Journal jZnat's Journal: It's official: Slashdot talks about Microsoft too much. 1
I just went through my tags, and I have noticed that the tag with the most stories is currently "microsoft". Now, I haven't been completely diligent in tagging everything since tags first appeared, but I've done pretty well with the stories I've bothered to tag. I haven't tagged all Windows, Vista, and Zune stories as Microsoft, but I've gotten a lot of them. As a matter of fact, there seems to be more Zune stories than iPod stories in each of their respective times of initial launch. I don't get it. Although, if you go check out Digg, I'm sure you'll find five Apple or Ubuntu stories for every Microsoft story, so I guess things even out in the long run.
Perhaps our unquenchable hatred for Microsoft fuels the need for a constant torrent of Microsoft stories in which we can all have a jab at Microsoft? Of course, this leads to Microsoft astroturfing, and even more annoying, Microsoft astroturfing with mod powers.
Some people accuse the Slashdot editors of posting stories that are likely to get the most ad impressions and thus get the most amount of money, but somehow I doubt that as I'd assume the editors get a fixed income from OSTG and thus are unaffected by ad revenue for the most part. I'm sure they like to see discussions take place (this is one of the best aspects of Slashdot), but I do believe that they don't do it just to get ad impressions. Besides, Slashdotters are the sort of people who ignore ads or use ad-blocking programs anyhow, so I doubt getting that many more comments is going to increase their ad revenue by all that much.
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Maybe they pay for it?