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It's time to blatantly plug a recent addition to Slashdot's Subscription System: just in time for the holidays, you can now give a subscription to any other user. You have the choice to give your gift anonymously, or take credit for your fabulous selfless generosity. If that isn't enough, we still have assorted Slashdot Merchandise available at ThinkGeek... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
Hint to Slashdot (Score:2, Insightful)
Auctions by Slashdot (Score:3, Insightful)
You have a huge, loyal audience. A ton of people go through here everyday. They all have tons of gadgets, computers to sell, Batman dollies to shill. You have excellent (?) programmers - why keep tweaking Slash code? that's not making you money. build an auction system, and it will be a service to the community and keep you from begging. What a bunch of idiots you are. You're like Netscape, who waited too long and could have been like Yahoo, and blew it.
And put up classifieds, and maybe user group lists, where slash'ers in cities can meet. The Slash code is done enough, do something productive now. "Journals" won't make you money.
Go look at craigslist.com - see how they build their community. Spend 2 weeks analysing ebay in depth, then start building - you'll make mistakes, but start coding. look at some of the pre-built auction systems and learn. didn't Phil Greenspun's TCL system have an auction and classified system - download, learn the db schema, and do something practical.
what morons. not a drop of sense.
Re:Ironic! (Score:4, Insightful)
~50 posts, and this is the first one I've seen that isn't ringing the tired old "why pay for the cow when the milk is free" bell.
I'm happy to be a subscriber. The fact that I'm writing and you're reading means that Slashdot is of value to both of us. Do the trolls expect some angel to pay for Slashdot's bandwidth with manna from Heaven?
I, too, like the quality ads. I click more Slashdot ads than any other site's ads. Still not enough for a post-bust business model, though. $5 every few months is a small price to pay for this level of high-tech information/annoyance/entertainment.
Yeah, but..... (Score:2, Insightful)
The more t-shirts you buy, the more laundry you have to do.
Re:Auctions by Slashdot (Score:2, Insightful)
Heck, you can even have product reviews by posters. But something tells me that they haven't done this because of legal/financial concerns. When money is involved, or people's identities, that's were the mess starts.
But I think arbour42 could have posted his ideas in a more.... pleasant manner.
Re:Laundry! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Top Five Things I'd Pay For From Slashdot (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:A CHEAPER WAY TO SUBSCRIBE (Score:4, Insightful)
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You still miss out on the * beside your name, the pre
Why? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Why? (Score:1, Insightful)
Your opinion is valid and I agree, you should pay for and support that which has a value to you, whatever it may be. The definition of value is a little skewed though, for I tend to think of anything that can help me think or change no matter its frustration can be a value. As true to your original comment, the only "Why" there would be would be support, and the supposed value the admins think it will add to the experiance. In my opinion the former is more important than the latter in principle, as the "value" the extra features add can be more or less useful depending on the person.
Re:Surprised anyone subscribes at all (Score:4, Insightful)
Not quite. It's more like : "Why pay for rubbish when the good stuff is available legally for free."
Some of us realised this back in about 1994 and have never regretted having this insight.
Re:Sure... (Score:5, Insightful)
A nice benefit of membership is being able to see new articles an hour or so before non-members, allowing you to see sites before they get slashdotted and prepare a well thought out response before the comments page fills with didn't rtfa nonsense.
Re:Sure... (Score:4, Insightful)
O'reilly, IBM, Sourceforge, etc. It's stuff that I'm interested in generally. And I'm yet to see one of those annoying flash ads that float all over my screen.
Now if
wbs,