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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.
edit your hosts file
./ed webpage reading privaleges and the happy feeling from supporting your favorite website.
127.0.0.1 ads.osdn.com
no more ads!
You still miss out on the * beside your name, the pre
I stole this Sig
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?