goodbye slashdot
This started with a comment from my friend Shedao about putting a life ban on slashdot. I’ve been reading slashdot since 2000 or so. I’ve seen the ups and downs. I listened to geeks in space and cheered when katz went away.
So why am I deciding to leave slashdot? Because of Beatle Beatle, the submission spammer. You see, slashdot has a lot of power in the google pagerank system because of it’s size, links and traffic. There is a new breed of spammers that are submitting articles to slashdot and having their link increase the pagerank of their spam sites. What it all amounts to is slashdot helping spammers. There are several courses of action they could take, and so far they haven’t done anything.
That said, my new time-wasting site is digg.com. slashdot is out of my rss feed, and digg is in.
Goodbye Slashdot. it’s been fun.
Thursday 08 Dec 2005 | Jesse Morgan | Open Source, Rant, Linux
Screw this, I am posting my own farewell to /. as soon as get home. I am sick and tired of the poor quality of the submissions. I could care less about the stupid comments, but the submissions (and the stupid mod remarks) are just ridiculous.
I don’t know where in the hell you have been. I gave up on slashdot years ago, way before it was cool to give up on slashdot.
Anytime a site gets to the size of slashdot they stop becoming relevant to anything and need to go away. Somewhere around 2000, when everyone was worrying about Y2k issues I knew that Slashdot was over the hill and stopped reading them.
What can I say, I am a trend setter.
beatlebeatle.com B*)aD C(RedIt? No Pr0bl3m! EnlArge uR P3n1s!!
granted the quality on slashdot was never great, but it’s steadily gotten worse.
did you read Hemos’ trainwreck of a review of the Yellow Machine?
Read the comments. It goes from amusing to sad as people try to finger out if he was drunk, high, or if he let the dog transcribe it for him.
The first line tells you everything you need to know:
“We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that’s made by Anthology Solutions”
MY HEAD ASPLODE.
I’ve given it up myself, but not for DIGG, that site is pretty much just as bad. That said I am a news-junkie and I have most of the stories in my RSS-aggregator before it reach any of the mentioned sites.