Comment by trod1234
10 hours ago
It doesn't, not really. It was gutted after its original sale years ago.
All the Daves and other journalists are actually AI (HAL9000s).
The comments and related moderation are similarly as bad. "HAL Open the pod bay doors."
"I'm sorry Dave, I cannot do that." - HAL
No serious reader bothers anymore with that outfit, and this evaporative cooling of social networks comes to any platform that fails to moderate appropriately.
Edit: Seems the brigade from sentiment manipulation bots is in full swing (-3). Sad state of affairs this. The site used to be quite good until they sold out, and I don't know a techie that doesn't like a good Hal Dave euphemism. Squelching makes volunteers not want to contribute anything in goodwill, and hollows out the whole like a cancer. When no one of intelligence raises the bar, everything fails to the lowest common denominator stagnating. Facts are facts, and downvote manipulation doesn't change that.
People aren’t brigading you with downvotes (I highly doubt that whoever owns Slashdot now is hiring people to astroturf discussions about it on HN). Your comment is getting downvoted because it doesn’t really make sense.
The journalists referenced as having written the articles aren't people, they aren't journalists, they are AI. Honestly, what part of that doesn't make sense? Its the first statement practically.
The HAL comment is a euphemism based in satire to make light of a harsh disagreeable truth, implicitly along with the many failures that come with AI which any rational person would get if they actually read and understood the context of what was written (its not a large jump, but a machine wouldn't get it) Are you a bot?.
No Slashdot doesn't astroturf, but there are entities pushing a pro-AI agenda that do, and they search for sentiment on AI-based subjects and downvote negative sentiment.
Are you living under a rock to the point where you are not aware that this is a real problem, and its gotten to the point where academic researchers are digging into the statistics to show just how bad it is when moderation (the ability to hide or disappear posts through karma voting) is outsourced to hidden brigades with special interests.
There was a post just recently about this with regards to a runaway Reddit Moderator that own's a competing company for a coding boot camp that's removed all but 4 positive posts in the span of a year, and posted or amplified 500+ negative posts, and there were aspects that touch on gangstalking of that competitors C-level people and execs, which extended to their children.
If you aren't aware of these things, there are serious concerns that you are not really a person.
I have no idea what you’re talking about, genuinely.
I only know about “gangstalking” as a delusion held by many people with schizophrenia. Is that what you’re referring to?
> there are serious concerns that you are not really a person.
No, there aren’t!