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No explanation of why it is called /.? That's what I came to this page for! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.128.152.101 ( talk) 00:00, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I notice that the explanation is given as "In Unix notation, /. means the current folder." I'm pretty certain this isn't correct ... "./" (dot-slash) is the current folder, though the slash is superfluous in this instance. I'll wait a few days before editing in case a more knowledgeable user would like to enlighten me.
I edited the max total number of mod points under the moderation section, I have had six and can prove it if need be.
TheShadowZero 22:58, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Meta-moderation doesn't work the way it's described in the article any longer. The meta-moderator is asked to evaluate whether the _post_ is good or bad, not whether the moderation was fair 98.28.17.113 ( talk) 16:56, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
Today, Sept. 13 2006, http://slashdot.org returns "503 Service Unavailable". Was this a planned shutdown, or has Slashdot been Slashdotted? Sure seems wierd.-- Sboots 15:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
129.81.108.179 here, confirming Slashdot is indeed down with a "503 Service Unavailable" error. AFAIK it was up before 9AM CST this morning. UPDATE: Seems to be back up now. (15:50 UTC)-- 129.81.108.179 15:48, 13 September 2006 (UTC) 01:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC)01:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC)~~
Meta-moderation doesn't work the way it's described in the article any longer. The meta-moderator is asked to evaluate whether the _post_ is good or bad, not whether the moderation was fair 98.28.17.113 ( talk) 16:55, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
The criticism section is much too short so I lengthened. I'll put some more down as I find them. -- Rotten 05:20, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Why was the Slashdot Subculture page removed and redirecting to the main Slashdot page? There was a lot of good information on that page, nearly all of which is now gone. Perhaps Slashdot has a lot of content on Wikipedia, but that doesn't inherently mean that the entire subject needs to be watered down to the mediocre content on this page. What's the problem with having more "specialized" topics? Slashdot is a significant player on the web, so it makes sense there is a lot of information about it. The comparison between the Slashdot and Social Security articles (from Archive1) is asinine.
Along with the Subculture page, many other pages were removed. When considering the amount of time and effort that went into those pages, and the fact they were removed on a whim of a few users, it's not surprising that people are becoming disenchanted with Wikipedia. I'm no wiki-expert, but from what I can tell there was no real discussion about deleting the articles, it was just done because somebody wanted to do it. --Nick, 71.195.213.70 06:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
It's interesting that even though they deleted those pages, they didn't remove any of the links to those pages. 24.89.87.41 02:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I agree that the removal of those pages, and the information they contained, is reprehensible. There was no reason they needed to be removed. Sometimes I think some folks here on Wikipedia are of the impression that Wikipedia has to be constantly edited down to a particular number of pages, like a paper encyclopedia. This is just not true; one of the strengths of Wikipedia is that it can have pages on lots of topics, even somewhat esoteric ones. It's the breadth, as well as the depth, of WP's articles that makes it useful. The deletion seems to be mostly the continuation of an ongoing Wikipedia/Slashdot pissing contest, where members of each try to denigrate the other, rather than any realistic attempt at self-improvement. -- Kadin2048 05:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I referenced the Slashdot Subculture article in particular on a regular basis. I was quite surprised to find it had suddenly been deleted. Is there any chance of getting it to come back from the dead? Who would I need to contact to at least try? I haven't given up on Wikipedia yet. :) -- Dlugar 22:44, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Should a link to the slashdot website in japan be inserted? From what I read at the us slashdot page the japanese slashdot is run by it's own people.
Can anyone point to any AFD discussion for the Slashdot subculture page? All I can find is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slashdot subculture (2nd nomination), but it survived that nomination. -- Saforrest 16:30, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
These are links that I posted to the AFD discussion:
These should be integrated as needed for specific claims and as general references. Night Gyr ( talk/ Oy) 21:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Should Hans Reiser still be mentioned in the "celebrity" slashdot users? I have a feeling he won't be posting his view for a while... ;) (check Hans Reiser) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Knutsi ( talk • contribs) 20:44, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
Why is the article not at Slashdot.org, like Fark.com? If no one has any particular reason, I'll be requesting a move. - JNighthawk 02:41, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
This paragraph, dealing with "misuse" of the moderation and meta-moderation system is absolutely nonsensical:
The meta-moderation process is designed to counter this problem, but in practice fails to do so, probably because this form of misuse is so widespread that the meta-moderators themselves agree with the mis-used "troll" and "flamebait" categorizations and so the original moderator does not have his moderation points award frequency reduced.
