How about, please stop putting this on the front page. By definition nothing under idol should make it to the font page. You know "Slashdot, News for Nerds. Stuff that counts." Idiots on the Internet isn't news and none of this counts. BTW why can't you delete all the posts made by somebody? If they didn't post as an AC then a simple query should bring up their posts and then you could delete them or at least the body of the message. Of course it wouldn't take out replies or quoted text. Yes I do know the differ
I have my own news site, and there's one major thing that Slashdot and my site have in common. We own our sites, therefore we can do anything we please on them.
I could declare tomorrow "random bullshit day", and run insignificant news from all over the world.
But, I'm sure they do like we do. We listen to our uses comments. We don't necessarily like them, but if we want our sites to grow, we listen and grow accordingly. We can't please anyone, so our own opinions have a lot to do with it.
For example, I had people complain about our column layout. I ran a poll to find out what our users would prefer. They were all over the place. I stuck with what I felt fit best (two columns of news). Slashdot obviously uses one. TheRegister users 3. NYTimes uses 2-ish. LAtimes uses 3. I satisfied some of our users, and the rest were either annoyed, or got over it.
If you don't like they way a place does their business, you don't have to shop there.:)
I guess you failed to notice that my "rude" email used the words please and I thought was actually pretty polite. Yep they can do what every they want and I do agree. That is why my rude email wasn't that rude.
I could declare tomorrow "random bullshit day", and run insignificant news from all over the world.
Please explain me how this is any different from/. when they do slashvertisement, or during the whole April month ?... Ah, yeah. I know. *You* don't have ponies.
Well the Slashvertisment can be interesting if it is an interesting product or service. And don't get me started on April. I will admit that April gets real old real fast. The thing is that I didn't post the first time we got this. I was going to let it go as a bad attempt as whimsy. Now this is what the third time we get to see three emails that are stupid? Once was at least a little interesting but I really hope it doesn't become an ongoing event.
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This makes me want to send a rude email. (Score:5, Insightful)
How about, please stop putting this on the front page. By definition nothing under idol should make it to the font page.
You know "Slashdot, News for Nerds. Stuff that counts."
Idiots on the Internet isn't news and none of this counts.
BTW why can't you delete all the posts made by somebody?
If they didn't post as an AC then a simple query should bring up their posts and then you could delete them or at least the body of the message.
Of course it wouldn't take out replies or quoted text.
Yes I do know the differ
Re:This makes me want to send a rude email. (Score:2)
Want to know a secret?
I have my own news site, and there's one major thing that Slashdot and my site have in common. We own our sites, therefore we can do anything we please on them.
I could declare tomorrow "random bullshit day", and run insignificant news from all over the world.
But, I'm sure they do like we do. We listen to our uses comments. We don't necessarily like them, but if we want our sites to grow, we listen and grow accordingly. We can't please anyone, so our own opinions have a lot to do with it.
For example, I had people complain about our column layout. I ran a poll to find out what our users would prefer. They were all over the place. I stuck with what I felt fit best (two columns of news). Slashdot obviously uses one. TheRegister users 3. NYTimes uses 2-ish. LAtimes uses 3. I satisfied some of our users, and the rest were either annoyed, or got over it.
If you don't like they way a place does their business, you don't have to shop there. :)
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I guess you failed to notice that my "rude" email used the words please and I thought was actually pretty polite. Yep they can do what every they want and I do agree. That is why my rude email wasn't that rude.
Regular /. (Score:2)
I could declare tomorrow "random bullshit day", and run insignificant news from all over the world.
Please explain me how this is any different from /. when they do slashvertisement, or during the whole April month ? ... Ah, yeah. I know. *You* don't have ponies.
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Well the Slashvertisment can be interesting if it is an interesting product or service.
And don't get me started on April. I will admit that April gets real old real fast.
The thing is that I didn't post the first time we got this. I was going to let it go as a bad attempt as whimsy. Now this is what the third time we get to see three emails that are stupid?
Once was at least a little interesting but I really hope it doesn't become an ongoing event.