If I were in charge of Slashdot, I'd rather concentrate on improving the quality of the posts - the summaries are eye-bleedingly horrid in every aspect. The only reason anyone ever comes to/. is the quality of some of the replies in the thread. That is, it's the readership that makes Slashdot valuable.
Piss off your readership, and you pissed away Slashdot - since the quality of the content is otherwise rubbish.
The only reason anyone ever comes to/. is the quality of some of the replies in the thread. That is, it's the readership that makes Slashdot valuable.
This. This, this, this ad infinitum. There's a reason that "nobody reads TFA" is a running gag here: because practically nobody does; because the articles are not what make Slashdot awesome. What does is the fact that on any given story, usually at least one expert in the field in question, or genuinely knowledgable person will chime in to tell us something Interesting and/or Insightful pertaining to the story. It cannot be stressed enough that this is why people are here, and why they keep coming back,
"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who *suffers*
from it."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
If I were Slashdot (Score:5, Insightful)
If I were in charge of Slashdot, I'd rather concentrate on improving the quality of the posts - the summaries are eye-bleedingly horrid in every aspect. The only reason anyone ever comes to /. is the quality of some of the replies in the thread. That is, it's the readership that makes Slashdot valuable.
Piss off your readership, and you pissed away Slashdot - since the quality of the content is otherwise rubbish.
THIS (Score:0)
The only reason anyone ever comes to /. is the quality of some of the replies in the thread. That is, it's the readership that makes Slashdot valuable.
This. This, this, this ad infinitum. There's a reason that "nobody reads TFA" is a running gag here: because practically nobody does; because the articles are not what make Slashdot awesome. What does is the fact that on any given story, usually at least one expert in the field in question, or genuinely knowledgable person will chime in to tell us something Interesting and/or Insightful pertaining to the story. It cannot be stressed enough that this is why people are here, and why they keep coming back,