Comment Re:I don't understand (Score 2) 176
That wasn't a mea culpa, it was the digital equivalent of a form letter saying "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
That wasn't a mea culpa, it was the digital equivalent of a form letter saying "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
Sorry - I don't understand the article. Too much text on the page confuses me.
And why are they letting the audience *comment* on it?? Shouldn't an audience just applaud politely?
We're just passive viewers to Dice. "To you, the lucky receivers of Dice's glorious semen, we dedicate this wonderful new beta site. It is our gift to you, the unwashed masses!"
The funny thing is that for all this talk about "We're going to make changes based on your input" horseshit, I would almost be willing to bet that they hired a contractor to do the redesign and that he's already fulfilled his contract and left. I bet that they don't even have the capacity to change the design significantly at this point without hiring a new contractor to do it.
You know what *I* find funny? The fact that Timothy has all this time to downmod ever beta post and up-mod everyone else. I thought he spent every minute of every hour of every day listening to us and our input, working our ways to implement our valued suggestions.
Looks like Timothy is modding all beta posts "0, Offtopic." I wonder how he finds the time, what with all that effort he's putting into listening to our concerns.
And I'm sure it wasn't Timothy who modded this thread "0 off-topic." No, he's far too busy listening to us and implementing our suggestions to have time to do downmods.
Not to worry fellas. They're LISTENING to us (and greatly value our input). Timothy PROMISED!
Just like they've been listening to us for months now, as exactly NOTHING has changed with the beta.
I wonder where the Dice people will go to find new jobs once they've gone belly up.
Considering their past performance and qualifications, my guess would be fluffers for Tijuana donkey porn.
Well I guess on the bright side when Digg did that, their infrastructure costs could have gone way down as they lost most of their users and layed off 37% of their staff.
I just hope Timothy is the first one to go.
This post indicates that our concerns have been heard. Give them a chance.
Posting anon, now Timothy? Have you really sunk so low?
I wouldn't mind the ability the edit posts (at least for a short time anyway). Most sites now support that, but Slashdot still doesn't. Would be nice to be able to fix typos that my shitty proofing missed. Of course the beta doesn't support that (or anything useful really), but OMG Ponies!!
Why this need for a radical departure?
Probably so Dice can tout a big relaunch of the *New and Improved* Slashdot.
I don't mind a new "look." I don't even mind them adding new features (as long as they don't get in the way or fuck anything up). It's when they start TAKING AWAY FUNCTIONALITY that I get pissed off. I couldn't give a rat's ass if they want to pretty up the beta or add "Achievements" (as if Slashdot were a fucking videogame) or whatever. But when they take AWAY the ability to see a simple list of user comments, with replies and mods, THAT'S what really makes the Beta such a piece of shit.
Timothy's post is just a restatement of the same bullshit they've been saying all along. "We value your feedback....blah...blah..blah..."
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