The paragraph admits that the way things are moderated is generally agreed upon by both the moderators and their watchdogs. How then can this be labelled "misuse"? This is a case where the writer of this article doesn't agree with something, and is applying his or her own opinions to the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.149.196.244 ( talk) 18:10, 28 January 2007 (UTC).
It is a subjective topic whether moderation system works or not. I think it does, section author thinks it doesn't. Ideally it should be out of the article altogether. I tagged it "Speculation for now".
I removed these two "facts" from the page:
- It appears to be impossible to delete a Slashdot account, or indeed, to actually contact anyone involved with Slashdot to ask any questions, administrative or otherwise.
- With a mostly male readership, Slashdot and its users has been accused of being sexist or hostile towards women. [1]
The first part of the first note is addressed in the FAQ. THe rest of this appears to be added by someone pissed off that Slashdot wont answer their email. This is an encyclopedia to provide information. Not a place to bitch at some admins from a site. meshach 20:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Slashdot has the worst mindless groupthink culture I've ever seen on the internet and I absolutely think that this should be mentioned.-- Rotten 20:30, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
The article is IMHO currently particularly deficient in establishing the noteability of slashdot and putting it in a wider context. I made a comment in another talkpage, as an editor was considering using this article as a model but I felt that was a bad idea after reading this article.
Hopefully it'll be useful in improving this article as well. Nil Einne 14:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Used to be great at one point, or was that the slashdot culture page? What happened to all the descriptions of the trolls and things? ThreeVryl 17:54, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't the Culture section contain a mention of "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" as one of the running jokes, even though it's down to an occasional cameo now?
unitron
216.10.186.22 05:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I took out this section from the criticism section as the assertions made in it were not backed up by the sole reference within it, which merely showed that Slashdot believed the article to be a hoax. Critics may indeed believe Slashdot to be biased against Microsoft and for Google and Apple, but if so, it should be cited properly. Otherwise, it fails Wikipedia's standards for reliable sources. -- 69.12.229.84 20:09, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
In Culture: "he ongoing assumption that Slashdot is Linux-oriented comes both from historical reasons and from its famous Bill Gates 'Borg' icon." This implies Slashdot had a hand in the icon's creation or at least can claim some ownership of it. Is anyone certain of the fact that the Bill Gates "Borg" icon originated from Slashdot? I seem to remember going to the Software Engineering Conference in April of 1997 and seeing the image being sold as a t-shirt (before Slashdot existed).
We mention that Slashdot had a headline which goes: "Spain outlaws P2P file sharing". Now, I found this article on Slashdot: Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills. Should we mention that the headlines is very often not very formal (like you would expect from other news sources), and that it often makes fun of something (in this case the teenagers)? -- Ysangkok 20:20, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Missing "first post" and "BSD is dying". No distinction between the nerdisms and the juvenilia (Portman, hot grits). I don't recall "Netcraft confirms it: some OS is dying" as the original or dominant form. I always regard the "Beowulf cluster" and "In Soviet Russia" and three steps to profit memes as juvenilia, but maybe that's just my own twirpology. In my view, it's not a bad reference for someone new to the monkey house the most contagious forms of mental fungus and jock itch, but it has zilch chance of becoming encyclopedic by the current WP standards, even if it takes the reader zilch time to verify these claims directly. If everything on slashdot is a matter of the public record, maybe it ought to viewed as standing in reference to itself, but I'm not presently willing to hoe against the grain. MaxEnt 00:43, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Can someone put an explanation of the "ohnoitsroland" tags? I realize it's when the user "Roland Piquepaille" authors a story. But why that tag? Any story behind it? Anything worth mentioning in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.200.196.49 ( talk) 09:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
The "ohnoitsroland" tag is because Roland is infamous for copying and pasting news articles from the web into his own adsense enabled blog. He would then post the news to slashdot while linking to his blog and not directly linking to the source of the news. He was considered a thief by many because he would make money off other people's work and that slashdot would post many of his news posts all with links to his blog. This eventually lead to any story posted from him having many negative comments. Naturally when slashdot added the tags feature the "ohnoitsroland" tag was born.
