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Comment Re: now that he said that... (Score 1) 299

Spez is wrong, and I'll tell you why. Look at my user account. This entire episode has pissed a lot of people off, to the point of going back to previously visited forums. This is as big as the Digg 4.0 debacle. Reddit owes it's current existence to that event, but has to realize that it can all come crashing down. But this is 13 years since that event that exploded Reddit popularity. While it has become the next Facebook essentially, with local subs for nearly every city in North America and Europe, nothing stops it from losing all of this. If the mods abandon subs and the admins are forced to take over, only the largest subs will survive. All of the local city subs will disappear because they won't have the subscriber count high enough for the admins to care. All of the niche specialty subs with the information everyone searches Google for will disappear. All of the TV show subs will disappear. And at a certain point, all that will be left are the top 20 subs. And that's when user engagement will start dropping. Reddit will survive in some form, but the soul will be dead within 2 years. Everyone will go elsewhere for the specialty discussions and the local content. It's already starting to happen. I'm just one example.
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Journal Journal: Why I troll: Slashdot is worthless 7

So today I wondered what it is about Apple, that they generate buzz when others dont. For a while, I was modded up, and had my karma back and was engaged in a little discussion about it. For a moment, it was like the old days - back when /. was a tech discussion site.

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Journal Journal: F/LOSS Ad Campaign Launched

last oct. 6th i decided to use my extra bandwidth to promote linux. how? i had an installation of phpadsnew2 (now called openads) at Ads in Egypt and decided to open up the access to the world and the result was the F/LOSS Ad Campaign.

You can read the press release at PR News in Egypt and more details here.

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Journal Journal: People Hate Slashdot

Yeah yeah, I hate my job. That's not the topic of this rant though. I'm still trying to figure this out, but there are people who hate Slashdot. Hell, they even openly admit it. There are even websites promoting ways to try and "take down the evil" or whatever other bullshit they are spouting about. What I want to know is: Why? Why bother? So they don't like the site, or the mods, or T
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Journal Journal: Why does it hurt to come to work...

This is just a rant...

I hate insurance. More specifically, I hate working for an insurance company. I don't know what it is. Maybe I'm just too much of the geeky tech type for these people. Or too much of the will-do-anything-for-fun type. Whatever it is, I do not fit in with these people. They're mostly just uptight "business" people, save for the redeemable few. And even they are a little too uptight at times.

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