Wow. That's a pretty harsh world. Here's where there wasn't enough money for us. There was-we had plenty offers. But we didn't want to hire people to be suits, like the post says.
Like the post says, as well, we've got creative control. Moderation is going to stay exactly the same, as our banners. And we're hiring the people for stories, so you can look forward to more of the same.
As long as we work for Andover-which is three years. And since Rob has a board seat as well, even if we work for ourselves again, our IRON MAILED FIST (Er...) will still be felt.
We are hired by Andover, and they will keep our vision. As well, we approve all hires for the site, as well as recommending people. Because we keep the vision for the site, there will not be more banner/pop-ups/buttons/e-mail spam (Well, except more fradulent pr0n spam.:) ).
For those of you run stuff before, you can keep working with me, and it won't be changed. You're right-they've bought the space up there, and our brains.
Nope-we haven't sold user information, and we won't. That's why we barely collect information on folks-because it makes the information basically worthless. Actually, because we do IBM ads we/can't/ sell that info-privacy notice and all that.
What, you don't want to play strip poker online at Slashdot? Or see us partner with ESPN? Eck!:)
That's what we were selling. More to the point, we fit in well with their "space", and that want that. We will continue to generate funds off book reviews and such, but the plans are for Slashdot to be able to offer more coverage on areas like BSD and such, and build the user base, thus more banner ads...you get the idea.
True-but our lawyers weren't nice either. Our contract is inviolate-whether they sell or not, we've got all rights. So, even if they sold to MS, we'd still have control.
Nope-the contract even says we don't have to move anywhere we don't want to.
No censorship either-because our contract is our vision for the site, we can say no to that. And we will. Oh-and the donkey balls are dirty so much as filthy.:)
Well, the people who are coming on board are people who've been working on it for free now. The contract has the creative control for us, and we hire the people we want-now we've got bucks to deal with it. Fundamentally, there will be no change. Otherwise, we wouldn't have done this.
They've got some news folks, but we're going to be bringing in more people from the community-Rob and I are sick of working 70 hours a week as well.:)
We've actually dealt with that area pretty well-they're committed to the site running (again, in the contract). Banner Ads will probably be the area-junkbusting doesn't occur on a huge scale-but we maintain control of look and feel, so don't look for buttons and pop-ups and such.
The thing is that we didn't want to. We didn't want to spend the effort to find an exec and get venture capitol. This isn't about the money-it's about wanting to do things the way we want to do them.
-Blockstackers: It will still exist-everything.blockstackers.com is an example of the sites we are going to continue to do. So, we're still going to do other stuff as well.
-Ad-Fu. E-mail vroon@blockstackers.com. You can get the tarball
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't matter. Our contract is inviolate.
Nope, just Slashdot. Everything II is coming up extremely soon, and Blockstackers will continue to do development.
Like the post says, as well, we've got creative control. Moderation is going to stay exactly the same, as our banners. And we're hiring the people for stories, so you can look forward to more of the same.
I can confirm, yes, that Rob Malda is a dupe. It's my Great-Aunt Edith that actually runs the site. We hired "Rob Malda" off the street.
As long as we work for Andover-which is three years. And since Rob has a board seat as well, even if we work for ourselves again, our IRON MAILED FIST (Er...) will still be felt.
For those of you run stuff before, you can keep working with me, and it won't be changed. You're right-they've bought the space up there, and our brains.
What, you don't want to play strip poker online at Slashdot? Or see us partner with ESPN? Eck! :)
For those who don't know, it's everything.blockstackes.com.
That's what we were selling. More to the point, we fit in well with their "space", and that want that. We will continue to generate funds off book reviews and such, but the plans are for Slashdot to be able to offer more coverage on areas like BSD and such, and build the user base, thus more banner ads...you get the idea.
True-but our lawyers weren't nice either. Our contract is inviolate-whether they sell or not, we've got all rights. So, even if they sold to MS, we'd still have control.
No censorship either-because our contract is our vision for the site, we can say no to that. And we will. Oh-and the donkey balls are dirty so much as filthy. :)
SLASH will remain open, and even if Andover.net was sold, we keep total control. We're built like a battleship, baby. (A little alliteration for you.)
Our contract stays intact. Hell, they can sell to Microsoft, but they can't touch the site.
Um...
I don't think Rob and I own pants, much less wear.
They've got some news folks, but we're going to be bringing in more people from the community-Rob and I are sick of working 70 hours a week as well.
I'm not wearing any right now. :)
We've actually dealt with that area pretty well-they're committed to the site running (again, in the contract). Banner Ads will probably be the area-junkbusting doesn't occur on a huge scale-but we maintain control of look and feel, so don't look for buttons and pop-ups and such.
The thing is that we didn't want to. We didn't want to spend the effort to find an exec and get venture capitol. This isn't about the money-it's about wanting to do things the way we want to do them.
It will still exist-everything.blockstackers.com is an example of the sites we are going to continue to do. So, we're still going to do other stuff as well.
-Ad-Fu.
E-mail vroon@blockstackers.com. You can get the tarball
-Slashdot
Is, and always will be Open Source.
Is it just that no one is posting to this? Or have I found a bug?
Distributed list.
Are you on the RC5 team? Current theory is that they pulled it from there-apparently that's happened before.
We didn't send it. Conceivabily they got the list through other measures-that's what we are looking into.
Huh-that's strange. I'm not sure how he got it then-we're checking various things out.
harvetsting the pages would be my guess.