Comment Re:There is a lesson here for slashdot (Score 1) 175
This. One hundred times this.
The teachable moment for Dice is RIGHT NOW. They can either admit what everyone knows (that Beta is a horrible downgrade and should be killed immediately) or they can let their massive out-of-control egos continue to drive their decision making...and drive Slashdot right off a cliff.
The question that remains is whether they're smart enough to realize that, or whether they will persist on the path they've chosen -- which leads inexorably to a future where people talk about Slashdot in the past tense and catalog its downfall alongside that of other sites whose operators failed to listen to their masters: US.
My money is on the latter. Every response I've seen so far from them is full of PR happytalk and bullshit. I think they truly believe that they can pull this off if they lie about it long enough and consistently enough. After all, that's how business is done these days, for the most part.
The teachable moment for Dice is RIGHT NOW. They can either admit what everyone knows (that Beta is a horrible downgrade and should be killed immediately) or they can let their massive out-of-control egos continue to drive their decision making...and drive Slashdot right off a cliff.
The question that remains is whether they're smart enough to realize that, or whether they will persist on the path they've chosen -- which leads inexorably to a future where people talk about Slashdot in the past tense and catalog its downfall alongside that of other sites whose operators failed to listen to their masters: US.
My money is on the latter. Every response I've seen so far from them is full of PR happytalk and bullshit. I think they truly believe that they can pull this off if they lie about it long enough and consistently enough. After all, that's how business is done these days, for the most part.