DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media 552
An anonymous reader writes: DHI Group Inc. (formerly known as Dice Holdings Inc.) announced plans to sell Slashdot Media (slashdot.org & sourceforge.net) in their Q2 financial report. This is being reported by multiple sources.
Editor's note: Yep, looks like we're being sold again. We'll keep you folks updated, but for now I don't have any more information than is contained in the press release. Business as usual until we find a buyer (and hopefully after). The company prepared a statement for our blog as well — feel free to discuss the news here, there, or in both places.
Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:4, Funny)
The cure is worse than the disease!
Re: Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:3)
Well I wish a Merry Fuck Beta to Bennett, a Merry Fuck Beta to you, and a Merry Fuck Beta to all!
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1) No, that's completely wrong. Think about that one a bit harder.
2) You'll find this is the situation with moderators pretty much everywhere in real life; you must be young
3) Also wrong, and obviously so; you know very well posting to a thread you moderated will undo the moderation, and frankly it matters very little since moderation can't completely remove any posts.
4) You'll find this is also true of the internet in general.
5) You'll find the distinction between these two types of posts is only clear if
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Disagree != misunderstand.
Nice advertisement in your signature.
Re:Our value is community. Not the broken site. (Score:4, Insightful)
NO. Just no.
I agree with you about the stupid character set problem and the need for better editors/editing, but almost everything else you complain about is actually what makes moderation here vastly superior to just about any other site. It's certainly not perfect, and there are perhaps tweaks to be done to moderation, but if we did what you suggest, it would completely fill the site with crap posts and allow the moderation to be gamed as on every other internet site.
Most of your complaints could be solved by not posting AC and by contributing positively to the site (and thus getting good karma). If users can't be bothered to do that, I don't want to see their posts. I only want to see an AC if it's a really superior post, so the default moderation levels are about right. Again, it's not perfect, but it's superior to most sites and to almost everything you're proposing.
Re:Our value is community. Not the broken site. (Score:4, Insightful)
Slashdot only needs some slight tweaks to get back to being excellent again.
1. 1 minute between posts
2. User names of people who moderated a post listed
3. Lower bar to entry for getting mod points, because at the moment you have to choose between commenting freely and gaming the system to get mod points
4. Get rid of the share button
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Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:5, Funny)
Bill Gates.
Replaces the front page of /. with a picture of him naked, rolling in money, pointing at you and laughing.
Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:5, Insightful)
That was the `80s Bill. I think he has actual hobbies now, like fighting malaria and ruining education.
Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:4, Funny)
If Bill Gates purchased Slashdot, wouldn't the logo be the classic "Gates as Borg" with the caption "You have been assimilated"?
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Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:4, Funny)
Flashdot?
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I hear Oracle is interested in the IP....
Stay tuned, gang!
Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:4, Interesting)
Stay tuned!
Yay! It will either get better, or finally die.
Honestly, I'd rather see it die than muddle along like this. And, it could be great again!
I see it as win-win. I'll either come here more, like I used to, or less, like I should already.
Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:5, Insightful)
That is NOT the only option. It could get worse AND stick around for a very long time.
Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:5, Interesting)
You just described SoylentNews. (Score:5, Interesting)
You've basically just described SoylentNews, a Slashdot clone that appeared when the Slashdot Beta shit really started heating up.
And you know what? I think it's clear that it's an absolute hell-hole that's worse than Slashdot today, even!
That community is small. It's small because many of the regular users there are best described as obnoxious extremists. They naturally drive away most normal users with their toxicity.
The few remaining normal users tend to get modded out of the community quite quickly, merely for daring to express ideas that the extremists dislike.
The submissions are affected, too. Many of them are pretty much identical copies of submissions that appeared on Slashdot hours or days earlier. The original submissions are typically from the extremists, and usually focus on some obscure and minor political controversy somewhere, typically without any relevant connection to science, or mathematics, or technology, or computing, or software. Good stories don't have a chance at making the front page there.
We don't need the same sort of toxic environment developing here at Slashdot. As bad as things may seem here, they are nowhere near as bad as at SoylentNews, in my view. At least there are some normal users here. Letting the extremists run the show here, too, would just drive away these normal users, resulting in yet another imbalanced, biased environment where moderation is used to attack people with original or controversial opinions.
