Video Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier (Video) 233
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If you're working at home or from a coffee shop or, really, anyplace outside your company's offices, they need to hear you when you talk, and you need to hear them. The same goes for dealing with clients via VOIP or video, the two communications techologies that seem to be driving POTS into obsolescence faster than we thought possible just a few years ago. In this video, Plantronics PR person Karen Auby -- who works remotely most of the time herself -- explains how Plantronics products help make work easier in a world of "unified communications."
Bloody really?!?! Another one? (Score:5, Insightful)
So... half the "stories" today are just bloody slashvertisements?!?
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So... half the "stories" today are just bloody slashvertisements?!?
Half? That's damn optimistic.
-AI
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Most news stories originate with a PR source (Score:2)
Case in point:
They were more like the fuzzy down of a modern baby chick than the stiff plumes of an adult bird,” Xing Xu, a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, said in a news release
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/120404/t-rex-cousin-sported-downy-feathers [globalpost.com]
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Yeah.. but the difference is that is a story with information and this is just an advertisement trying to look like a story.
They're the same in that they both contain words. Much like a Boeing 777 is the same as a piper cub. They both have wings, right?
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It's not trying to "look like" a story; the submission is clearly identified as coming from Plantronics PR. Product information is not intrinsically different from scientific information, and few would hear about Boeing or Piper without PR people.
My point is that 80% of /. as well as 80% of the New York Times or 80% of the Wall St. Journal began as a news releases or story pitches.
I'm happy to concede that the vulgar definition of "PR" as "BS" is usually correct--about 80% of the time, I'd say.
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Never mind that their PR lady is horrible at her job. Her voice sucks, and her appearance and body language sucks too.
Re:Most news stories originate with a PR source (Score:4, Interesting)
There isn't even a story here, though. If Boeing had a press release for a new airplane and Slashdot posted that, that's kind of interesting, impactful, topically relevant, and it likely wouldn't bother many people. This, however, is substance-free garbage.
Re:Most news stories originate with a PR source (Score:4, Insightful)
So we should all be happy because blatant advertising is the same as informational content, as they often come from teh same sort of source, bad is good, good is bad, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria...
No, this is blatantly advertising by and for one firm, not even 'here look at this breakthrough we made' that might be technologically interesting, just 'buy our stuff'.
If that's the slashdot you want to read, good for you. To me this represents a new low on a site that had already driven away most of the interesting technical discussion of a few years ago.
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The key word there is "originate". Most news stories that begin as PR material are reworked into stories before they are published. And if they can't be (such as this nonsense; there is no story – no news – in this ad), they aren't published.
Re:Bloody really?!?! Another one? (Score:4, Insightful)
I haven't logged in for months, and seeing this blatant of an advertisement is sadly the first thing I've been pissed off about enough to comment. This is ridiculous. Crappy articles, ok, whatever. What makes Slashdot worth coming to is the comments. Put up enough crappy advertising and the people who make those comments will go elsewhere.
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This is just a delayed April Fools' Day thing, right?
even Reader's Digest has "this is an advert" blurb (Score:2)
at the top of the ad page.
Re:Bloody really?!?! Another one? (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't mind slashvertisements so much... as long as they're submitted as look-at-what-we-just-did stories by the company, are subject to pre-release rating like any other submission, and can be approved or rejected by the editor on duty at the time. It's the "here's some money, put this crap in your news feed" transactions, bypassing editorial review, that disgust me.
Legitimate news sources clearly differentiate paid advertising from editorial content. This practise renders Slashdot illegitimate. "Slashdot: News and ads for nerds, stuff that might matter."
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This is why CmdrTaco left.
Re:Bloody really?!?! Another one? (Score:4, Insightful)
I just did. I've always had Slashdot Adblock whitelisted with The Box unchecked, but now I give up. Too bad that box doesn't get rid of this "story".
Though, I sort of appreciated the subversiveness of
whatever-you-just-said-made-no-sense
Re:Bloody really?!?! Another one? (Score:4, Informative)
Have you checked the "Disable Advertisement" box yet? (Have you even gotten one yet?)
