Instead of doing more stuff, how about doing the stuff you should be doing better?
There have been complaints about the editing and story selection - the core aspects of/. - for many years now. It may not be true, but this second side-project feels like confirmation that one of the reasons this has never been fixed is that you're simply trying to make more money with more stuff.
I have taken a good look at this new offshot, and I can guarantee that it's the last look I have ever taken on it. I simply couldn'
I fully agree. They have even screwed up the key aspects of what makes/. great - the comments. It doesn't look like the discussion is moderated, instead you can "Like" a comment. I am not aware of any site where this leads to good, informative/insightful discussion. If you're going to use the "Slash" there, it really, really ought to behave, if not look like, Slashdot. Otherwise, why bother?
I wondered about this as well. We have a perfectly good mod/meta-mod system on traditional Slashdot that is a lot more flexible than Facebook-style "Like". Why not use it? A "+n likes" button tells you a lot less about why a comment is good or bad than "4, Informative" or "-1, Redundant", too, which you would think would be essential for SlashBI to work well.
I may be odd though, since I miss being able to mod Facebook posts Troll, Funny or Insightful, too...
loss of focus (Score:5, Insightful)
Instead of doing more stuff, how about doing the stuff you should be doing better?
There have been complaints about the editing and story selection - the core aspects of /. - for many years now. It may not be true, but this second side-project feels like confirmation that one of the reasons this has never been fixed is that you're simply trying to make more money with more stuff.
I have taken a good look at this new offshot, and I can guarantee that it's the last look I have ever taken on it. I simply couldn'
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Re:loss of focus (Score:3)
I wondered about this as well. We have a perfectly good mod/meta-mod system on traditional Slashdot that is a lot more flexible than Facebook-style "Like". Why not use it? A "+n likes" button tells you a lot less about why a comment is good or bad than "4, Informative" or "-1, Redundant", too, which you would think would be essential for SlashBI to work well.
I may be odd though, since I miss being able to mod Facebook posts Troll, Funny or Insightful, too...