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Slashdot(/.)
Type of site
Online newspaper
Social news
Available inEnglish
OwnerSlashdot Media[1]
Created byRob Malda
Jeff Bates
Key peopleLogan Abbott (President)[2]
RevenueAdvertisement, optional subscription
URLslashdot.org
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedOctober 5, 1997;26 years ago(1997-10-05)[3]
Current statusOnline

Slashdot(sometimes abbreviated as/.) is asocial newswebsite that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news stories on science, technology, and politics that are submitted and evaluated by site users and editors. Each story has a comments section where users can add online comments.

The website was founded in 1997 byHope CollegestudentsRob Malda,also known as "CmdrTaco", and classmateJeff Bates,also known as "Hemos". In 2012, they sold it to[4]DHI Group, Inc. (i.e., Dice Holdings International, which created theDice.comwebsite for tech job seekers[5][6]). In January 2016, BIZX acquired bothslashdot.organdSourceForge.[7][8][9]In December 2019, BIZX rebranded toSlashdot Media.[10]

Summaries of stories and links to news articles are submitted by Slashdot's own users, and each story becomes the topic of a threaded discussion among users. Discussion is moderated by a user-based moderation system. Randomly selected moderators are assigned points (typically 5) which they can use to rate a comment. Moderation applies either−1or+1to the current rating, based on whether the comment is perceived as either "normal", "offtopic", "insightful", "redundant", "interesting", or "troll"(among others).

The site's comment and moderation system is administered by its ownopen sourcecontent management system,Slash,which is available under theGNU General Public License.In 2012,Slashdothad around 3.7 millionunique visitorsper month and received over 5300 comments per day.[5]The site has won more than 20 awards, includingPeople's Voice Awardsin 2000 for "Best Community Site" and "Best News Site". At its peak use, a news story posted to the site with a link could overwhelm some smaller or independent sites. This phenomenon was known as the "Slashdot effect".

History[edit]

1990s[edit]

Co-foundersRob MaldaandJeff Bates
Co-founderJeff Bates

Slashdot was preceded byRob Malda'spersonal website"Chips & Dips", which launched in October 1997,[11]featured a single "rant" each day about something that interested its author – typically something to do withLinuxoropen sourcesoftware. At the time, Malda was a student atHope CollegeinHolland, Michigan,majoring in computer science. The site became "Slashdot" in September 1997[contradictory]under the slogan "News for Nerds.[12][13]Stuff that Matters ", and quickly became a hotspot on the Internet for news and information of interest to computer geeks.[14]

The name "Slashdot" came from a somewhat "obnoxious parody of aURL"– when Malda registered the domain, he desired to make a name that was" silly and unpronounceable "– try pronouncing out, 'h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-org'".[15]By June 1998, the site was seeing as many as 100,000 page views per day and advertisers began to take notice.[14]By December 1998, Slashdot had net revenues of $18,000, yet its Internet profile was higher and revenues were expected to increase.

On June 29, 1999, the site was sold to Linux megasiteAndover.netfor $1.5 million in cash and $7 million in Andover stock at theInitial public offering(IPO) price. Part of the deal was contingent upon the continued employment of Malda and Bates and on the achievement of certain "milestones". With the acquisition of Slashdot, Andover.net could now advertise itself as "the leading Linux/Open Source destination on the Internet".[16][17]Andover.net merged withVA Linuxon February 3, 2000,[18]changed its name toSourceForge, Inc.on May 24, 2007, and then becameGeeknet, Inc.on November 4, 2009.[19]

2000s[edit]

Slashdot's 10,000th article was posted after two and a half years on February 24, 2000,[20]and the 100,000th article was posted on December 11, 2009, after 12 years online.[21]During the first 12 years, the most active story with the most responses posted was the post-2004 US Presidential Electionarticle "Kerry Concedes Election To Bush" with 5,687 posts. This followed the creation of a new article section,politics.slashdot.org,created at the start of the 2004 election on September 7, 2004.[22]Many of the most popular stories are political, with "Strike on Iraq" (March 19, 2003) the second-most-active article and "Barack Obama Wins US Presidency" (November 5, 2008) the third-most-active. The rest of the 10 most active articles are an article announcing the2005 London bombings,and several articles aboutEvolutionvs.Intelligent Design,Saddam Hussein's capture, andFahrenheit 9/11.Articles aboutMicrosoftand its Windows Operating System are popular. A thread posted in 2002 titled "What's Keeping You On Windows?" was the 10th-most-active story, and an article about Windows 2000/NT4 source-code leaks the most visited article with more than 680,000 hits.[23]Some controversy erupted on March 9, 2001, after an anonymous user posted the full text ofScientology's "Operating Thetan Level Three" (OT III) document in a comment attached to a Slashdot article. TheChurch of Scientologydemanded that Slashdot remove the document under theDigital Millennium Copyright Act.A week later, in a long article, Slashdot editors explained their decision to remove the page while providing links and information on how to get the document from other sources.[24]

