First, nobody cares about RoR or Hansson. RoR is dead and Hansson should go commit suicide.
Second, BIZX and whipslash have made Slashshit even worse than it was under Dice, and that's no mean feat. BIZX should be liquidated and its assets converted to paper currency and burned, and whipslash should go commit suicide.
That is all.
Captcha: fleetly
OK, just for the record, "fleetly" is barely even a fucking word, whoever decided to use it for a captcha should go commit suicide.
Second, BIZX and whipslash have made Slashshit even worse than it was under Dice, and that's no mean feat.
No shit. Dice at least tried to pretend to respect what Rob Malda built. BIZX is rather blatantly corporate, with the increasingly obvious Slashvertisements, links designed to drive traffic to shitty blogs and paywall sites when better links are easily found, the softball interviews like this one where no critical question is ever addressed (such as security, performance, scalability, the decline of the RoR fad), and obvious efforts to play Apple fanbois against Google fanbois against Microsoft stories.
Is this a joke? Or one of the editors who got triggered?
It would be like a slave rebellion, then one of the slaves gets caught and says "we did this because you treat us so unjustly!" To which the slave master replies, "we enslave you because you get so uppity and violent. This rebellion is the perfect example!"
Maybe comments are down because the comment sections get filled with vile, angry people like you?
Yes, constructive criticism and a desire for a vibrant, geeky community moderated by wiser people is definitely the product of a vile and angry person.
I'm gonna weigh in here. Normally I don't react to trolls in the comments because I'd rather the comments stay on topic about the story. I read every story and the vast majority of comments as my time allows. I rarely ever downmod, as other users usually do a good job. I think you're a bit confused if you think someone telling me to commit suicide is "constructive criticism". Judging by your past comments you're just a troll, and hey, that's fine. This isn't Reddit, we're not going to ban you. People can accuse of us "blatant slashvertisements" as the OP here does constantly, but the fact is we have never been paid for a story. There's no way to prove that, but its the truth so if you want to keep accusing us of that, you can, if it makes you feel good rather than just scrolling past the story and reading one that interests you. Again, we're not going to ban you. If you get downmodded for other users, perhaps its because you consistently post things people don't want to read instead of posting a thoughtful comment about the topic at hand.
The fact is the world of technology is a lot larger and more broad than it was when Slashdot was started years ago, so we cover more topics. There are more nerdy topics now than ever. If you wanted to improve Slashdot you'd email your feedback to us rather than starting flame wars in the comments. I assure you I read and consider every email I get. This will probably fall on deaf ears to trolls, but I thought I'd weigh in in case any cooler heads are reading and interested in what I have to say.
Why did you give him such easy questions? There isn't one question about how RoR is struggling, or at the very least, dropping in user share year after year. Why not give someone a challenging question for once?
The reason no one EVER takes these interviews seriously is because only the "nice" questions are given and answered.
I can't force anyone to answer questions they don't want to. Also, we gave him every single question that were asked by users that were worded civilly. If the question was extremely toxic and rude we didn't give it to him. Why would someone who is taking out time to answer questions respond to people rudely insulting him? If you can get an inventor like DHH to answer some questions that are worded extremely toxically, let me know and I'll post it here.
Then post every question you gave him, and lets see what you consider to be civil. I bet you considered every negative question to be civil. There were plenty of difficult questions that were civil, so either you're a liar, or David is a coward. Show us which one.
Read through the original question thread. We sent all the ones that weren't personally insulting him. I'm not here to spend my time proving to some irrationally angry (adult, I assume) person freaking out about an interview he or she is smashing his keyboard about. If you don't like it, scroll on. If you do, read it and/or comment. If you're too dense to see you're acting like a petulant child, then so be it. We're not banning you like Reddit or any other site you can still get your rocks off complaining i
Normally I don't react to trolls in the comments because I'd rather the comments stay on topic about the story.... If you wanted to improve Slashdot you'd email your feedback to us rather than starting flame wars in the comments.
I do apologize for responding to this rather than responding to the topic at large (which I enjoyed), but it appears this is the only reasonable, public place to respond. I'm curious, can anyone post a story to the meta part of slashdot? When I looked at the last few years of meta posts, it seemed they all came from the corporate side of slashdot, not the users. I appreciate that there is a 1-to-1 method of interaction via email, but how can the community discuss what sorts of things would make slashdot
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Let's clarify some things (Score:-1)
First, nobody cares about RoR or Hansson. RoR is dead and Hansson should go commit suicide.
Second, BIZX and whipslash have made Slashshit even worse than it was under Dice, and that's no mean feat. BIZX should be liquidated and its assets converted to paper currency and burned, and whipslash should go commit suicide.
That is all.
Captcha: fleetly
OK, just for the record, "fleetly" is barely even a fucking word, whoever decided to use it for a captcha should go commit suicide.
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Second, BIZX and whipslash have made Slashshit even worse than it was under Dice, and that's no mean feat.
No shit. Dice at least tried to pretend to respect what Rob Malda built. BIZX is rather blatantly corporate, with the increasingly obvious Slashvertisements, links designed to drive traffic to shitty blogs and paywall sites when better links are easily found, the softball interviews like this one where no critical question is ever addressed (such as security, performance, scalability, the decline of the RoR fad), and obvious efforts to play Apple fanbois against Google fanbois against Microsoft stories.
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Is this a joke? Or one of the editors who got triggered?
It would be like a slave rebellion, then one of the slaves gets caught and says "we did this because you treat us so unjustly!" To which the slave master replies, "we enslave you because you get so uppity and violent. This rebellion is the perfect example!"
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Maybe comments are down because the comment sections get filled with vile, angry people like you?
Yes, constructive criticism and a desire for a vibrant, geeky community moderated by wiser people is definitely the product of a vile and angry person.
I think you're seeing your own reflection.
Re:Let's clarify some things (Score:5, Informative)
The fact is the world of technology is a lot larger and more broad than it was when Slashdot was started years ago, so we cover more topics. There are more nerdy topics now than ever. If you wanted to improve Slashdot you'd email your feedback to us rather than starting flame wars in the comments. I assure you I read and consider every email I get. This will probably fall on deaf ears to trolls, but I thought I'd weigh in in case any cooler heads are reading and interested in what I have to say.
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Why did you give him such easy questions? There isn't one question about how RoR is struggling, or at the very least, dropping in user share year after year. Why not give someone a challenging question for once?
The reason no one EVER takes these interviews seriously is because only the "nice" questions are given and answered.
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Then post every question you gave him, and lets see what you consider to be civil. I bet you considered every negative question to be civil. There were plenty of difficult questions that were civil, so either you're a liar, or David is a coward. Show us which one.
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Normally I don't react to trolls in the comments because I'd rather the comments stay on topic about the story. ... If you wanted to improve Slashdot you'd email your feedback to us rather than starting flame wars in the comments.
I do apologize for responding to this rather than responding to the topic at large (which I enjoyed), but it appears this is the only reasonable, public place to respond. I'm curious, can anyone post a story to the meta part of slashdot? When I looked at the last few years of meta posts, it seemed they all came from the corporate side of slashdot, not the users. I appreciate that there is a 1-to-1 method of interaction via email, but how can the community discuss what sorts of things would make slashdot