I'm watching this thread to see if you get modded down. I think they've gone as far as telling editors to mod down those who point out it's a slashvertisement. Regular mods never mod down this far down in a discussion, so I'd like to see if my hypothesis is substantiated.
And I don't think it was the people with mod points changing it. I had +4 about a couple minutes ago. That screams editor control. They don't even want the idea of it being a advertisement discussed.
It's the fact that they treat us like eager morons, who won't recognize it. I mean the signs are dead simple. 1. Mentions a particular company by name. 2. Includes at least one buzz-word. 3. Entirely positive language. Regular Slashdot stories pretty clearly have signs of concern or raise questions about their subject matter. These bare-naked slashvertisements are insulting. If you're going to be blatant, please fucking acknowledge that it's sponsored in the summary.
Serious answer: Yes they do, to an oversight committee, ostensibly representing the electorate's interests. Correct answer: No, as part of the military-industrial-congressional complex, they're part of a never-ending cycle of self interest.
It's more of a communication thing. As a consumer I can: A. Do nothing, communicates no particular opinion to the company. B. Buy it, communicating that I like it.
My options don't personally include a way to say "I see this and it's BAD, harmful even"
I'm not stealing from them. That's a bizarre assertion. I just want the power to punish them in addition to reward them as a customer. There's NO negative feedback mechanism.
What really annoys me is the absolute limit of what I can do to these bastards is not give them money. There needs to be a way to take money away from companies that deliver exceptionally bad products.
Actually, it doesn't change frequently. What I've discovered is that it skins itself depending on where it got linked from, making web search results a crapshoot.
Ah, you've hit on one of the subtle broken bits in the U.S. Jobs are posted without any hint of salary, and there's implicitly a requirement that all workers are super secretive about how much they make, so that every single person can be taken for a ride. There is no real competition, no informed labor marketplace, and never appropriate raises. Ever.
To be fair, a lot of successful petitions also lack what could be called "well thought out" qualities. A lot of really successful petitions are asking the president to do unconstitutional things, or override a decision made by congress, or, terrifying to me, I've seen numerous instances of people asking the president to interfere with criminal proceedings.
Not to mention the outright jokes that the site is used for. We use one of the constitutionally protected tools for fixing our government to ask them to build a death star.
Also, I've seen several cases where simple oversight was handled well through a petition, like the use of apes as chemical weapons test subjects on bases(for learning treatment and protection, not increasing the deadliness of weapons, it's not quite as barbaric as it sounds). My overall opinion was that this site was one of Obama's better ideas when he was running for office.
As in it will be marketed like crazy, overpriced to make it seem "high tech", and almost no one in the media will give it the legitimate criticism it deserves for being a copycat?
This may be a case of intentional harassment, and may be(depending on the judge and jury) grounds for some disbarment. That's a lot to hope for, but I would love to have these assholes lose their jobs for participating in abuse of station.
Yes, this is correct, but what many people forget is that the calories you ingest as a first world eater include pretty substantial amounts of fossil fuel use in fertilizing, care-taking, and transport. More energy from fossil fuels, in fact, than you receive in calories(or so I've heard).
No, it's not just because adblock. That's bullshit and you know it. Advertisers have upped the stakes every time they can.
Remember when google ads were unobtrusive text? During that time I whitelisted them and sometimes even clicked them, because that was fine. Then the advertisers won their case to annoy the hell out of users, and blacklisted it went. They would have gone to this point to convince people to pay attention to their damn ads anyways.
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Since editors are payed employees, I can't imagine the others don't know what's going on. Whatever it is, they don't seem intent on telling anyone.
I'll acknowledge that I didn't even know slashdot had bans. I figured the built in moderation system was more than sufficient.
I'm watching this thread to see if you get modded down. I think they've gone as far as telling editors to mod down those who point out it's a slashvertisement. Regular mods never mod down this far down in a discussion, so I'd like to see if my hypothesis is substantiated.
And I don't think it was the people with mod points changing it. I had +4 about a couple minutes ago. That screams editor control. They don't even want the idea of it being a advertisement discussed.