Re:You just described SoylentNews. (Score:4, Interesting)
Looks like somebody's afraid of Soylent News. Your +5 post seemingly came out of nowhere, with no prompting. How about letting your users go there and see for themselves just how "extremist" it is?
No flags, no articles masquerading as stories, no users who are corporate sockpuppets as there are here.
It's small because the users are real, not corporate sockpuppets, and the community is still growing. It has a long way to go but it's already better than this place.
People don't get modded out of the community. They may be modded down, like here, but SN doesn't permaban people for expressing unpopular opinion like Slashdot does.
There is some overlap, but the more political stories encourage discussion from all (dissenting viewpoints included) and your assertion that stories are not about math/tech/computing/software are complete bullshit. As examples, this, [soylentnews.org] this, [soylentnews.org] this, [soylentnews.org] this, [soylentnews.org] and this [soylentnews.org] all in the past 2 days alone.
There are plenty of "normal" users at Soylent News, in not only the unextreme sense but the "real-and-not-a-corporate-sockpuppet" sense. And most importantly, there aren't any corporate sponsors or advertisers who have a stake in deciding what can or can't go into and be modded down in the discussions. Now, whether or not SN will sell out to Dice in another 15 years, I can't say. What I can say is that a lot of the assertions you are making are bullshit, and you should leave it up to the few remaining non-corporate-sockpuppet users you have to decide for themselves.
Signed,
-- A Longtime Slashdot and now Soylent News Reader
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I would mostly agree with parent. Soylent is fine execpt the community isnt big enough so the comments are barely there or worth reading, the name is kind of bad and the stories are routinely just old enough to be yesterdays news on Slashdot or Hacker news.
Their Twitter feed, which is where I get my news feeds, also puts these really annoying lame "from the deptâ attempts at humor in the tweets instead of just the title of the story and the link:
Razer Acquires Ouya Software Assets, Ditches Hardware fr
Re:You just described SoylentNews. (Score:5, Insightful)
You have to admit, your post does sound a little, well, angry and extremist.
How about letting your users go there and see for themselves just how "extremist" it is?
Do... do we have some way of stopping them?
People don't get modded out of the community. They may be modded down, like here, but SN doesn't permaban people for expressing unpopular opinion like Slashdot does.
I think what he meant is that people get tired of being modded down all the time and leave.
What I can say is that a lot of the assertions you are making are bullshit, and you should leave it up to the few remaining non-corporate-sockpuppet users you have to decide for themselves.
Now you have to admit, this smells of extremism. The hostility. The defensiveness. The strong emotional statements that don't seem based in reality. OTOH, I'm almost certainly a corporate shill who can be ignored? Because Slashdot.
Re:You just described SoylentNews. (Score:5, Informative)
SoylentNews never aspired to be anything like slashdot. Instead NCommander stated clearly "SoylentNews intends to be a source of journalism", which just resulted in it becoming HuffingtonPost with discussion, instead of a /. replacement.
The only direct replacement for /. that appeared was PipeDot. "pipedot intends to be a better slashdot". https://pipedot.org/comment/2C... [pipedot.org] Unfortunately, the word hardly got out, and readership over there is pretty low.
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Slashdot UI Team- First against the wall when the revolution comes
Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? (Score:5, Insightful)
"Watch Fox News buy it and bring back myspace."
Worse, Slate could buy it, trying out a succession of new commenting systems that don't work properly. At the end the first year, we'll be wishing we had Beta back.
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iSlash!
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or the worst of all, Answers.com.
*horrified shudder*
Thank Fucking Christ (Score:2)
That's all I've got to say about that.
Guess they couldn't make any money ... (Score:2)
... time to find another sucker ^H^H^^H buyer ...
Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:3, Insightful)
1. ramrodding of Beta down everyone's throats
2. shameful attempt to ignore Gamergate (still not a single article on
3. constant stories about women being less represented in STEM vs. the general population, with analysis of the cause always limited to accusations of sexism (and devoid of analysis of innate female preferences, or corporate agendas designed to inflate the workforce)
* Honorable mention for Bennett Haselton
The Company, however, has not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base to further Dice's digital recruitment business
I, for one, am damn proud you were also unable to "leverage" the user base against Gamergate in order to protect corrupt journalists and fall in line with rest of the colluding outlets who tried to cover up the scandal and smear the dissenters (fuck knows why you thought it was a good idea to try). Countless other forums outright banned pro-GG discussion, and Slashdot's long history of user moderation and fierce opposition to censorship must have been a much-needed thorn in your side.
Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:5, Insightful)
Fuck your gamergate. Nobody even knows what it's about except for a bunch of people trying to make it more mainstream than it is. It's not important. It doesn't affect actual (pro e-sport or casual) gamers. It's nothing, and it's NOT worthy of news.
Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:4, Insightful)
Nobody even knows what it's about except for a bunch of people trying to make it more mainstream than it
Like the fucking mainstream press? If the mainstream press wouldn't continue to keep gamedropping and featuring the con artists involved, gamergate would have disappeared last year. But it continues to draw the clicks, so it keeps showing up in just about every story having to do with video games. Which is just fine, because the longer it goes on, the more people are red pilled and SJW's and their press lackeys continue to lose their grip on The Narrative, kek.
Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/a... [wired.com]
Bad ethics in game journalism hurts the gamers. This isn't the only example, just a big one that happened recently. Ethical outlets would have released poor reviews that belonged being released in order for the games to get fixed, or allow people to not preorder a game that barely runs on high end hardware.
Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:5, Informative)
There are problems with ethics in game journalism, but that's not what GamerGate is about. Don't forget that the original claim was that a developer slept with a journalist in exchange for positive coverage of her game, which turned out to be completely and demonstrably untrue. Even now, if you head over to Reddit or 8chan, that lie is still being pushed. If GamerGate really cared about ethics the first thing it would do is put its own house in order and apologise.
GamerGate uses the ethics angle as an excuse to harass. When confronted the harassers can point to the people posting about ethics as a way to deflect criticism and disown their actions. If you really care about ethics in journalism, you need to either find a new hashtag or make a real effort to clean up GamerGate. Get over to Reddit and heavily down-mod all those misogynist posts on the GG boards, for example. That isn't happening right now, completely discrediting the ethics angle.
In short, if you want to complain about ethics, you need to have them yourself first.
Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:4, Insightful)
I have to agree. Not giving more than occasion coverage to game gate was about the most journalisticly responsible thing Slashdot could have done.
GG is and never was anything more than a bunch of self righteous and self important bloggers on both sides spewing lies and distortions. There is so much bad information that really can't be fact checked out there it isn't possible its not possible to write an intelligent article on the subject let alone have a discussion about.
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Gamergate is vastly larger than being about "gamers" now, so so much vastly bigger. The word "gamergate" is actually doing it a disservice.
The crux of most of the discussions which still continue about it, is mostly about the censorship, fear of discussing things for fear of being labelled, pushing a particular agenda.
There's most certainly extremists on both sides but from where I'm sitting it appears the "SJW camp" are utterly incapable of sitting back, self reflecting and saying "whoah, hang on a minute,
Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:5, Insightful)
As someone who ends up on the side of the pro-GG side of the argument more often than not, I can't imagine that Gamergate is all that important to anyone that far removed from either the people directly affected or anyone willing to jump in and be a part of it.
In fact, the reason I ended up doing any research on the matter at all is because another site I frequent tends to use terms like "Gamergater" as a derogatory term without any context as a reminder that we're supposed to think of that guy as bad (much the same way that "MRA" is used and misused) and thus disregard any opinions that the accused has for fear of catching the plague.
So I researched it. I had to do more work than I wanted to, really, particularly in proportion to how big it is. And it's not big. It's a teeny-tiny little world that to escape, all I have to do is browse away from any site talking about it and it's gone from my sight.
Point being, I'm actually quite glad that Slashdot didn't add Gamergate to the stinking, festering pile of identity politics it already took upon itself to be responsible for.
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As someone who ends up on the side of the pro-GG side of the argument more often than not,
Out of interest, why are you pro these people:
http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/... [wehuntedthemammoth.com]
Or perhaps you'd like to wile away a few minutes watching "the sarkeesian" effect. I do notice that the gaters on Slashdot banging on about fraud have finally given up 12 months after literally no one asked for their money back from Sarkeesian.
much the same way that "MRA" is used and misused
I think you're confusing the men's movement with t
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"men are doing all the bad things and women are the helpless victims" idea we are presented with all the time here.
That's the thing that continually irks me about this whole business.
Under this whole idea does the whole feminist house of cards fall down.
