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Ask Rob Malda

Posted by Roblimo on from the once-every-seven-years-is-enough dept.

We last interviewed CmdrTaco, along with Hemos, in January 2000. Slashdot's 10th anniversary seems like a good time to put Rob back on the hot seat. He's older now and married, his former hobby site now has well over one million registered user IDs, and Linux has gone from "upstart" operating system to a normal part of the IT landscape. So ask away, one question per post. Expect to see answers to at least 10 of the highest-moderated questions next week. And if you miss your chance to participate in this interview, don't worry. We'll probably do another one with CmdrTaco sometime between 2014 and 2017. CT: Also the clock is ticking if you want to sign up for a Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary party if you want a T-Shirt or a shot at the $1k ThinkGeek gift certificate.

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  1. Re:Why has /. turned into Digg? by debilo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why has the number of technical articles dropped so much over the years? IOW - why are you trying to turn /. into Digg?
    Oh, come on. Slashdot may suck at times, but Digg is an utter mess. The majority of the stories posted on the front page of Digg usually resembles an exclamation mark orgy, whoever posts the most wins automatically. The comment system is irritating at best, and really useful comments are rare. Someone once said that he reads Digg for the stories, and Slashdot for the comments. Basically, Digg is Fark.com without the humor, and Slashdot is lightyears away from turning into Digg.
  2. Re:Why haven't you fired Kdawson yet? by EggyToast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think the bigger question is why these (and other) editors love to link to blogs aggregating other blogs posting about articles talking about news, rather than just the original news reports.

  3. Re:Why haven't you fired Kdawson yet? by Hatta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you really need to ask? Inflammatory headlines cause flamewars. Flamewars cause page hits. Page hits sell ads.

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  4. Re:Why has /. turned into Digg? by abigor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I too wonder about this. I miss the old articles about how to hack this device or how these proposed changes to language X work. All of these RIAA articles, for instance, seem to pander to teenagers, while there are very few articles for technical people anymore.

  5. Year stamps. by 6350' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This has always bugged me since (my personal) day one: why don't slashdot articles display a year, along with the month and day, in their date? Every now and then I happen upon a link to an article on slashdot (or search back) and have to try to guess at what year the article is from. What gives?