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.
(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.
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(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. :-)
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(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?