We want to give our current audience the space where they are comfortable.
This is the fundamental problem between how the corporate overlords think and how the community thinks. Until this difference is resolved you will get the continual complaints and the eventual mass exodus. We are a community. We are not an audience.
I submit stories. I read stories. I add comments. I moderate comments. I am the reason that there is ad revenue.
This. Don't think the community won't up sticks and leave en-masse either. Like most communities we will protect what we value, even if it means building a new town and moving everyone there.
No new users will come to Slashdot when it's just another crappy news blog with the standard retarded internet comments.
This. Don't think the community won't up sticks and leave en-masse either. Like most communities we will protect what we value, even if it means building a new town and moving everyone there.
No new users will come to Slashdot when it's just another crappy news blog with the standard retarded internet comments.
Exactly. And the problem will be that Slashdot needs a critical mass of users to be useful. Once that critical mass leaves, the site will suddenly be useless, and all of the stragglers will leave with them.
What this means is that they won't have the benefit of seeing their audience slowly dwindling and have time to react. Once it starts, it'll be gone in a flash.
White dwarf seeks red giant for binary relationship.
And here is the problem (Score:5, Insightful)
We want to give our current audience the space where they are comfortable.
This is the fundamental problem between how the corporate overlords think and how the community thinks. Until this difference is resolved you will get the continual complaints and the eventual mass exodus. We are a community. We are not an audience.
I submit stories. I read stories. I add comments. I moderate comments. I am the reason that there is ad revenue.
I am Slashdot.
Re:And here is the problem (Score:5, Insightful)
This. Don't think the community won't up sticks and leave en-masse either. Like most communities we will protect what we value, even if it means building a new town and moving everyone there.
No new users will come to Slashdot when it's just another crappy news blog with the standard retarded internet comments.
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Like most communities we will protect what we value, even if it means building a new town and moving everyone there.
And don't think we're above setting up a fake toll booth in the desert to keep you from following us, either.
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This. Don't think the community won't up sticks and leave en-masse either. Like most communities we will protect what we value, even if it means building a new town and moving everyone there.
No new users will come to Slashdot when it's just another crappy news blog with the standard retarded internet comments.
Exactly. And the problem will be that Slashdot needs a critical mass of users to be useful.
Once that critical mass leaves, the site will suddenly be useless, and all of the stragglers will leave with them.
What this means is that they won't have the benefit of seeing their audience slowly dwindling and have time to react. Once it starts, it'll be gone in a flash.