DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media

An anonymous reader writes: DHI Group Inc. (formerly known as Dice Holdings Inc.) announced plans to sell Slashdot Media (slashdot.org & sourceforge.net) in their Q2 financial report. This is being reported by multiple sources. Editor's note: Yep, looks like we're being sold again. We'll keep you folks updated, but for now I don't have any more information than is contained in the press release. Business as usual until we find a buyer (and hopefully after). The company prepared a statement for our blog as well — feel free to discuss the news here, there, or in both places.

Comments

Re:You just described SoylentNews.

[evilviper]

You've basically just described SoylentNews, a Slashdot clone that appeared when the Slashdot Beta shit really started heating up.

SoylentNews never aspired to be anything like slashdot. Instead NCommander stated clearly "SoylentNews intends to be a source of journalism", which just resulted in it becoming HuffingtonPost with discussion, instead of a /. replacement.

The only direct replacement for /. that appeared was PipeDot. "pipedot intends to be a better slashdot". https://pipedot.org/comment/2C... Unfortunately, the word hardly got out, and readership over there is pretty low.

Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong

[AmiMoJo]

There are problems with ethics in game journalism, but that's not what GamerGate is about. Don't forget that the original claim was that a developer slept with a journalist in exchange for positive coverage of her game, which turned out to be completely and demonstrably untrue. Even now, if you head over to Reddit or 8chan, that lie is still being pushed. If GamerGate really cared about ethics the first thing it would do is put its own house in order and apologise.

GamerGate uses the ethics angle as an excuse to harass. When confronted the harassers can point to the people posting about ethics as a way to deflect criticism and disown their actions. If you really care about ethics in journalism, you need to either find a new hashtag or make a real effort to clean up GamerGate. Get over to Reddit and heavily down-mod all those misogynist posts on the GG boards, for example. That isn't happening right now, completely discrediting the ethics angle.

In short, if you want to complain about ethics, you need to have them yourself first.