No one comes to /. to read the stories.
That's absolutely true. The editors here are young, inexperienced, naive, and largely clueless. Which is to
be expected, we were all that once upon a time. However, the commenters include a good number
of older people with significant experience and knowledge, and THEY are clearly a thousand times more
important than any of the interchangeable, expendable editors.
The most important thing that this fucked-up Beta teaches us is that Dice does not understand that
previous paragraph. It proves to us that they're arrogant, self-important, egotistical assholes who think
we're sheep to be herded as they see fit. It's probably going to be necessary to teach them a lesson,
and I suspect that the form the lesson will take is the rotting carcass of Slashdot nailed to the wall,
because they are clearly LYING when they claim to be listening.
Which is not surprising: MBAs are stupid people, that's why they don't have real degrees. But It is
disappointing to see how spineless Timothy and the others are. If they actually had any backbone at
all, the editors would side with the users and resign en masse in protest.