Comments on: Is Slashdot dying? http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:12:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: epeaksoft http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-3643 epeaksoft Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:54:53 +0000 http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-3643 what did you use to create your graphs? what did you use to create your graphs?

]]> By: veridicus http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-393 veridicus Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:36:13 +0000 http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-393 The comments on /. still make it superior to any other similar web site. Many of the best slashdot comments are collected at http://seenonslash.com The comments on /. still make it superior to any other similar web site. Many of the best slashdot comments are collected at http://seenonslash.com

]]> By: billy http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-295 billy Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:01:00 +0000 http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-295 Interesting studies, and topic as well. I am wondering if you can provide the plot for the number of stories on /. (which I believe is for sure growing)? It seems to me the more stories, the denominator is bigger when you calculate "Daily average comments per story". I'm not a big fan for RSS, never digg after a few try. but to me RSS and digg should bring in more appropriate audience thus comments to a /. story, if RSS/digg work the way it should. It's like, the short header attracted someone to that particular /. story. The viewer should be at least interested in the story to do that extra step and they should be more likely to comment. in short, i guess it's simply becasue there are more stories on /. or Maybe people got overloaded. Interesting studies, and topic as well. I am wondering if you can provide the plot for the number of stories on /. (which I believe is for sure growing)? It seems to me the more stories, the denominator is bigger when you calculate “Daily average comments per story”.

I’m not a big fan for RSS, never digg after a few try. but to me RSS and digg should bring in more appropriate audience thus comments to a /. story, if RSS/digg work the way it should. It’s like, the short header attracted someone to that particular /. story. The viewer should be at least interested in the story to do that extra step and they should be more likely to comment.

in short, i guess it’s simply becasue there are more stories on /. or Maybe people got overloaded.

]]> By: Anunnaki http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-214 Anunnaki Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:37:31 +0000 http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-214 I think when Sites like DIGG came up, they provided a place for people that they could more easily understand thatn what is being presented at /. *g* Diggs overall quality is pretty low compared to Slashdot, and even in the comments section you can see the difference... at slashdot, you have to think more - dont want to sound arrogant but its what I think. The web is more casual than intellectual for most people, at least in what they are looking for... but it shouldnt matter.... Heise's Telepolis (mostly german) never has had a large amount of readers and its been around for a long time anyway... slashdot is just loosing the poeple that came there because of the lack of simplier alternatives but this doesnt necessairily imply than every story on /. is of high quality also.. but I think the average is :-) sorry for late commenting :) I think when Sites like DIGG came up, they provided a place for people that they could more easily understand thatn what is being presented at /. *g*

Diggs overall quality is pretty low compared to Slashdot, and even in the comments section you can see the difference…

at slashdot, you have to think more - dont want to sound arrogant but its what I think. The web is more casual than intellectual for most people, at least in what they are looking for…

but it shouldnt matter…. Heise’s Telepolis (mostly german) never has had a large amount of readers and its been around for a long time anyway…

slashdot is just loosing the poeple that came there because of the lack of simplier alternatives but this doesnt necessairily imply than every story on /. is of high quality also.. but I think the average is :-)

sorry for late commenting :)

]]> By: Joe Smith http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-179 Joe Smith Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:01:05 +0000 http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-179 Loved your article and graphs. I'm a quant so I really dig your methods. Your charts are so lively that I wish you would post a "how to" for us online. In my blog post about your post I say that your graphics look "Web 2.0ish". Excellent! >> Article shows Slashdot is dying using extremely cool graphs! Loved your article and graphs. I’m a quant so I really dig your methods. Your charts are so lively that I wish you would post a “how to” for us online. In my blog post about your post I say that your graphics look “Web 2.0ish”. Excellent!

>> Article shows Slashdot is dying using extremely cool graphs!

]]> By: jb http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-177 jb Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:44:41 +0000 http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-177 They were initially created in Excel (for OS X), then moved into Photoshop for a little cleanup. The XY-scatter is almost as-is from Excel, but I did redraw the line graph. They were initially created in Excel (for OS X), then moved into Photoshop for a little cleanup. The XY-scatter is almost as-is from Excel, but I did redraw the line graph.

]]> By: cw http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-176 cw Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:39:02 +0000 http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-176 indeed, what did you use to create your graphs? indeed, what did you use to create your graphs?

]]> By: nicolas http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-174 nicolas Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:46:21 +0000 http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-174 nice grap and interesting thoughts. btw: what tool did you use, to draw the graph and the pattern? nice grap and interesting thoughts.

btw: what tool did you use, to draw the graph and the pattern?

]]> By: Pol http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-172 Pol Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:22:06 +0000 http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-172 One thing to say to this: http://diggdot.us That's replaced my homepage. It's all I need (granted there is some duping, but I don't care much). One thing to say to this: http://diggdot.us

That’s replaced my homepage. It’s all I need (granted there is some duping, but I don’t care much).

]]> By: Preston http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-171 Preston Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:39:09 +0000 http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/20/is-slashdot-dying/#comment-171 "Slashdot has professional and qualtiy articles on daily basis which Digg lacks of and if they have some articles those are still terrible and very messy." You're kidding, right? Slashdot's articles are either wrong headlines, dupes, reposts of stuff that was on Digg the day before, or big editorials that don't belong on the front page of a "professional" tech news site, such as poor little CmdrTaco complaining for seven paragraphs about not being able to use his nick in World of Warcraft because it's against the rules to use a title in your name. SEVEN PARAGRAPHS! “Slashdot has professional and qualtiy articles on daily basis which Digg lacks of and if they have some articles those are still terrible and very messy.”

You’re kidding, right? Slashdot’s articles are either wrong headlines, dupes, reposts of stuff that was on Digg the day before, or big editorials that don’t belong on the front page of a “professional” tech news site, such as poor little CmdrTaco complaining for seven paragraphs about not being able to use his nick in World of Warcraft because it’s against the rules to use a title in your name. SEVEN PARAGRAPHS!

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