Same. I hope that we can then see incremental improvements to this site taking into consideration feedback from the users/contributors, and that they can then drop the mentality that we are just eyeballs to put as many advertising dollars in front of. Sadly, I'm not hopeful.
Step 2 should be to unsubscribe from all of the default subreddits. Then subscribe to the ones you have listed. I would pick a somewhat different list. Where's netsec? Also, AskHistorians and AskScience!
Some troublemaker files a false complaint to my registrar who, afraid of liability, immediately kills my domain and takes down not just web but email too.
So what you are saying is this will probably work against beta?
Why don't all of you Anonymous Coward "grown ups" hop on over to Huffington Post to discuss the news? Here's a fucking link for the lazy. In a month you can come back to Slashdot and you won't even know the difference.
But can we please just keep on enjoying Slashdot too?
But that's the point isn't it? I want to keep enjoying Slashdot as I have for years, but that is most likely going to change, and well, there isn't a really good alternative out there. So I'm trying to communicate that in the one way that will make them reconsider: fucking up the comments. For some reason the Dice clones think that this site is very similar to a tech section from HuffingtonPost.com, and that all they need to do is tweak the UI to drive up traffic. If they can see that the fucked up comments are actually hurting traffic maybe they'll get the message that Slashdot really wasn't what they thought, and that it really is all about the moderation system and comments like everyone has been trying to tell them.
I'm not hopeful though. The sheer arrogance in corporate board rooms today is breathtaking. Look at the Xbone. They had lots of people shouting at them that they were headed for disaster, people who really cared. They told those people that maybe they ought to get with the times. Those people did: they bought PS4s.
I've enjoyed Slashdot as a community for 16 years but I am not afraid to move and it sounds like much of the community feels the same way.
I'm not afraid to move, it's just that I don't think anything else will be as good. reddit is good if you turn off the default subreddits and subscribe to AskHistory and such, but the commenting system comes no where near to Slashdot's (there's just so much shit on there). I guess that's why I'm commenting on this so much: I care. I want to stay here.
I used to go to yahoo news every day for a few years. They changed the site a bit, it wasn't as good but I kept going out of habit. Then a few months later they rolled out another change that was even more different. I haven't been to that site in years.
The other people here saying that you come to Slashdot for the comments are exactly right. This isn't Huffington Post, and it most likely won't ever be able to compete in that money making shit-fest arena.
Please stop with this boycott nonsense. It accomplishes nothing except letting you "think" that you are doing something when you are powerless to do anything.
Actually, it will just be a test to myself more likely. I won't go on Slashdot for a week in boycott. At the end of the week I'll come back to see if beta is 'live'. If it is the boycott will still end, and Slashdot will be a website that I used to go to.
Side note to all you longtime users/posters: I just want to thank you for all of the great commentary over the years, some comments have changed me and some had tears streaming down my cheeks with laughter.
I have a device for sale which generates free, unlimited power. The catch is that you cannot measure the power output or it won't function. If you put any load on the device you are directly or indirectly measuring the power, and thus it won't work. So just know up front that stipulation and use the device accordingly.
Google business model is to *NEVER* sell your data.
Really?! One of my rules is to never say 'never', because it's a really long time. I also thought my government would 'never' spy on me. I thought all of those conspiracy theorists were crazy.
Mark my words, one day your private life will be sold by Google, and I'm pretty sure it'll go to the highest bidder.
Ironically a quick glance through your private posts, shows your continued subterfuge about Google *selling* your data.
Also, two can play that game. 'Subterfuge' doesn't mean what you think it means.
I wouldn't call anyone from the past who was using neither electricity nor petroleum modern. Definitely arbitrary, but can you think of a better measure?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah? Well in my day all you needed was a hole punch and some good card stock. Now get off my lawn you whipper-snapper!
Nah, I'm kidding: even there it was gibberish.
So we socialized the risk. Let us also socialize the profits.
Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' ... and then they reminded users that they'll be watching so they'll know.
I will be gone for this entire week, in protest.
Same. I hope that we can then see incremental improvements to this site taking into consideration feedback from the users/contributors, and that they can then drop the mentality that we are just eyeballs to put as many advertising dollars in front of. Sadly, I'm not hopeful.
See you in a week, I'm out.
Step 2 should be to unsubscribe from all of the default subreddits. Then subscribe to the ones you have listed. I would pick a somewhat different list. Where's netsec? Also, AskHistorians and AskScience!
