I really, really hope this is good news. I miss the actual "News for nerds" ethos that brought me here, and I've waded through a lot of sponsored "posts" and clickbait to sift out the kernels of actual news that remain.
New/. overlords? Get this site back to "News for nerds" and news that matters, and you'll keep me here.
I don't believe it. Is Slashdot going to stop those ridiculous paid links to forbes.com? What about the relentless left-wing social justice stories that blame nerds for everything wrong in the world? What about constant news-today-gone-tomorrow political stories that are general news, at best? I don't see any of those going away under any kind of new management. Irritating as fuck content has been around since the Jon Katz stories wouldn't stop appearing.
What about the relentless left-wing social justice stories that blame nerds for everything wrong in the world?
I would like to point out something. In many SJW situations the perpetrators enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame but later paid dearly.
Examples: -Adria Richards (the PyCon Donglegate photo and tweet): after getting fired from Sendgrid during that incident she didn't find another job. Almost 3 years already.
-Jerelyn Luther (the shrieking bitch who screamed at a Yale teacher because he didn't agree with the "no offensive costume" policy of Yale): she closed all her online accounts, and her own mom removed her nam
The book goes further than just rehashing the shaming events. As an example the author also investigates the reputation management business; those companies flood Google with fake blog posts and articles about their client to push down the damaging results to page 3 or 4 in search results.
Hate to sound like his publicist but really any book by Jon Ronson is worth reading. I don't know to what extent everything he writes is accurate (as an example ICP deny most of what he said about their coming out) but he'
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New /. overlords? Get this site back to "News for nerds" and news that matters, and you'll keep me here.
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What about the relentless left-wing social justice stories that blame nerds for everything wrong in the world?
I would like to point out something. In many SJW situations the perpetrators enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame but later paid dearly.
Examples:
-Adria Richards (the PyCon Donglegate photo and tweet): after getting fired from Sendgrid during that incident she didn't find another job. Almost 3 years already.
-Jerelyn Luther (the shrieking bitch who screamed at a Yale teacher because he didn't agree with the "no offensive costume" policy of Yale): she closed all her online accounts, and her own mom removed her nam
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The book goes further than just rehashing the shaming events. As an example the author also investigates the reputation management business; those companies flood Google with fake blog posts and articles about their client to push down the damaging results to page 3 or 4 in search results.
Hate to sound like his publicist but really any book by Jon Ronson is worth reading. I don't know to what extent everything he writes is accurate (as an example ICP deny most of what he said about their coming out) but he'
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