Seconded. I want to READ stories on Slashdot. I do not want to watch another damn video, and I fail to understand why everyone seems to want to turn the entire Internet into TV 2.0 or something. Watching a video takes vastly more of my time than reading an interesting article about something, plus the intelligence level of most online video is way lower.
I've suggested to The Honchos that all videos on Slashdot should have a "video" topic marker, so that those who don't want to watch any videos, period, will be able to completely ignore them.
I've suggested to The Honchos that all videos on Slashdot should have a "video" topic marker, so that those who don't want to watch any videos, period, will be able to completely ignore them.
Thank you Rob. I would very much like to completely block all video posts.
I would suggest that your problem is not the videos, or the dupes, or anything else. It is the drive from on high to achieve page views and ad impressions, and the crap that gets posted because of that. The only thing that keeps this site going is its history; if you started it today it would die silently.
Why don't you and your team walk away from this piece of wreckage and start over with a new site. Ask Taco to come back as consulting editor. Post the stuff that isn't rehashed crap that you can find
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
-- P. Erdos
Haven't watched them. (Score:5, Insightful)
No interest in the videos; would rather read about technology vs. watching it.
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Seconded. I want to READ stories on Slashdot. I do not want to watch another damn video, and I fail to understand why everyone seems to want to turn the entire Internet into TV 2.0 or something. Watching a video takes vastly more of my time than reading an interesting article about something, plus the intelligence level of most online video is way lower.
- Necron69
Re:Haven't watched them. (Score:5, Informative)
I've suggested to The Honchos that all videos on Slashdot should have a "video" topic marker, so that those who don't want to watch any videos, period, will be able to completely ignore them.
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Then why not make sure they go into tv.slashdot.org and stay there? It's essentially the same thing, and now that the infrastructure is there, use it.
Also, I apologize for my rather terse and harsh email.
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You could also suggest transcripts because even if the content is interesting we may not want to spend 2-3x longer hearing it rather than reading it.
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I agree - and I'm trying to get the bosses to pay the guy who's been doing them as a volunteer.
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I've suggested to The Honchos that all videos on Slashdot should have a "video" topic marker, so that those who don't want to watch any videos, period, will be able to completely ignore them.
Thank you Rob. I would very much like to completely block all video posts.
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Why don't you and your team walk away from this piece of wreckage and start over with a new site. Ask Taco to come back as consulting editor. Post the stuff that isn't rehashed crap that you can find