I think I've got reasonable karma on here and the very few who recognise my login probably think I don't post total drivel *all* of the time, so I'd like to put in my two bob's worth. I don't like the beta as it is at the minute. The front page looks fine to me: lots of white space, but I can live with white space and it's no different from other websites, although I could very much do without the constant targetted videos from advertiers; but it's the comments pages that are distinctly compromised compared
Over the last few days the comments pages have been increasingly dominated by childish anti-beta messages. I understand these are probably born out of frustration and irritation (even anger on some parts), but they've made the website far less usable than if the beta had been rolled out without argument. This is the flipside of it: no redesign is worth fucking up a website over, and certainly doesn't justify the sheer amount of petulant whining the boards have been filled with.
Yeah, I think that was kind of the point. The message I got was, "Fine: If you want to act like you're listening to us but then completely ignore what we're saying, we can be just as childish. In the process, we'll demonstrate why you should value the comments so much. You'll probably misconstrue or ignore that message, but fuck it, we have to do something."
I guess it's kind of debatable whether this is commenters putting their money where their mouths are, or just being bratty, though. But why can't it be both?:)
Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to think that I have at least a few percent more of a chance of swaying the direction Slashdot goes than all the other things that are going off the tracks these days like Unity, Windows 8, the U.S. government...
I don't like being told "we're doing this for you"/"we're representing you" and then they do the exact opposite of what we've been telling them we want them to do. It's more galling than never soliciting feedback in the first place.
You see but you do not observe.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
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I think I've got reasonable karma on here and the very few who recognise my login probably think I don't post total drivel *all* of the time, so I'd like to put in my two bob's worth. I don't like the beta as it is at the minute. The front page looks fine to me: lots of white space, but I can live with white space and it's no different from other websites, although I could very much do without the constant targetted videos from advertiers; but it's the comments pages that are distinctly compromised compared
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Over the last few days the comments pages have been increasingly dominated by childish anti-beta messages. I understand these are probably born out of frustration and irritation (even anger on some parts), but they've made the website far less usable than if the beta had been rolled out without argument. This is the flipside of it: no redesign is worth fucking up a website over, and certainly doesn't justify the sheer amount of petulant whining the boards have been filled with.
Yeah, I think that was kind of the point. The message I got was, "Fine: If you want to act like you're listening to us but then completely ignore what we're saying, we can be just as childish. In the process, we'll demonstrate why you should value the comments so much. You'll probably misconstrue or ignore that message, but fuck it, we have to do something."
I guess it's kind of debatable whether this is commenters putting their money where their mouths are, or just being bratty, though. But why can't it be both? :)
Hail Eris!
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Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to think that I have at least a few percent more of a chance of swaying the direction Slashdot goes than all the other things that are going off the tracks these days like Unity, Windows 8, the U.S. government...
I don't like being told "we're doing this for you"/"we're representing you" and then they do the exact opposite of what we've been telling them we want them to do. It's more galling than never soliciting feedback in the first place.