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I hate to say this, but the editorial work of the Slashdot staff is not worth paying for. All the things I value in Slashdot come from the posters. I think the editorial staff needs to make a concerted effort to become more professional, drop the dupes, and fix the grammar.
I've said this before, but Slashdot doesn't know how to listen. You need money? Set up an Ebay-like auction system here.
You have a huge, loyal audience. A ton of people go through here everyday. They all have tons of gadgets, computers to sell, Batman dollies to shill. You have excellent (?) programmers - why keep tweaking Slash code? that's not making you money. build an auction system, and it will be a service to the community and keep you from begging. What a bunch of idiots you are. You're like Netscape, who waited too long and could have been like Yahoo, and blew it.
And put up classifieds, and maybe user group lists, where slash'ers in cities can meet. The Slash code is done enough, do something productive now. "Journals" won't make you money.
Go look at craigslist.com - see how they build their community. Spend 2 weeks analysing ebay in depth, then start building - you'll make mistakes, but start coding. look at some of the pre-built auction systems and learn. didn't Phil Greenspun's TCL system have an auction and classified system - download, learn the db schema, and do something practical.
what morons. not a drop of sense.
I bought myself a subscription basically because I read /. so often that I wanted to help out.
~50 posts, and this is the first one I've seen that isn't ringing the tired old "why pay for the cow when the milk is free" bell.
I'm happy to be a subscriber. The fact that I'm writing and you're reading means that Slashdot is of value to both of us. Do the trolls expect some angel to pay for Slashdot's bandwidth with manna from Heaven?
I, too, like the quality ads. I click more Slashdot ads than any other site's ads. Still not enough for a post-bust business model, though. $5 every few months is a small price to pay for this level of high-tech information/annoyance/entertainment.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
> the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
The more t-shirts you buy, the more laundry you have to do.
Ads are broken.
I'm the same way, with way too many t-shirts . . . five years of college results in lots of free shirts . . . but anyway, I think companies and the like should start giving out free boxers instead, since that's the limiting factor for me in having to do laundry . . .
I must agree to this list, also since my subscription has run out (I had a 5000 page subscription) I have not recieved any mod points. Perhaps it's because of my recently downmodded posts. If that is the case, then there needs to be a change in the method of handing out mod points. People are not always 100% karma whores, and if karma whores are the only ones getting mod points then this system is stupid.
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You still miss out on the * beside your name, the pre
I stole this Sig
Why should I? It isn't like a subscription to /. buys anything. If /. editors would edit the articles, check for dups, change the mod system (just check the BSD subsite to see how broken it has become) and post everyonce in a while then I would subscribe.
There are definative flaws in the system, no doubt. And the average quality of exploration can vary greatly as we have all seen. But a community is just that, the sum of what the community puts into it. Moderation/Thresholds helps a little but it is a dual edged sword and seems a little off balanced.
Your opinion is valid and I agree, you should pay for and support that which has a value to you, whatever it may be. The definition of value is a little skewed though, for I tend to think of anything that can help me think or change no matter its frustration can be a value. As true to your original comment, the only "Why" there would be would be support, and the supposed value the admins think it will add to the experiance. In my opinion the former is more important than the latter in principle, as the "value" the extra features add can be more or less useful depending on the person.
Not quite. It's more like : "Why pay for rubbish when the good stuff is available legally for free."
Some of us realised this back in about 1994 and have never regretted having this insight.
Stick Men
Members see ads too. We just get to suppress 1000 of them for $5. Though some pages always have ads.
A nice benefit of membership is being able to see new articles an hour or so before non-members, allowing you to see sites before they get slashdotted and prepare a well thought out response before the comments page fills with didn't rtfa nonsense.
To be honest, I like the type of ad that I see on /. . Some of the stuff is pretty useful.
/. was running ads saying that I'm an instant winner of or some offshore casino, not only would I mind the ads, but I think I'd be looking for another place to read about tech and other coolness.
O'reilly, IBM, Sourceforge, etc. It's stuff that I'm interested in generally. And I'm yet to see one of those annoying flash ads that float all over my screen.
Now if
wbs,
Huh?