Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

Post by mrcapers » Thu, Aug 25, 2011, 3:56 PM UTC

matthavener wrote: post #35

nicpottier wrote: post #5

I don't visit /. anymore, but definitely grew up on it. I don't think you can understate the impact it had on a generation of geeks. Especially when it comes to Open Source, I think /. was incredibly important in educating people on a concept, history and philosophy many of us take for granted now. And hot grits aside, it really did set the bar for intelligent discussion. /. was the first site where the comments were…

One of my favorite memories from /. was refreshing to see a new version of the kernel was available. You'd spend a few hours downloading it, compiling, and reboot. Usually there were no new features you wanted, no bugs fixed, just the idea of being on the bleeding edge was "cool" enough.

Post by MostAwesomeDude » Thu, Aug 25, 2011, 4:00 PM UTC

morsch wrote: post #50

_delirium wrote: post #3

Interesting decision. In practice I don't think this will change a lot, because it's been years since Slashdot was primarily the personal project of Malda; from what I can tell, he's been "just another editor" and a bit withdrawn from the decision-making for a few years now. But I can see wanting to do something else. For all its downsides, Slashdot is a quite interesting experiment imo. In terms of form: It was one…

Not only were the comments threaded, they also had an elaborate moderation and karma system in-place that still works very well. (With meta-moderation, to boot.) I often browse Slashdot at +5 to get a quick overview of the discussion. If there something interesting going on, it's easy to drill down and see the less popular posts and counterpoints related to the +5 post. I think it's a great compromise: Get karma, you…

Post by jpdoctor » Thu, Aug 25, 2011, 4:07 PM UTC

Post by icebraining » Thu, Aug 25, 2011, 4:08 PM UTC

Alex3917 wrote: post #34

gallamine wrote: post #2

It's a shame that Steve Job's leaving overshadows this. Slashdot has been a rock of the internet for 14 years, and I still regularly visit it. This paragraph is good: In the last 14 years, Slashdot has covered so many amazing events: The explosion of Linux. The rise of Google. The return of Apple. The Dot Com Bubble. The DMCA. 9/11. Wars. Elections. Numerous successful Shuttle Launches and one Disaster. Scientific Br…

I think the span between the Columbine shooting and 9/11 was probably their peak. So many of my memories of /. involve national disasters.

Post by imroot » Thu, Aug 25, 2011, 4:12 PM UTC

jellicle wrote: post #47

imroot wrote: post #40

If you've followed the lifespan of VA Software, OSDN, OSTG, GeekNet...I don't think this will come as a surprise to anyone. http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&... ; Slashdot built the community that a lot of people still have close ties to. I'll always remember reading my first few Bruce Perens posts, and adding him (and a few others) to my 'Friends' List. I'll also never forget listening to their market…

> I'll also never forget listening to their marketing person talk about how they could 'bitchslap' negative comments (about the advertiser) to -2 so that nobody could see them. Citation, please? Rob Malda's oft-cited bitchslap comment was about a script he had written to deal with Slashdot's most annoying commenters (people who used their own scripts to submit thousands of duplicate comments simultaneously), and had…