Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
User Journal

Journal johndiii's Journal: On third thought... 18

Journal by johndiii

HBI Railgunner

I still find good people here. And the site works for me. I've never had the level of dissatisfaction that some people have had here. I tend not to dwell on the negative, in any case, but rather to enjoy the positive.

As Railgunner says, I don't particularly want to fit in on Multiply. Not because I would have to compromise who I am, but because the group has lost its spark, whatever it was that made it interesting for me. There are some people that I will keep in touch with, but I don't need or particularly want to indulge in Facebook/MySpace/LiveJournal-type socializing.

So, I will be staying around here.

This discussion was created by johndiii (229824) for no Foes, but now has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

On third thought... More

On third thought...

Comments Filter:

  • AOL! (Score:1)

    by FroMan ( 111520 )
    Sorry, probably not the best way to say I agree on the topic.

    I agree though. I still read a bit of the front page, if only to see where the loons are heading today. And I read the journals that are posted by friends. For what it is, slashdot serves a purpose.

    Sure new features would be cool, but most of my reading here is with lynx. Most of the newer features bug me, such as how pudge quotes previous comments as it doesn't show up in a separate color now. I would certainly like to avoid a site where aja
  • although i still have a Tribe account and moderate two groups there (Kaslo BC Canada is one of them)
  • I think its incredibly difficult to keep any single group together for a long time. What made Teh Circle so fascinating was all the different itnerests and perspectives people brought to it. You're right about the spark, too. Multiply just seems a bit too antiseptic to me. Plus I had gotten into a habit of reading the journals that multiply just doesn't seem to have.

    As for the crap and inanity on the dot... That's been here at least as long as I have. It just comes with the territory I guess. But th

  • I have always felt like a second-string player in "The Circle" so I am still here. Once in a great while I will post on Multiply but I don't feel a great need to do so. I sincerely doubt I have been missed by anyone in the group. I may not be the most interesting character around here, but the point is - I am still around here.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by btlzu2 ( 99039 ) *
      wrong by me--i wish you and the other folks here would post to multiply at all or more often. :(
      • wrong by me--i wish you and the other folks here would post to multiply at all or more often. :(

        When I have posted on Multiply I have been largely ignored. I can be ignored just as easily here. Once in a while I get curious and I'll post again, and I'm reminded why moving to Multiply doesn't really matter in my case. Multiply is good about flooding my inbox with everyone's posts, so I really am not missing much.

  • Me too (Score:2)

    by Tet ( 2721 )
    I'm still around, and have no intention of leaving. I haven't been active much here lately, but then again, I haven't been active much anywhere. I've started to use LJ a bit because all of my real life acquaintances are there. I've got a Multiply account, and have used it a bit. But RailGunner's right -- the site sucks. I never really had a problem with the posting limits etc here. I can see room for improvement, sure. But overall, it's in need of a few minor tweaks, not a wholesale rewrite. But for everyon
  • To me, Multiply lacks depth. That, and the exclusivity - recently one Multiplier linked to a comment by another Multiplier, and I couldn't even read it because I'm not in that friends list.

    Slashdot works because of the breadth of the experience of people here. You don't get that breadth by locking people out. If your goal is to turn your web site into yet-another-version of LinkedIn (but social, instead of occupational), then Multiply is fine. But for me, Multiply is too much an engine for social relations

  • Journal entries are where it's at. Though, I'd like to get off slashdot too, but there's nowhere else to go. I heard suggestions about starting our own... I can write php, perl, java, C, and SQL (among others)...

    I'd be more inclined to write JEs if "No foes" wasn't a subscribers-only option.

    Of course, if the site administration was better, I might subscribe.
    • Comment removed based on user account deletion

      • Oh, and since it's been less than 2 minutes since I've posted my last comment, Fuck Slashdot. :D
        Of everything that is wrong with Slashdot, this is the most obvious. The arrogance of the editors is embodied in that policy.

        Hey - according to my Netcraft tool bar, Slashdot is dying. #124 in the list, when I first saw it in the 50's

        ;-)

      • I tried multiply. I hate it.

        It's been only 20 seconds since I hit reply, so I'll agree with the fuck Slashdot part.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Reziac ( 43301 ) *
      I subbed a while back, mainly to get the "change relationship" notices. $5 lasts me a couple years. -- If you don't like how something runs, hell, suggest a fix to admin, or write one yourself -- they're evidently quite open to that!

      Me, I come here mainly for the quick and dirty news rundown, and from there sometimes one finds educational comments. Unlike yourself, I seldom peruse journals (and almost never use mine), tho I sometimes wander into one from another link or someone's list of posts :)

  • They both have their uses. I started using Multiply when I needed to post stuff that I really didn't want publicly readable. So, now, I have this policy that I post tech stuff here and on Multiply and the personal stuff over there.

    I'm very unlikely to leave slashdot... Sure, I mostly play around as "Corporate Troll" and I don't learn as much about open source as I used to by reading the front page, but that's probably only because I already learned so much. So, yes, I read the frontpage and I read what

Slashdot Top Deals

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." -- Bernard Berenson

Close