blinder's Journal: I'm an Unofficial Slashdot Editor

there was a story posted for subscribers (in the mysterious future) about the demise of gnustep. well, i don't use their software and because i am a mac os x user have just a passing knowledge of the project, but i found the story odd. the summary basically said that they called it quits because they couldn't compete with apple/cocoa on intel. how strange. i mean, a claim like that is just weird.

so, i decided to check into it. i went to the home page and found no "public announcement."

odd.

okay, maybe its burried somewhere, no news updates (seeing as though that would be pretty big news for a project). nope, not burried, next i thought "okay, i'm just not getting it" so i poked around some more. i found they had a project wiki. so, i went there. huh, nothing there.

a little bit mroe digging and noticed that the wiki keeps a page of developer blogs. i went and checked each one of them... no announcment. nothing. zero.

now i figured the story was a fake. so, i emailed the slashdot "daddypants" account with basically all of this information, and closed it with a "you're welcome."

i mean, the story summary had a single link to the gnustep.org front page. the "editor" (that would be taco) didn't even bother to click on it!!! or, more like he did, saw that it wasn't a 404 and thought "oh well, good enough for me." the "editor" didn't even bother to do, well, any editing!

i know its old hat to jab at the "editors" of this site, but when it gets down to the fact that they will just post *anything* without even the most rudementary fact-checking (you know, the thing the new republic is so very good at)... it just makes you wonder, what the fuck?

i wouldn't even have written about this, but it just frustrated me that these "editors" would be so cavalier with how stories get queued up.

*sigh*

Did it get removed?

[FortKnox]

And did you get a reply?

The only editors that were courteous enough to reply, and politely do so were Timothy and Cliff.

Re:Did it get removed?

[blinder]

yeppers, it sure did :) and did i get a reply?
of course not!

you know its funny, this isn't the first time i've called taco to task. there was a story he posted the other week that had some of his "commentary" at the end, and it was so poorly written that i had to call him on it... well, he fixed all of the errors that i pointed out. i guess i shouldn't expect a reply, and i don't need one, i just want these turkeys to pay a bit more attention to detail. i mean, if these guys want to stay relevant, they need

Re:Did it get removed?

[Short Circuit]

I've received responses from Rob, Cliff and Timothy. And I regularly correspond with pudge. (I keep submitting D2 bugs.)

oh

[dubiousdave]

I was wondering what you duped.

Re:oh

[blinder]

look, i would never, not ever dupe! not even a little.

Re:oh

[blinder]

look, i would never, not ever dupe! not even a little.

(see look, this isn't a dupe!)

Re:oh

[Shadow Wrought]

That was one of the funniest posts I've seen on teh dot. LOL;-)

Re:oh

[StalinsNotDead]

I thought it was one of the most predictable;-)

Re:oh

[Timex]

That's RICH!

It was, quite honestly, the first time in at least a WEEK (maybe longer?) that I laughed out loud about something.

2 Things

[ellem]

1) I correct spelling and grammar on the front page all the time. They always reply.

2) If they don't make shit up how are they going to beat DIGG to the scoop?

Re:2 Things

[TechnoLust]

2) If they don't make shit up how are they going to beat DIGG to the scoop?
stop letting stories sit in the queue for 15 hours before reading them?

Re:2 Things

[StalinsNotDead]

When did they start reading them?

Re:2 Things

[TechnoLust]

yeah, I guess that should have read "before they randomly accept or deny them".