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FS tells me that Ars Technica reports that Dice is selling the Slashdot and Sourceforge sites. The company in their second quarter earnings announcements stated they have "not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base to further Dice's digital recruitment business", and are planning to divest this business.
The report goes on to note that in spite of what the report calls "an incredibly loyal and passionate following of tech professionals," Slashdot and SourceForge aren't core to DHI's business and that DHI has partnered with KeyBanc Capital Markets to advise DHI on the sale. There is no buyer lined up yet.
The report also says that Slashdot Media (the aggregate of Slashdot and SourceForge) made $1.7 million in revenue for the second quarter and that it's estimated Slashdot Media will pull somewhere between $15 million and $16 million in revenue for fiscal 2015.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday July 29 2015, @12:50AM
There's three or four different problems that the moderation system needs to address. (Some of them it successfully addresses.)
One that isn't well addressed is that some people like different subjects than other people. But they system has no abstract category awareness. (My suspicion is that this would need to be customized for each user, as people categorize differently.)
Another is that expertise has value, can can't be automatically detected. Note that I did NOT say it should automatically be given a heavy weight. That should be user adjustable.
Another is that the weighings need to be dynamically adjustable. This means a much more convenient interface for adjusting them as well as a much more complex set of adjustments. Whoops! Big design problem.
Another is... well, you get the idea. When you solve all of these you'll have a major AI program. And one that isn't lightweight when running on the end-user's computer.
So. The perfect is the enemy of the good. What can be designed that will improve things and yet still be light and easy to use? Possibly user assignable categories, with user adjustible weights. multiple profiles, and an easy way to switch between them An easy interface might imply user assignable icons, including user designed icons. (I'd prefer an svg file, but many would prefer png or jpg. Limits on resolution, because the image needs to be displayable in a small area.) These custom icons would only ever appear on the end-users system, never transmitted, so no worries about copyrights, etc.)
OK, so I got sidetracked.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.