Probably because a handful of the 300,000 people on this site think your comment is longwinded and pointless and they see it modded as 5, so they do it justice and knock it back to -1. Us editors do not give enough shits about your comments to sit there modding them up or down. You have some sort of complex thinking you are important and you're being wronged somehow.
Editors didn't mod any of those links up or down. What happened is, of the 300,000 unique visitors per day that view Slashdot, more than a handful decided that you're comments sucked and modded appropriately.
You're welcome to spend as much time as you want as an AC, writing out long-winded diatribes and bolding words if it makes you happy. We are not Reddit so we will allow you to do this as much as you want. Just know that you are wrong, and your posts are pretty stupid which is why people mod you down.
Yes there are automated aggregators now, including Google. Slashdot still relies entirely on human editors. The main benefit of Slashdot is the discussion, not the speed of breaking stories.
"Slashdot is not the Wall Street Journal. It is not The New York Times. Slashdot is an informal meeting ground. A town hall. A pub. A bulletin board in the quad on campus. Here people might not properly capitalize a proper noun. They might transpose letters in 'thier'. They might use jargon that isn't in oxford. And all of that is OK with me." -Cmdr Taco https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
You're welcome to go somewhere else if you want the most up to date breaking stories, but we have decreased the window of old stories drastically since the site changed ownership hands a few months ago. Looking back at comments from 16 years ago though, and not much has changed with the "this isn't breaking news" or "this isn't news for nerds" gripes. Guess it's somewhat of a hobby.
Thanks for commenting twice about this. We included our own post in the description, but many people prefer seeing a third party source report on this as well rather than just directly posting our own announcements.
Some slip through programmatic advertising channels, but they are typically removed as soon as they are caught and then that advertiser is banned from the site. We will have a self-serve reporting option attached to each ad very soon so that they are reported and removed ASAP. The vast majority of them are gone.
It may depend on what OS you're using right now. On this Mac I am seeing no link to SourceForge here: https://filezilla-project.org/... . I've checked on Windows as well but not Linux. You can always download it from SourceForge as we do not allow FileZilla to bundle anymore: https://sourceforge.net/projec...
All current live projects have rectified any issues with malware due to us notifying them except for this Demo Project we created: https://sourceforge.net/projec... . Here is an older version of PDF Creator that shows the warning: https://sourceforge.net/projec... (automatic downloading disabled and notice about possible malware). Keep in mind this is an older version of their project and their current project here is fine: https://sourceforge.net/projec...
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Probably because a handful of the 300,000 people on this site think your comment is longwinded and pointless and they see it modded as 5, so they do it justice and knock it back to -1. Us editors do not give enough shits about your comments to sit there modding them up or down. You have some sort of complex thinking you are important and you're being wronged somehow.
Typo
Editors didn't mod any of those links up or down. What happened is, of the 300,000 unique visitors per day that view Slashdot, more than a handful decided that you're comments sucked and modded appropriately.
You're welcome to spend as much time as you want as an AC, writing out long-winded diatribes and bolding words if it makes you happy. We are not Reddit so we will allow you to do this as much as you want. Just know that you are wrong, and your posts are pretty stupid which is why people mod you down.
It does not happen here. You're spreading misinformation.
Nope. You're wrong.
You're wrong. No editors modded your comment up or down.
Facebook lets you browse by newest if you want
You're an idiot
Yes there are automated aggregators now, including Google. Slashdot still relies entirely on human editors. The main benefit of Slashdot is the discussion, not the speed of breaking stories.
"Slashdot is not the Wall Street Journal. It is not The New York Times. Slashdot is an informal meeting ground. A town hall. A pub. A bulletin board in the quad on campus. Here people might not properly capitalize a proper noun. They might transpose letters in 'thier'. They might use jargon that isn't in oxford. And all of that is OK with me." -Cmdr Taco https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
You're welcome to go somewhere else if you want the most up to date breaking stories, but we have decreased the window of old stories drastically since the site changed ownership hands a few months ago. Looking back at comments from 16 years ago though, and not much has changed with the "this isn't breaking news" or "this isn't news for nerds" gripes. Guess it's somewhat of a hobby.
Thanks for commenting twice about this. We included our own post in the description, but many people prefer seeing a third party source report on this as well rather than just directly posting our own announcements.
Some slip through programmatic advertising channels, but they are typically removed as soon as they are caught and then that advertiser is banned from the site. We will have a self-serve reporting option attached to each ad very soon so that they are reported and removed ASAP. The vast majority of them are gone.
Here's another good one that doesn't require Flash or Silverlight but gives a lot more details: https://www.voipreview.org/spe...
Any bundled installers that were added by the previous SourceForge ownership were removed months ago
I will take a look at what's going on here
That is not our malware warning on your project, that is the browser warning.
Traffic and comments are actually up vs the same period last year
It may depend on what OS you're using right now. On this Mac I am seeing no link to SourceForge here: https://filezilla-project.org/... . I've checked on Windows as well but not Linux. You can always download it from SourceForge as we do not allow FileZilla to bundle anymore: https://sourceforge.net/projec...
Thanks. We're doing our best.
All current live projects have rectified any issues with malware due to us notifying them except for this Demo Project we created: https://sourceforge.net/projec... . Here is an older version of PDF Creator that shows the warning: https://sourceforge.net/projec... (automatic downloading disabled and notice about possible malware). Keep in mind this is an older version of their project and their current project here is fine: https://sourceforge.net/projec...
Scans are done by Bitdefender and ESET
Sorry about that. We only purchased SourceForge on January 28th and started making improvements after that.
Yes he stopped linking to SourceForge Filezilla project page from his own site after we told him he cannot bundle software with the project anymore.
Ads with "Download" buttons in them have been eliminated from the site.
We got rid of those bundled installers shortly after purchasing SourceForge: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...