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Hemos and I are going to try to answer questions today at 3:00 PM EST, on
irc.slashnet.org in #forum. Specifically we're going to try to keep the questions on the subject of subscriptions. There are a lot of misunderstandings about
a few things, and we wanna clear them up. We'll post a log in this story after the forum is done. Any questions can be /msged to Questions the bot and forum discussion can be had in #forum.d.
the End Of All Life as we know it, the sky caving in, instant Armageddon, the Dogs of War set loose and the Gates of Hell thrown wide open - Slashdot is going pay-per-view!!!!!
Well, that's my first response - I'm sure if you attend the chat then Hemos and Taco will say it's not that bad.
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Someone corrected the misspelling of the word "political" on the OSDN advertising page very quickly.
This suggests a game. I've saved the original HTML of the: OSDN advertising page, so I have a record.
The game is this: I will point out the errors, one at a time, and they will correct them, one at a time, demonstrating that they can't see their errors, and shouldn't be in the advertising business. I'll mention the small errors first.
So, here is the next error. The page says
"We are unique"
It is normal to put a period after every full sentence. The period is missing.
I am very much interested that OSDN be a financial success. What is needed now, to get the job done, is a quick sober awakening about the difficulties and complications of technical advertising.
Technical people know very easily when someone doesn't understand their field. It is not possible to write good technical ad copy unless you have a good technical understanding. Most advertising people do not bother to educate themselves. The poor quality of technical advertising brings poor results. That's why technical advertising pays as little as it does, and why it has so many "inexplicable" failures.
Bush's education improvements were
Jon Katz posted the second most visited posting ever in the history of /.:
Well yea, when you figure the average Katz post has 36,417 words, it takes you a a few days to get through it all.
That's why Slashdot is proud to introduce (for a small fee of $125.00 a month flat rate, or for a measured fee of $0.000005 per KatzWord) the:
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Voice from the Hellmouth
you simply push the Katzmogrify button and you get a quick, understandable summary:
High school losers are unhappy and sometimes shoot people. Society is mean. This is bad.
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One time, I taped a TV show using my VCR, and later on, when I played it back, I fast forwarded the ads! I stole the TV show! Mwuahahaha!
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