Comment Re:Black hole (Score 1) 193
Boycott
Boycott
Boycott will never happen. This will be dead even before the boycott, it's already almost dead now. I have only seen one comment on the article. The spirit of Slashdot has already departed.
Dear corporate overlords,
Slashdot users are not just an audience. The most valuable content is often not in the articles (some people don't even bother to RTFA) but in the comments, witty, informative, funny, etc. The mod system helps readers navigate through lots of comments to find the valuable ones. Sure, there are consumers that behave as an audience, but if you drive away the commenters, the new site will be stillborn. No articles are being commented today, as a spontaneous user reaction. If that goes on, the "audience" will leave for greener pastures.
Sincerely,
Carlos
If you have access to the editors, let them know that nobody is discussing the stories today. In a day or two this will be a ghost town, they don't have much time to process the feedback.
They won't give it up because they still don't get it. They think of the site users as the audience, as if the value of Slashdot was the articles. Just in case Dice reads this: the value is in the comments from the community, some of which are less biased and more informative than the referenced articles. Some are written by experts in the matter, or contain perspectives that a journalist doesn't have. Sure, most of the comments are junk, but the mod system helps you with that. But nobody from Dice will read this, because if they read Slashdot they would have already seen it.
Contact me if interested
John (at) AltSlashdot (dot) org
$7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media
and have only started to realize some improvement on related sites. With ad revenue declining and not expected to pick up (read: everyone who uses Slashdot uses adblocking softwarwe), it appears that the Slashdot stewardship experiment by Dice Holdings has been a financial failure.
Since the site has been redesigned in a user-hostile fashion with a very generic styling, this reader surmises Dice Holdings is looking to transform or transfer the brand into a generic Web 3.0 technology property. The name may be more valuable than the user community (since we drive no revenue nor particularly use Dice.com's services).
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen