I think the editors or owners of Slashdot are either 1) Trying to increase viewership by appealing to a lowest denominator (Star go boom! Big word scary! Chemicals are mean! Vroom vroom car!) or 2) Trying to deliberately weaken the readership for purposes I can only speculate that. That second theory is bolstered by the clumsy rolling out of 'features' during the past few weeks - breaking things that once worked, adding new features that don't, and in general doing their best to make the site almost more tr
Well for one thing the star would actually go boom. Since a Supernova throws off a lot of it's mass it would no longer be in a vacuum and there would be shock wave and there would be a boom if you where close enough. I have to admit that Slashdot does seem to be getting less geeky and political all the time. Pay to many stories that are clearly politics are being listed as News or other things. Helpful hint if the summary has the words Demarcate, Republican, Green Party, Congressman, or Congress woman in it then it is politics. I think part of the problem is that Slashdot is hard to make money on. What precentage of users are running ad blocking? 80% maybe? So if the get more of the masses they will make more money.
Wow, Great Summary (Score:5, Insightful)
Is it THAT slow of a news day, or could no one else possibly outdo this clown of a submitter?
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I think the editors or owners of Slashdot are either 1) Trying to increase viewership by appealing to a lowest denominator (Star go boom! Big word scary! Chemicals are mean! Vroom vroom car!) or 2) Trying to deliberately weaken the readership for purposes I can only speculate that. That second theory is bolstered by the clumsy rolling out of 'features' during the past few weeks - breaking things that once worked, adding new features that don't, and in general doing their best to make the site almost more tr
Re:Wow, Great Summary (Score:2)
Well for one thing the star would actually go boom. Since a Supernova throws off a lot of it's mass it would no longer be in a vacuum and there would be shock wave and there would be a boom if you where close enough.
I have to admit that Slashdot does seem to be getting less geeky and political all the time. Pay to many stories that are clearly politics are being listed as News or other things. Helpful hint if the summary has the words Demarcate, Republican, Green Party, Congressman, or Congress woman in it then it is politics.
I think part of the problem is that Slashdot is hard to make money on. What precentage of users are running ad blocking? 80% maybe?
So if the get more of the masses they will make more money.