It's also worth mentioning that Roland has died and the story was posted on slashdot. The slashdot groupthink on the matter is most likely a 50/50 split with half the people feeling remorse while the other half are happy he can no longer post to his blog. Unfortunately for the latter group his wife will be posting more news articles that Roland failed to finish.
-- Anon user —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.23.56.12 ( talk) 20:59, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
I used to be a much more regular reader on slashdot, and when I came back after a few years absence noticed that there seemed to be less activity that I remembered. A boring book review I once posted gained like 250 comments; but now even inflammatory things seemed not to break 1000. I went on alexa to check, and it seemed to confirm that slashdot has been experiencing a significant decline in traffic and rank [1]. Has this been discussed anywhere? I'm not an uberdork, but perhaps "everyone knows"? Sdedeo ( tips) 19:33, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
I did some googling. Here's someone claiming this began in 2005 [2] (the opposite of what Alexa's traffic show, but OTOH they are measuring different things.) Here's someone making the claim in 2006 [3]. Another person talks about the Alexa traffic linked above [4], claiming that digg and reddit (I have never heard of these things!) are the "new" slashdot. Anyway, all blog posts for now so not really RS. Sdedeo ( tips) 19:51, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Ah, and here's a post from slashdot itself disputing the accuracy of Alexa. [5] I think there are some good points to be made against alexa, but I can't shake the feeling that things are much slower on /. these days? Sdedeo ( tips) 19:53, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Hm. Must have been a weekend thing. It's lively as ever now. Sdedeo ( tips) 19:00, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
When Digg launched with similar stories, many people moved there for their technology news. Part of Digg's traffic relates to their partnership with Google. Here's the link to the Alexa data, which compares Digg, Slashdot, and Reddit.
[6]
WebYoungProgrammer
Msg me
12:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Added that. Expound if you wish. 203.112.84.139 09:44, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
The wiki-link titled "I, for one, welcome our new <some animal/object> overlords" is broken, but I don't know enough about wiki-syntax to fix it. Mdmkolbe 23:25, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
It seems to now be fixed Mdmkolbe 21:54, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
"The ongoing assumption that Slashdot is Linux-oriented comes both from historical reasons and from its famous Bill Gates "Borg" icon."
What about the website description: "Source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues"? BuilderQ 21:43, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I have removed parts of the criticism section. For your information Wikipedia is not the place to complain about a typo you found on Slashdot or any other personal reasons why you don't like the site. Please read WP:V, WP:RS and WP:OR before posting your personal complaints on Wikipedia, thank you. I'll be keeping an eye on this from now on. EconomicsGuy 05:46, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
The mod war part needs an explanation of what the hell a mod war is. Drhamad ( talk) 19:11, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Please see discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2008_January_1#Slashdot_trolling_phenomena and comment. Mojo-chan ( talk) 15:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
The tagging system on Slashdot is great, but I'd really like someone to explain to me how it works. I'm talking in particular how certain, highly specific tags get seem to get applied. For instance, a story today on how MIcrosoft will open the spec to its binary document format the got tagged with "catsanddogslivingtogether". Now, I find it hard to believe that enough users independently suggested this tag to allow it to be displayed. So is there some manual "fiddle factor" going on behind the scenes?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/17/1553206
Straussian ( talk) 21:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
There really should be something written here about the 'Cowboy Neal' phenomenon. There used to be an article with the title " CowboyNeal" (all one word) - which passed an AfD - then was renamed to Jonathan Pater - whereupon it failed an AfD (Wikipedia politics...we love you!). Now, all we have is " Cowboy Neal" - which redirects to Neal Cassady - with no mention of Slashdot anywhere in sight. I've since added a note at the top of that article telling people to come here for an explanation...but all we have here is a redlink to the old CowboyNeal article.
