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.
Holy fuck. The last thing Slashdot needs is to become another censoring shithole like Reddit or HN. If those sites have taught us anything it's that it's preferable to have real, true, open discussion, even if that means putting up with a few so-called "troll" comments every now and then.
If you want dumb, inane, watered-down discussion, then they the fuck don't you just go to Reddit and stay there?
Slashdot has a great opportunity to reinvent itself as a tech/science/math-focused site with an emphasis on unh
It is a terrible trend of new age media to down vote dissenting views. Only group think supported here!
I'd be happy if moderators learned the difference between sarcasm, humor, making valid point and actual troll / flamebait and didn't get their undies inappropriately bunched. [ Note: I'm not holding my breath. ]
"I'd be happy if moderators learned the difference between sarcasm, humor, making valid point and actual troll / flamebait and didn't get their undies inappropriately bunched."
It may be an old joke here, but if we had actual mod categories for -1, I Disagree and -1, This Violates My Religious Principles, much abuse of the existing categories could be avoided.
It is a terrible trend of new age media to down vote dissenting views. Only group think supported here!
I'd be happy if moderators learned the difference between sarcasm, humor, making valid point and actual troll / flamebait and didn't get their undies inappropriately bunched. [ Note: I'm not holding my breath. ]
As a moderator, I'd be happy if posters could make some sarcasm, humor, or make a valid point without coming across as troll / flamebait. Of course that would require actually require something having wit, being funny, or containing supported arguments, while most are just posting reactionary near non-sequitors. Or just use some emoticons or other common internet notations for marking such efforts, as what is bare type on a page often does not convey the same meaning as what it is sounding like in somebody'
I'd be happy if moderators learned the difference between sarcasm, humor, making valid point and actual troll / flamebait and didn't get their undies inappropriately bunched. [ Note: I'm not holding my breath. ]
It is not possible to detect sarcasm and such, reliably, when only the text is visible. In face-to-face there is a lot of information carried by expression, body language and voice tone.
If you want to use them, mark them.
Although, maybe slashdot could provide a marking system.
Are they being downvoted because they dissent from commonly-held beliefs, or because they are posting nonsensical bullshit vomited forth by someone who doesn't know their nonsense is in fact nonsense? Kind of like when epyT-R proudly proclaimed women can't be scientists? You have to be a lot more precise in your argument for it to make any sense.
And it didn't used to happen as much at Slashdot, but it has started happening more and more, recently.
Back in the day (pre-DICE), you would get good, opposing views on a subject, when warranted. These days, it's hard to say anything that goes against the flow without getting voted down.
As an example, I have, repeatedly, criticized the Bennet Hasselton dren that gets posted here, not because everyone else is, but because BH's writing is short-sighted, naive, and not worth my time to read. I'm happy that h
It is a terrible trend of new age media to down vote dissenting views. Only group think supported here!
If you want to kill the retarded group-think and down voting because people disagree, the solution is bloody simple. Just remove the fucking voting options that are always used for wankfestery e-penis bullshit.
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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.
That's exactly what Slashdot should NOT do! (Score:5, Insightful)
Holy fuck. The last thing Slashdot needs is to become another censoring shithole like Reddit or HN. If those sites have taught us anything it's that it's preferable to have real, true, open discussion, even if that means putting up with a few so-called "troll" comments every now and then.
If you want dumb, inane, watered-down discussion, then they the fuck don't you just go to Reddit and stay there?
Slashdot has a great opportunity to reinvent itself as a tech/science/math-focused site with an emphasis on unh
Re: That's exactly what Slashdot should NOT do! (Score:5, Insightful)
It is a terrible trend of new age media to down vote dissenting views. Only group think supported here!
Re: That's exactly what Slashdot should NOT do! (Score:5, Insightful)
It is a terrible trend of new age media to down vote dissenting views. Only group think supported here!
I'd be happy if moderators learned the difference between sarcasm, humor, making valid point and actual troll / flamebait and didn't get their undies inappropriately bunched. [ Note: I'm not holding my breath. ]
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The problem is that all the best trolls use the truth.
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And sometimes, it's the mods that mark a post "troll" are the actual trolls trying to suppress and censor the real truth.
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"I'd be happy if moderators learned the difference between sarcasm, humor, making valid point and actual troll / flamebait and didn't get their undies inappropriately bunched."
It may be an old joke here, but if we had actual mod categories for -1, I Disagree and -1, This Violates My Religious Principles, much abuse of the existing categories could be avoided.
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I'd be happy if they stopped stereotyping A/Cs. [I'm not holding my breath, either.]
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It is a terrible trend of new age media to down vote dissenting views. Only group think supported here!
I'd be happy if moderators learned the difference between sarcasm, humor, making valid point and actual troll / flamebait and didn't get their undies inappropriately bunched. [ Note: I'm not holding my breath. ]
As a moderator, I'd be happy if posters could make some sarcasm, humor, or make a valid point without coming across as troll / flamebait. Of course that would require actually require something having wit, being funny, or containing supported arguments, while most are just posting reactionary near non-sequitors. Or just use some emoticons or other common internet notations for marking such efforts, as what is bare type on a page often does not convey the same meaning as what it is sounding like in somebody'
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I'd be happy if moderators learned the difference between sarcasm, humor, making valid point and actual troll / flamebait and didn't get their undies inappropriately bunched. [ Note: I'm not holding my breath. ]
It is not possible to detect sarcasm and such, reliably, when only the text is visible. In face-to-face there is a lot of information carried by expression, body language and voice tone.
If you want to use them, mark them.
Although, maybe slashdot could provide a marking system.
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Are they being downvoted because they dissent from commonly-held beliefs, or because they are posting nonsensical bullshit vomited forth by someone who doesn't know their nonsense is in fact nonsense? Kind of like when epyT-R proudly proclaimed women can't be scientists? You have to be a lot more precise in your argument for it to make any sense.
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And it didn't used to happen as much at Slashdot, but it has started happening more and more, recently.
Back in the day (pre-DICE), you would get good, opposing views on a subject, when warranted. These days, it's hard to say anything that goes against the flow without getting voted down.
As an example, I have, repeatedly, criticized the Bennet Hasselton dren that gets posted here, not because everyone else is, but because BH's writing is short-sighted, naive, and not worth my time to read. I'm happy that h
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yeah, flat earthers deserve equal time with real science.... /s
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You don't need mods to call out the flat-earthers. That 's what the reply link and the sentence "You're an ignorant shithead" are for.
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It is a terrible trend of new age media to down vote dissenting views. Only group think supported here!
If you want to kill the retarded group-think and down voting because people disagree, the solution is bloody simple. Just remove the fucking voting options that are always used for wankfestery e-penis bullshit.
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MOD PARENT DOWN! :)
Capcha: cowers... very fitting.
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