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I figured I'd check out Slashdot after a decade-plus long hiatus... clicked on a comment section to be greeted by a pages-long scrolling message with some QAnon
by chefandy 5y ago
I figured I'd check out Slashdot after a decade-plus long hiatus... clicked on a comment section to be greeted by a pages-long scrolling message with some QAnon drivel and dozens of huge ascii swastikas. Flagged it. Never got taken down. Same message in damn near every other story on there. Ok... bye. It's not like they're just being inundated and not able to respond— that site is so low-volume they could hire a task rabbit for $5 every day to go through and delete all of the swastikas and it would drastically less off-putting. Or maybe just require logins? No allow monospaced text in posts?
Not sure what signals you'd need to realize your formerly excellent site is a giant moldering dumpster and you should just throw archives from the first 15 years somewhere and call it a day— but I'm pretty confident they were just ignoring those signals like 10 years ago.
- seattle_spring 5y ago