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If you read SoylentNews, Ars Technica, Reddit, or anywhere other than the other site, you've probably heard about SourceForge hijacking accounts and monetizing open source software with crapware installers. It seems the other site is intent on burying that information. Perhaps they don't consider it newsworthy?
For those still using SourceForge, there are many superior alternatives.
Update: 06/02 03:27 GMT by mrcoolbp : Slashdot ran the story this morning.
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Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice Owned SourceForge
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When I met th'POPE back in '58, I scrubbed him with a MILD SOAP or
DETERGENT for 15 minutes. He seemed to enjoy it ...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Eristone on Tuesday June 02 2015, @02:53AM
According to TFA Soulskill posted [slashdot.org], they were just (extremely) slow vs. actively suppressing the whole topic. And there is additional editorial follow-up on the SourceForge blog. (helping)
(Score: 5, Informative) by NoMaster on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:18AM
And that didn't help matters.
First, the story was that soulskill had just come back from a "busy weekend".
And people asked 'what about the other editors who were vetting & passing through other stories over the weekend? And, hang on, the first submission was made on Wednesday night...'
Then it changed to 'I was waiting for further details so I could put up a more informative post'.
And people asked "when has that ever stopped /. editors before?"
Then it was stated that "timeliness, factual accuracy, the degree to which it's on topic, and several other characteristics all factor in" to whether a post is vetted.
And everybody fell over laughing, because that's never stopped /. editors before either.
If people didn't think there was something fishy to begin with, they sure did by the end...
Live free or fuck off and take your naïve Libertarian fantasies with you...
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:32AM
No worries, it garnered us another mention over there that got modded +5 insightful, though originally with the wrong TLD = )
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:53AM
> And people asked "when has that ever stopped /. editors before?"
> If people didn't think there was something fishy to begin with, they sure did by the end...
FWIW, I totally believe them. I don't think there was anything fishy going on.
Is just that when it comes to Dice-related stories those do get all the extra vetting and quality control. That they give themselves the royal treatment is unsurprising. It just illustrates one of the problems with being owned by a conglomerate. Got to check in with the master when reporting on the master.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Non Sequor on Tuesday June 02 2015, @04:18AM
It's not purely a corporate thing. As a matter of human relationships, you owe the people you work with the benefit of the doubt on these kinds of things even if people outside your organization don't owe you that.
That said, if the story we're hearing does not involve any misunderstandings of what Dice has done, I'm inclined to think that this is a post-what-you-believe-to-be-true-or-resign moment for the Slashdot editors.
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday June 02 2015, @07:31AM
Are you sure our editors would hurry to publish a story showing soylentnews (or the people behind) in a bad light somehow? If I was an editor, I think I'd try to find a positive angle first, too. Maybe our editors are better than that, however, I think it's not necessarily about conglomerates, corporates etc. but just the desire not to spoil once own nest. People take pride in their work, and I could even imagine people taking more pride in editing for soylentnews. (Of course this pride could work both ways, could be the editors would rush to publish even negative stories, just because they are proud of their moral independence.)
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(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Tuesday June 02 2015, @09:11AM
Usually, we put our hands up and apologise - nobody likes making a mistake, even less being seen to make it in a very public way. (I'm sure you don't need links to examples). We strive to be 100% honest with our community. And I don't think that we've ever buried a story.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday June 02 2015, @09:27AM
Probably that's what makes you a better suited editor than me :-)
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by TLA on Tuesday June 02 2015, @10:43AM
like you did with the Microsoft thing - kudos for that, by the way. Honesty is becoming a rare thing these days, more so in the field of journalism. Regardless of what I've seen others write over that one, the fact that you did come out and offer an apology AND explain why you felt you needed to apologise... well, frankly, that deserves respect. You have mine.
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(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 03 2015, @01:04AM
It isn't always your fault. Sometimes it is mine. :-)
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 5, Insightful) by NickFortune on Tuesday June 02 2015, @10:59AM
Seriously? Solyent News has publicly aired so much dirty laundry, there has been times
when to they looked positively exhibitionistic [1].
A lack of transparency is not a problem I've noticed around here :)
[1] Just to be clear, I'm in no way suggesting that this is a bad thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @03:25AM
Slashdot "editors" don't take no fucking pride in their work. Would you if you were them?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday June 02 2015, @04:52AM
Virtually none of those excuses are believable.
Posting it here, as well as everywhere else, probably was a ploy to force their hand.
Yet nobody has presented any substance to the "burying" allegation other than a typically hyperventilating reddit thread (as if reddit had a sparkling reputation as a beacon of truth).
In years past I've submitted many stories to slashdot, never to have them be seen again. I finally gave up submitting any story over there 4 years ago, and seldom even read it any more since it is now approaching 100% ACs). Therefore its not inconceivable that nobody dared to post it in their new corporate structure, so everybody walked around it like it was Ethanol Fueled's racing striped underwear.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by TheRaven on Tuesday June 02 2015, @09:37AM
Virtually none of those excuses are believable.
Really? The timeline sounds like:
This meshes entirely with what they've said and just requires that a Slashdot editor be well meaning but not really on the ball with regards to how the community will interpret things or how their corporate overlords will react to them. Which, again, sounds completely believable.
sudo mod me up
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:34PM
I think the more likely scenario is:
1. Soulskill sees the SourceForge stories in the queue, decides to post one.
2. Soulskill stops himself at the last minute, decides that finding a new job would be a pain; and anyway Samzenpus is up next.
3. Samzenpus checks in, sees the backlog of SourceForge stories, swears at Soulskill.
4. But, Samzenpus reasons, Timothy is always game for controversy.
5. Timothy checks in, doesn't even notice any of the SourceForge stories.
6. Now the queue starts filling up with stories about Slashdot editors.
7. Soulskill checks in. Procrastination didn't work this time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:45PM
1. Story was submitted.
2. Soulskill takes it from the queue
The day after the story appeared here there were at least three submissions in the firehose that had been voted up and had at least five comments each.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 02 2015, @01:24PM
I agree with you. When the Slashdot editors start using mealy-mouthed corporatespeak you know that they've launched into sock puppet mode for the scumbag Dice MBA's who have their hand up their ass. Such a thing was completely unknown on Slashdot before Dice came to town.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by penguinoid on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:58PM
Their apology was so lame, I finally got around to making an account here at Soylent News. Seriously, did they think it would make anything better if they had a PR manager write the story and then made up (and changed) some excuses for why they buried the story? Could have just said, "Sorry our evil overlords are evil, nothing we can do about that" and it would have been more acceptable.
RIP Slashdot. Killed by greedy bastards.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:31AM
Thanks, I updated TFA.
(Score:1^½, Radical)