+1 hahaha
Now I wish I used my mod points to mod this up instead of posting my own comment elsewhere.

Okay, I get it. Dice is actively trying to kill the polls.
What is this new feature where I get told who else voted the same as me? Why does that matter without the context of the rest of the results? What a ridiculous waste of developer time.
Every time a new "feature" is added to the site it gets worse, and every time the old guard complains, and every time the complaints are ignored.

Let's take a look at something real quick. In a post from today (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/06/29/1441222/bill-gates-investing-2-billion-in-renewables), there are currently 19 "highly rated comments" showing with my default filter as of this moment. Of those, one is from an AC, two are from users with UID having 7 digits, and 16 of them are from users with UID having 5 or 6 digits.
Greater than 80% of the comments that people actually care about on that post came from users that have been around a while.

In my ridiculously small sample, that would seem to imply that the old guard contributes the most to the reason that people come to this site.
So the only conclusion I can draw is that Dice actually wants to kill the site.

SoylentNews is getting better every day while this place keeps going downhill. I think the day will soon come when I sign out for good.
But Dice doesn't care. That's the sad thing.

"Dead recognition" -- That's like that TV show with the nice man that talks to dead people, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They did just censor search results for merchandise branded with a particular logo that has a negative connotation for most enlightened humans, despite the fact that other merchandise branded with similarly offensive logos is still easily found through them.

I'm beginning to lose a lot of faith in Google. I think the business idiots have run the engineers out of there.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/20...

but the link to the Meizu website provided there is broken right now: http://www.meizu.com/en/ubuntu...

Polls DO NOT BELONG at the top of the news feed.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Maybe you should do some research before plodding around with your opinions.

Musk co-founded Zip2 in '95 and made bank on that in '99.
Co-founded X.com in '99, which after mergers and whatnot made bank for him in '02.
Now he's grown SpaceX to a valuation of $12 billion (and that's not dot-com fake money like Twitter, et al.).
And Tesla is pretty close to breaking even.
(all of this according to Wikipedia)

I'd say that's a much better track record than the vast majority of people on the planet.

+1 - Mod parent up.

Listen, the polls are great. I've answered to and read comments in them for years.
But they absolutely do not belong at the top of the news feed. Put them back in the sidebar where they belong.

And by the way, I think you meant:

Since you don't mind it, you can go ahead and watch them on your own time without ruining my experience.
I'm not interested. I have netflix so I don't have to watch ads. Looks like I'll be abandoning that type of entertainment entirely at some point...

Why not drones that *cut burglars* and *deter the lawn* from growing?
Oh right, that would involve harming humans. Seems like a much more interesting solution to me, though.

Is anyone else curious how the guy fit his [presumably 3-dimensional] son into a two-dimensional (6'x8') "box"?

Try looking at the changes in the lives of people living in the parts of the world I cited over the past 40 years and then tell me that the growing GDP has not improved the lives of almost everyone there.

I've been to rural China, and I've been to cities all over that part of the world. The folks in the cities, who have taken advantage of (and been a part of) the growth in GDP, have much better lives-- and are thankful for that!

Go see the world a bit, then come back and talk like an intelligent person.

You obviously have a dangerously skewed world-view. Have you seen first-hand how people work in other countries?

I've traveled pretty extensively, and let me tell you-- Asians (specifically the "Oriental" variety) work *much* harder than most Americans. That's why their economies have done so well over the past N years.
Europeans are even lazier than Americans for the most part. That's why their economies, well, don't do so well. (There are exceptions, of course.)

What type of distorted conception of "work" and "output" and "good economy" could make you think that working "too hard" is *bad* for the economy?

Please mod up parent!