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Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks

From 2phar <none@example.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks
Date 2014-02-07 18:18 -0500
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On 2/7/2014 6:02 PM, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
> On 2014-02-07 19:35:24 +0000, RS Wood said:
>
>>
>> By the way, today I got a pop-up at the top of my screen when visiting
>> slashdot.org that reads "We Hear You! .... something something."  I
>> think they just realized their revenue stream is about to pour itself
>> down the fucking toilet.
>>
>> Might be too late, Timothy, you corporate-speak mushymouthed bastard.
>> You don't get any credit for saying "we're listening to you" if you're
>> really not, and most of us around here are smart enough to know when
>> we're getting 'managed.'
>>
>> Is the Slashdot cat out of the bag?
>
> I think that, while they realize that an exodus might take place, they
> still don't really give a shit.  Perhaps the whole idea from the start
> was to destroy Slashdot - it is possible that the executives behind Dice
> Holdings made a lot of money on other investments, and need a corporate
> loss to offset a corporate gain for tax purposes.
>
> Remember, Timothy and Rob are just employees now.  When Dice calls up
> and says "post this video advertisement" or "get to work updating
> SlashBI" they do it.
>
> Slashdot is only a community any more through sheer momentum.
>

Well, as they said in the financial report for last year 
(http://www.diceholdingsinc.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=211152&p=irol-newsArticle_print&ID=1896508)

"Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are 
important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and 
to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting 
user engagement on the Dice.com site.  The expected benefits have 
started to be realized at Dice.com.  However, advertising revenue has 
declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the 
future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising 
business.  Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million 
of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero."

Can't see they're going put much/any effort into keeping the existing 
users happy. More likely yhey might end up selling the existing database 
of users and discussions to facebook or something to be retrospectively 
mined for marketing.

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Slashdot Beta Sucks John Brownalt <deconfliction@filteredperception.org> - 2014-02-07 10:45 +0000
  Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-07 11:45 -0500
    Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2014-02-07 18:01 +0000
      Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-07 19:35 +0000
        Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 15:02 -0800
          Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-07 18:18 -0500
            Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-08 00:12 +0000
              Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 16:36 -0800
                Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2014-02-18 22:56 +0100
            Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 16:33 -0800
            Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-09 03:23 +0000
  Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks CoolHand <coolhnd28@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 21:29 -0500
    Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks TrueSatan <true_satan@fastmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-08 02:48 +0000
      Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks CoolHand <coolhnd28@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 21:54 -0500
        Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks TrueSatan <true_satan@fastmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-08 04:09 +0000
        Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 22:39 -0800
      Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2014-02-08 12:09 +0000
        Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks brendan.halpin@ul.ie (Brendan Halpin) - 2014-02-19 23:24 +0000
  Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-07 23:15 -0500
    Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 22:41 -0800
      Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-08 20:03 +0000
        Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-08 15:16 -0500
          Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-08 15:31 -0800
            Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks shvelven <shvelven@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 02:30 -0500
              Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks TrueSatan <true_satan@fastmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-09 10:53 +0000
              Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks TrueSatan <true_satan@fastmail.co.uk> - 2014-02-09 10:54 +0000
                Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-09 15:35 +0000
            Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Vince Mulhollon <vincemulhollon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 13:32 -0800
              Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks John Brownalt <deconfliction@filteredperception.org> - 2014-02-12 00:06 +0000
              Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks vehka <heikki.wilenius@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 17:55 -0800
                Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-12 08:47 +0847
                Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 00:34 -0500
            Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-25 23:43 -0500
  Re: Slashdot Beta -> Technical reasons? "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-11 09:05 +0000
    Re: Slashdot Beta -> Technical reasons? John Brownalt <deconfliction@filteredperception.org> - 2014-02-11 12:11 +0000
      Re: Slashdot Beta -> Technical reasons? "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-11 13:26 +0000
      Re: Slashdot Beta -> Technical reasons? Lance Orner <lance@orner.invalid.net> - 2014-02-12 03:38 +0000
    Re: Slashdot Beta -> Technical reasons? Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 09:58 -0500

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