Had one for as long as I can remember. It doesn't block "stories" as they aren't "Advertisements". Thus, entirely useless in this case.
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This is getting worse... (Score:5, Insightful)
We had one ad yesterday, two today, three tomorrow?
Also the first one for instance was much better disguised, this is glaring obvious, is the obvious version cheaper?
I wouldn’t expect that form slashdot 5 years ago, now I'm surprised it took so long...
WTF? (Score:5, Interesting)
WTF? This isn't even a thinly veiled slashvertisement, it's a full-on ad. I can't wait for the "Watch this 30 second advertisement before Slashdot will load" ads to come.
Re:WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:WTF? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:WTF? (Score:4, Insightful)
I agree this is pretty blatant. But what can we do about it? Slashdot is owned by thinkgeek which trades on nasdaq. That means they eventually have to answer to shareholders who care about one thing. Like it or not, advertising makes the internet go round (although how this is economically sustainable, I have absolutely no idea). Is there some way we can avoid it? There are several million UIDs now. If everyone bought a few shares, slashdot users could dominate think geek's $95mil market capital. Would that even do anything? Is that better than a subscription model? In the end the guys running the servers gotta get their hot pockets from somewhere...
Well I suppose that trying to buy up a controlling interest in Slashdot's parent company and then pressuring the board to stop hiding blatant ads as stories on is one option, the option I'll take is to just stop reading Slashdot if these ads keep up.
It's not like I can't find many many other ways to waste time online.
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It's not like I can't find many many other ways to waste time online.
Forget string theory, that should be the fundamental law of the universe.
Re:WTF? (Score:5, Insightful)
What can we do? Nothing. Nothing except watch Slashdot die. And given this kind of bullshit, I'm going to be chuckling and nodded my head in satisfaction.
It is exactly this kind of idiocy that has fucked up the US economy beyond repair: Let's never look beyond next quarter's financial statements. That seems like an awesome strategy to people who can't be bothered to give two shits about whether the property exists the quarter after; who only care if their wallet is slightly fatter and they can justify moving on to destroying the next property.
Tell me, oh great Slashdot editors: How do those financial statements look when nobody is left to consume your bullshit?
My search for a replacement begins today.
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ell me, oh great Slashdot editors: How do those financial statements look when nobody is left to consume your bullshit?
The slashdot staff DOES know better. If you think this doesn't bother them, you're dead wrong.
Like many of us, they're sitting around on corporate telecons hearing about how they're going to "monetize blah blah corporatespeak". About their only choice is to quit and take another job. I certainly don't think we want that, because eventually those who fill their shoes will be selected as ones who are much more in-line with corporate philosophy, and NO ONE will be left to at least voice concerns.
This "story
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This ad didn't go through Slashdot's editorial staff. That's the problem. It's a paid advertisement posted as if it were editorial content. Kind of like newspapers do with those ads typeset in columns, or TV stations do with those half-hour hostess-and-pitchman ads. But without the "This is a paid advertisement" notice attached to protect what's left of their integrity.
replacement (Score:4, Insightful)
I recommend ArsTechnica [arstechnica.com], it seems a lot of /. posts are coming from them anyway, so you might as well go direct.
Their comments section needs threading though, but if you're after articles rather than discussion, it's way better then here.
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That means they eventually have to answer to shareholders
Now what happens if the advertising revenues go down, because - despite the more frequent placement of slashvertisements - fewer people see ads since they don't visit Slashdot so often anymore? Pissing off your users is frequently not a good way to increase your revenue.
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WTF? This isn't even a thinly veiled slashvertisement, it's a full-on ad. I can't wait for the "Watch this 30 second advertisement before Slashdot will load" ads to come.
It'll end up being 60 seconds because the crap Slashcode takes 30 seconds to start working anyway. d=
What. The. Fuck. (Score:5, Insightful)
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So, never, ever buy a Plantronics product. Check.
