Also waited for about an hour. Part of the wait was due to the time (close to the lunch rush), and part of it was due to some sort of senior voting official re-educating one of the not-so-senior voting officials. There was a point of debate over how much quicker it was to have one volunteer dedicated to swiping people's driver's licenses, rather than having the guy on the laptop both swipe and enter data.
Oh well. We had good old paper ballots, so no exciting footage of mis-calibrated touchscreens.
I have no choice but to browse at -1. Even though I tell the system to browse at 1, I see everything.
Is this on the mobile version of the page? That's a known bug that should be addressed by the new mobile site, which is available at http://mbeta.slashdot.org/. If not, can you provide details about your browser version and OS version, and perhaps a screenshot of what you're seeing? The comment slider is currently working as expect for me on all my browsers. If you'd like to do so privately, feel free to email soulskill@slashdot.org (or feedback@slashdot.org where the engineers will see it as well).
You're welcome to believe or not as you choose, but a quick browse through at -1 should provide plenty of evidence that even the most uncomplimentary or impolite comments are staying in place.
Yeah, there's some negativity. We know how our readers respond pretty well, so we expected it.
I'm hopeful that we'll get some much-needed support for our engineering crew, and some time set aside for fixing lingering problems that we've wanted to tackle for months/years. We have a huge, huge list that's we would really like to get to.
I haven't spoken with any of their editorial staff yet, but I'm also hopeful they can put some resources into helping us out. We're running a pretty light crew these days, and it'd be great to get some help running interviews, doing reviews, making better videos, etc.
How will this change/.? Put simply: I haven't heard anything about changing Slashdot. I would guess (and this is only a guess) some links that already exist in the header and footer will change, and that some of our regular ads will be swapped out for Dice ads. (Which would have no effect on you if you ignore the ads anyway.) As far as I can tell, Dice is mainly just interested in owning a tech news community.
I understand your worries about our autonomy. As an editor, it's a worry I've had for years, any time a part of the organization has changed. It's part of the job description. Cautiously optimistic is a good way to put it. Here's another reason why I feel that way: they clearly know what Slashdot is like; if they wanted to change how we do things, it would be much easier for them to just fire us all and bring in new people who don't already have very strong opinions about what Slashdot should be.
To be frank, I have no idea if or how Slashdot and Dice will be integrated. I don't have any information about it, and I don't know that anybody does. Perhaps the 'Jobs' link at the top of the page under Channels will change. I assume there will be a link in the footer. Sorry, I wish I had more information to give you. All I can promise is that we editors will continue to fight for user experience.
Well, I'll answer what I can; we editors are not part of the decision-making process, so I first heard this news only a few hours ago myself. This is my reaction from what I've heard today from the higher-ups. Duress isn't a factor -- in fact, one of the quotes from the meeting I most liked was in response to a question about whether we were posting news of the announcement on Slashdot, and how the community would react. The Dice folks simply said, "Let them talk." I'm sitting in a conference room right now next to a gentleman from Dice, and he's just been curious what people are saying; hasn't suggested any comments or messaging at all.
As far as being consumed by a bigger fish, keep in mind that Geeknet (aka SourceForge aka VA, etc) was a bigger fish itself. If you think about Geeknet's business, it was rather broadly spread. Slashdot's a news site, ThinkGeek's an e-commerce business, Sourceforge is its own thing. They have common roots, but they don't really go together. I've been aware of Dice, but not terribly familiar with it, but wouldn't you say its business would tend to fit Slashdot better than ThinkGeek?
As far as the MySpace situation.. well, not all companies are alike, and not all companies see value in the same way. The crew currently running things is more concerned about the Slashdot user experience than some others have been in the past, and that's been a plus. Obviously, I can't see the future, so I don't know how it's all going to play out. But my initial impression is positive. I'm thrilled at the possibility of getting a bigger investment into Slashdot, both from an engineering perspective and an editorial perspective.
The media business part of Geeknet is being moved over as a whole. So, all of our projects and priorities are continuing unchanged. In fact, we just had a meeting about this, and the folks from Dice were very clear about not wanting to interfere with the community.
This is still pretty new to us, but we've been looking at this as a positive thing -- we were worried earlier that if we were rolled into a business that focused entirely on news, we'd be expected to conform to company standards -- see the Gawker sites, for example.
This comment has been posted in violation of Slashdot Patent 2019.42.1337, "System and Method For Acquiring Humor-Induced Positive Moderations On an Internet Comment." For a nominal fee of approximately $54.24, we will gladly license the technology for limited personal use.
There's nothing abnormal about your account. Your posting bonus is easy to kill because your karma is hovering right around zero, and because you seem to generate a lot of moderations. The comment to which I'm replying has, at this moment, 20 mods to it (and none from the editors; we don't really care what you say, as long as it's not spam or links to shock sites). The parent comment has even more.
The author also seems to misapprehend the nature of Slashdot editors; we aren't random, numerous, or anonymous. There are four of us, and we're all employees of a publicly-traded company.
Slashdot Mirror
Paywall for us? Hell no.
Also waited for about an hour. Part of the wait was due to the time (close to the lunch rush), and part of it was due to some sort of senior voting official re-educating one of the not-so-senior voting officials. There was a point of debate over how much quicker it was to have one volunteer dedicated to swiping people's driver's licenses, rather than having the guy on the laptop both swipe and enter data.
Oh well. We had good old paper ballots, so no exciting footage of mis-calibrated touchscreens.
I have no choice but to browse at -1. Even though I tell the system to browse at 1, I see everything.