If the Wiki politicians don't want a separate article about CowboyNeal-the-slashdot-meme - we should at least write something about it here. If indeed Jonathan Pater is/was CowboyNeal - then it needs to be said here - because it's a notable fact and it has nowhere else to live.
SteveBaker ( talk) 02:03, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
In the long run, will slashdot's moderation practices be declared a failure? Interesting test: go to slashdot. Search for "iraq". Pick a random thread and browse the comments. Odds are, the flow of conversation will be completely one sided. This is because all anti-war/anti-Bush comments are scored as a 5 while all posts supporting the war and/or Bush have been scored down and automatically hidden, even though the content of the posts was largely just opinion and not particularly "trollish". This culture of censorship to create the appearence of one-sided debates is a real Fahrenheit 451 situation. -- TheCynic ( talk) 16:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone object to me starting a new section in this article concerning other cultural references to Slashdot? As one example, in the MMORPG City of Heroes, you can often get a radio mission to rescue some reformed computer hacker from some random villain group. After rescuing him, he says something along the lines about not being able to wait to tell all his friends about this on Dotslash.
If this is okay to add to the article, I will grab a screenshot of the scene next time one of my characters gets that mission.
And if this section takes off, hopefully others can add to the list as well.
Scarletdown ( talk) 22:48, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
The
CmdrTaco article notes his "infamous" 8-word review of iPod ("No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
[7])
This kind of short dismissive response ("No x, less y than z. Lame.") has become a /. meme, particularly in dismissing a weak contribution.
Is it worth including, or is everyone worrying about crufting? --
PaulxSA (
talk)
04:43, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Please indicate consensus with either Agree or Disagree - if the latter, please explain your alternative proposal:
Proposal: The list of memes in the "Culture" section should be reduced to a smaller set of memes that were originated on Slashdot - each of which should be accompanied by some indication of when and how it got started - preferably with a link to the Slashdot thread where it started and the name of the originator. For memes that are in extremely common use on Slashdot - but which are in no way unique to Slashdot - we should pick a handful of the most common, describe them in a prose section and work to avoid having that section turn into a cruft-list or grow significantly in number. SteveBaker ( talk) 13:55, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
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No explanation of why it is called /.? That's what I came to this page for! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.128.152.101 ( talk) 00:00, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I notice that the explanation is given as "In Unix notation, /. means the current folder." I'm pretty certain this isn't correct ... "./" (dot-slash) is the current folder, though the slash is superfluous in this instance. I'll wait a few days before editing in case a more knowledgeable user would like to enlighten me.
I edited the max total number of mod points under the moderation section, I have had six and can prove it if need be.
TheShadowZero 22:58, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Meta-moderation doesn't work the way it's described in the article any longer. The meta-moderator is asked to evaluate whether the _post_ is good or bad, not whether the moderation was fair 98.28.17.113 ( talk) 16:56, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
Today, Sept. 13 2006, http://slashdot.org returns "503 Service Unavailable". Was this a planned shutdown, or has Slashdot been Slashdotted? Sure seems wierd.-- Sboots 15:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
129.81.108.179 here, confirming Slashdot is indeed down with a "503 Service Unavailable" error. AFAIK it was up before 9AM CST this morning. UPDATE: Seems to be back up now. (15:50 UTC)-- 129.81.108.179 15:48, 13 September 2006 (UTC) 01:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC)01:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC)~~
Meta-moderation doesn't work the way it's described in the article any longer. The meta-moderator is asked to evaluate whether the _post_ is good or bad, not whether the moderation was fair 98.28.17.113 ( talk) 16:55, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
The criticism section is much too short so I lengthened. I'll put some more down as I find them. -- Rotten 05:20, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Why was the Slashdot Subculture page removed and redirecting to the main Slashdot page? There was a lot of good information on that page, nearly all of which is now gone. Perhaps Slashdot has a lot of content on Wikipedia, but that doesn't inherently mean that the entire subject needs to be watered down to the mediocre content on this page. What's the problem with having more "specialized" topics? Slashdot is a significant player on the web, so it makes sense there is a lot of information about it. The comparison between the Slashdot and Social Security articles (from Archive1) is asinine.
