Rich text editor for comments? The ability to edit comments for a brief period of time after posting? Better usage of JavaScript? Linking to original sources and not crappy blogs? Quit using question marks in headlines? Fact-check submissions when it's trivial to do so? (Bonus: Fact-check submissions when it's not trivial to do so?*)
For one day! In October!
The more I think about it, the more I realize the logo is the last thing that needs changing here.
Seriously. (Score:5, Interesting)
Are there a lot of people out there who have just been chomping at the bit to change the slashdot logo?
How about fixing some of the horribly out of date and broken website code instead? Just for one day. In October!
Maybe make a mobile version of the site that is more than barely functional? For one day! In October!
Shameful.
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Yeah, I know. I've been posting here under various accounts for 10+ years.
It seems like the general slashdot method of operation is to turn accidental success into intentional failure.
I imagine they will port it to Drupal eventually, but we need a really strong 10/10 book on it first and Packt hasn't released it yet.
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Rich text editor for comments? The ability to edit comments for a brief period of time after posting? Better usage of JavaScript? Linking to original sources and not crappy blogs? Quit using question marks in headlines? Fact-check submissions when it's trivial to do so? (Bonus: Fact-check submissions when it's not trivial to do so?*)
For one day! In October!
The more I think about it, the more I realize the logo is the last thing that needs changing here.
* Note: It's almost always trivial.
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The ability to edit ones comments is always abused. If you fuck up your comment reply to your comment with the correction.
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It is only abused if there is no easy way to quote text you are replying to, or if the edited post doesn't include some indication it was edited.
Shockingly, those two features exist on basically every other web forum and large blog in existence.
These problems are long solved.