Blackneto's Journal: I'm about done with /.

Been reading this rag for the past 7 years.
Used to be good reading, programming/sysadmin tips.
Not really into subscribing, just not enough offered. at least with totalfark i get more news stories to read.

Just not enough going on here anymore.

Used to have a cool low uid: http://slashdot.org/~Ch0k3r
But lost it to an email foul up and Cowpoker Neal just said tuff create another account.

Trolled for a bit, enough to ruin this accounts chance of ever being able to moderate.

The JE's are ok but getting monotonous.

The big kicker is the effin Microsoft ads. I get enough MS at work. I know what Microsoft has to offer me and my customers. I could care less.
The last 4 things I've installed for customers have been GPL solutions and they couldn't be happier.

So i'm about to unfriend a bunch of folks so the notifications don't pile up. I still love you all but I barely read the JE's any more.

I still read /. but it's not a daily thing anymore. more like once every 3 days.

FK i'm still up for continuing the FFL. So don't count me out of that.

I say Bullshit!

[Em Emalb]

You know (and I do mean KNOW)that you are gonna be reading my polls.

What the eff else is there in this pile of dog poo?

I just said dog poo.

Man...maybe you're right.

Have a good one bro.

Re:I say Bullshit!

[Blackneto]

I didn't unfriend you just because of the polls.

poo
heh
it has gotted shitty lately.

totalfark?

[asv108]

As a /. subscriber and totalfark member, I think just the opposite. Yes, /. is bigger, but there hasn't been any major drastic changes to warrent not reading /.. More often than not, people change, not /.

Speaking of totalfark, I will not be resubscribing to that site. Fark was fun for stupid stories, but the story selection and title picking is completely biased. Also, they seem to only take crappy sources.

Re:totalfark?

[Blackneto]

/. isn't biased?

I actually realise what your saying, but 90% of my recreational web browsing is done at work.
I have a lot of down time waiting for job's to finish and such. totalfark at least gives me a lot of stuff to read.

And it is the people here. same old shit arguments reshashed over and over. just sick of it.
I read the articles that are posted if they intrest me but rarely the comments anymore because of the pseudo-intellectual comments that abound. /. has changed. I don't remember the article blurb

Re:totalfark?

[asv108]

/. is certianly biased, but I can ignore technical bias (especially when its slanted towards my views ) but its hard for me to stomach political bias :)

Re:totalfark?

[Blackneto]

thats funny, because i notice the same amount of political bias in both places.
but perception is a funny thing...

peace out

[mekkab]

If you find some better shit on the web, let us know (someone spoke highly of plastic dot cizzom, but no-one RTFAs their either).

That is, if you even remember /.!

Somehow I don't think you'll miss it too much.

Does that mean?

[gmhowell]

Does that mean no more evening news roundup?

Re:

[account_deleted]

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I only hope

[heliocentric]

I only hope I had a hand in driving you away =)

Re:I only hope

[Blackneto]

nice to see you think so much of yourself ;)

but no. it's the general atmosphere of the place in the last 6-7 months.

Re:I only hope

[heliocentric]

Beleive me, I know how you feel. Part of me keeps staying here only because luvsbway reads many of my posts, and she hasn't really fully understood what it means to be a geek. I guess it sort of lets her into a part of my world I'm willing to share.... but not with you! muhahahaha =)