Along with the Subculture page, many other pages were removed. When considering the amount of time and effort that went into those pages, and the fact they were removed on a whim of a few users, it's not surprising that people are becoming disenchanted with Wikipedia. I'm no wiki-expert, but from what I can tell there was no real discussion about deleting the articles, it was just done because somebody wanted to do it. --Nick, 71.195.213.70 06:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
It's interesting that even though they deleted those pages, they didn't remove any of the links to those pages. 24.89.87.41 02:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I agree that the removal of those pages, and the information they contained, is reprehensible. There was no reason they needed to be removed. Sometimes I think some folks here on Wikipedia are of the impression that Wikipedia has to be constantly edited down to a particular number of pages, like a paper encyclopedia. This is just not true; one of the strengths of Wikipedia is that it can have pages on lots of topics, even somewhat esoteric ones. It's the breadth, as well as the depth, of WP's articles that makes it useful. The deletion seems to be mostly the continuation of an ongoing Wikipedia/Slashdot pissing contest, where members of each try to denigrate the other, rather than any realistic attempt at self-improvement. -- Kadin2048 05:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I referenced the Slashdot Subculture article in particular on a regular basis. I was quite surprised to find it had suddenly been deleted. Is there any chance of getting it to come back from the dead? Who would I need to contact to at least try? I haven't given up on Wikipedia yet. :) -- Dlugar 22:44, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Should a link to the slashdot website in japan be inserted? From what I read at the us slashdot page the japanese slashdot is run by it's own people.
Can anyone point to any AFD discussion for the Slashdot subculture page? All I can find is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slashdot subculture (2nd nomination), but it survived that nomination. -- Saforrest 16:30, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
These are links that I posted to the AFD discussion:
These should be integrated as needed for specific claims and as general references. Night Gyr ( talk/ Oy) 21:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Should Hans Reiser still be mentioned in the "celebrity" slashdot users? I have a feeling he won't be posting his view for a while... ;) (check Hans Reiser) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Knutsi ( talk • contribs) 20:44, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
Why is the article not at Slashdot.org, like Fark.com? If no one has any particular reason, I'll be requesting a move. - JNighthawk 02:41, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
This paragraph, dealing with "misuse" of the moderation and meta-moderation system is absolutely nonsensical:
The meta-moderation process is designed to counter this problem, but in practice fails to do so, probably because this form of misuse is so widespread that the meta-moderators themselves agree with the mis-used "troll" and "flamebait" categorizations and so the original moderator does not have his moderation points award frequency reduced.
The paragraph admits that the way things are moderated is generally agreed upon by both the moderators and their watchdogs. How then can this be labelled "misuse"? This is a case where the writer of this article doesn't agree with something, and is applying his or her own opinions to the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.149.196.244 ( talk) 18:10, 28 January 2007 (UTC).
It is a subjective topic whether moderation system works or not. I think it does, section author thinks it doesn't. Ideally it should be out of the article altogether. I tagged it "Speculation for now".
I removed these two "facts" from the page:
- It appears to be impossible to delete a Slashdot account, or indeed, to actually contact anyone involved with Slashdot to ask any questions, administrative or otherwise.
- With a mostly male readership, Slashdot and its users has been accused of being sexist or hostile towards women. [1]
The first part of the first note is addressed in the FAQ. THe rest of this appears to be added by someone pissed off that Slashdot wont answer their email. This is an encyclopedia to provide information. Not a place to bitch at some admins from a site. meshach 20:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Slashdot has the worst mindless groupthink culture I've ever seen on the internet and I absolutely think that this should be mentioned.-- Rotten 20:30, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
The article is IMHO currently particularly deficient in establishing the noteability of slashdot and putting it in a wider context. I made a comment in another talkpage, as an editor was considering using this article as a model but I felt that was a bad idea after reading this article.
