User: whipslash

Re:No more paid posts by Nervals Lobster

On: Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot?

Yes our infrastructure is sound enough to weather a storm like that. Hopefully its not a similar storm, however

Re:The moderationg system needs an overhaul.

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Not a bad idea. Thank you

Re:Story quality!

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Yes we will address the ideas you listed ASAP

Re:Random collection of suggestions

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Oh, and apparently, proper unordered list support.

Yes this too..

Re:Random collection of suggestions

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These are all great ideas, and will be addressed in some manner as soon as possible. What do you think about popular firehose stories being promoted to the front page if they reach some sort of critical mass of popularity from the user base?

Re:mostly happy

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Appreciate the feedback. You have a legendary UID.

Re:People Love Getting Rewarded

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Yes we're going to look at something like this

Re:The moderationg system needs an overhaul.

On: Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot?

Yes we will be extremely careful and transparent about it. I like your idea about letting people control what they get to see

Re:Moderation, Editors, ditch the Firehose

On: Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot?

Can you elaborate on why you don't like the firehose? A lot of people here have mentioned letting a few of the firehose articles through to the front page if they reach a critical mass of popularity. Any thoughts for or against this idea? They would be differentiated by color, and users could hide or show them.

Re:Story Title Links split when dashes are in URL

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Yes i've noticed this. We will fix this.

Re:Please fix these annoyances

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You don't like the tongue in cheek departments? What about the department on this story?

Re:Wait...what?

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Yes editing is on our list

Re:Linking back to Slashdot

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Good idea

Re:Put the users first

On: Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot?

Thanks for the feedback Jeff. Much appreciated. We will address every point on your list eventually in one way or another. I've reached out to Rob also. Stay tuned and hopefully you'll see some good changes.

Re:Some issues with ads

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Good points. We're going to address the disabling ads feature soon

Re:Support long-running discussions

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Can you elaborate on how we might do this? Right now you get notifications of replies...

Re:go back

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Where are you seeing the auto play videos?

Re:Have more fun

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Haha good idea

Re:Some ideas

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Thanks for the feedback. Https is coming for sure. I've taken note of the rest of your suggestions

Re:Support for IPv6

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On the list

Re:Vertical whitespace

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Not a bad idea

Re:Primary news source

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Great ideas

Re:How about some little things...

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Yes this is on the way

Re:Make baitclicking obvious

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Yes we should do this.

Re:Enable Bitcoin tipping

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This is a good idea