non-subscribers)
Let's say that the first page of comments on a heavily-discussed story in threaded mode is 100KB in size. A person reading that story will read some of the sub-level replies to those comments comments, but not all, so let's say he pulls perhaps 200KB of bandwidth maximum, and it will cost him many page views/banner ads. Now, someone viewing that same page in nested mode is entirely likely to pull 500-1000KB, with only a single page view or banner ad. More cost to Slashdot, less income to Slashdot, therefore less PROFIT for Slashdot.
This goes without saying, but we also need to set our thresholds to -1 (yours IS already set to -1, right?), set our "max comment size" to very high (so that gigantic garbage comments display in full), as well as setting "Limit" very high aslo. Crapflooders need to focus more on posting replies to high-rated or early-posted comments instead of (or in addition to) posting top-level comments, because many people don't bother visiting the second page of comments when there's more than one. And we all need to use Junkbuster, of course.
Let's summarize:
Threaded mode:
Less bandwidth (small cost for Slashdot)
More page views/ads (large income for Slashdot)
small cost + large income = PROFIT
Nested mode:
More bandwidth (large cost for Slashdot)
Less page views/ads (small income for Slashdot)
large cost + small income = FUCKED
Now, the question becomes, can we cost them more money by subscribing, or by not subscribing? I'd be more than happy to throw $50 at Slashdot if by creative page-loading I could cause it to cost them $100 -- I'd be out $50, but so would they, so I think it'd be worth it. It would definitely do more for the world than throwing $50 at those gay starving African children in Africa. But can we cost them more money by subscribing or by not subscribing?
Most large-scale bandwidth providers charge a few dollars or so per gigabyte. Let's be generous, and say that Slashdot pays $5 per gigabyte. With subscriptions, you pay $5 for 1000 pageviews. Unless your 1000 pageviews average 1.024MB each, Slashdot isn't meeting expenses, they're making a profit. Subscribers will not only be paying their own way, they'll be subsidizing non-subscribers. Slashdot is lying to subscribers, and it's important that potential subscribers know this.
So basically, if you subscribe to Slashdot it's harder to fuck them than if you don't subscribe. So don't subscribe. And encourage your friends not to subscribe
Although this particular message is aimed at trolls / crapflooders / culture jammers / anarchists / discordianists / etc, it's important that we recruit the "normal users" to this crusade without them even knowing what our true purpose is -- just educate them that they'll get better value for their money if they use nested mode (much fewer pageviews than threaded mode, thus their subscription lasts longer), without pointing out to them that this'll also spike Slashdot's bandwidth usage.
In short, encourage subscribes to use NESTED MODE and to lower their thresholds to cut down on the pageviews they spend (actually to increase Slashdot's bandwidth usage)
Once subscribers realize that they can cut their page views down to a fraction by always using only nested mode, Slashdot's bandwidth usage will start to rise and they'll be forced to use larger and more intrusive advertisements to generate more income or make the site even crappier to drive people away to reduce expenses, or both. More intrusive ads will lead to more people joinining the FuckSlashdotNow campaign, or to quit Slashdot, or to merely Junkbuster the ads, fucking Slashdot's income stream further.
Summary:
Trolls / crapflooders / culture jammers / etc / should do this:
1. Junkbuster
2. Use Nested mode, -1 threshold
3. Set max comment size very high.
4. Not subscribe
5. Load as many pages as possible
6. Consume as much bandwidth as possible
7 Load as few advertisements as possible
8. Recruit others to the cause
9. Re-post this message to every thread
10. Rate this comment up whenever you see it posted
11. Stay tuned for more updates.
We should (covertly) encourage non-subscribing normal users to do the following:
1. Not subscribe, because it's not a good value for their money.
2. Use Junkbuster to block banner ads.
We should (covertly) encourage subscribing normal users to do the following:
1. Use Nested mode for the duration of their subscription, so that they'll spend fewer pageviews and get better value for their money.
2. Not resubscribe.
Thanks for reading this first issue of The FuckSlashdotNow Report! I'm currently soliticing ideas for upcoming issues; please e-mail me (e-mail address is in profile) with any comments or suggestions!
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*EOT*
*Not using Nested Mode? You're being screwed!
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ISSUE 1
With the announcement of Slashdot subscriptions, the question becomes "what is the most fucking effective way to fuck Slashdot out of as much fucking money as fucking possible?"
Nested mode.
