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.
Some of us like the "left-wing social justice" stories, that's why we keep voting for them in the firehose. If you don't like them just don't read or comment on them. Some of us want to discuss these things, and no-one is forcing you to join in.
People say SJWs are opposed to freedom of speech, usually while trying to take prevent them even talking about anything the speaker disagrees with.
/. seems fairly pro-Republican, pro-nuke, CC denialist. Not to mention every Firefox story degenerates into a Reductio ad Eich, in support of 'traditional marriage'.
Slashdot is large. It has a decent proportion of people with those views, but also a decent proportion of people telling them they're idiots, especially when it comes to CC denialism.
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only
specification is that it should run noiselessly.
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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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Some of us like the "left-wing social justice" stories, that's why we keep voting for them in the firehose. If you don't like them just don't read or comment on them. Some of us want to discuss these things, and no-one is forcing you to join in.
People say SJWs are opposed to freedom of speech, usually while trying to take prevent them even talking about anything the speaker disagrees with.
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/. seems fairly pro-Republican, pro-nuke, CC denialist. Not to mention every Firefox story degenerates into a Reductio ad Eich, in support of 'traditional marriage'.
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Slashdot is large. It has a decent proportion of people with those views, but also a decent proportion of people telling them they're idiots, especially when it comes to CC denialism.