I worked for a company that's been mentioned on /. about 100 times in the last 5 years, it was so dysfunctional.

I would contend that in the context of slashdot beta, the method of making it right is to scrap it. Pretending you didn't make a huge fuckup simply breeds (even more) distrust.

Yet many I know are having a bit of a pro-anonymity backlash, and are preferring to pay for everything with cash now. As someone who buys almost all his food fresh from the local open-air market (yes, even when it's -15C, that's what hats and coats are for), anything apart from cash simply isn't even an option.

I don't know, why not ask them. However, the fact that Perens has done this before implies that he does see a need for such a community. And OkianWarrior has a good backing of us ranters too.

Anyway, we're not whiny, we're loud and obnoxious, there's a difference. We were whiny between 6 months and 3 days ago, while beta was just this thing they were dicking about with. Whiny was useless.

Mr Khrushchov says he will bury beta!

What Alice Hill, President at Slashdot Media, writes on her Linked-In page:

  Proven track record innovating and improving iconic websites
  (Slashdot.org, ...) while protecting their voice and brand integrity

She's the one claiming to be responsible for this fuck-up. She's the one who needs nuking from orbit (it's the only way to be sure).

If it's going to die, the quicker they kill it, the less painful it is, as long as there's a Perens or an OkianWarrior, or whoever, to provide a substitute.

/me doffs hat - good show, sir /me fucks beta

In Greek, it's more like vay-ta (probably /veita/ in ASCII-IPA).
I have no idea where the voiced bilabial plosive (stop) came from.

Good question, you'll have to raise that with the management. It would be petty, but funny.

I kinda get the impression that this was the week for fun pettiness, and next week for silence.

Why? Only if we're coming back to sling shit again until they say "we were wrong, we didn't have a clue what we were doing". But life's too short for that - we need a new home, one that's not under DICE's idiotic control.

I'm in a +zone, so I will be one of the earlier goodbyes.

My one week is to wean myself off /. I've done it before, I can do it again.

Yay - more time for usenet!

On my phone I can't even slide the sliders to show all, it moves the whole page around under my finger instead.

Total UI fail.

> comments are at the top of our list of features that need more work on the Beta site

Why was it not top of the list of features *a year ago*? Because those in decision-making positions don't understand what's important about the site. And if they lack that insight, they shouldn't be running the site any more.

cue: "I can change" from /Team America/

Coming up with promises about future improvements cannot magically undo the gross incompetence that you've already displayed. You can't polish a turd.

I'd rather be in a community with the 300000 people who are interested about the comments. Let the 3000000 people who aren't have a broken slashdot-2.0 to themselves. And not even know of each other's existence. What kind of a community is that?

This, a million-fold. (Well, probably several hundred thousand-fold.)

I've turned my back on slashdot before, but slid back into their clutches, as I felt some loyalty. Now they are DICE, all that attachment is gone.

I now read slashdot for the links ... to upcoming slashdot replacements.