Talk:Slashdot

message: Do we really need to list all those people? --TheSeer (TalkˑContribs) 00:08, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In soviet russia people list you!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.107.46.3 (talk) 12:01, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  +1 Funny 74.131.110.31 (talk) 09:19, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

text: Even if we do list all these people, we don't need to list Hans Reiser as "ReiserFS creator and convicted murderer." The people in this section are listed because they are technology experts and culture figures. Surely Hans Reiser is a notable Slashdotter because of ReiserFS. Removed refs to murder, but open to debate. 91.104.156.83 (talk) 15:13, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Audience 

message: I've found reliable citations for three of the people on the list. I am unable to find good sources that meet Wikipedia's WP:RS criteria for these people, so I am moving them to the talk page for now. If a good source can be found (and not just a Slashdot user page), they can be added back with the citation, but a laundry list is really unnecessary.
* Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales 
* Nmap security scanner author Fyodor 
* GNOME and Mono architect Miguel de Icaza 
* Freenet creator Ian Clarke 
* ReiserFS creator and convicted murderer Hans Reiser (inactive)
* Open source evangelist Bruce Perens 
* MySQL AB CEO Mårten Mickos 
* Eric S. Raymond OpenSource evangelist
* O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly 
* Samba developer Jeremy Allison 
* Physicist and author Clifford Stoll 
* Linux kernel developer Alan Cox 
* Linspire founder and chairman Michael Robertson 
* Linux kernel developer Ingo Molnar 
* John Nagle – Nagle's algorithm 
* Attorney at law Ray Beckerman 
* Codeweavers Founder and CEO Jeremy White
* xkcd author Randall Munroe  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki.Tango.Foxtrot (talk • contribs) 05:16, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: list of famous slashdotters

message: The "Appearances in books" and "Appearances in popular fiction" sections are very unspecific and as such, not very useful, can anyone improve them that has access to those texts?  If the site is being merely "named" or "named indirectly" or "mentioned," that's of negligible encyclopedic value.  Шизомби (talk) 04:23, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There could also be appearance in games. For one, there was a reference to slashdot on Doom rpg mobile - when one server was slashdotted and went offline. 90.195.60.104 (talk)
Still not sure if minor "appearances" are notable or not, so I'm leaving it for now. Anyway, The novel Cosmonaut Keep is available on Google Books. Slashdot is mentioned on p. 29: "What's with the f**king news?" someone's saying, shaking his head and blinking hard. "I can't get CNN, can't even get Slashdot..." WTF? (talk) 15:41, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

text: Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else by Albert-László Barabási. The Slashdot effect is discussed with respect to network organization.
It doesn't seem to refer to the Slashdot effect, as stated, though it's difficult to confirm, since the particular pages of interest are not available at Google Books (I guess we'll have to see if it's in the library). Anyway, I found another book that's citing it -- here. It refers to, "A capability is provided for user or peer assessment of the quality and usefulness of the supplied metadata as well as the geographic data files.[cites 'Emergence'] The system also provides a means for reaching people interested in using or contributing commons-licensed geographic data.[cites 'Linked'] WTF? (talk) 16:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Appearances in" sections 

message: I've removed the following entry from the 'appearances in books section:
:Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else by Albert-László Barabási. The Slashdot effect is discussed with respect to network organization.
It doesn't seem to refer to the Slashdot effect, as stated, though it's difficult to confirm, since the particular pages of interest are not available at Google Books (I guess we'll have to see if it's in the library). Anyway, I found another book that's citing it -- here. It refers to, "A capability is provided for user or peer assessment of the quality and usefulness of the supplied metadata as well as the geographic data files.[cites 'Emergence'] The system also provides a means for reaching people interested in using or contributing commons-licensed geographic data.[cites 'Linked'] WTF? (talk) 16:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else

message: The primary sources tags need to be removed.  You're not going to get information on this subject from printed sources, because no other printed sources exist.
I won't do it myself, but can we at least get some discussion on this, rather than the usual tyrant simply materialising and reverting this edit to the talk page?
Petrus4 (talk) 06:05, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the primary sources tags from the article as I've been able to find quite a few reliable citations out there that aren't just linking to Slashdot itself. Primary sources don't necessarily need to be "printed sources", but there are quite a few books that can be found using Google Books that do talk in quite good detail about the site. WTF? (talk) 05:22, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary sources tags 

