Thanks man. I need words like that right now. My best friend is in town. She's on active reserve. Her husband is in Saudi. I'm scared for her and her baby.
I've never heard of you anne, but thats a pretty
impressive troll. No doubt I'm hard to work w/.
I'm a perfectionist. But neither of those phrases sounds like Jeff or I. We'd be much less polite.
I post occasionally... just statistically very rarely. I've posted over 4000 stories, but less than a thousand comments.
But I get a bonus point when I post. Haha. Its my little reward for writing all this damn code;)
This morning my Karma was 32. Now its 36. I whored myself up 4 karma this way. Muahahahahahahah!
(The reality is of course that this story means a lot to me. My usual reply to 'do you post comments' is no... unless I'm qualified. On most subjects I'm simply not... but on this one, well. I'm probably the most qualified person in this whole damn discussion to talk about Slashdot and how it will be affected by the merger;)
A friend made an interesting point: a lively debate about the editorial independance of Slashdot is being played out... on Slashdot.
As long as you guys keep yakking, you keep us honest. We can't reject the ideas of the community because you have the freedom to say what you please right here in the comments. The fact that this debate is occuring out here in the public proves that that Slashdot can continue to be open and independant.
As long as people continue to post on Slashdot, that'll be true. It has very little to do with anything that I do.
Well said sir. I'd moderate you up, but I'm posting in this discussion;) (Darn it when my own rules restrict me *grin*).
VA won't change Slashdot because changing it would hurt it. Hurting it would hurt their standing in the community. Leaving it *alone* gives them a revenue stream via selling ads... plus the added bonus of supporting yet another community project.
They still have banner ads in the rotation. Considering they never really were paying for banner ads before ThinkGeek (they gave us a percentage of the sales in exchange for the banners) I don't really think thats unfair at all.
IMHO ThinkGeek has better stuff (shotglasses, pilsners etc). Copyleft has cool stuff too (the new Beer that they are selling is quite tasty actually... I highly recommend it).
If CopyLeft wanted to buy banner ads, I promise you the sales staff would happily sell them to them... but these are free ads we're talking about here.
I disagree with you soundly about hte quality of story posting. I think it has in many aspects even improved. I'm sorry you think better stories are being rejected, but each and every day, dozens of fine stories are rejected in favor of the 15 or so that we think are best. You may disagree with me, but I don't think that matters.
Server performance is less than perfect, but we've also gone from 500,000 pages/day to over a million pages per day, released a new version of Slash, rewritten much of the code, and moved to a much faster bandwidth provider. Do remember how slow the servers were before the Andover acquisition? I do. It sucked ass. We're faster today then we were then... and serving twice the users.
Our editorial work is still done almost entirely independant of Andover, and this will continue with VA. We use the marketing & sales clout of Andover, as well as the tech staff, but the writing is handled by our own roster of albino elephants and turbo chickens.
A lawyer wrote our contract. An expensive lawyer. I'm not worried about losing editorial control, and you shouldn't be either.
Roblimo and Emmett were approved by Hemos and I. I think both do a good job.
You have no more of a guarantee that your interests will be served then you did during Andover's ownership. Or under my ownership. But you have no less of a guarantee either. I hope that makes you happy enough.
I think your idea of spinning us off is valid. I think that this is effectively what will happen: it won't be a seperate business, but it will be a business unit run independantly from the rest of VA.
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Re:The slashdot moderation system is flawed
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All systems are flawed;)
I think the race condition is ok. I think moderation points should be assigned regardless of score. If I didn't think it would be obnoxious, I would prevent the display of the score for moderators.
Most of your people problems would be solved by having more moderators.
Individual preferences (personal kill files etc) are actually on my TODO list. I just can't come up with a clean way to code it, so I haven't bothered with that yet. It would also be cool to say "Show me what Bob liked". I may implement that at some point too.
Somewhat confusing description, but I think the idea has merit. I'll think about it for inclusion if I have some time.
I like letting good posters choose how to spend their alignment rather than simply bumping up their scores automatically. It would allow a user to "Get on the Soapbox" occasionally if they've proven that they have something to say in the past. Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Pants are Optional
Slashdot Mirror
Now somebody please moderate us both offtopic.
I've never heard of you anne, but thats a pretty impressive troll. No doubt I'm hard to work w/. I'm a perfectionist. But neither of those phrases sounds like Jeff or I. We'd be much less polite.
I finally said an opinion that someone didn't think was evil!
Considering I coded that on purpose, I doubt we'll remove it from a future release. This is quite intentional behavior.
Don't confuse bigotry of comment posters with the bigotry of those of us who run the show. We have a whole different set of bigotry ;)
Anonymous Coward's Karma was (last I checked) around 2000.
I post occasionally... just statistically very rarely. I've posted over 4000 stories, but less than a thousand comments.
But I get a bonus point when I post. Haha. Its my little reward for writing all this damn code ;)
This morning my Karma was 32. Now its 36. I whored myself up 4 karma this way. Muahahahahahahah!
(The reality is of course that this story means a lot to me. My usual reply to 'do you post comments' is no... unless I'm qualified. On most subjects I'm simply not... but on this one, well. I'm probably the most qualified person in this whole damn discussion to talk about Slashdot and how it will be affected by the merger ;)
As long as you guys keep yakking, you keep us honest. We can't reject the ideas of the community because you have the freedom to say what you please right here in the comments. The fact that this debate is occuring out here in the public proves that that Slashdot can continue to be open and independant.
As long as people continue to post on Slashdot, that'll be true. It has very little to do with anything that I do.
VA won't change Slashdot because changing it would hurt it. Hurting it would hurt their standing in the community. Leaving it *alone* gives them a revenue stream via selling ads... plus the added bonus of supporting yet another community project.
IMHO ThinkGeek has better stuff (shotglasses, pilsners etc). Copyleft has cool stuff too (the new Beer that they are selling is quite tasty actually... I highly recommend it).
If CopyLeft wanted to buy banner ads, I promise you the sales staff would happily sell them to them... but these are free ads we're talking about here.
Server performance is less than perfect, but we've also gone from 500,000 pages/day to over a million pages per day, released a new version of Slash, rewritten much of the code, and moved to a much faster bandwidth provider. Do remember how slow the servers were before the Andover acquisition? I do. It sucked ass. We're faster today then we were then... and serving twice the users.
Our editorial work is still done almost entirely independant of Andover, and this will continue with VA. We use the marketing & sales clout of Andover, as well as the tech staff, but the writing is handled by our own roster of albino elephants and turbo chickens.
Roblimo and Emmett were approved by Hemos and I. I think both do a good job.
You have no more of a guarantee that your interests will be served then you did during Andover's ownership. Or under my ownership. But you have no less of a guarantee either. I hope that makes you happy enough.
I think your idea of spinning us off is valid. I think that this is effectively what will happen: it won't be a seperate business, but it will be a business unit run independantly from the rest of VA.
I don't own any dork! (God I wish I did!)
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this is atest of the national broadcast system.
Hope it submits
You are lying.
test
test
Soon tho ;)
And I'm worse than Mike Meyers.
Ruin all my fun why don't ya ;)
Hell no.
Yes. The code will still be available. I might even have some time to work on it again if I can afford to hire some help!
I like letting good posters choose how to spend their alignment rather than simply bumping up their scores automatically. It would allow a user to "Get on the Soapbox" occasionally if they've proven that they have something to say in the past.
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda
Pants are Optional
If you don't like it, turn it off. No sweat off anyones back. Its totally at your discretion.
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda
Pants are Optional