What went wrong?

What went wrong?

That cowboy guy or whatever his name was left and blogposters that wanted to know what type of laptop to buy their daughter took over.

kill yourself weeb

it's an internet news site

Karmawhoring and GNAA shitposters

It stinks like reddit.

Used to be good.
Now it's just business amd useless python programmers

takeover by marketing and datamining companies

They stopped using the Borg-Gates.

Did GNAAposting get seriously out of hand in the last couple of years? Seems real odd that you find that to be a problem but hang around here.

it's kind of like Youtube. It's fine as long as you don't look at the comments.

alterslash

I haven’t visited /. regularly in about 10 years, but rampant anonymous trolling comes with the territory on Sup Forums. Even if I’m inured to it, it shouldn’t be acceptable on more conventional discussion sites.

/. was good WAY WAY WAY back in the day. I didn't realize it was still around.

why is it not dot slash?

Magic internet points attract a certain type of pathetic. How long until stack exchange goes the same way?

Maybe he started to l-like you...

I joined Slashdot in 1998. Had a 4-digit user-id, but haven't logged on in years.

It started out great and was a huge step up from bulletin boards and newsgroups, for me at least.

During first dot-com boom, site became inundated with lamers and fags. Spam became rampant and Rob Malda (cmdrtaco) had to implement the first version of a moderation system that worked ok for a while... But unfortunately this system became the inspiration for a lot of moderation systems that are still around today (thumbs up/down, likes, points, etc.)

Of course this led to karma whoring and the nerd version of political correctness. There were tweaks and more tweaks to the mod system, and eventually meta moderation came along, but as the site grew and became more profit-focused that started to fail as well. They should have just stuck to some fixed set of sane meta-moderators, but evidently there are not that many sane people on the Internet who are also willing to work for free.

Anyway, when Malda hired Jon Katz to be a regular contributor shit really went downhill. Eventually Digg and Reddit came along and then Hacker News. They skimmed off some of the best and most intelligent commenters, who eventually got jobs and families and quit the tech news scene entirely.

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When Malda sold out to Dice, the site took a huge nose-dive. Duplicate stories and click-driven stories proliferated. A lot more politics showed up on the front page to drive clicks and comments. Slashdot made some very poor hiring decisions as their editors constantly posted stories with a left-wing slant and pushed feminism hard. And then it crashed and burned when the iPhone brought in masses and masses of faggots which destroyed the whole Internet.

When Slashdot changed hands again stories that previously were veiled ads now had almost no attempt to disguise them. Nowadays if you go to the front page, the stories that aren't about politics, that still purport to be about technology, are really mostly about "tech companies": Uber, IBM, Intel, Amazon, Red Hat, Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Like most of the web today, Slashdot has become a vast wasteland of ads, spam, inane comments, grandstanding, faux outrage, clickbait, attention-seeking, politics and faggotry.

liberals

all the geeks of the 90s are retired
the new wave of technology people are normie business types, they want to belong to a startup
those go to hacker news