Slashdot Japan was launched on May 28, 2001 (although the first article was published April 5, 2001) and is an official offshoot of the US-based Web site. As of January 2010the site was owned by OSDN-Japan, Inc., and carried some of the US-based Slashdot articles as well as localized stories.[25][26]An external site,New Media Services,has reported the importance of Online Moderation last December 1, 2011.[27]OnValentine's Day2002, founder Rob Malda proposed to longtime girlfriend Kathleen Fent using the front page of Slashdot.[28][29]They were married on December 8, 2002, inLas Vegas,Nevada.[30]Slashdot implemented a paid subscription service on March 1, 2002. Slashdot's subscription model works by allowing users to pay a small fee to be able to view pages withoutbanner ads,starting at a rate of $5 per 1,000 page views – non-subscribers may still view articles and respond to comments, with banner ads in place.[31]On March 6, 2003, subscribers were given the ability to see articles 10 to 20 minutes before they are released to the public.[32]Slashdot altered its threaded discussion forum display software to explicitly show domains for links in articles, as "users made a sport out of tricking unsuspecting readers into visiting [Goatse.cx]. "[33]

In observance ofApril Fools' Dayin 2006, Slashdot temporarily changed its signature teal color theme to a warm palette of bubblegum pink and changed itsmastheadfrom the usual, "News for Nerds" motto to, "OMG!!! Ponies!!!"[12]Editors joked that this was done to increase female readership.[34]In another supposed April Fools' Day joke, User Achievement tags were introduced on April 1, 2009.[35]This system allowed users to be tagged with various achievements, such as "The Tagger" for tagging a story or "Member of the {1,2,3,4,5} Digit UID Club" for having a Slashdot UID consisting of a certain number of digits. While it was posted on April Fools' Day to allow for certain joke achievements, the system is real.[36]Slashdot unveiled its newly redesigned site on June 4, 2006, following a CSS Redesign Competition. The winner of the competition was Alex Bendiken, who built on the initial CSS framework of the site. The new site looks similar to the old one but is more polished with more rounded curves, collapsible menus, and updated fonts.[37]On November 9 that same year, Malda wrote that Slashdot attained 16,777,215 (or 224− 1) comments, which broke the database for three hours until the administrators fixed the problem.[38]

2010s[edit]

On July 11, 2010, SlashDot was the first major media platform whereBitcoin,the first cryptocurrency, was publicized.[39]On January 25, 2011, the site launched its third major redesign in its 13.5-year history, which gutted theHTMLandCSS,and updated the graphics.[40]On August 25, 2011, Malda resigned as Editor-in-Chief with immediate effect. He did not mention any plans for the future, other than spending more time with his family, catching up on some reading, and possibly writing a book.[41][42]His final farewell message received over 1,400 comments within 24 hours on the site.[43]On December 7, 2011, Slashdot announced that it would start to push what the company described as "sponsored" Ask Slashdot questions.[44]On March 28, 2012, Slashdot launched Slashdot TV.[45]Two months later, in May 2012, Slashdot launched SlashBI, SlashCloud, and SlashDataCenter, three websites dedicated to original journalistic content. The websites proved controversial, with longtime Slashdot users commenting that the original content ran counter to the website's longtime focus on user-generated submissions.[46]Nick Kolakowski, the editor of the three websites, told The Next Web that the websites were "meant to complement Slashdot with an added layer of insight into a very specific area of technology, without interfering with Slashdot's longtime focus on tech-community interaction and discussion." Despite the debate, articles published on SlashCloud and SlashBI attracted attention from io9,[47]NPR,[48]Nieman Lab,[49]Vanity Fair, and other publications.

In September 2012, Slashdot,SourceForge,andFreecodewere acquired by online job siteDice.comfor $20 million, and incorporated into a subsidiary known as Slashdot Media.[5][6]While initially stating that there were no plans for major changes to Slashdot,[6]in October 2013, Slashdot launched a "beta" for a significant redesign of the site, which featured a simpler appearance and commenting system.[50][51][52]While initially an opt-in beta, the site automatically began migrating selected users to the new design in February 2014; the rollout led to a negative response from many longtime users, upset by the added visual complexity, and the removal of features, such as comment viewing, that distinguished Slashdot from other news sites. An organized boycott of the site was held from February 10 to 17, 2014.[50]The "beta" site was eventually shelved. In July 2015, Dice announced that it planned to sell Slashdot and SourceForge; in particular, the company stated in a filing that it was unable to "successfully [leverage] the Slashdot user base to further Dice's digital recruitment business".[53]

