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Thanks For the Logos; Help Us Choose a Winner
Over the course of October, we marked each day of our 15th anniversary month with a different reader-submitted graphic, instead of the usual Slashdot logo. (Thanks to all the artists who participated, whether or not your submission made it to the page: to keep it to one each day, we had to reluctantly cull a lot of great ones.) Now that all the selected graphics have had their day in the sun, we'd like your help in figuring out which one of the selected artists will receive a Nexus 7 tablet (in addition to one of our anniversary T-shirts). Take a look at the current poll and cast your vote. We've listed a handful of favorites as poll options, but feel free to pick the "some other" option and make a case for your favorite in the comments. As the note below all Slashdot polls warns, "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane." So we'll take the results with a grain of salt ("advisory") — but as of this writing, four of the options are between 13 and 16 percent, which gives us an idea that it's working pretty well.
I couldn't possibly pick a best one. There were at least four that stand out as being really top notch. And in things like art, I don't know how one evaluates on a linear scale.
I liked the logos changing. I don't like the whole voting on the best thing.
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...which is to say, the one we've had for a long, long time.
I'll probably get flamed, but I kind of like it when some things that have reached a fairly high level of developmental maturity don't get dramatically changed. Slashdot, even when it went a little higher tech, still didn't get dramatically changed from the way it's been for years and years. I actually appreciate that when change doesn't seem to actually improve the purpose.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I think that many readers would be fine with a Nexus. Especially a 6. Like Rachel.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
My reaction to most of the text explaining how it's done was a "what" when they could've saved a lot of time if they just stuck to Animation Shop 1+ Paint Shop Pro 5 and a dash of decent creativity.
Wow. You found out I was Timmy. I am not sure how you did it, but I bow to your insight. You gotta tell me though... did you hack into the server to find out my IP address is the same as Tim's? Regardless, you are clearly brilliant.
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There are maybe 3 that are halfway decent outside of a cutesy joke.
No offense to the creators, but they should feel bad.
The space logo was awesome. It was the only one that was truly original, and it stands out as the best of the competition.
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Then do it again tomorrow.
How about a page that shows them all next to each other? That would probably help the vast majority of people in voting.
I didn't notice the option to vote for the current logo ... that would be my vote
Tee-hee, a windoze loser.... Hihi.
I guess I would throw it back to the slashdot team and ask, what is it you hope to achieve with rebranding? Why a new logo? Is it merely to commemorate the history of slashdot? If so, I'd say you've already done that with the month-long logo fun.
Rebranding is done for a number of reasons. Historical milestone isn't typically one of them. It's sometimes used as an excuse for "We haven't grown our user base for a while and need something fresh to entice more visitors", but the event alone isn't usually enough. This is generally true because if you are happy with your growth and retention, don't mess with it.
If you aren't happy with growth or retention, that could be due to any number of factors and a new logo isn't likely to fix it. Knowing who the target demographic is would be the key to rebranding. But I advise extraordinary caution. Slashdot is old-guard when it comes to the internet, an institution really. An unchanging logo conveys stability and reliability. It also helps smooth transitions to other changes you may make in the future with respect to appearance, functionality, or content.
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
On the voting page, you should post the logos. How else can you decide, unless all you care about it who the author is?
Which is far better than a Linux loser or a Mac OS X loser. Hihi!
Are you *seriously* inviting people to vote on logos you aren't showing them?!?! Why on Earth are they not displayed on the survey/ballot?
The current homepage shows the normal logo with a blurb about entering the contest for October. Is that next October?
Sorry,
While all of the logos are artistically excellent, most of them have some sort of specificity (timeframe, inside joke, subject matter, infringement on other brands, etc.) that make them inappropriate to be used as a brand.
As a brand, the only one that is plausible is #7. It's a great start on a excellent design. As everyone is a critic.... Helvetica (and similar grotesque fonts) is over worn and a bit cold for this purpose. I would suggest something with a bit 'beefier' stroke weight, hand kerned for visual punch, and a humanist typeface (Ubuntu? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28typeface%29)) and I think you might have something truly special. Something good enough to be seen by thousands of people for several years.
Have fun.
It was aesthetically pleasing, fit well with the themes of the site, and was a clever and equally valid way of writing the official logo (after all, it was just a translation from one encoding scheme to another).
The mystery didn't hurt either, even if I was too thick to figure it out :)
The English word fart is one of the oldest words in the English vocabulary.
There were several really good ones, but the tessellation really was nice to look at.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
Yes, better as in "ignorance is bliss".
Slashdot fires Timothy? I've seen better editors for kindergarten newspapers,
That's child abuse.
What did those poor kindergarteners ever do to you do deserve that?
This poll is surely a hoax. There is no CowboyNeal option.
What is this Slashdot TV thing?
And where the hell are Taco and Hemos?
Oh - I've been asleep for a few years, btw.
What happened in here???
31 days of annoying animated gifs. 31 days of having to scroll every slashdot window and tab to get the distractions off the screen. slightly less than 31 days of wondering "when will they stop with this annoying shit?"
animations are the main reason i block ads. non-animated ads don't annoy me anywhere near as much, they're not as in-your-face distracting. animated non-ads annoy me almost as much as animated ads.
trying to read with animations on screen is about as pleasant as trying to listen to music while some arsehole is shouting at you with a megaphone held up to your ear.
my vote is also for none of them.
Serious question. Are you autistic? I'm not sure how something so small can irritate someone so much and am wondering if you have some type of syndrome that might explain it.
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Why wasn't this in the poll options ? It was completely awesome. 2nd is Avrum Cohen's robot bugs. And 3rd is the memory test one.
PS: I made an animated GIF and seeing the hatred against it made me smile because now I know how to kill all nerds swiftly: brain haemorrhage induced by animated GIFs. Sweet.
no.
i was probably being a bit too subtle for you so i'll spell it out clearly and simply:
i don't like animated gifs distracting from the content of a web page.
similarly, i don't like animations or sound effects on my computer's desktop - i disable all that shit, it doesn't add anything of value (quite the contrary).