Some troublemaker files a false complaint to my registrar who, afraid of liability, immediately kills my domain and takes down not just web but email too.
So what you are saying is this will probably work against beta?
The grown ups want to discuss the news.
Why don't all of you Anonymous Coward "grown ups" hop on over to Huffington Post to discuss the news? Here's a fucking link for the lazy. In a month you can come back to Slashdot and you won't even know the difference.
Beta is so bad, all of the comments have turned to shit!
But can we please just keep on enjoying Slashdot too?
But that's the point isn't it? I want to keep enjoying Slashdot as I have for years, but that is most likely going to change, and well, there isn't a really good alternative out there. So I'm trying to communicate that in the one way that will make them reconsider: fucking up the comments. For some reason the Dice clones think that this site is very similar to a tech section from HuffingtonPost.com, and that all they need to do is tweak the UI to drive up traffic. If they can see that the fucked up comments are actually hurting traffic maybe they'll get the message that Slashdot really wasn't what they thought, and that it really is all about the moderation system and comments like everyone has been trying to tell them.
I'm not hopeful though. The sheer arrogance in corporate board rooms today is breathtaking. Look at the Xbone. They had lots of people shouting at them that they were headed for disaster, people who really cared. They told those people that maybe they ought to get with the times. Those people did: they bought PS4s.
Right!? This could be their marketing poster.
Might as well get one of these before I go: Frosty Piss.
I've enjoyed Slashdot as a community for 16 years but I am not afraid to move and it sounds like much of the community feels the same way.
I'm not afraid to move, it's just that I don't think anything else will be as good. reddit is good if you turn off the default subreddits and subscribe to AskHistory and such, but the commenting system comes no where near to Slashdot's (there's just so much shit on there). I guess that's why I'm commenting on this so much: I care. I want to stay here.
I will leave though.
I used to go to yahoo news every day for a few years. They changed the site a bit, it wasn't as good but I kept going out of habit. Then a few months later they rolled out another change that was even more different. I haven't been to that site in years.
The other people here saying that you come to Slashdot for the comments are exactly right. This isn't Huffington Post, and it most likely won't ever be able to compete in that money making shit-fest arena.
In Soviet beta.slashdot.org: fuck you
Please stop with this boycott nonsense. It accomplishes nothing except letting you "think" that you are doing something when you are powerless to do anything.
Actually, it will just be a test to myself more likely. I won't go on Slashdot for a week in boycott. At the end of the week I'll come back to see if beta is 'live'. If it is the boycott will still end, and Slashdot will be a website that I used to go to.
Side note to all you longtime users/posters: I just want to thank you for all of the great commentary over the years, some comments have changed me and some had tears streaming down my cheeks with laughter.
The nerds are dead. Long live the nerds!
Agreed! I will not use beta. Ever.
Unlimited power
I have a device for sale which generates free, unlimited power. The catch is that you cannot measure the power output or it won't function. If you put any load on the device you are directly or indirectly measuring the power, and thus it won't work. So just know up front that stipulation and use the device accordingly.
This is a perfect description of God.
The Bath Salts Cannibal used marijuana exclusively...
Holy shit did that dude have the munchies!
On a serious note, I would probably attribute his behavior to mental illness, but hey, let's not miss an opportunity to justify the war on drugs.
how different is it from the real destruction of real, valuable things?
Why are things valuable? Because humans value them. So if things were destroyed that humans value, wealth was destroyed.
If humans didn't exist would anything have value?
News about nerds.
Google business model is to *NEVER* sell your data.
Really?! One of my rules is to never say 'never', because it's a really long time. I also thought my government would 'never' spy on me. I thought all of those conspiracy theorists were crazy.
Mark my words, one day your private life will be sold by Google, and I'm pretty sure it'll go to the highest bidder.
Ironically a quick glance through your private posts, shows your continued subterfuge about Google *selling* your data.
Also, two can play that game. 'Subterfuge' doesn't mean what you think it means.
Why against Google and Android?
Maybe because he doesn't like the idea of his private life being a product that is sold to the highest bidder? Just a guess.
As if you could get energy from the sun.
I only get my energy from the GOD given supply that Jesus put in the ground. He put enough in there to last us God-fearers until the end of days.
Energy from the sun is just an atheist fantasy dreamed up to convince you that you can get along without God.
I wouldn't call anyone from the past who was using neither electricity nor petroleum modern. Definitely arbitrary, but can you think of a better measure?