Hopefully it'll be useful in improving this article as well. Nil Einne 14:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Used to be great at one point, or was that the slashdot culture page? What happened to all the descriptions of the trolls and things? ThreeVryl 17:54, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't the Culture section contain a mention of "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" as one of the running jokes, even though it's down to an occasional cameo now?
unitron
216.10.186.22 05:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I took out this section from the criticism section as the assertions made in it were not backed up by the sole reference within it, which merely showed that Slashdot believed the article to be a hoax. Critics may indeed believe Slashdot to be biased against Microsoft and for Google and Apple, but if so, it should be cited properly. Otherwise, it fails Wikipedia's standards for reliable sources. -- 69.12.229.84 20:09, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
In Culture: "he ongoing assumption that Slashdot is Linux-oriented comes both from historical reasons and from its famous Bill Gates 'Borg' icon." This implies Slashdot had a hand in the icon's creation or at least can claim some ownership of it. Is anyone certain of the fact that the Bill Gates "Borg" icon originated from Slashdot? I seem to remember going to the Software Engineering Conference in April of 1997 and seeing the image being sold as a t-shirt (before Slashdot existed).
We mention that Slashdot had a headline which goes: "Spain outlaws P2P file sharing". Now, I found this article on Slashdot: Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills. Should we mention that the headlines is very often not very formal (like you would expect from other news sources), and that it often makes fun of something (in this case the teenagers)? -- Ysangkok 20:20, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Missing "first post" and "BSD is dying". No distinction between the nerdisms and the juvenilia (Portman, hot grits). I don't recall "Netcraft confirms it: some OS is dying" as the original or dominant form. I always regard the "Beowulf cluster" and "In Soviet Russia" and three steps to profit memes as juvenilia, but maybe that's just my own twirpology. In my view, it's not a bad reference for someone new to the monkey house the most contagious forms of mental fungus and jock itch, but it has zilch chance of becoming encyclopedic by the current WP standards, even if it takes the reader zilch time to verify these claims directly. If everything on slashdot is a matter of the public record, maybe it ought to viewed as standing in reference to itself, but I'm not presently willing to hoe against the grain. MaxEnt 00:43, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Can someone put an explanation of the "ohnoitsroland" tags? I realize it's when the user "Roland Piquepaille" authors a story. But why that tag? Any story behind it? Anything worth mentioning in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.200.196.49 ( talk) 09:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
The "ohnoitsroland" tag is because Roland is infamous for copying and pasting news articles from the web into his own adsense enabled blog. He would then post the news to slashdot while linking to his blog and not directly linking to the source of the news. He was considered a thief by many because he would make money off other people's work and that slashdot would post many of his news posts all with links to his blog. This eventually lead to any story posted from him having many negative comments. Naturally when slashdot added the tags feature the "ohnoitsroland" tag was born.
It's also worth mentioning that Roland has died and the story was posted on slashdot. The slashdot groupthink on the matter is most likely a 50/50 split with half the people feeling remorse while the other half are happy he can no longer post to his blog. Unfortunately for the latter group his wife will be posting more news articles that Roland failed to finish.
-- Anon user —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.23.56.12 ( talk) 20:59, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
I used to be a much more regular reader on slashdot, and when I came back after a few years absence noticed that there seemed to be less activity that I remembered. A boring book review I once posted gained like 250 comments; but now even inflammatory things seemed not to break 1000. I went on alexa to check, and it seemed to confirm that slashdot has been experiencing a significant decline in traffic and rank [1]. Has this been discussed anywhere? I'm not an uberdork, but perhaps "everyone knows"? Sdedeo ( tips) 19:33, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
I did some googling. Here's someone claiming this began in 2005 [2] (the opposite of what Alexa's traffic show, but OTOH they are measuring different things.) Here's someone making the claim in 2006 [3]. Another person talks about the Alexa traffic linked above [4], claiming that digg and reddit (I have never heard of these things!) are the "new" slashdot. Anyway, all blog posts for now so not really RS. Sdedeo ( tips) 19:51, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Ah, and here's a post from slashdot itself disputing the accuracy of Alexa. [5] I think there are some good points to be made against alexa, but I can't shake the feeling that things are much slower on /. these days? Sdedeo ( tips) 19:53, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Hm. Must have been a weekend thing. It's lively as ever now. Sdedeo ( tips) 19:00, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
When Digg launched with similar stories, many people moved there for their technology news. Part of Digg's traffic relates to their partnership with Google. Here's the link to the Alexa data, which compares Digg, Slashdot, and Reddit.