On January 27, 2016, the two sites were sold to the San Diego-based BizX, LLC for an undisclosed amount.[9][53][54]

Administration[edit]

Team[edit]

Rob Malda, co-founder of Slashdot
Rob Malda, co-founder of Slashdot

It was run by its founder,Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda,from 1998 until 2011.[55]He shared editorial responsibilities with several other editors including Timothy Lord, Patrick "Scuttlemonkey" McGarry, Jeff "Soulskill" Boehm, Rob "Samzenpus" Rozeboom, and Keith Dawson.[56][57]Jonathan "cowboyneal" Pater is another popular editor of Slashdot, who came to work for Slashdot as a programmer and systems administrator. His online nickname (handle), CowboyNeal, is inspired by aGrateful Deadtribute toNeal Cassadyin their song, "That's It for the Other One". He is best known as the target of the usual comic poll option,[58]a tradition started byChris DiBona.[59]

Software[edit]

Slashdot runs onSlash,acontent management systemavailable under theGNU General Public License.[60]Early versions of Slash were written byRob Maldain the spring of 1998. After Andover.net bought Slashdot in June 1999,[61]Several programmers were hired to structure the code and render it scalable, as its users had increased from a few hundred to tens of thousands. This work was done by Brian Aker, Patrick Galbraith, Chris Nandor and others, resulting in version 2 of the software, released in 2001.[62]Slash remainsFree softwareand anyone can contribute to development.

Peer moderation[edit]

Slashdot's editors are primarily responsible for selecting and editing the primary stories that are posted daily by submitters. The editors provide a one-paragraph summary for each story and a link to an external website where the story originated. Each story becomes the topic for a threaded discussion among the site's users.[63]A user-basedmoderation systemis employed to filter out abusive or offensive comments.[64]Every comment is initially given a score of−1to+2,with a default score of+1for registered users,0for anonymous users (Anonymous Coward),+2for users with high "karma", or−1for users with low "karma". As moderators read comments attached to articles, they click to moderate the comment, either up (+1) or down (−1). Moderators may choose to attach a particular descriptor to the comments as well, such as "normal", "offtopic", "flamebait","troll","redundant "," insightful "," interesting "," informative "," funny "," overrated ", or" underrated ", with each corresponding to a−1or+1rating. So a comment may be seen to have a rating of "+1 insightful" or "−1 troll".[57]Comments are very rarely deleted, even if they contain hateful remarks.[65][66]

Starting in August 2019 anonymous comments and postings have been disabled.

Moderation points add to a user's rating, which is known as "karma"on Slashdot. Users with high" karma "are eligible to become moderators themselves. The system does not promote regular users as" moderators "and instead assigns five moderation points at a time to users based on the number of comments they have entered in the system – once a user's moderation points are used up, they can no longer moderate articles (though they can be assigned more moderation points at a later date). Paid staff editors have an unlimited number of moderation points.[57][63][67]A given comment can have any integer score from−1to+5,and registered users of Slashdot can set a personal threshold so that no comments with a lesser score are displayed.[63][67]For instance, a user reading Slashdot at level+5will only see the highest rated comments, while a user reading at level−1will see a more "unfiltered, anarchic version".[57]Ameta-moderation systemwas implemented on September 7, 1999,[68]to moderate the moderators and help contain abuses in the moderation system.[69][unreliable source?][page needed]Meta-moderators are presented with a set of moderations that they may rate as eitherfairorunfair.For each moderation, the meta-moderator sees the original comment and the reason assigned by the moderator (e.g.troll,funny), and the meta-moderator can click to see the context of comments surrounding the one that was moderated.[63][67]

Features[edit]

Tags[edit]

Slashdot uses a system of "tags" where users can categorize a story to group them together and sorting them. Tags are written in all lowercase, with no spaces, and limited to 64 characters. For example, articles could be tagged as being about "security" or "mozilla". Some articles are tagged with longer tags, such as "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" (expressing the perception of catastrophic risk), "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" (used when the community feels that the subject has finally figured out something obvious), "correlationnotcausation" (used when scientific articles lack direct evidence; seecorrelation does not imply causation), or "getyourasstomars" (commonly seen in articles aboutMarsorspace exploration).[70][71]

Culture[edit]

