If you french fry when you're supposed to pizza, you're gonna have a bad time.

It varies from person to person....

I had little or no problem cancelling Comcast recently when I moved. I used the phrase "moving out of the Comcast service area" when they asked why I was cancelling, and they put it right through. Had a little more trouble returning their boxes, however.

I knew I couldn't have been the only one to read it that way.

Sounds like Seattle...

Why not have multiple groups controlling? It eventually worked out for Twitch Plays Pokemon.

Though that will only mean something to a few of us, that was the comparison I immediately made, too.

I think NMCI (and possibly this NASA system) works just fine if you're a headquarters admin/management type and all you need is email/web apps/power point. If you actually have to produce something and require more than those tools, you're going to have a bad time.

Also, the character limit for the subject appears to be way too small.

  I do like the fact that comments preview and post without reloading the page.

I'm not seeing the link for "Slashdot Classic" in the footer. I'm in an older browser (not by choice), so I expect some things to be broken, but the "ripcord" to a working version of the site needs to be easily available.

If you know commenting is so broken, why are you forcing people to use the Beta?

For the last 4 days, I've been stuck using the beta when I browse from work (IE8, not my choice) because the page is too broken to give me the option of using 'Classic mode'. I emailed the feedback link (once I found it, another thing I can't see in the beta), and got no response.

The UI and back-end stuff may be beta, but the comment system is alpha, at best, and shouldn't be forced on anybody.

They already did that experiment, but it was poorly instrumented.