NoNonAlphaCharsHere - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Slightly off-topic, but... (Score 2) 135

by NoNonAlphaCharsHere on Thursday February 06, 2014 @06:34PM (#46179275) Attached to: Why Robot Trucks Could Be Headed To Afghanistan (And Everywhere Else)

LOAD MOAR

Comment Re:Beta sucks (Score 5, Informative) 135

by NoNonAlphaCharsHere on Thursday February 06, 2014 @06:30PM (#46179219) Attached to: Why Robot Trucks Could Be Headed To Afghanistan (And Everywhere Else)

Burn it with fire, sprinkle the ashes with holy water and rock salt and bury them in the Love Canal.

Comment "...as we migrate our audience..." (Score -1, Offtopic) 232

by NoNonAlphaCharsHere on Thursday February 06, 2014 @05:07PM (#46178235) Attached to: Target's Data Breach Started With an HVAC Account

That's the problem right there.

Dear DICE:
We're not "your audience", we're your CONTRIBUTERS. You're just the chalkboard we have our discussions on. Shut the fuck up, display a few ads, and stay the fuck out of the way.

Comment Re:Fuck the beta (Score 1) 221

by NoNonAlphaCharsHere on Thursday February 06, 2014 @04:40PM (#46177925) Attached to: Military Electronics That Shatter Into Dust On Command

You should be happy for the ones who died and don't have to look at beta any more. You should probably kill the rest of them and put them out of their agony.

Comment Re:I am Slashdot (Score 1) 234

by NoNonAlphaCharsHere on Thursday February 06, 2014 @04:35PM (#46177843) Attached to: The Standards Wars and the Sausage Factory

Well, YOU may think you're Slashdot, but Dice thinks you're "our audience" - you know, the people who come here for the stellar, dupe-free, award-winning editing of up-to-the-minute tech stories.

Comment Re:I'm wondering... (Score 1, Offtopic) 193

by NoNonAlphaCharsHere on Thursday February 06, 2014 @03:22PM (#46176891) Attached to: New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists

Nope. They think it sucks balls, too.

Comment Re:"As we migrate our audience" (Score 3, Insightful) 197

by NoNonAlphaCharsHere on Thursday February 06, 2014 @03:03PM (#46176615) Attached to: QuakeNet: Government-Sponsored Attacks On IRC Networks

THAT's the problem right there. They think we're the AUDIENCE and not the CONTRIBUTERS.

NEWSFLASH: We don't come here for the stellar editing, we come here to make and read and reply to each other's comments. YOU'RE not supplying the content, WE are. Display some ads and stay out of the way, or expect most of us to "migrate" to another site.

Comment Re:Beta feedback helps (Score 1) 197

by NoNonAlphaCharsHere on Thursday February 06, 2014 @02:56PM (#46176519) Attached to: QuakeNet: Government-Sponsored Attacks On IRC Networks

Now if only anybody over there gave a fuck.

Comment Re:Beta feedback helps (Score 3, Interesting) 197

by NoNonAlphaCharsHere on Thursday February 06, 2014 @02:53PM (#46176477) Attached to: QuakeNet: Government-Sponsored Attacks On IRC Networks

As an example, you just linked to 4 different, individual posts within threads. The Beta site doesn't even have post IDs, even on the user's home page, so linking to an individual comment is impossible. SID and CID are GONE in the new Slashdot.

Comment Re:BetaNet: DICE-Sponsored Attacks on Slashdot (Score 2) 197

by NoNonAlphaCharsHere on Thursday February 06, 2014 @02:49PM (#46176419) Attached to: QuakeNet: Government-Sponsored Attacks On IRC Networks

The Marketing Department at DICE Cybernetics Corporation are a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Comment "...as we migrate our audience..." (Score 2) 60

by NoNonAlphaCharsHere on Thursday February 06, 2014 @02:17PM (#46176021) Attached to: Slashdot BETA Discussion

That's the problem right there.

Dear DICE:
We're not "your audience", we're your CONTRIBUTERS. You're just the chalkboard we have our discussions on. Shut the fuck up, display a few ads, and stay the fuck out of the way.

Submission + - Long time users of slashdot disgusted with BETA (slashdot.org) 1

Submitted by schneidafunk on Thursday February 06, 2014 @01:07PM

schneidafunk writes: Long time users of slashdot disgusted with BETA version being forced on users and are overflowing the comments with anger.

Submission + - Dice Holdings has written off Slashdot Media at the close of 2013 (prnewswire.com) 3

Submitted by moogla on Thursday February 06, 2014 @12:32PM

moogla writes: Apparently Dice.com could not make Slashdot work they way they wanted to; with a murky plan to tap into the Slashdot-reader community to somehow drive attention or insight into other Dice Holdings properities, they've burned through

$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).

Submission + - Fuck beta 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 06, 2014 @12:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: The beta is bad. It's so bad. The comments are reduced in screen width about 50%. Subject lines are deemphasized, scores are minimized, etc.

The discussions are the reason to come to Slashdot, and the beta trivializes them entirely. It looks like the comment section on a generic news site.

The comments now look like an afterthought, whereas they used to be the primary focus of the site.

Submission + - User Backlash at Slashdot Beta Site (slashdot.org) 3

Submitted by hduff on Thursday February 06, 2014 @11:50AM

hduff writes: Look at almost any current Slashdot story and see loyal, long-time members rail against the new site design, willing to burn precious karma points to post off-topic rants against the new design and it being forced on users by the Dice Overlords. Discussion has begun to create an alternate site.

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