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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: 4, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:07PM
Like trolling culture. Slashdot was well-known for its trolling culture, such that an organization (the GNAA, of which Weev was an original leader) which was originally started specifically to troll Slashdot.
That is one thing newer members to both Slashdot and SN often forget. Slashdot and trolling went together like drinkin' beer and smokin' grass. Not many people realize that I first actively participated in Slashdot as a goody-goody non-troll poster, earning high karma, before Slashdot's trolling culture appealed to me. Unlike that of places like 4chan, Slashdot's trolling culture required a finesse, a higher standard often with some bit of research on the parts of both the troller and the trollees whether done subtly or overtly.
All that stuff you see in my journals? The format of which was influenced by Slashdot trolling culture more than anything. Yeah, that's right, I never wrote that big and trashy before Slashdot's dark side got ahold of me. For being "news for nerds, stuff that matters," the Slashdot trolling culture provided a framework which spawned the desolate and loathsome tales you may be reading in my journal right now.
Of all the references to Slashdot that we see today discussed and written into these fora, any references to its once-rich troll culture are conspicuously absent.
(Score: 2) by tadas on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:14PM
I *do* miss OOG, THE OPEN-SOURCE CAVEMAN. He was the only guy I ever wanted to moderate as +5 Troll.
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Wednesday July 29 2015, @10:22AM
How can we tell if what you are saying now is truth or trolling? You could be trolling us right now, where in fact you are a goody-goody non-troll poster, but then this runs contrary to your post where you state you are a troll, but that mean you are a troll, but then that means your post is trollish which mean you are a non-troll ..... ERROR DOES NOT COMPUTE ... NO CARRIER - SIGNAL LOST