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Re: Slashdot Beta Sucks

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On 2014-02-07 23:18:30 +0000, 2phar said:

> 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.

It seems that they are admitting that they valued Slashdot at $13.5 
million at least for tax purposes, but that this value was entirely 
intangable and or goodwill based.  Another way of looking at this is to 
say that Slashdot didn't have any value to start with, except the users 
who were free to leave at any time of course.

If, as they say, the current value is $0 then there is pretty much no 
business case (at least to a PHB) for keeping it going.

Makes you wonder how much they wasted on SlashBI and Slashcloud and 
shit like that?

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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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