1. The comment ranking system is much worse than reddit, even though reddits algorithms were published (and then withdrawn) by a famous internet nerd who created them while working short-term for reddit. I personnally could make a much better comment scheme than reddit.
2. The comment system is spammed and often flooded with PR agents trying to get a point of view about a story across. The comments also allow farm based downvoting, as a form of trolling, that is aimed at ppl who put effort into this site. Both these things mean people use slashdot less as a whole.
3. Why isnt slashdot being paid to publish those stories directly. Many of the major stories are paid stories on sites like anandtech or arstechnica etc, which put people to another site. Everyone knows those are advertising false benchmarks or facts. Even the editors of slashdot. It also makes ppl less likely to value or read slashdot. As i said, why isnt slashdot being paid, rather than helping a competitor?
4. Currently the stories are poorly targeted, and also poorly written. Please compare to how competitors in both the IT and other fields do online media. Slashdot has fallen behind the times. Therefore you get much less views.
6. The story and comment systems are managed poorly. You dont need many editorial staff to manage slashdot as a whole.

Also goodthings about slashdot:
it was the first major website to use web2.0 (dynamic webpages). But this was 2000-2001, not 2016.
Many other good things.

1. The comment ranking system is much worse than reddit, even though reddits algorithms were published (and then withdrawn) by a famous internet nerd who created them while working short-term for reddit. I personnally could make a much better comment scheme than reddit. 2. The comment system is spammed and often flooded with PR agents trying to get a point of view about a story across. The comments also allow farm based downvoting, as a form of trolling, that is aimed at ppl who put effort into this site. Both these things mean people use slashdot less as a whole. 3. Why isnt slashdot being paid to publish those stories directly. Many of the major stories are paid stories on sites like anandtech or arstechnica etc, which put people to another site. Everyone knows those are advertising false benchmarks or facts. Even the editors of slashdot. It also makes ppl less likely to value or read slashdot. As i said, why isnt slashdot being paid, rather than helping a competitor? 4. Currently the stories are poorly targeted, and also poorly written. Please compare to how competitors in both the IT and other fields do online media. Slashdot has fallen behind the times. Therefore you get much less views. 5. The story and comment systems are managed poorly. You dont need many editorial staff to manage slashdot as a whole. Also goodthings about slashdot: it was the first major website to use web2.0 (dynamic webpages). But this was 2000-2001, not 2016. Many other good things. Also goodthings about slashdot: it was the first major website to use web2.0 (dynamic webpages). But this was 2000-2001, not 2016. Many other good things.