You're a strong, capable woman, until you're confronted with *gasp* bad words on the internet?
Fuck, if someone calls me a cunt (because, apparently, that's the worst thing you can call a woman), guess what? I'm having a really good day. If that's the worst thing you've got for me, and not, say, a bullet to the head, I'm-a have me a party because life is good, and, bonu
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The fact that feminist websites still bother with the business make me wonder why feminists are taken seriously at all.
The loudest feminist voices about the "crimes" against women in first-world nations are often the ones least qualified to talk about it.
(Oh, so you're in "gender studies", but you're marching into tech offices across the country to demand how shit should be done, huh? How precious of you. Would you also like to wear a tiara while you take your afternoon tea?)
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Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:4, Insightful)
I agree with you on #2 and #3 but disagree on the issue of Slashdot Beta. Slashdot beta was part of an industrywide UX antipattern [medium.com]. It goes something like this.
1) You have a functional site or application and a large userbase.
2) You hire some UXtards whose job it is to change things for change's sake.
3) The UXtards implement changes like those involved in Digg v3. GNOME 3. Firefox 4-without-the-status bar through Australis inclusive. Windows 8. Google Maps. And, of course, Slashdot beta.
4) The users revolt.
5) The devs' jobs depend on constantly learning new frameworks/tech and polishing up their resumes for their next job. The UXtard's job depends on implementing "the vision." The UX manager's career relies on not having the UX redesign project fail. The CEO's career depends on monetization, and he/she is told by the CTO and VPs of engineering that the UX redesign is part and parcel of this. Everywhere along the chain of command, somebody's personal career goals are in direct conflict with the overwhelming negative user feedback.
6) Everyone in the chain of command issues patronizing puff pieces and blog posts with verbiage like "we're making it better for you!" which are intended to placate the userbase, but which only anger it more, because the users aren't that stupid.
7) The user feedback is ignored, pageviews/clicks/marketshare, and revenue, plummets.
8) Nobody gets fired, because everybody was just doing their jobs / covering their asses. Devs implemented the UX team's spec and got to play with cool tech. UX team got buy-in from marketing. Marketing had orders from C-suite. C-suite wanted to monetize. Everybody gets their paycheck, even if all they accomplished was ruining the underlying asset.
It has happened over and over and over again, and seems to be the hallmark of this decade in tech: take a working project, rip out everything useful in order to make it "cleaner" or "simpler," ignore overwhelming feedback until long after the damage to the asset or brand is permanent, pretend nothing was ever wrong in the first place, liquidate.
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It seems like the sort of discussion that is supposed to be happening on Slashdot. It's nerd/tech/detail-obsessed site, a reasoned bullet list (and his points pretty well reflect what's happened on Slashdot and many other sites) doesn't seem out of place.
You forgot the awful moderation. (Score:3, Interesting)
The moderation has been particularly awful lately. Many perfectly fine comments get modded down to -1. Usually they don't even show the reason for the downmod. It's even getting common to see stories with only a few comments, and all have been modded down. Moderation mistakes are to be expected, of course, but a lot of these downmoddings appear to be targeted. It isn't just GNAA or BSD-is-dying trolls being downmodded, but rather people who have dared to present an independent viewpoint. It's getting to be
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you. post. on. slashdot. you of all people should know anecdotal evidence means squat.
especially in the face of ample evidence contradicting your naive claim: http://www.latimes.com/busines... [latimes.com] http://www.npr.org/sections/al... [npr.org] http://genderandset.open.ac.uk... [open.ac.uk]
Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:4, Insightful)
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The suppression of the malware on Sourceforge story?
Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah, it was totally suppressed.
I think the worst suppression was when submissions like SourceForge and GIMP [Updated] [slashdot.org], nmap Maintainer Warns He Doesn't Control nmap SourceForge Mirror [slashdot.org], SourceForge Responds To nmap Maintainer's Claims [slashdot.org], and SourceForge Suspends Independent Project Mirroring [slashdot.org] ended up on the front page.
Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:5, Insightful)
The reason for this decision is that the Slashdot Media business no longer aligns with the broader DHI strategy, which has been refined to focus on providing digital recruitment tools and services to connect employers and recruiters with talent in multiple professional communities.
What that means in plain English is that DHI thought they could use this place as a jobs board until they noticed that companies want to hire productive employees who do actual work instead of wasting time on Slashdot.
