Ladies and Gentlemen

jaguar · 09-12-2002, 02:56 AM

Ladies and Gentlemen..

I hereby present the final and conclusive proof that slashdot has completed its steady decline from fast quality newsite into a large, sticky pile of bandwidth gulping drivel:

huzzah!

Its a bit like watching a car crash in slow motion.

That Guy · 09-12-2002, 08:26 AM

I gave up on reading /. about 8 months ago. I found myself not reading any of the articles, just scanning the comments for humor. Once I realized that this technical website was turning into jokeaday for me, I quit reading it.
But I do like articles like those. They bring that wonderful publicity to those gods of computing at AMD, which they need these days and up until the Hammer comes out and crushes Insmell to tiny bits.

perth · 09-12-2002, 08:44 AM

morbid curiousity sends me to slashdot each day, at least thats what i tell myself. much like blowmee, i do scan the comments for humour, but i think habit takes me there every day. i much prefer the register as far as my geek news is concerned, in no small part due to the bastard operator from hell, which isnt updated nearly enough. so it looks like we generally agree slashdot sucks, what sites _do_ we like for that sort of news?

~james

09-12-2002, 08:54 AM

The only Slashdot I check out nowadays is http://apple.slashdot.org - that's about all I'm interested in anymore. I read other Mac news sites too.

Tom's Hardware keeps me up on hardware news. A that's that, I guess. Pretty sad. I can't stand Slashdot anymore though.

perth · 09-12-2002, 12:05 PM

ok, so this is why i visit slashdot. alton brown kicks ass.

~james

SteveDallas · 09-12-2002, 01:44 PM

I still go to /. about 2 or 3 times a week and scan the headlines. IT news is such a commodity these days.... I mean, if I want computer industry news with a bad attitude (and I do), I'll read The Register. But once in a while there is a link to something interesting or odd that was passed over by other sites. I don't ever read the comments... I never did, much, but I gave even that up.

jaguar · 09-12-2002, 04:50 PM

The Register
IMHO the best tech news site out there.

Mjk · 09-13-2002, 03:23 AM

I still consider Slashdot as a moderate newslink site, because it offers wide variety of tech news. I admit that the quality of the site has gone down dramatically in couple of years now, but I still haven't seen any other site offering so much interesting news bits as Slashdot does. And sometimes there is quite funny and insightful comments to be read.

I admit that I'm a news addict and I have to have my dose of news headlines every day. Even Slashdot is one (but not only) source that can satisfy my needs.

MaggieL · 09-13-2002, 10:09 AM

I still read Slashdot news regularly...along with Plastic and Boing Boing.

Slashdot comments I look at only seldom; usually whne I'm moderating or I'm particularly interested in a topic that doesn't have much in the way of outlinks.

The crap comments is something you have to put up with when a site is both open and well-known. Personally I think removing ACs would improve the site....but there will always be trolls and kiddies.

View Poll Results: Slashdot is...
My only news source	2	12.50%
redirected to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file	2	12.50%
Kinda funny, in a really sad way.	3	18.75%
The bunt out hulk of something grand	3	18.75%
Dangerous to small websites.	2	12.50%
slashwhat??	4	25.00%
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09-12-2002, 02:56 AM	#1
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	Ladies and Gentlemen Ladies and Gentlemen.. I hereby present the final and conclusive proof that slashdot has completed its steady decline from fast quality newsite into a large, sticky pile of bandwidth gulping drivel: huzzah! Its a bit like watching a car crash in slow motion. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

09-12-2002, 04:50 PM	#7
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	The Register IMHO the best tech news site out there. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

09-13-2002, 10:09 AM	#9
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	I still read Slashdot news regularly...along with Plastic and Boing Boing. Slashdot comments I look at only seldom; usually whne I'm moderating or I'm particularly interested in a topic that doesn't have much in the way of outlinks. The crap comments is something you have to put up with when a site is both open and well-known. Personally I think removing ACs would improve the site....but there will always be trolls and kiddies. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

09-12-2002, 08:26 AM	#2
That Guy He who reads, sometimes writes. Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: at the keyboard Posts: 791	I gave up on reading /. about 8 months ago. I found myself not reading any of the articles, just scanning the comments for humor. Once I realized that this technical website was turning into jokeaday for me, I quit reading it. But I do like articles like those. They bring that wonderful publicity to those gods of computing at AMD, which they need these days and up until the Hammer comes out and crushes Insmell to tiny bits.

09-12-2002, 08:44 AM	#3
perth Strong Silent Type Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Fort Collins, CO Posts: 1,949	morbid curiousity sends me to slashdot each day, at least thats what i tell myself. much like blowmee, i do scan the comments for humour, but i think habit takes me there every day. i much prefer the register as far as my geek news is concerned, in no small part due to the bastard operator from hell, which isnt updated nearly enough. so it looks like we generally agree slashdot sucks, what sites _do_ we like for that sort of news? ~james

09-12-2002, 08:54 AM	#4
dave Guest Posts: n/a	The only Slashdot I check out nowadays is http://apple.slashdot.org - that's about all I'm interested in anymore. I read other Mac news sites too. Tom's Hardware keeps me up on hardware news. A that's that, I guess. Pretty sad. I can't stand Slashdot anymore though.

09-12-2002, 12:05 PM	#5
perth Strong Silent Type Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Fort Collins, CO Posts: 1,949	ok, so this is why i visit slashdot. alton brown kicks ass. ~james

09-12-2002, 01:44 PM	#6
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	I still go to /. about 2 or 3 times a week and scan the headlines. IT news is such a commodity these days.... I mean, if I want computer industry news with a bad attitude (and I do), I'll read The Register. But once in a while there is a link to something interesting or odd that was passed over by other sites. I don't ever read the comments... I never did, much, but I gave even that up.

09-13-2002, 03:23 AM	#8
Mjk Writer of Writings Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 14	I still consider Slashdot as a moderate newslink site, because it offers wide variety of tech news. I admit that the quality of the site has gone down dramatically in couple of years now, but I still haven't seen any other site offering so much interesting news bits as Slashdot does. And sometimes there is quite funny and insightful comments to be read. I admit that I'm a news addict and I have to have my dose of news headlines every day. Even Slashdot is one (but not only) source that can satisfy my needs.

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