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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 quinndupont »

possibilistic wrote: post #108
hemos wrote: post #87

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The moderation system is one of the things Rob and I are most proud of. We set out to make a system that would allow for anonymous postings while avoiding it turning into Usenet. I think, with some hiccups, we largely succeeded. We also took careful steps to make sure that we get anonymized all the data; all the IPs and subnets are hashed, so even we can't go back and find the real IP while still having something to…

You guys did great! Nothing in the world even comes close to /. moderation. Reddit is a prime example of a simple karma system going off the deep end. Instead of reinforcing good behavior, the trend is now that a substantial majority of the community competes for karma score. The noise level has increased sharply over the previous years such that the "popular reddits" are now in the same domain as Digg or 4chan. (Tha…

Absolutely spot on for Reddit. Don't get me wrong, it's amusing as hell, and the community is open about it's Karma-mongering, but still... basically broken from the point of view of intelligent, accurate, discussion. /. was always good in moderation and what gets posted.

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by GaryOlson »

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.

Not to pry -- but did you get any offers of teaching/research posts at a university teaching social media? Did you consider taking any possible offers?

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by adamc »

prawn wrote: post #109
bcl wrote: post #21

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I quit reading /. when the comments became too difficult to wade through, even when reading only +5's the system became overloaded with noise so I stopped visiting. HN is now my go-to site for news, due to the high quality of the comments (read 'em first to see if the link is worth the time) and the generally high value of articles.

I quit years ago when the obvious meme-jokes heavily outweighed any interesting discussion. Even knocking down Funny posts didn't always help. On the very few occasions when I've returned, I've also really, really disliked the adjustments to the comment filtering and viewing - looks ugly and seems quite confusing. Like others, I do think they had an excellent moderation system that no one else seems to have matched s…

Similar experiences here, but I still remember /. and CmdrTaco with fondness. It was an incredibly cool idea, even if it didn't completely evolve the way I would have liked.

I'll be impressed if Hacker News can avoid the problems popularity seems to bring.

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by rufugee »

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

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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.

Not everyone... ;-) Linux on the desktop since 97. I've tried Windows, OS X, and nothing can replace the productivity I get from Linux.

Slashdot will always be home to me. I haven't visited my real home town in over a decade, and sadly, /. is headed towards the same fate.

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by Sixing »

_delirium wrote: post #43
jcurbo wrote: post #31

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Indeed, I entered college for CS in 1998 and Slashdot was my main source of tech news for many years. (userid #132!) The comments would actually have more info on the story, or even someone related to the story itself posting (e.g. Carmack) I still have /. in my RSS reader but don't really read the comments anymore... however one of the main reasons I come to HN is for the comments, just like /. years ago.

Re: Carmack, someone's collected all his Slashdot posts (1999-2008): http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/carmack/slashdot.html

Sounds Carmack is famous , great links, I'll bookmark it, thanks!

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by Sixing »

rikthevik wrote: post #79
raphman wrote: post #70

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As someone on /. noted, Slashdot was also founded in September 1997, the same month that Steve Jobs returned to Apple. Maybe this coincidence influenced Rob's decision.

Wait, has anyone ever seen cmdrtaco and Steve Jobs in the same place? Maybe they're the same person! :)

Yeah, good script

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by nl »

_delirium wrote: post #119
nl wrote: post #114

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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…

It's funny because K5 diaries were one of the very early blog implementations.

Re: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

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Post by nl »

I feel really old now. All the things I remember most about Slashdot seem to have been forgotten.

Things I remember (most of these are pre-2000):

Netscape being open sourced (and the role Slashdot played in that)

Oracle shipping on Linux

The hidden Slashdot threads (wah_is_cool anyone?)

Discovering a input validation hole that let me post a "Powered by Windows NT" image in the middle of a thread about the original CERT XSS attack warning (http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html)

Signal11 vs CmdrTaco (http://www.kuro5hin.org/images/kuro5hin_Sig11_vs_Taco.html)

The K5 split

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