Looks like they're using their unlimited mod points to try to downmod everyone who posts on the beta.

It's a real shame. In it's heyday, Slashdot was a pretty fucking amazing place to be.

Actually, IIRC, when Dice bought Slashdot, that's pretty much exactly what they said. They gave the usual, BS "We promise we won't change anything guys," spill. Of course, 5 minutes after saying that, they started fucking with stuff. Some of the most embarrassing were those paid sponsor videos they started trying to pass off as regular submissions. You would think that they would have known better than to try to bullshit such an intelligent userbase with some retard-obvious shit like that.

Ooh, looks like the Slashdot editors are running in here with limitless mod points trying to put out the fire. I guess they finally got out of their weekly circle-jerk, cleaned the spooge off Timothy's shirt, and noticed what was going on.

If Dice would stop chasing off users with one stupid fucking move after another, maybe more advertisers would come. Slashdot used to have a userbase where 1,000+ comments on a story was pretty common, and even big sites could be "Slashdotted." When's the last time you saw THAT?

Here's a hint, it was before Taco sold to Dice.

And if people don't like it, and stubbornly keep choosing the classic interface--no problem. Just FORCE it on them!

One of the biggest annoyances I found in the beta is the way it handles comments in the User section. Right now, in classic, I can do a quick check of all my posts and see all the replies and mods to said posts in one nice table. In the beta, I can only see them one comment at a time (and have to click on each one to see if there were any replies or mods). Not to sound like a narcissist, but I do like to keep track of replies to my posts. And the shitty beta makes it almost impossible to do that.

But on the upside, I get to see all my Slashdot "Trophies" on the left!! Woo hoo!!

Seriously, trophies???? Wtf??

Everyone these days wants to fuck beta. How about a few of us show some charity, drop trow, and fuck alpha too?

Nothing. The problem with forking it is that you need a really BIG name in geekdom to head it. Otherwise, you'll end up with a shitload of forks, each with a tiny userbase (defeating the whole point of Slashdot).

They haven't noticed. They've spent all morning in their weekly circle-jerk. It's Timothy's turn as pivot man.

In all fairness to MBA programs of the world, I'm pretty sure most of the execs at Dice never made it past their first year of community college. I mean, it's kind of hard to study with your head up your ass.

Yeah, I was wondering who the fuck was even submitting articles at this point. Guess they're down to having to make up submitters to keep up the pretense that everyone isn't in open rebellion.

Speaking of Amazon, has anyone seen that new Amazon show "Betas"?

So it's one of those situations where the business that's deep in debt suddenly has a mysterious fire and burns to the ground?

Hey Henry, what are you doing? You look like you're decorating a birthday cake.