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IRC Forum w/ CmdrTaco & Hemos Tonight at 8pm Eastern
Tonight on irc.slashnet.org in #Forum Hemos & I will be hanging out answering users' questions. This is your chance to ask about the moderation system, story selection, or the technology upon which Slashdot is built. (No Biz questions please ;) It's been a long time since we last did this, and we're hoping we can answer questions and get some feedback on some new ideas too. We'll see ya there.
something tells me the trolls are rubbing their hands with glee.....
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..what ever happened to JonKatz?
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...but what time zone are you guys in?
Thanx in adv!
... that this will be a huge troll/slashdot hater fest? The few voices who actually want to talk will probably be drowned out. But good luck anyway.
Some very good questions here. One I would disagree with though is:
8.) Most websites go through a "layout" change every couple of years, the "slashdot style" has been pretty much worn out, especially with not being w3c compliant, any changes in the future?
While W3C compliance would definetely be a good thing, I don't think they should change the layout style just because its a few years old. I hate site that change layouts (CNN, BBC news...). Just as I'm comfortable with one organization of material it changes. For sites I visit often, stable layout is very important.
As the old adage says, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. In general Slashdot's layout is clean and easy to read. By all means make incremental improvements but leave the basic, successful layout alone.
Sailing over the event horizon
as has been repeated many times, this is not a global site. it's an US site run by people in the US. Hemos and company are from michigan (originally), which is in EST. if they want to use it, their choice.
/me apologizes for the flame
While I agree that it would have been nice to have utc for those in other countries, I get sick of people bitching at the american websites for thinking in familiar terms. Ever notice how they list stuff in terms of USD? that's cause that's what they have in their piggy bank.
Quit being so fricking politically correct- I hate people that pull that crap.
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I agree that a lot of posts that are merely disagreement, sometimes with cogent argument behind them, get moderated as flamebait, etc., and this is not corrected nearly often enough in metamod.
I have never dared submit anything conneted to stuff my geekfriends work with here in Boston, because i don't want to see them slashdotted. Fix that, get more off-beat interesting stuff.
I won't be able to attend, so i redundantly request PUHLEEEEZE post the discussion the next day....?
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One thing Ive often wondered about regarding the development of HTML was : Why did nobody, not MS, not netscape... nobody ever implement a time tag extension. ie some thing like this
<time timezone="UTC+8">
13:00
</time>
Then the broswer could just translate it into the readers timezone automagically.
And as has been stated many times before, you only think it's not a global site because you live in the US. /. readers are actually living outside the US. Showing UTC is not being "politically correct" - it's being helpful to all those people who don't know and don't care what EST is.
A poll a while ago showed that around half of
I'm not going to be able to make it to this tonight (whenever "tonight" is for the editors, it's going to be really late in the night here), so could someone please bring up the following:
1. Congratulate the editors on finally cutting down on the number of dupes posted - it's been ages since I've seen one.
How has this been acheived: via technology or a more human factor?
2. Ask the editors when they plan to:
i) start checking story submissions for basic spelling and grammar errors;
ii) start checking that the actual stories aren't well-known hoaxes;
iii) start editing the story titles so that they are more easily found via searches (eg, a chess story should have some chess reference in the story title, rather than being called "Man Last Stand vs Machine" or whatever); and
iv) start offering bittorrents straight off the bat when it's relevant (eg, a story on a new movie trailer being made available for download, latest patch for a popular game, new distro launch).
3. Ask the editors to update polls more frequently.
Now that ChrisD's left, polls seem to linger well past their sell-by-dates. Chris said once that he posted new polls after x number of days or y number of votes, whichever came first. If I remember correctly, x was about 3-4 and y was roughly 25,000-30,000, so the recent poll about "Favorite fictitious drink" went on for far too long (7 days, nearly 60,000 votes). I'm sure some sort of automation could be used here.
That's it really.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Most people know which time zone they're in (as in GMT+/-x, personally I'm in +8), but if you're not an American, have no idea when "8pm Eastern" is.
And I know that you don't care; so we can just leave it at that.
are you sure? We're talking about Americans here - they barely know the time zone in other states.