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Re: SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold

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Andy K. <andy.k466@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2016
> Andy Burns wrote:

> > Caecilius wrote:
> > 
> > > slashdot has two key differentiators: the informed readership and the
> > > comment moderation system.  Nowadays I only go there to read the
> > > comments on news stories I've already read elsewhere.  
> > 
> > Nowadays if I go there, most stories are ones I read about elsewhere 
> > several days earlier, in the unlikely event I feel like commenting I'm 
> > mostly an AC anyway.

> Me, I went to soylentnews.org, and to a lesser extent to this newsgroup.
> And I've never looked back.

I wonder if this effect is why /. is being sold.  The 'exodus' due to
"beta" resulted in a sufficient drop in traffic that Dice was not able
to profit to the extent they wished.  And as a result, they are simply
dropping it onto someone else.

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SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-29 04:13 +0000
  Re:SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-30 08:33 +0300
  Re: SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold Caecilius <nospam@spamless.invalid> - 2016-01-30 16:20 +0000
    Re: SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold Andy Burns <usenet.jan2016@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2016-01-30 16:59 +0000
      Re: SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 11:21 +0100
        Re: SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-31 13:55 +0000
    Re: SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-01-30 09:04 -0800
    Re: SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-31 17:29 +0000

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