I'm an IT / technology fan and have been a slashdot lurker for quite a few months now. I'm interested in improving the site and recently myself and a group of investers have been in discussion with the guys at Andover. We have made them an offer they cannot refuse - In short, we are planning to buy Slashdot. It is much in need of a makeover and if all goes to plan here are my ideas so far:
- Website look and feel change: Come on, it's no longer 1998 guys.
- Bring the site in line with current web standards as is suggested here.
- Keep the current line of editors but base their continued employment on their performance and a quarterly vote by readers. If an overwhelming amount of readers want a particular editor to leave then their opinion will be taken into consideration. On the other hand we could go for a completely new team of editors - what do you guys think?
- Dupe prevention scripts. This has been requested time and time again and now it will be implemented.
- Remove the karma system. All this has done is make karma whoring a competition. It is ineffective and a waste of time.
- Remove the moderation system. I don't really feel it adds anything: for example I see too many posts moderated out of sight just because the poster's opinion is not in line with Slashdot group think.
- Less intrusive adverts. I'm considering google text adverts as a replacement to the current ads.
- Make slashdot more international: I know it has traditionally been a US-centric site but it would be good to see more of a balance of articles from around the globe.
- Roland Piquepaille - articles linked from this guy's blog have to go. So far as I can see he adds no content to articles and we may as well have them from the original source.
- No more subscriptions: Everyone from now on will be treated equal and enjoy the same features without having to pay.
- More user features: Enhanced profile (similar to Fark perhaps?), longer sigs, image attachment to posts (up to a certain size and only after a user has made a certain amount of posts, say 50?)
I would appreciate any further suggestions from readers - either leave a reply to this, or drop me a line.
Thanks and hopefully I'll provide more news soon:)
Slashdot Mirror
Will it be able to run Gentoo???
Yet another great use for the DMCA...
Good thing we don't have it in Europe (yet!)]
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Dear Slashdot users,
:)
I'm an IT / technology fan and have been a slashdot lurker for quite a few months now. I'm interested in improving the site and recently myself and a group of investers have been in discussion with the guys at Andover. We have made them an offer they cannot refuse - In short, we are planning to buy Slashdot. It is much in need of a makeover and if all goes to plan here are my ideas so far:
- Website look and feel change: Come on, it's no longer 1998 guys.
- Bring the site in line with current web standards as is suggested here.
- Keep the current line of editors but base their continued employment on their performance and a quarterly vote by readers. If an overwhelming amount of readers want a particular editor to leave then their opinion will be taken into consideration. On the other hand we could go for a completely new team of editors - what do you guys think?
- Dupe prevention scripts. This has been requested time and time again and now it will be implemented.
- Remove the karma system. All this has done is make karma whoring a competition. It is ineffective and a waste of time.
- Remove the moderation system. I don't really feel it adds anything: for example I see too many posts moderated out of sight just because the poster's opinion is not in line with Slashdot group think.
- Less intrusive adverts. I'm considering google text adverts as a replacement to the current ads.
- Make slashdot more international: I know it has traditionally been a US-centric site but it would be good to see more of a balance of articles from around the globe.
- Roland Piquepaille - articles linked from this guy's blog have to go. So far as I can see he adds no content to articles and we may as well have them from the original source.
- No more subscriptions: Everyone from now on will be treated equal and enjoy the same features without having to pay.
- More user features: Enhanced profile (similar to Fark perhaps?), longer sigs, image attachment to posts (up to a certain size and only after a user has made a certain amount of posts, say 50?)
I would appreciate any further suggestions from readers - either leave a reply to this, or drop me a line.
Thanks and hopefully I'll provide more news soon
-Dr Jöran Bjornsson
j.bjornsson@gmail.com