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http://www.wired.com/2014/11/a... [wired.com]
How is fighting this anything to do with the sex of anyone involved?
Trying to cast people as misogynistic in order to cast doubt on their position is pretty crappy. What did he say that had anything to do with misogyny? Did you dislike that he tried to respond to all the stories about women in tech that have been studied over and over and found that women don't go into tech because they don't like it rather than anyone hurting their feelings?
Do you work in tech? Do you wo
Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong (Score:4, Informative)
The Accusation (Score:3)
a) The article’s title “Admission Quest” was a play on DQ’s title.
b) The only screenshot (a huge background to the title) featured from any of the games was from DQ.
c) DQ was the first game (of only f
Re:The Accusation (Score:4, Informative)
What you failed to mention is that Grayson was not in a relationship with Quinn at the time he wrote that list of 50 indie games. He didn't write the article about the game jam, unless you have previously undiscovered link to it.
Anyway, the original claim was sex for a positive review. The review doesn't exist. If all she got was a mention in a list of 50 games and a screenshot at the top I'd say she got a pretty bad deal. If it were my girlfriend I think I'd try harder than that to help her out.
Also of note is the fact that the guy who made the post with this claim in it is currently under restraining order preventing him from spreading more lies. There is a post on Reddit begging for another $3000 to appeal, if you feel like throwing some money away. Clearly the courts disagree with your position.
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4. Ramrodding CO2 = pollution stories down everyone's throats without ever addressing the facts and science of the other side of the debate, instead focusing on personal attacks as defence.
Plus the average slashdotter probably uses ad blocking which makes their advertising model not work very well.
You can have your own opinions, but not your own facts.
If you disbelieve facts and call it an opinion, don't hold your breath waiting for people to want to "debate" it.
BTW, this is exactly what puts the "coward" in "anonymous coward." You admit to being a regular, and yet you don't have the courage to use your own pseudonym.
My $.02 (Score:5, Interesting)
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That would be awesome.
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No idea. I am not privy to such things.
Re:My $.02 (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:My $.02 (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:My $.02 (Score:5, Funny)
Seems like it would be cheaper to just stand up your own Slashcode server and call it NextDot or something. I'd rather spend the money on hosting than give it to Dice.
But then your 3-digit UID would be worthless! And my 6-digit one!! And think of the lost karma! Oh, the humanity!
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The real money is in short usernames... I hope.
DHI tried so hard to break /. but /. persists (Score:2)
Re:DHI tried so hard to break /. but /. persists (Score:4, Funny)
Now it's Zoidberg's turn! (Score:5, Insightful)
This is a website read by NERDS, not people wearing business suits.
If you want to make money with this website, don't do the same stupid mistakes as DHI Group Inc.
Keep the news and topics nerds-related. Make sure you have nerds on your staff to manage the website and keep your hands off everything.
Kickstarter? (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe we can buy it and make it not-for-profit or something. Does anyone know how much they're asking?
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I don't know but I'm ready to put 100 Dogecoins on it.
Re:Kickstarter? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Kickstarter? (Score:5, Interesting)
Given the rough estimate of a company's value (if it's not publicly traded) is about 4 times its yearly profits, I'd say Slashdot is worth somewhere between $12m and $16m.
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I'd say Slashdot is worth somewhere between $12m and $16m.
So in roughly 3 years, Dice/DHI slashed Slashdot's value by $4M to $8M (or 20% to 40%) from when it was purchased at $20M (Dice buys ... Slashdot ... in $20M deal [slashdot.org]).
Re:Kickstarter? (Score:4, Interesting)
Except that they're coming in way below their yearly outlook which said:
Revenue:
$18 - $20 mm
Adjusted EBITDA:
$5 - $6 mm
Net income:
$3 - $4 mm
But later they're giving Q2 figures saying for the last 6 months:
Revenue:
7,667 mm
Adjusted EBITDA:
0,852 mm
Net income:
0,316 mm
If the last half of the year is the same, they're only making about 15%-20% of their planned net income. In fact, the last quarter they made no money at all. So I'm thinking way, way less.
Beta... (Score:5, Funny)
"Business as usual"? (Score:2)
Sugar Daddies? (Score:4, Insightful)
Hey, any of you Slashdot geeks won the lottery lately and have lotsa money you don't know what to do with?
