Slashdot has been forced to "monetize" itself over the last few years (see troll stories, the addition of "Politics", the entire Idle section, etc). Obviously he can't complain publicly, but he does occasionally drop a few hints here and there. The best one was after someone posted the hypothesis that Idle was a place to put crap to troll for page views: the entire slashdot staff posted replies within about two minutes of the comment being made.