So someone near the International Dateline is going to win the "Last Post" contest?
I fear that no matter what they do now we're going to have to give them an entire week of Slashcottpocolypse as a painful lesson to either them or us, depending on level of participation, or before you know it we're going to find ourselves stuck with SlashingtonPost.
Most of us have been here longer than current ownership and management, consider ourselves and each other a large part of why there still is a Slashdot, and think the way to vote with our feet is to stay and deliver a swift clue boot to the behind of ownership and management about how we feel about our Slashdot.
If we didn't think of it as our Slashdot, we wouldn't be here in the first place.
Yes, Coke did, but they realized their mistake and the old reliable Coke is still available, because Coke is not run by idiots like Slashdot seems to be.
The old Slashdot design works and is liked by many people.
It's not broken, so don't "fix" it. If fucking up a winning formula is the only way you can imagine you might leave your mark on the world, maybe the world doesn't NEED your mark, chum.
.
Coke replaced Coke with New Coke.
At the time I thought that was what they were aiming for.
But it turns out it was just a distraction to get regular Coke off the market for a while so they could bring it back with HFCS instead of real sugar as Coke Classic without the change being obvious to everyone who'd just had a "real" Coke the day before.
I just hope the "real" plan isn't an "HFCS version of Slashdot" down the road.
WP should be fairly easy to modify to look like/..... I think. Not every WP site looks like "a WP site" or Huffpo.
But the comment handling part is horrid.
Although at least WP is pretty uniformly horrid whereas HuffPo went out of their way a while back to make theirs even worse, which I hadn't realized would be possible.
If I've learned anything from the community here, it's that everyone has their shit figured out and runs their own small business which has at least a million dollars of liquid assets....
So the plan is to drive away all the real users, because we use adblockers.
I've been here since the October Papers back in October of '98, and regularly get entrusted with 15 Mod points at a time, so I guess I'm a real user, but although I run Flashblock in Firefox so that videos only play when I want them to, I've deliberately never touched the disable advertising checkbox (because I know they need to pay the bills somehow and have considered it more than a fair trade), and don't run anything else that would block legit ads, so I don't know why they want to run me off.
In spite of probably half or more of all comments made today being anti-beta, not one of the anti-beta submissions has been moved from gray title bar to green title bar, so that it can be "the" we-hate-beta thread.
If your corporate overlords are thinking "just ignore them and they'll go away", that may be one of the few things about which they've been right lately.
Because right now it's looking like we will be going away, from the 10th to the 17th.
Possibly never to return.
I think there's definitely a Valentines Day Massacre coming, only question is will the victim be beta or your userbase.
Which means it sounds like a user name a male would pick.
If you had a user name like Jane Q. Public, it might occur to some of us that you're not the same between the legs as probably 99% or more of Slashdotters.
But I admire that within you which makes quitting not "feel right", and wish you all the luck in the world with that hot mess they stuck you with, 'cause it sounds like you're really going to need it.
...to have stolen your 1 week boycott idea about an hour ago, without knowing at the time that you'd suggested it first.
Actually, with the 14th in the middle of that time span, we can call it the Slashdot Valentine's Day Massacre if enough of us participate to kill beta off.
(I notice that sigs don't show up in beta)
(and that you have to put in manual paragraph breaks to get proper spacing--apparently the plan is to become more like HuffPo )
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I think I have it figured out.
Since we are the product--eyeballs to which to show ads--what's going on is like what really happened with the supposed New Coke debacle.
It was a smokescreen to give them space between Coke with real sugar and Coke Classic with HFCS.
We, the original use base, are the real sugar version.
They want to replace us with an HFCS user base who just love it here at SlashingtonPost.
So someone near the International Dateline is going to win the "Last Post" contest?
I fear that no matter what they do now we're going to have to give them an entire week of Slashcottpocolypse as a painful lesson to either them or us, depending on level of participation, or before you know it we're going to find ourselves stuck with SlashingtonPost.
This is not my first reply to this post.
In fact, my first reply got a reply to which I replied.
I just loaded all of it in another tab, having gotten there by way of a Message Center link.
But none of that seems to be visible when I reload this story.
Despite my browsing at -1, and despite all of those replies being at +1.
Wondering exactly what's going on.
Most of us have been here longer than current ownership and management, consider ourselves and each other a large part of why there still is a Slashdot, and think the way to vote with our feet is to stay and deliver a swift clue boot to the behind of ownership and management about how we feel about our Slashdot.
If we didn't think of it as our Slashdot, we wouldn't be here in the first place.
So the 5% is going to tell those of us who are the 95% to hit the road?
I've never clicked the "Foe" button on anyone before and until now the idea of doing so never even crossed my mind.
I'm troubled to find that now it has.
But you have helped crystallize an important question:
"WHOSE SLASHDOT IS IT, ANYWAY?"
Love it!
