I would prefer to see sites like SourceForge or Freshmeat do that
myself. I don't really want to use Slashdot as a software announcement
system. We do post a reasonable number of them, but its a minor
portion of Slashdot.
82% read 10 or fewer pages a day. 15% read 30 or less. 3% read more than 30 a day.
We don't track it per user and don't plan to, so we won't be putting that
info in your user info page. Sorry, the DB just can't handle that load.
Currently pages that are not index/comments/article are shown ad-free
provided you are a subscriber and have ads suppressed on at least one of
the three page types. Those pages aren't counted.
Did you read what I wrote in that article? Yes, we will accept
credit cards directly. Paypal was just first becuase it was quick and
easy to do. I also hope to get ThinkGeek to be able to accept payment for
Slashdot Subscriptions too, just 'cuz I think it'd be fun;)
We figure that people are going to subscribe on the honor system anyway,
so this just doesn't really matter. Users who really don't want ads
will run Junkbuster.
If you load 100 pages a day, then as I said before, you are in the 3% of users
for whom the subscription is not ideal. Its really targetted at the other 97%
of readers who read less then 30 pages a day.
I'm sorry we don't have a system in place to tell you your activity in advance,
but those realtime updates are DB hogs and we don't do them for everyone.
Here's the thing tho. It sounds like you want to subscribe. Put in $5, and
set Slashdot to display ads on comments & the index. You'll still have the
big ads on articles suppressed (and any other benefits of subscribing) and
it'll take awhile to chew through those pages.
We don't expect everyone to subscribe. And we know that most people won't
subscribe to suppress ads. We just want to give people the ability to pay if
they want to, and to give them something in return.
Frankly we doubt that 3% will really pay us at all. Notice the venom posted
in this discussion: this comes largely from that very 3%. Its ironic that
those who profess to hate us the most also load the most pages;)
Yeah this is kinda a problem. Subscribers at least get that data, but we
don't bother tracking it for everyone. You could subscribe and see how fast
you chew through the thousand pages... also you can to choose you page types.
So if you just hide banner ads on article.pl... well you get the idea.
I personally have been using Paypal for eBay and such for some time. As I
said, we're going to offer other options because we know it is a problem for
many people. But we also know that millions of net users have Paypal accounts
and don't have a problem with them.
As I said, I'd like to do filtering based on subscriptions (thats what I
mean by the Gold Star for posting). Operating under the assumption that a
troll wouldn't want to give us his credit card number (half of them post through
anonymizing proxy servers, so I seriously doubt that they'll be giving us
their CC num;)
It'd be a user option of course, just like all the other filters. You can
set a +1 to subscribers. I dunno if everyone would like that, but I would think
it would be interesting to see at least.
As mentioned in the article, and on the subscription page, we will support
other payment methods. Paypal was just quick and easy, and we knew a lot
of readers use it anyway.
Anonymous Coward is a seperate thing, and can
be filtered as such... just flag AC as a -2 penalty
or something, and suddenly your comment view
gets much smarter.
I agree about logging in. I think there
is a time and a place for AC posting, and only about
1% of all Slashdot AC posts use it appropriately.
Hence the ability to blow them all away in your
user preferences.
I've thought about that and decided against it.
It opens up more problems then it fixes. Plus,
I like to believe that you have to insert your
foot into your own mouth... you don't get to
chop off your mouth.
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I would prefer to see sites like SourceForge or Freshmeat do that myself. I don't really want to use Slashdot as a software announcement system. We do post a reasonable number of them, but its a minor portion of Slashdot.
We don't track it per user and don't plan to, so we won't be putting that info in your user info page. Sorry, the DB just can't handle that load.
Currently pages that are not index/comments/article are shown ad-free provided you are a subscriber and have ads suppressed on at least one of the three page types. Those pages aren't counted.
The queue thing is quite possible someday.
Did you read what I wrote in that article? Yes, we will accept credit cards directly. Paypal was just first becuase it was quick and easy to do. I also hope to get ThinkGeek to be able to accept payment for Slashdot Subscriptions too, just 'cuz I think it'd be fun ;)
We figure that people are going to subscribe on the honor system anyway, so this just doesn't really matter. Users who really don't want ads will run Junkbuster.
I'm sorry we don't have a system in place to tell you your activity in advance, but those realtime updates are DB hogs and we don't do them for everyone.
We don't expect everyone to subscribe. And we know that most people won't subscribe to suppress ads. We just want to give people the ability to pay if they want to, and to give them something in return.
Frankly we doubt that 3% will really pay us at all. Notice the venom posted in this discussion: this comes largely from that very 3%. Its ironic that those who profess to hate us the most also load the most pages ;)
Yeah this is kinda a problem. Subscribers at least get that data, but we don't bother tracking it for everyone. You could subscribe and see how fast you chew through the thousand pages... also you can to choose you page types. So if you just hide banner ads on article.pl... well you get the idea.
Bingo!
To put it in perspective, the 3% of readers who read Slashdot the most load 25 times the pages as normal users.
I personally have been using Paypal for eBay and such for some time. As I said, we're going to offer other options because we know it is a problem for many people. But we also know that millions of net users have Paypal accounts and don't have a problem with them.
It'd be a user option of course, just like all the other filters. You can set a +1 to subscribers. I dunno if everyone would like that, but I would think it would be interesting to see at least.
This system works well for 82% of Slashdot readers- for them the cost is the same as a typical magazine.
As mentioned in the article, and on the subscription page, we will support other payment methods. Paypal was just quick and easy, and we knew a lot of readers use it anyway.
yes we all work for free with donated bandwidth and servers. *cough*
No... but you can paypal either of us... and I'd settle their 45 inch plasma TV ;)
Nah... this way you're on topic and you should get a load of karma.
If you want to wade around in the sewer, then don't complain when you step on poop ;)
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Nothing stopping anyone from submitting their diffs with these features. We only code what we want.
Don't read at -1 ;)
I agree about logging in. I think there is a time and a place for AC posting, and only about 1% of all Slashdot AC posts use it appropriately. Hence the ability to blow them all away in your user preferences.
Unwritten? Hells no, its written in the sacred scroll that each author must sign in blood before he gets access to the submissions bin.
I've thought about that and decided against it. It opens up more problems then it fixes. Plus, I like to believe that you have to insert your foot into your own mouth... you don't get to chop off your mouth.
Actually my home MP3 collection is totally legal.