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• I don't know. :-( I don't know. :-( (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @05:00PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @05:00PM (#14105)

  I'm just a casual user with minimal investment in what's going on. I've been enjoying the site and prefer Soylent to slashdot right now. If Soylent News changes names and moves, I'll follow along and see how it goes. If Barabbas gets paid, and there aren't any significant changes I'll keep reading and occasionally commenting as I have been.

  As to actually paying the $2000 (keeping in mind that I'm not talking about my money or a project I've personally put work into) I can see positives and negatives to either outcome. On the plus side, paying (with appropriate legal framework) gives a clean exit and a clear conscience - John/Barabbas isn't out anything for the work he did and the money he spent setting this place up. On the negative side, does doing so open up Soylent to further blackmail further down the road? (Either from Barabbas or someone else.) I say 'blackmail' because that's what "give me the money real soon or lose your domain name" looks like to me. Paying Barabbas seems like the right thing to do, but from what I can see he's made it a far more unattractive choice than it needed to be.

  However it turns out, and even if it is ugly, I really do appreciate the degree of transparency we (the readers/users/contributors) are getting with this process. Thank you for that!

• Re:I don't know. :-( (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @05:25PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @05:25PM (#14122)

  I don't know either. But it seems to be the start of an appropriate meme... "SolyentNews: we eat our own"

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