[6]
WebYoungProgrammer
Msg me
12:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Added that. Expound if you wish. 203.112.84.139 09:44, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
The wiki-link titled "I, for one, welcome our new <some animal/object> overlords" is broken, but I don't know enough about wiki-syntax to fix it. Mdmkolbe 23:25, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
It seems to now be fixed Mdmkolbe 21:54, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
"The ongoing assumption that Slashdot is Linux-oriented comes both from historical reasons and from its famous Bill Gates "Borg" icon."
What about the website description: "Source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues"? BuilderQ 21:43, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I have removed parts of the criticism section. For your information Wikipedia is not the place to complain about a typo you found on Slashdot or any other personal reasons why you don't like the site. Please read WP:V, WP:RS and WP:OR before posting your personal complaints on Wikipedia, thank you. I'll be keeping an eye on this from now on. EconomicsGuy 05:46, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
The mod war part needs an explanation of what the hell a mod war is. Drhamad ( talk) 19:11, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Please see discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2008_January_1#Slashdot_trolling_phenomena and comment. Mojo-chan ( talk) 15:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
The tagging system on Slashdot is great, but I'd really like someone to explain to me how it works. I'm talking in particular how certain, highly specific tags get seem to get applied. For instance, a story today on how MIcrosoft will open the spec to its binary document format the got tagged with "catsanddogslivingtogether". Now, I find it hard to believe that enough users independently suggested this tag to allow it to be displayed. So is there some manual "fiddle factor" going on behind the scenes?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/17/1553206
Straussian ( talk) 21:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
There really should be something written here about the 'Cowboy Neal' phenomenon. There used to be an article with the title " CowboyNeal" (all one word) - which passed an AfD - then was renamed to Jonathan Pater - whereupon it failed an AfD (Wikipedia politics...we love you!). Now, all we have is " Cowboy Neal" - which redirects to Neal Cassady - with no mention of Slashdot anywhere in sight. I've since added a note at the top of that article telling people to come here for an explanation...but all we have here is a redlink to the old CowboyNeal article.
If the Wiki politicians don't want a separate article about CowboyNeal-the-slashdot-meme - we should at least write something about it here. If indeed Jonathan Pater is/was CowboyNeal - then it needs to be said here - because it's a notable fact and it has nowhere else to live.
SteveBaker ( talk) 02:03, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
In the long run, will slashdot's moderation practices be declared a failure? Interesting test: go to slashdot. Search for "iraq". Pick a random thread and browse the comments. Odds are, the flow of conversation will be completely one sided. This is because all anti-war/anti-Bush comments are scored as a 5 while all posts supporting the war and/or Bush have been scored down and automatically hidden, even though the content of the posts was largely just opinion and not particularly "trollish". This culture of censorship to create the appearence of one-sided debates is a real Fahrenheit 451 situation. -- TheCynic ( talk) 16:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone object to me starting a new section in this article concerning other cultural references to Slashdot? As one example, in the MMORPG City of Heroes, you can often get a radio mission to rescue some reformed computer hacker from some random villain group. After rescuing him, he says something along the lines about not being able to wait to tell all his friends about this on Dotslash.
If this is okay to add to the article, I will grab a screenshot of the scene next time one of my characters gets that mission.
And if this section takes off, hopefully others can add to the list as well.
Scarletdown ( talk) 22:48, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
The
CmdrTaco article notes his "infamous" 8-word review of iPod ("No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
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This kind of short dismissive response ("No x, less y than z. Lame.") has become a /. meme, particularly in dismissing a weak contribution.
Is it worth including, or is everyone worrying about crufting? --
PaulxSA (
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04:43, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Please indicate consensus with either Agree or Disagree - if the latter, please explain your alternative proposal:
Proposal: The list of memes in the "Culture" section should be reduced to a smaller set of memes that were originated on Slashdot - each of which should be accompanied by some indication of when and how it got started - preferably with a link to the Slashdot thread where it started and the name of the originator. For memes that are in extremely common use on Slashdot - but which are in no way unique to Slashdot - we should pick a handful of the most common, describe them in a prose section and work to avoid having that section turn into a cruft-list or grow significantly in number. SteveBaker ( talk) 13:55, 15 August 2008 (UTC)