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Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice Owned SourceForge

posted by n1 on Tuesday June 02 2015, @02:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity dept.

ghost writes:

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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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday June 02 2015, @04:52AM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday June 02 2015, @04:52AM (#191033) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by TheRaven on Tuesday June 02 2015, @09:37AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday June 02 2015, @09:37AM (#191081) Journal

    Virtually none of those excuses are believable.

    Really? The timeline sounds like:

    1. Story was submitted.
    2. Soulskill takes it from the queue and decides that it would be better if they got a response from Dice before running it (fair and balanced and so on).
    3. Soulskill tries to contact the relevant people in Dice, thinking that it will be easy as they're within the same company.
    4. No response by Friday, Soulskill goes away.
    5. Soulskill returns, discovers that there's a lot of grumbling about the story being suppressed, runs it quickly with a very quickly written note about the delay.

    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.

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    • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:34PM (#191165)

      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

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:45PM (#191168)

      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

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday June 02 2015, @01:24PM (#191127) Journal

    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.

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