Nested mode draws a monumental amount of bandwidth compared to Threaded mode, with fewer page views (for subscribers) or banner ads (for non-subscribers)
Let's say that the first page of comments on a heavily-discussed story in threaded mode is 100KB in size. A person reading that story will read some of the sub-level replies to those comments comments, but not all, so let's say he pulls perhaps 200KB of bandwidth maximum, and it will cost him many page views/banner ads. Now, someone viewing that same page in nested mode is entirely likely to pull 500-1000KB, with only a single page view or banner ad. More cost to Slashdot, less income to Slashdot, therefore less PROFIT for Slashdot.
This goes without saying, but we also need to set our thresholds to -1 (yours IS already set to -1, right?), set our "max comment size" to very high (so that gigantic garbage comments display in full), as well as setting "Limit" very high aslo. Crapflooders need to focus more on posting replies to high-rated or early-posted comments instead of (or in addition to) posting top-level comments, because many people don't bother visiting the second page of comments when there's more than one. And we all need to use Junkbuster, of course.
Let's summarize:
Threaded mode:
Less bandwidth (small cost for Slashdot)
More page views/ads (large income for Slashdot)
small cost + large income = PROFIT
Nested mode:
More bandwidth (large cost for Slashdot)
Less page views/ads (small income for Slashdot)
large cost + small income = FUCKED
Now, the question becomes, can we cost them more money by subscribing, or by not subscribing? I'd be more than happy to throw $50 at Slashdot if by creative page-loading I could cause it to cost them $100 -- I'd be out $50, but so would they, so I think it'd be worth it. It would definitely do more for the world than throwing $50 at those gay starving African children in Africa. But can we cost them more money by subscribing or by not subscribing?
Most large-scale bandwidth providers charge a few dollars or so per gigabyte. Let's be generous, and say that Slashdot pays $5 per gigabyte. With subscriptions, you pay $5 for 1000 pageviews. Unless your 1000 pageviews average 1.024MB each, Slashdot isn't meeting expenses, they're making a profit. Subscribers will not only be paying their own way, they'll be subsidizing non-subscribers. Slashdot is lying to subscribers, and it's important that potential subscribers know this.
So basically, if you subscribe to Slashdot it's harder to fuck them than if you don't subscribe. So don't subscribe. And encourage your friends not to subscribe
Although this particular message is aimed at trolls / crapflooders / culture jammers / anarchists / discordianists / etc, it's important that we recruit the "normal users" to this crusade without them even knowing what our true purpose is -- just educate them that they'll get better value for their money if they use nested mode (much fewer pageviews than threaded mode, thus their subscription lasts longer), without pointing out to them that this'll also spike Slashdot's bandwidth usage.
In short, encourage subscribes to use NESTED MODE and to lower their thresholds to cut down on the pageviews they spend (actually to increase Slashdot's bandwidth usage)
Once subscribers realize that they can cut their page views down to a fraction by always using only nested mode, Slashdot's bandwidth usage will start to rise and they'll be forced to use larger and more intrusive advertisements to generate more income or make the site even crappier to drive people away to reduce expenses, or both. More intrusive ads will lead to more people joinining the FuckSlashdotNow campaign, or to quit Slashdot, or to merely Junkbuster the ads, fucking Slashdot's income stream further.
Summary:
Trolls / crapflooders / culture jammers / etc / should do this:
1. Junkbuster
2. Use Nested mode, -1 threshold
3. Set max comment size very high.
4. Not subscribe
5. Load as many pages as possible
6. Consume as much bandwidth as possible
7 Load as few advertisements as possible
8. Recruit others to the cause
9. Re-post this message to every thread
10. Rate this comment up whenever you see it posted
11. Stay tuned for more updates.
We should (covertly) encourage non-subscribing normal users to do the following:
1. Not subscribe, because it's not a good value for their money.
2. Use Junkbuster to block banner ads.
We should (covertly) encourage subscribing normal users to do the following:
1. Use Nested mode for the duration of their subscription, so that they'll spend fewer pageviews and get better value for their money.
2. Not resubscribe.
Thanks for reading this first issue of The FuckSlashdotNow Report! I'm currently soliticing ideas for upcoming issues; please e-mail me (e-mail address is in profile) with any comments or suggestions!
ur VARY aprctd fr rdng ths msg, pls fix thx!!!
*EOT*
*Not using Nested Mode? You're being screwed!
Off to the crapper to take a nasty dump. I drank 19 beers last night and had a jalapeno bagel and six cups of coffee this morning. Hopefully my nasty bleeding hemorrhoid won't act up...
Picture a quarter-of-a-million-guys-on-one-gal bukkake.... ;-)
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