message: "Eighteenth century/Enlightenment (both Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson are occasionally quoted) Atheism is strongly prevalent among Slashdot's core audience, as are (particularly among Linux users) political tendencies towards various forms of Communism; however accusations of the latter will generally both cause offense and be strenuously (if dishonestly) denied.  The site's core audience was originally highly intellectual in nature, but with the advent of the 4chan/World of Warcraft forum subculture in recent years, this characteristic has lessened."
The increasingly outrageous uncited comments in this paragraph seem to be a joke, as the next.  I regret editing this out, because the it's rather clever and well-thought out. But... Tumacama (talk) 16:18, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Audience - political tendencies towards various forms of Communism; however  

message: Should we mention that Opera has an integrated feature that typing in the adressbar /. you automatic get to http://slashdot.org ? mabdul 17:31, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not very significant to be included in the page. It seems to be more of a feature of Opera, not Slashdot. There's probably other shortcuts to other websites on the browser, and Wikipedia doesn't need to provide a reference to all of them. WTF? (talk) 06:02, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivial 

message: As of today (31 August 2010) it seems that slashdot might be offline, or going offline.  Most of the pages are either not accessible or are returning "unexpected end of file" errors.  There have been talks of coming layoffs of current slashdot staff as well.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.79.62.75 (talk) 14:22, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Slashdot Off-Line? 

message: Slashdot readers were once tricked by enticing-sounding links into being Goatse'd, until Slashdot changed its link rendering code to always show the target domain.  I've added that, with citation, to the chronological history, between 2002 & 2005(when the cited source was published). --Lexein (talk) 04:41, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Slashdot golden oldie 

message: I just finished cleaning up a lot of the primary sources. I removed the ones that verified trivial information (what the third most popular article is/was, etc.), added a few citations to the more important information, and tagged the information that only cited slashdot.org links with . It's on its way to becoming a featured article, in my opinion! LiteralKa (talk) 23:41, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I cited one of the s, but removed two others, since Rob Malda can be considered a reliable primary source, and rephrased to read as primary source announcements.--Lexein (talk) 12:34, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

text: Not really what I call a "cleanup", more like a mass deletion where you've removed several items of key importance, which has now been reinstated. Deletion is not necessary. Rob Malda is also still a reliable source, though what we have to be careful of is to not include too many sources from Slashdot & Malda, and enough sources from reliable third parties. But there should be sufficient third party sources presently in the article so that a few sources to Malda's Slashdot posts should not be a problem. WTF? (talk) 19:28, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: Following a poor choice of wordings on Slashdot, someone is trolling this article changing every instance of "readers" to "audience". It is a disruptive edit tantamount to vandalism, but when I attempted to revert the changes, my own edit was reverted. A little help to make Wikipedia a better place? Huihermit (talk) 07:47, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: See also: Special:Contributions/174.20.132.32 Huihermit (talk) 07:54, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Readers => Audience 

message: Slashcode does redirect here but no discussion of Slashdot backend (which is apparently a GPL'ed webapp) is provided in the article. Personally I am not familiar with the topic so cannot write about it, but the omission is pretty obvious. 76.119.30.87 (talk) 19:01, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Slashdot runs on a content management system named Slash. Slashcode is the name of the website dedicated to this piece of software. ARK (talk) 00:49, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  no mention of "Slashcode" backend and its history 

message: Is there the slightest shred of third-party notability for any of these sites? - David Gerard (talk) 09:04, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: A google search shows it mentioned in many places.  What specifically would qualify as third-party notability?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.213.17.69 (talk) 20:52, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Read WP:V, WP:RS and WP:OR - David Gerard (talk) 21:20, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soylent News, etc 

message: Based on the Wayback Machine, it looks like todhsals moved to http://backslashdot.tumblr.com/ in 2011. However, there hasn't been a new post there since 2012. I'm not sure how (or if) to update this citation. Everdred (talk) 16:48, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "An external site, todhsalS..." 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: the Slashdot article claims that Slashdot uses Slash, but the Slash article claims that Slashdot abandoned Slash long ago.  Both can't be true :)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.70.33.230 (talk) 20:17, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I'm not familiar with Slashdot's history but I found it a bit weird that subsection [] lists the original precursor "Chips & Dips" as being launched in "October 1997" and that it later became Slashdot in "September 1997", a month earlier. Whats up with that?
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thread_title:  original launch date 

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