I submitted a poll (or I hope I did - there is not a good interface for submitting polls) the other day:
Which would you rather see terminated?
- kdawson
- idle.slashdot.org
- both
- Not CowboyNeal
It'll never get posted, of course, but maybe someone will listen. It seems that Slashdot is becoming more "corporate," and of course by that I mean "mismanaged." The overall impression I get is that Slashdot has meetings to come up with new ideas, and just like many meetings of that sort, instead of acting as a filter by having more voices to reject bad ideas, those voices instead multiple only the number of bad ideas generated and accepted for lack of rejection.
Make it stop. And if this is just a New Coke-esque ploy to get us not to complain about spelling and grammatical errors in stories and stupid April Fool's Day jokes, it has accomplished its purpose already and you can bring back Slashdot Classic now.
Turn the f'n channel if you don't like it. Christ, I'm sorry this little bunch of bytes isn't yet another putrefied article gobbling Steve Jobs' cock, but damn, is the Back button too much for you to handle?
As others have pointed out, there isn't that level of control over the RSS feed. And we are trying to do Slashdot a favor by pointing out the things that piss its precious users off, since without those users the site is worthless. If you are saying that you enjoy kdawson's work and the Idle section, then do so clearly for the benefit of the discussion. If you just want to be a prick, well, I guess you've come to the right place but it sure doesn't give you a lot of credibility.
As others have pointed out, there isn't that level of control over the RSS feed.
Well, there IS a level of control over whether or not you read or don't read an article, isn't there? But I do understand the sentiment. My TV has the same problem, sometimes there's stuff on I don't like, and I really don't have much control over some of the pap they show there, but you know, it never would occur to me that I have to like or appreciate everything that's on. It takes so much effort for me to just click a butt
Dude, did you read the dates? They're on the 2005 backlog still!
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a
clever but highly unmotivated trick.
-- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
Tag as "pleasestop" (Score:2)
I said it in the last Idle article, and I'll say it in this one:
New tag: pleasestop
Never give up, never surrender!
-G
Poll (Score:2)
Which would you rather see terminated?
- kdawson
- idle.slashdot.org
- both
- Not CowboyNeal
It'll never get posted, of course, but maybe someone will listen. It seems that Slashdot is becoming more "corporate," and of course by that I mean "mismanaged." The overall impression I get is that Slashdot has meetings to come up with new ideas, and just like many meetings of that sort, instead of acting as a filter by having more voices to reject bad ideas, those voices instead multiple only the number of bad ideas generated and accepted for lack of rejection.
Make it stop. And if this is just a New Coke-esque ploy to get us not to complain about spelling and grammatical errors in stories and stupid April Fool's Day jokes, it has accomplished its purpose already and you can bring back Slashdot Classic now.
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Turn the f'n channel if you don't like it. Christ, I'm sorry this little bunch of bytes isn't yet another putrefied article gobbling Steve Jobs' cock, but damn, is the Back button too much for you to handle?
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Besides, I've been here
A point for point. (Score:1)
Well, there IS a level of control over whether or not you read or don't read an article, isn't there? But I do understand the sentiment. My TV has the same problem, sometimes there's stuff on I don't like, and I really don't have much control over some of the pap they show there, but you know, it never would occur to me that I have to like or appreciate everything that's on. It takes so much effort for me to just click a butt
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Sounds like you need another. (Score:1)
And maybe a nap on the blankie.
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You should obviously have submitted that poll to Disagree
Slashdot the other day. You could have made Frontpage today!
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