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Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by zem »

kahawe wrote: post #7
sjs382 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God, I miss K5...

Me too... they had some of the strangest and freaked-out submissions there. I don't know any substitute for it on today's internet. Last time I went to the website I was surprised it was still online and I felt really sad when I realized the frontpage submissions were weeks old. I feel old now, missing the 90s pre-bubble internet and I am sad I was just a few years too late to that party back then. sigh

metafilter is the closest thing i've seen to k5 in terms of the kind of writing the community encouraged

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by pixelcloud »

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.

Now everyone uses macbooks... Oh how the times have changed.

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by GregBuchholz »

_delirium wrote: post #12
whazzmaster wrote: post #9

I've been down on Slashdot for the last few years, even going so far as to remove it from my RSS reader and bookmarks bar. I check back sometimes here and there but devote most of my time to HN/reddit now. Taco's farewell (and Hemos' reply in comments) really brought to me back why I liked Slashdot in the first place back in 1998- an editorial voice curating interesting tech stories. That editorial voice was importan…

> Ah slashdot, you truly taught me what a 'troll' was In a lot of interesting varieties! Some even sort of artistic, and some precursors of later SomethingAwful/4chan/internet-meme types of things. I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Slashdot editor Rob Malda resigned from his editorship this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the HN community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy…

Trolling as an art form. I can still remember when "subscriptions" to /. first came out and the people who added a line to their signatures, bemoaning the little asterisk by the name of subscribers. I think I was probably the first (and probably only) person who anonymously bought gift subscriptions to several of the worst complaining offenders. Apparently some of the recipients tried to refuse the gift subscriptions, but /. didn't have a process for that, and I probably gave the admins a headache that they didn't anticipate. Ah, those were the days...

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by nl »

sjs382 wrote: post #6
_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…

God, I miss K5...

What happened to K5?

I was one of the "cool kids" who switched from Slashdot to K5 back when it started (back then we had 3 digit K5 id numbers, now we have Klout scores)

I stopped visiting it, but I am curious why it seems to have half died, but is still running. What's the story there?

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by dholowiski »

sjs382 wrote: post #6
_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…

God, I miss K5...

Yeah, that was possibly the best site ever. Back when it went downhill all the people jumpt over to hulver.com but I left around that time. People talk about community, but that site was a _real_ community. Anyone remember the year we did a secret santa gift exchange?

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by dholowiski »

kahawe wrote: post #7
sjs382 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God, I miss K5...

Me too... they had some of the strangest and freaked-out submissions there. I don't know any substitute for it on today's internet. Last time I went to the website I was surprised it was still online and I felt really sad when I realized the frontpage submissions were weeks old. I feel old now, missing the 90s pre-bubble internet and I am sad I was just a few years too late to that party back then. sigh

I once had something I wrote on the front page... that was crazy. Remember how you would submit a post for editing first, and let the grammar geeks fix every little thing first? And you didn't just post a link to a blog post, you wrote the whole thing right there, on the site, the longer the better. I just looked for a link, but apparently my stories are too old, and are gone, and my last diary post was 2004. Anyone know where you can go to find that kind of community nowadays?

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by ahi »

r00fus wrote: post #93
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…

The comments were valuable in part because the moderation system was the first really good implementation... this was a huge win, and it's really sad that all other discussion sites haven't learned from it (slashcode is open source, so it's not a complete black-box).

slashcode is open source Perl, so it's not a complete black-box, but some might consider it an obfuscated-box.

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by phuff »

hemos wrote: post #88
Hisoka wrote: post #13

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Why does he even need a job? Didn't SlashDot earn him enough to live on for rest of his life?

Hahaha. If only; no, Rob and I will be working.

Also, way to totally blow past what took me like 6 months to get in HN karma points in like 7 hours... :) You sure know how to make a guy feel popular ;)

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by _delirium »

nl wrote: post #114
sjs382 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God, I miss K5...

What happened to K5? I was one of the "cool kids" who switched from Slashdot to K5 back when it started (back then we had 3 digit K5 id numbers, now we have Klout scores) I stopped visiting it, but I am curious why it seems to have half died, but is still running. What's the story there?

I think people just lost interest, mixture of the community losing interest and the founder losing interest. The rise of blogs didn't help, I don't think: many of the people who in 1999-2004 would've written an article to submit to Kuro5hin would today prefer to post it on their own blog and just submit links to places like HN/Reddit. That has the advantage of letting you "own" your writing, to build a personal brand, perhaps monetize it, etc.; but it does result imo in a bit less of a community aspect.

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by glassx »

pixelcloud wrote: post #112
matthavener wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Now everyone uses macbooks... Oh how the times have changed.

Yeah, but most of us who grew up and started using MacBooks still run Linux on our servers, we still that bit of /. inside us :)
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