Just think, you could be the new hero riding in on your shining horse to save us all! (Until we all become disillusioned with you, and we'll flame you like we have everyone else. :) )
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/. is just an empty name, and it has less value than ever. All the best parts of /. can and have been forked.
SoylentNews is like HuffingtonPost on slashcode, while PipeDot is a working rewrite of slashcode that kept the sci/tech focus and high standards, but hasn't managed to build a big community of users so far. Just pointing /. readers to Pipedot instead would do the job, and rescue millions of dollars from Dice's pockets.
Does this mean Bennett Haselton will be fired? (Score:5, Funny)
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WOOHOO!! (Score:5, Funny)
Goodbye Slashdot! Been a nice run (Score:3)
So long and thanks for all the fish!
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Re:Goodbye Slashdot! Been a nice run (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not saying I know who's going to buy it, but a little birdie told me the new name is going to be "Trump News For Nerds".
Buy a small lake, (Score:5, Insightful)
then piss in it every day for three years or so, and invite your corporate buddies to do the same. Wonder why fewer and fewer people come by for a swim, and why you can't make any money from fishing in the lake. Sell it, probably at a loss, and move on to your next 'conquest'. Way to go Dice!
buy low sell high (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:buy low sell high (Score:4, Interesting)
With regards to low UIDs, it's refreshing to see so many posts from sub 1E6 users. It's a pity that the quality of /. has gone so far downhill that it is only news that we're about to get fucked over again that brings them blinking into the light...
Re:I hope they don't fire the editors (Score:5, Funny)
No kidding. They need to be dropped on to the street from a very high altitude.
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Re:Ya think, DiNozzo? (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean, the Slashvertisements and other abortive attempts to ram Dice content down our throats really weren't all that surprising. If anything, the only surprise was that they thought it work in the first place, especially given how ham-handed they were about doing it.
With Sourceforge, however, they were basically caught injecting malware/crapware into downloads. That's about as shady as it gets, and it's going to be extremely hard to get anyone to trust code from there in the future. It would be like... I don't know, maybe if Slashdot was discovered to have been running disinformation/propaganda campaigns for the government/intelligence agencies or something that were paying Dice for it.
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>With Sourceforge, however, they were basically caught injecting malware/crapware into downloads. That's about as shady as it gets, and it's going to be extremely hard to get anyone to trust code from there in the future.
In order to "maximize the synergy", they should sell SourceForge to Sony. You'd know exactly what you were getting with their products.
Re:Eventuality? (Score:5, Insightful)
Hint:
An article about yet-another-buyout / possible closedown of the site gets 150-ish comments, most of them crowing on how bad DHI have treated us.
I'm pretty low-numbered nowadays, yet I used to be the "newbie" on here.
The Reg gets more comments per article and has a lot more articles. Even SoylentNews gets not-much-less than Slashdot does and that's basically a startup Slash-clone.
Site is not what it was, it would be quite a trick to bring it back now.
Re:Eventuality? (Score:5, Interesting)
It has the advantage of once having been worth something. People have a fondness for it. It might tempt back some of the old users. Social networks have an advantage in that they're worth more when more people are there, and that history might just barely let them leverage that.
The main value of the site, at least to me, was always its user base. I didn't RTFA because the commenters would often be able to give me a better summary of what was really going on. Especially when TFA was clickbait; I could see why it was clickbait without having to read it myself. Or for sciencey stuff that's out of my domain, Slashdot often had people who could explain it at my level. (That is, more than the average layman, but less than a grad student in that field.)
I'm not gonna get my hopes up, but I'll note that I'm still here, though mostly lurking. There may be others waiting for an improvement to the site's management to contribute more.
Re: (Score:3)
They mention plans to sell Slashdot Media and SourceForge... Then the rest of the financial report only talks about Slashdot Media and nothing about SF...
Slashdot Media comprises both Slashdot, (this site) and SourceForge, so yes, they are planning to sell both. I don't think that means that both divisions will necessarily go to the same buyer; heck, Dice might not manage to sell either division, never mind both of them...
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Well, when Dice bought Geeknet media properties Slashdot, SourceForge, and Freecode three years ago, they paid $20 million for the bundle. All three sites have undergone significant decline since then (Freecode is basically dead), but I very much doubt that Dice plans to take that big a loss on the sale.