I THINK THE EDITORS ARE MODERATING CRITICAL COMMENTS DOWN!!!
I got 5 troll mods in a matter of one minute, making a pretty reasonable post(I thought).
I thought it was bizarre the GP got modded down once, but I really think Dice. is modding the fucking comments.
It's the fact that they treat us like eager morons, who won't recognize it. I mean the signs are dead simple.
1. Mentions a particular company by name.
2. Includes at least one buzz-word.
3. Entirely positive language.
Regular Slashdot stories pretty clearly have signs of concern or raise questions about their subject matter. These bare-naked slashvertisements are insulting. If you're going to be blatant, please fucking acknowledge that it's sponsored in the summary.
Serious answer: Yes they do, to an oversight committee, ostensibly representing the electorate's interests.
Correct answer: No, as part of the military-industrial-congressional complex, they're part of a never-ending cycle of self interest.
It's more of a communication thing. As a consumer I can:
A. Do nothing, communicates no particular opinion to the company.
B. Buy it, communicating that I like it.
My options don't personally include a way to say "I see this and it's BAD, harmful even"
Corporations aren't people. And wanting ways to hurt them for the social damage they do(when they in fact do social damage) isn't unreasonable.
I'm not stealing from them. That's a bizarre assertion. I just want the power to punish them in addition to reward them as a customer. There's NO negative feedback mechanism.
Because it causes deleterious effects on the marketplace when bad practices are standardized by big names.
What really annoys me is the absolute limit of what I can do to these bastards is not give them money. There needs to be a way to take money away from companies that deliver exceptionally bad products.
How else are they going to generate the annual false positives they need to point to to justify their own existence, then, smart guy?
Actually, it doesn't change frequently. What I've discovered is that it skins itself depending on where it got linked from, making web search results a crapshoot.
Ah, you've hit on one of the subtle broken bits in the U.S. Jobs are posted without any hint of salary, and there's implicitly a requirement that all workers are super secretive about how much they make, so that every single person can be taken for a ride. There is no real competition, no informed labor marketplace, and never appropriate raises. Ever.
Yes, yes I do. I don't really find any of your points legitimate in the face of the U.S. market's ability to consume any number of terrible products.
To be fair, a lot of successful petitions also lack what could be called "well thought out" qualities. A lot of really successful petitions are asking the president to do unconstitutional things, or override a decision made by congress, or, terrifying to me, I've seen numerous instances of people asking the president to interfere with criminal proceedings.
Not to mention the outright jokes that the site is used for. We use one of the constitutionally protected tools for fixing our government to ask them to build a death star.
Also, I've seen several cases where simple oversight was handled well through a petition, like the use of apes as chemical weapons test subjects on bases(for learning treatment and protection, not increasing the deadliness of weapons, it's not quite as barbaric as it sounds). My overall opinion was that this site was one of Obama's better ideas when he was running for office.
Apple has always been a marketing company that happened to make some electronics to sell. This is precisely normal for them.
As in it will be marketed like crazy, overpriced to make it seem "high tech", and almost no one in the media will give it the legitimate criticism it deserves for being a copycat?
This may be a case of intentional harassment, and may be(depending on the judge and jury) grounds for some disbarment. That's a lot to hope for, but I would love to have these assholes lose their jobs for participating in abuse of station.
Being accidentally not entirely wrong is about the best you can realistically expect from a politician anyways.
Yes, this is correct, but what many people forget is that the calories you ingest as a first world eater include pretty substantial amounts of fossil fuel use in fertilizing, care-taking, and transport. More energy from fossil fuels, in fact, than you receive in calories(or so I've heard).
Highly unlikely given the likelihood of GPS-for-road-tax coming not too far down the line.
This is why informed people think republicans are morons. The treasury doesn't set bond interest rates. People who buy them do.
No, it's not just because adblock. That's bullshit and you know it. Advertisers have upped the stakes every time they can.
Remember when google ads were unobtrusive text? During that time I whitelisted them and sometimes even clicked them, because that was fine. Then the advertisers won their case to annoy the hell out of users, and blacklisted it went. They would have gone to this point to convince people to pay attention to their damn ads anyways.