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Post by NetMageSCW »

dotancohen wrote: post #362
throawayonthe wrote: post #353

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i don't think these are as contradictory as you make them out to be

I'm not pointing out a contradiction. I am pointing out that this site - which otherwise seems great - it heavily promoting the popular-online side of a very controversial subject. It looks like they know how to grow an audience at the expense of discourse, because those adherent to the popular-online side will heavily attack all publications that discuss the other side. Recognising this, it is hard to seriously cons…

That’s interesting to me because my trust in Consumer Reports was heavily eroded when I read a review on computer printers that was basically all wrong and wondered if any of there other reviews could possibly be trusted.

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tapoxi wrote: post #264
anthonj wrote: post #236

I have very strong, probably controversial, feeling on arstechnica, but I believe the acquisition from Condé Nast has been a tragedy. Ars writers used to be actual experts, sometimes even phd level, on technical fields. And they used to write fantastical and very informative articles. Who is left now? There are still a couple of good writers from the old guard and the occasional good new one, but the website is flood…

> I have very strong, probably controversial, feeling on arstechnica, but I believe the acquisition from Condé Nast has been a tragedy. For the curious, this acquisition was 18 years ago.

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lukeschlather wrote: post #437
cubefox wrote: post #421

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Apart from articles by the two space reporters, any news about Musk tend to be biased towards being extremely negative.

Aside from SpaceX, has there been any positive news about Musk lately?

Would that excuse being extremely negative about anything that is much less than extremely negative?

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Post by NetMageSCW »

hed wrote: post #282
kethinov wrote: post #245

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The comments section on Ars is particularly depressing. I've been posting there for two decades and watched it slowly devolve from a place where thoughtful discussions happened to now just being one of the worst echo chambers on the internet, like a bad subreddit. I've made suggestions over the years in their public feedback surveys to alter their forum software to discourage mob behavior, but they don't seem to be d…

I can only conclude it’s what they want at this point

It is certainly how they moderate.

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Post by NetMageSCW »

lukeschlather wrote: post #437
cubefox wrote: post #421

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Apart from articles by the two space reporters, any news about Musk tend to be biased towards being extremely negative.

Aside from SpaceX, has there been any positive news about Musk lately?

Gitlin, at least, also slants the negative news. The story on sales about Tesla losing market share to VW, but other outlets reported it as VW gaining the top spot.

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Post by NetMageSCW »

bsimpson wrote: post #380
crims0n wrote: post #363

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The agenda is to highlight when Trump and Elon blunder but ignore neutral or positive stories. Go to the front page right now and look at the articles, I see four mentioning Trump that are negatively charged. That isn't to say any one article is untrue, but hard to miss the curated pattern

Honest question: has he done anything you think warrants good press? I too quickly grew tired of the constant doomerism in his first term, but this one seems to be unmitigatedly terrible.

Nothing Trump or his administration has done warrants good press.

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doyougnu wrote: post #412

I'm honestly shocked by this having been an Ars reader for over ten years. I miss the days when they would publish super in-depth articles on computing. Since the Conde Nast acquisition I basically only go to ars for Beth Mole's coverage which is still top notch. Other than that I've found that the Verge fulfills the need that I used to get from Ars. I also support the Verge as a paid subscriber and cannot recommend…

That’s interesting because I’ll still read the (mostly space) articles at Ars and dumped The Verge a few years ago for their hard turn into popularism.

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Post by metabagel »

amarant wrote: post #446
miltonlost wrote: post #410

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Ah, and here my problem with Eric is he basically never criticizes Elon and only calls him "controversial". He's just a Musk mouthpiece at this point.

Ars is already a anti-Elon echo chamber. I stopped paying my subscription after a moderator endorsed a commenter issuing a (almost certainly empty) death threat to Elon. I think death threats are a bit too far. But in that environment I have to applause Eric for sticking to the technical and not giving in to the angry mob think that surrounds him. A true tech journalist with integrity. A mouth piece would be lauding…

Musk illegally impounded funds resulting in about 800,000 deaths a year for the foreseeable future. It does tend to make one angry.

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Post by trollbridge »

guiambros wrote: post #391
herodoturtle wrote: post #385

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Certainly not the only old fart ‘round these parts. Your comment reminded me of Dr Dobbs Journal for some reason.

Dr Dobbs was pretty good until almost the end, no? If memory serves me well, I recall the magazine got thinner and more sparse towards the end, but still high signal-to-noise ratio. Quite the opposite of Ars T. Huge debt of gratitude to DDJ. I remember taking the bus to the capital every month just to buy the magazine on the newsstand.

I would go to the library on my bicycle to scour for a new copy of DDJ as a 10 year old.

I had dreams of someday meeting “Dr. Dobbs.” Of course, that was back in the day when Microsoft mailed me a free Windows SDK with printed manuals when I sent them a letter asking them how to write Windows programs, complete with a note from somebody important (maybe Ballmer) wishing me luck programming for Windows. Wish I’d kept it.

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