Yes, Coke did, but they realized their mistake and the old
reliable Coke is still available, because Coke is not run by idiots
like Slashdot seems to be.
The old Slashdot design works and is liked by many people.
It's not broken, so don't "fix" it. If fucking up a winning formula
is the only way you can imagine you might leave your mark on the
world, maybe the world doesn't NEED your mark, chum.
.
Coke replaced Coke with New Coke.
At the time I thought that was what they were aiming for.
But it turns out it was just a distraction to get regular Coke off the market for a while so they could bring it back with HFCS instead of real sugar as Coke Classic without the change being obvious to everyone who'd just had a "real" Coke the day before.
I just hope the "real" plan isn't an "HFCS version of Slashdot" down the road.
Here is a thought. Ask the users, what they want, then give it to them. ...
One suspects they are planning to give it to us.
Good and hard.
WP should be fairly easy to modify to look like /..... I think. Not every WP site looks like "a WP site" or Huffpo.
But the comment handling part is horrid.
Although at least WP is pretty uniformly horrid whereas HuffPo went out of their way a while back to make theirs even worse, which I hadn't realized would be possible.
Interestingly enough, a colon slash is pretty much what using the beta version feels like.
Or at least some kind of royal pain in the a....
...
If I've learned anything from the community here, it's that everyone has their shit figured out and runs their own small business which has at least a million dollars of liquid assets. ...
Such excellent snark, I had to friend you.
So the plan is to drive away all the real users, because we use adblockers.
I've been here since the October Papers back in October of '98, and regularly get entrusted with 15 Mod points at a time, so I guess I'm a real user, but although I run Flashblock in Firefox so that videos only play when I want them to, I've deliberately never touched the disable advertising checkbox (because I know they need to pay the bills somehow and have considered it more than a fair trade), and don't run anything else that would block legit ads, so I don't know why they want to run me off.
The editors are getting involved by modding down the "fuck beta stuff", but only this comment went from +5 to -1: http://games.slashdot.org/comm...
I think we have hit on what is really going on. Slashdot is being killed so that the brand can be re-purposed.
Well, right now it's back up to +4, so apparently some beta hata's are still getting mod points.
Not until April, and maybe not even then.
"We know most of the discussion will be centered on the beta. Some people will want to read news anyway..."
This is the news today.
don't forget the blackjack and hookers.
Also, it might be productive to note specific problems instead of just howling " BETA SUCKS ".
You want the specific problem?
Beta sucks and they're going to try to cram it down our throats anyway.
That's the problem.
In spite of probably half or more of all comments made today being anti-beta, not one of the anti-beta submissions has been moved from gray title bar to green title bar, so that it can be "the" we-hate-beta thread.
If your corporate overlords are thinking "just ignore them and they'll go away", that may be one of the few things about which they've been right lately.
Because right now it's looking like we will be going away, from the 10th to the 17th.
Possibly never to return.
I think there's definitely a Valentines Day Massacre coming, only question is will the victim be beta or your userbase.
"Whatever changes get made..."
aren't really necessary in the first place, at least not the ones represented by beta.
Trying to optimize beta is like switching around the order in which influenza symptoms occur. It's still a disease.
I think you have your dates wrong... Today is the 6th.
Right. 4 days 'til Slashcottpocolypse begins.
He says in the summary that quitting does not "feel right".
I love the replies to my question, thank you all. What's amusing is the gender bias. X10 stands for "Christine", in a combined English/Dutch way.
That's not gender bias, that's playing the odds.
Most people here are male.
And of all the languages that aren't English, Dutch is no more likely than practically any other to be one with which most here are familiar.
And for most of the people here, X10 is something for turning lamps on and off by remote control that's been around nearly 40 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X...
Which means it sounds like a user name a male would pick.
If you had a user name like Jane Q. Public, it might occur to some of us that you're not the same between the legs as probably 99% or more of Slashdotters.
But I admire that within you which makes quitting not "feel right", and wish you all the luck in the world with that hot mess they stuck you with, 'cause it sounds like you're really going to need it.
Check this out:
http://www.altslashdot.org/wik...
and remember s/he's only been at it for a few hours.
Join the Slashcott!
February 10th - 17th
Help kill beta!
Join the Slashcott!
February 10th-17th
Trust me on this.
It's the resemblance to WP sites and HuffPo that makes beta so objectionable in the first place.
I get 15 mod points at a time on a regular basis, by the way, even though it's been a while since I submitted anything.
...to have stolen your 1 week boycott idea about an hour ago, without knowing at the time that you'd suggested it first.
Actually, with the 14th in the middle of that time span, we can call it the Slashdot Valentine's Day Massacre if enough of us participate to kill beta off.
(I notice that sigs don't show up in beta)
(and that you have to put in manual paragraph breaks to get proper spacing--apparently the plan is to become more like HuffPo )