Is this on the mobile version of the page? That's a known bug that should be addressed by the new mobile site, which is available at http://mbeta.slashdot.org/. If not, can you provide details about your browser version and OS version, and perhaps a screenshot of what you're seeing? The comment slider is currently working as expect for me on all my browsers. If you'd like to do so privately, feel free to email soulskill@slashdot.org (or feedback@slashdot.org where the engineers will see it as well).
No, you see, we'll be handing out what we call "moderation pies" and...
Actually, let me double check our cleanup budget.
*shrug*
You're welcome to believe or not as you choose, but a quick browse through at -1 should provide plenty of evidence that even the most uncomplimentary or impolite comments are staying in place.
It's a troll. No posts are being removed.
Actually, that's just people finding a new way to troll by pasting that line into their comments. No posts are being deleted.
We've got a couple presents coming. We're just about done wrapping them.
I'm going to have to see a birth certificate to validate your UID.
Interesting idea, we hadn't thought of that. I'll see if that's something we can do.
It's in addition to the logo contest.
Yeah, there's some negativity. We know how our readers respond pretty well, so we expected it.
I'm hopeful that we'll get some much-needed support for our engineering crew, and some time set aside for fixing lingering problems that we've wanted to tackle for months/years. We have a huge, huge list that's we would really like to get to.
I haven't spoken with any of their editorial staff yet, but I'm also hopeful they can put some resources into helping us out. We're running a pretty light crew these days, and it'd be great to get some help running interviews, doing reviews, making better videos, etc.
The people running Slashdot aren't changing at all. Plus, Geeknet was a corporation, and it owned Slashdot before today.
No. You have my word on that.
How will this change /.?
Put simply: I haven't heard anything about changing Slashdot. I would guess (and this is only a guess) some links that already exist in the header and footer will change, and that some of our regular ads will be swapped out for Dice ads. (Which would have no effect on you if you ignore the ads anyway.) As far as I can tell, Dice is mainly just interested in owning a tech news community.
I'll make sure he sees your comment.
I understand your worries about our autonomy. As an editor, it's a worry I've had for years, any time a part of the organization has changed. It's part of the job description. Cautiously optimistic is a good way to put it. Here's another reason why I feel that way: they clearly know what Slashdot is like; if they wanted to change how we do things, it would be much easier for them to just fire us all and bring in new people who don't already have very strong opinions about what Slashdot should be.
To be frank, I have no idea if or how Slashdot and Dice will be integrated. I don't have any information about it, and I don't know that anybody does. Perhaps the 'Jobs' link at the top of the page under Channels will change. I assume there will be a link in the footer. Sorry, I wish I had more information to give you. All I can promise is that we editors will continue to fight for user experience.
Well, I'll answer what I can; we editors are not part of the decision-making process, so I first heard this news only a few hours ago myself. This is my reaction from what I've heard today from the higher-ups. Duress isn't a factor -- in fact, one of the quotes from the meeting I most liked was in response to a question about whether we were posting news of the announcement on Slashdot, and how the community would react. The Dice folks simply said, "Let them talk." I'm sitting in a conference room right now next to a gentleman from Dice, and he's just been curious what people are saying; hasn't suggested any comments or messaging at all.
As far as being consumed by a bigger fish, keep in mind that Geeknet (aka SourceForge aka VA, etc) was a bigger fish itself. If you think about Geeknet's business, it was rather broadly spread. Slashdot's a news site, ThinkGeek's an e-commerce business, Sourceforge is its own thing. They have common roots, but they don't really go together. I've been aware of Dice, but not terribly familiar with it, but wouldn't you say its business would tend to fit Slashdot better than ThinkGeek?
As far as the MySpace situation.. well, not all companies are alike, and not all companies see value in the same way. The crew currently running things is more concerned about the Slashdot user experience than some others have been in the past, and that's been a plus. Obviously, I can't see the future, so I don't know how it's all going to play out. But my initial impression is positive. I'm thrilled at the possibility of getting a bigger investment into Slashdot, both from an engineering perspective and an editorial perspective.
I don't think this will be an issue, but I'll make sure everybody's aware of it.
The media business part of Geeknet is being moved over as a whole. So, all of our projects and priorities are continuing unchanged. In fact, we just had a meeting about this, and the folks from Dice were very clear about not wanting to interfere with the community.
This is still pretty new to us, but we've been looking at this as a positive thing -- we were worried earlier that if we were rolled into a business that focused entirely on news, we'd be expected to conform to company standards -- see the Gawker sites, for example.
This comment has been posted in violation of Slashdot Patent 2019.42.1337, "System and Method For Acquiring Humor-Induced Positive Moderations On an Internet Comment." For a nominal fee of approximately $54.24, we will gladly license the technology for limited personal use.
There's nothing abnormal about your account. Your posting bonus is easy to kill because your karma is hovering right around zero, and because you seem to generate a lot of moderations. The comment to which I'm replying has, at this moment, 20 mods to it (and none from the editors; we don't really care what you say, as long as it's not spam or links to shock sites). The parent comment has even more.
Your submissions weren't 'removed' at all, you just apparently don't know where to look for them. You can see see them on your user page.
We decline hundreds of submissions every day. Most people are fine with it. A few go crazy and call it censorship or fascism or worse.
Note that I said decline, not delete; the "censored" submissions are still publicly viewable, just like every other rejected submission.
A few examples here, here, here.
The author also seems to misapprehend the nature of Slashdot editors; we aren't random, numerous, or anonymous. There are four of us, and we're all employees of a publicly-traded company.
I'm sorry.