See also:Internet memeandList of Internet phenomena
Tux, the mascot of Linux

As an online community with primarily user-generated content, many in-jokes andinternet memeshave developed over the course of the site's history. A popularmeme(based on an unscientific Slashdot user poll[72]) is, "InSoviet Russia,nounverbyou! "[73]This type of joke has its roots in the 1960s or earlier, and is known as a "Russian reversal".Other popular memes usually pertain to computing or technology, such as" Imagine aBeowulf clusterof these ",[74]"But does it runLinux?",[75]or "Netcraftnow confirms:BSD(or some other software package or item) is dying. "[76]Users will also typically refer to articles referring to data storage and data capacity by inquiring how much it is in units ofLibraries of Congress.[77]Sometimes bandwidth speeds are referred to in units of Libraries of Congress per second. When numbers are quoted, people will comment that the number happens to be the "combination to their luggage" (a reference to theMel BrooksfilmSpaceballs) and express false anger at the person who revealed it.

Slashdotters often use the abbreviation TFA which stands forThe fucking articleorRTFA( "Read the fucking article" ), which itself is derived from the abbreviationRTFM.[78]Usage of this abbreviation often exposes comments from posters who have not read the article linked to in the main story. Slashdotters typically like to mock then United States SenatorTed Stevens' 2006 description of the Internet as a "series of tubes"[79][80]or former Microsoft CEOSteve Ballmer's chair-throwing incident from 2005.[81][82]Microsoft founderBill Gatesis a popular target of jokes by Slashdotters, and all stories about Microsoft were once identified with a graphic of Gates looking like aBorgfromStar Trek: The Next Generation.[83]Many Slashdotters have long talked about the supposed release ofDuke Nukem Forever,which was promised in 1997 but was delayed indefinitely (the game was eventually released in 2011).[84]References to the game are commonly brought up in other articles about software packages that are not yet in production even though the announced delivery date has long passed (seevaporware). Having a low Slashdotuser identifier (user ID)is highly valued since they are assigned sequentially; having one is a sign that someone has an older account and has contributed to the site longer. For Slashdot's 10-year anniversary in 2007, one of the items auctioned off in the charity auction for theElectronic Frontier Foundationwas a 3-digit Slashdot user ID.[36][85]

Traffic and publicity[edit]

See also:Slashdot effect
This graph shows the sudden surge in web traffic that a popular news story on Slashdot can cause.

In 2006, Slashdot had approximately 5.5 million users per month.

The primary stories on the site consist of a short synopsis paragraph, a link to the original story, and a lengthy discussion section, all contributed by users. At its peak, discussion on stories could get up to 10,000 posts per day. Slashdot has been considered a pioneer in user-driven content, influencing other sites such asGoogle Newsand Wikipedia.[86][87] There has been a dip in readership as of 2011, primarily due to the increase of technology-related blogs and Twitter feeds.[88]

In 2002, approximately 50% of Slashdot's traffic consisted of people who simply check out the headlines and click through, while others participate in discussion boards and take part in the community.[89]Many links in Slashdot stories caused the linked site to get swamped by heavy traffic and its server to collapse. This was known as the "Slashdot effect",[86][89]a term first coined on February 15, 1999, that refers to an article about a "new generation of niche Web portals driving unprecedented amounts of traffic to sites of interest".[87][90]

Slashdot has received over twenty awards, includingPeople's Voice Awardsin 2000 in both of the categories for which it was nominated (Best Community SiteandBest News Site).[91]It was also voted as one ofNewsweek's favorite technology Web sites and rated inYahoo!'s Top 100 Web sites as the "Best Geek Hangout" (2001).[92]The main antagonists in the 2004 novelCentury Rain,byAlastair Reynolds– The Slashers – are named after Slashdot users.[93]The site was mentioned briefly in the 2000 novelCosmonaut Keep,written byKen MacLeod.[94]Several tech celebrities have stated that they either checked the website regularly or participated in its discussion forums using an account. Some of these celebrities include: Apple co-founderSteve Wozniak,[95]writer and actorWil Wheaton,[96]andid Softwaretechnical directorJohn Carmack.[97][dubious–discuss]

Blocking[edit]

Slashdot has been blocked throughout the various periods of time inCuba.[citation needed]

Deterioration[edit]

  • Unlike other sites,UTF-8was never adopted. All text is rendered asASCII.Including parts of news posts quoted from third party sites.
  • The mobile interface, added after Slashdot was sold off, was never finished, and lacks fundamental functionality, like account settings, anonymous posting, choice of markup style (important because of above lack of UTF-8), etc.
  • No visible changes to the site have been made since the addition of the mobile interface and rudimentaryasynchronous functionality.
  • Comment numbers have declined to a tenth compared to its golden age.[98]
  • As of late Summer 2023, the registration mechanism for new users is disabled, and manual requests via feedback e-mail must be made.[99]

See also[edit]

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