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.
The deal closed less than 24 hours ago. We're going to look at all options in order to improve the experience. And, no, that doesn't mean we're going to roll out a crappy new interface without listening to user feedback. We want to make sure we get it right.
My own leading suggestion: no more AC posting, including from registered users. Let us all be known by our posting histories. Next, modding and posting in replies to the same article should be allowable, so long as it's not in the same thread.
An Edit button, usable until a post is replied to or modded, would also be nice.
Anonymous Cowards Trolls will be trolls. And given the nature of this site, people who want to troll will already have created scripts to supply them with an endless stream of new accounts. You will see exactly nothing in the posting history of some dedicated troll because there will be none. The only thing you accomplish that way is a bloated user database with tons of throwaway accounts cluttering it. Plus you will not get to see certain comments from people who happen to have some kin
The amount of identification that needs to be given up to start an account is so small that anybody with a real insider position somewhere will not be deterred by having to set up a sing;e-purpose Gmail address in order to register here.
And having registered, use-once accounts will be immediately obvious to all. We could even introduce another number to the comment header line: number of posts this account has made, and changing the existing AC filter to being able to filter on this count. No having to tunnel into posting history to identify throwaway accounts. Too much clutter in the comment header, you say? Then replace that numeric ID, which people use only for venerable-user bragging rights. My new post count would be a better view of the same information.
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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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Welcome, Whipslash!
My own leading suggestion: no more AC posting, including from registered users. Let us all be known by our posting histories. Next, modding and posting in replies to the same article should be allowable, so long as it's not in the same thread.
An Edit button, usable until a post is replied to or modded, would also be nice.
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No. For many reasons:
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Trolls will be trolls. And given the nature of this site, people who want to troll will already have created scripts to supply them with an endless stream of new accounts. You will see exactly nothing in the posting history of some dedicated troll because there will be none. The only thing you accomplish that way is a bloated user database with tons of throwaway accounts cluttering it. Plus you will not get to see certain comments from people who happen to have some kin
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The amount of identification that needs to be given up to start an account is so small that anybody with a real insider position somewhere will not be deterred by having to set up a sing;e-purpose Gmail address in order to register here.
And having registered, use-once accounts will be immediately obvious to all. We could even introduce another number to the comment header line: number of posts this account has made, and changing the existing AC filter to being able to filter on this count. No having to tunnel into posting history to identify throwaway accounts. Too much clutter in the comment header, you say? Then replace that numeric ID, which people use only for venerable-user bragging rights. My new post count would be a better view of the same information.