shit, sorry. That list was supposed to look like this: You need a 3 step program:
-Clearly mark all advertisements
-Apologize profusely to your community (the free content generators who make the money for you)
-Promise to never do it again. Make a policy to show you mean it. Perhaps remove all advertisements from the website for a week to show just how sorry you are. I guess that's what you get for free labor.

WTF /. !?!

I almost never comment. I happily read slashdot daily. I enjoy all the community comments, and even find them useful (seriously). The all-to-common badly written articles get dissected by people who know more about an issue than some reporter. The random tangent discussions and fanboy vs fanboy banter entertain. The comments are what make Slashdot BETTER than some other random tech blog.

Do you hear me slashdot? Your users generate half the content that I come here for. DON"T PISS THEM OFF!

It is deceitful, offensive, and downright stupid for you to post advertisements as articles. At the very least, they should be clearly marked. Maybe moved into their own category. We are not idiots. We do not like people trying to trick us.

The community (your bread and fucking butter) WILL move elsewhere! Get some cheap intern working on a marketing degree to tell you where you went wrong, and fix it! Quickly!

On second thought, don't even bother with the intern, i'll do the work for them. You need a 3 step program: -Clearly mark all advertisements -Apologise profusely to your community (the free content generators who make the money for you) -Promise to never do it again. Make a policy to show you mean it. Perhaps remove all advertisements from the website for a week to show just how sorry you are.

You can keep the $8/hour this information is worth. I'm just THAT generous. You're welcome.

Damnit... i KNEW i should have requested the vacuum tube version of my new Android phone! With this new information, i think the extra weight would have been worth it!

As long as you dont mind giving out a new number, you can use a service like GrandCentral
http://www.grandcentral.com/