There are readers and contributors. Slashdot acknowledges some people as meaningful contributors by allowing them to disable ads. So, yes. We contributors ARE paying to use the site by offering our content. We're not giving the content for free, we get compensated in the form of a site that lives up to our high standards. So, when the compensation fails to be adequate, we must be vocal. We understand that we can stop using the "free" site at any time. We become vocal in hopes it doesn't have to come to that.

The design of their security. They should redesign it by committe. Here are some suggestions for your Target Security Beta:

* More whitespace. Credit card thieves hate whitespace.
* Big goofy graphic before they can steal your credit card info
* Force a lot of scrolling, this will definitely send attackers away
* Make the store look like Buzzfeed. This will send them screaming.

I think sometimes posts get lost because of that awful "preview comment" functionality that makes it look like the post went through, when it's waiting for you to click the yellow button.

Yep. How long before they come fed up with these protests and start deleting comments, or moderating them into oblivion? Please continue the fight, and also, pleace comment outside of their control here on reddit (where I may soon be moving to if classic goes away): http://www.reddit.com/r/social...

Oh sweet sweet Karma. Farewell. We had a good run of it, didn't we?

Sometimes they evolve organically. Often, some interested party steps in, and turns it all upside down and ruins it. When this happens, the standard is often likely to fail because it didn't meet the needs of the users (the real stakeholders).

This is sort of what is about to happen to slashdot with the introduction of Beta. Some interested party with power steps in, and flips it upside down. What they fail to realize is that Slashdot isn't a website. It's the users. And Slashdot users are a very special class of curmudgeons... take your Beta off my lawn and shove it.

Please discuss!
http://www.reddit.com/r/social...

You'll pry classic from my cold dead hands. I am keeping their message at the top of the home page as a reminder of its impending demise. I'm happy to burn my karma spewing off-topic posts in protest. Meanwhile, please bring this fight over to reddit where the Slashdot moderators have no influence:

http://www.reddit.com/r/social...

Backlash at Slashdot Beta needs attention outside of the control of Slashdot moderators. Please comment over on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/social...

I think this needs more attention outside of the control of slashdot moderators. Please help by voicing your thoughts over at reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/social...

Don't forget to comment on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/social...

It's usually obvious to the users. For instance, look at Slashdot's beta design... No normal webmaster who knows this site and its users would ever let garbage see the light of day. Slashdot Beta is obviously Government-Sponsored malware.

That's OK. What made slashdot great is the people who love it, leaving insightful comments. Since they are currently only leaving comments related to beta... if you mod those down, there won't be much of a discussion left.

If they do manage to suppress the beta "noise", just bring it to their facebook page.

More posts like this. Protest beta with on-topic posts. (bonus points if title is on topic too).

Just hope that "slashdot" isn't somehow trademarked. If it is, I'm sure you can come up with another domain that is in the spirit of "h tee tee pee colon slash slash www dot slash dot dot com" like "httpcolonslash.com" or simply "httpslash.com" which would still have slashdot in it's name" (httpslash dot com).