Comment Re:Tech Standards Evolve (Score 3, Insightful) 234
Oh sweet sweet Karma. Farewell. We had a good run of it, didn't we?
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:
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).
$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).
Work expands to fill the time available. -- Cyril Northcote Parkinson, "The Economist", 1955