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Anyone who worries that this place might be going downhill--did you ever consider the rose-tinted spectacle effect when you look at the past?
Like, when people pine for the heyday of Slashdot, there were shitposters even in the beginning--maybe SNR was a bit better--but maybe we're just cherry picking the best memories of the past and comparing them against the bad shit that's happening now?
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not trying to say the past and present were really equally bad. Rather, the opposite. The past and present of SoylentNews are both great. The green site, maybe not so much, what with the corporate sell-offs etc.
But meh, I don't know, just throwing ideas out there.
Things change. People come and go. But we're still all nerds interested in tech that enjoy sharing it. Let's carry that happy tradition on together.
Discuss.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by acid andy on Friday October 08 2021, @11:58PM (7 children)
Just realized maybe the reason the comments sections are a bit quieter here at the moment is because the staff are having to work extra hard to keep the ship running, what with Buzz having departed.
Help the staff out. Consider volunteering a bit of your time.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 09 2021, @01:36AM
Or just take a little extra time to format story subs in good shape--save the staff some time that way. I usually spend 5 or 10 minutes on a story before adding to the queue.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 09 2021, @02:13AM (5 children)
Considering there seems to be no vision of what the people in charge want the site to be, where it is going, or what needs done other than moar of something, even without the other real or imagined problems, why would anyone on God's green Earth volunteer? Call this post trolling all you want but no one really seems to answer the "why" of volunteering here, let alone the other 5Ws. This is even worse when stories like this get comments about "once bitten, twice shy" attempts at volunteering.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 09 2021, @03:23AM (1 child)
There has been a poll here, since May, and the comments there already cover most of the issues.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @02:44AM
After four and a half months up, all they have are 249 votes. I wonder how many of those are repeats.
An old CompuServe homepage did better than that.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 09 2021, @03:24AM (1 child)
Seems pretty clear to me, if I had free time (I really don't have much--with several other volunteer activities) or better IT skills, I'd certainly volunteer. It's all about buck feta and having a place that we run and support ourselves, for our own community.
As it is, when I see something interesting I submit the story. With just a few minutes of editing, I seem to get nearly half my subs on the main page.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 09 2021, @04:24PM
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Sunday October 10 2021, @07:32PM
(Score: 1, Troll) by NPC-131072 on Saturday October 09 2021, @03:47AM (7 children)
Hello fren,
It is quiet. Some of my favorite people who belong on the morally and intellectually superior left are conspicuous by their absence of late. This is obviously because Joe Biden and his administration are doing such a great job at belatedly adopting Trump policies that their opinions are no longer necessary.
If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?
PS: Azuma is still a TERF
(Score: 5, Informative) by Tork on Saturday October 09 2021, @05:57AM (1 child)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @02:55AM
Turnabout is fair play.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 09 2021, @06:27PM (3 children)
Yeah, in regards to Biden et al, the dems around here have been suspiciously quiet. Just like the saying goes, If they don't have anything nice to say about him, it's best to keep their mouths shut.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 09 2021, @07:30PM (1 child)
Or, they were all just sockpuppets, and someone's "taking a break".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @02:39AM
Some of them have nowhere else to go.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 09 2021, @07:59PM
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 12 2021, @02:17PM
Both.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by turgid on Saturday October 09 2021, @10:05PM (2 children)
I come here for the news. There's been quite a lot of good science stuff recently, and on the occasions I've asked technical questions in my journal I've got some good replies, which is what I want. Also, it's a good safe space to rant. I don't have much time these days for posting comments but that doesn't mean that I don't read the articles.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @07:56PM
If you're coming here for news, you're doing it wrong. There's plenty of actual news, less-slanted, less-limited, more techy, and a week newer, at any number of more reliable places. That, and fewer actual Fascists.
Are Democrats Fascist? [gopusa.com]
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @02:19AM
Somehow, amazingly, some people still believe w*k*p*d** is a source for accurate information:
Fuck Joe Biden [wikipedia.org]
Let’s Go Brandon! [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 24 2021, @08:30AM
I come back monthly to see if azuma is still here and look for general updates in the journals. I'll bother reading when she is gone and the toxicity is taken down a knotch.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Socrastotle on Sunday October 31 2021, @05:26PM
Are we the baddies? [youtube.com]
Simple as that. A lot of the more interesting discussion here became rabidly political. And the deep polarization in America means people either support "their" side, or they must be supporting "the other" side. People doubled down on hard on something that turned out to be quite awful. So what identity do they have left now? And similarly I expect some people doing or supporting things in good faith are started to realize that that faith was being driven by very untoward motivations. And even now for myself. As a classical liberal who never adopted the neodemocratic identity, I enjoyed playing "the other side." But now what enjoyment is there now to be had in debating with them, even if they return? All that's left at this point is schadenfreude, which is stupid and childish.
Anywho, off to greener pastures myself again. Had no idea what'd come of this site. Just popped back in for a moment since I think some folks might find the chicken vaccine article I stuck in my journal interesting. Good luck and best regards. -S