I wonder if the Slashdot admins will be doing either when they pull a YouTube and inevitably (it's always inevitably, for some reason) turn the main site into beta.slashdot.org.

Here's an easy one: "Archieved[sic] Stories" at the bottom. Listen to us, watch us, whatever, but please don't fuck it up, and fix what isn't right.

A moderator a day keeps the Real Name policies away.

You might be on to something. If a loud female causes males to..."yield" more, then a tattooed spank amplifier may well add to that and leave her utterly drenched.

It's Eric "maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" Schmidt and Larry "shouting match [with Brin over more datamining]" Page we're talking about...they couldn't properly feign outrage about the NSA if the NSA found their personal sex tapes and demanded them at gunpoint.

On the contrary, it's the ultimate confidence booster. "If this goddamn flea from a big African island can get some ass-equivalent under some fool's crusty feet..."

Wikimedia and its member sites do a lot of testing and public hearing-ing of features both on and off the main servers; this appears to be more a matter of consolidation under the Wikimedia banner, and more Google Labs-ish in general.

If you're talking about forcing YouTube commenters to use Google+, then lol. YouTube comments sucked, but at least they were generally well-threaded suck (when YouTube itself was displaying them properly and not shuffling the comments in its own...special ways).

When I peek at the newly Plus-ified comment sections...oh god. Hashtags. Mere retweets. No cohesive threading at all. No change in the level of anecdotal GIFT proofs (because [a] anonymity is not the true problem and [b] Real Name harassment only keeps good and honest people away). Build a functioning community? Really?

Just run away from Google if you're not already saddled by using your Gmail as an "id" for several dozen services. Even then, look around for other mail providers, get on the starting line, raise your ass, and be ready to sprint.

Yeah. Google is breaking the internet, selling off its users, and generally being a Facebook parody, and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim had something (however brief) to say about it. It's a case study in why selling off your internet startup that happens to fulfill your life dreams and customer needs should be a worst-case scenario, not a bloody business model.

Any prospective user of them should assume the Slashdot poll disclaimer: "If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."

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