I've had Plantronics on my "Do Not Buy" list for many a year now. I used to have SEVERAL of their headsets back when I was into LAN parties and online gaming. Every single one of them broke after only a couple months of normal use. The inline volume control would go out, the microphone would stop working, or one audio channel would give out. One set even had the earpiece completely fall off! Once I disassembled one of the broken units and discovered how cheap and thin the wires were, my decision to never give them anymore money was solidified.
Went and bought a set of MDR-V600 studio monitors back when Sony didn't equate with evil. That was probably about 9 years ago and they've held up through everything I've thrown at them and sound great (if a bit bassy at times, but that's what EQ is for). Would I buy from Sony now? Not a chance.
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IT at my workplace actuall recomends Platntronics USB headsets for VoIP communications, though I never could quite fathom why. For a recording that I had to do one, I did a quick comparison between a simple analogue headset and Plantronics USB device. I'm not exactly an audiophile, but the analogue headset provided a much clearer recording.
Is there actually a technical advantage in using a USB audio device, if your computer has an internal sound card anyway?
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That would be entirely dependent on the quality of the USB device vs the quality of the internal sound card. But I have no idea why IT at your workplace recomends Plantronics - as you already know they make crap devices.
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their professional products are shit as well, It used to be a serious company back in the 60's or something, they pretty much vanished for decades and started advertising on TV for their shitty 40+$ chico garbage
got to disagree (Score:3)
I'm using a Plantronics earpiece for a regular desk phone (the kind that fits over the ear and has a long hollow voice tube). It's getting close to 10 years old, still works fine.
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Hold on there, you're making a big mistake in judgement - it's Sony America that's causing all the problems and suing people, NOT Sony Japan. As a Japanese in Japan doing worldwide business I'm telling you the stunts Sony America is pulling would never fly in Japan; they'd be torn apart. Here in Japan companies live and die by customer service, and companies that disrespect their customers don't last so long.
Of course if you are referring to the removal of the Other OS feature on the PS3 I can understand if
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I've a very vengeful consumer. I used Sony for all my home electronics, since the root-kit debacle I haven't bought anything from them - they've lost a LOT of sales from me. Tektronix started spamming me at work, now they are the last company I check for hardware, not the first (and I buy a LOT of test and measurement equipment at my lab). One of the nice things about modern world is that there is almost always another company that makes a similar product. This add irritated me - so I won't buy any Plantro
So... they believe in collaborative work? (Score:5, Informative)
Ok, I work from home and thought, "Hey, this might have information that will help me be more effective at working remotely." Instead, it was almost 4 minutes of a woman telling us how much time her company thinks about remote collaboration, unified communication and how important it is being able to speak with each other. Oh, and their product might have something to do with voice quality.
If you're going to give us an ad like this, at least let it be something useful. Give us technical details and provide information about how the product or service works. Instead, I just lost 4 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.
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The lady seems to have no clue what she's talking about anyway :(
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Ok, I work from home and thought, "Hey, this might have information that will help me be more effective at working remotely." Instead, it was almost 4 minutes of a woman telling us how much time her company thinks about remote collaboration, unified communication and how important it is being able to speak with each other. Oh, and their product might have something to do with voice quality.
If you're going to give us an ad like this, at least let it be something useful. Give us technical details and provide information about how the product or service works. Instead, I just lost 4 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.
Couldn't agree with you more. I only made it about 3.5 minutes through. If you're going to post that kind of shit here (video adverts), at least make it appealing to the audience with some samples/specs/photos, etc.
Plantronics? Thinks that voice communications is critical? Gee, no shit. They're a company who has bilked business out of millions over the years selling WAY overpriced telco headsets, but I needed four minutes of voice and video to tell me what they sell...like the average business hasn't be
Can't believe it, ads posted as stories? (Score:2, Informative)
I never would have thought that slashdot would sink to this. Geez, disappointing. If you keep this up, sayonara. No wonder taco boogied.
Plantronics? (Score:5, Informative)
I can't say I've ever had an enjoyable conference with their gear. I remember some epic fails.
Google and others have better FREE alternatives. Use them!
Transcript (Score:3, Informative)
Title: Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier
Description: Better sound = better communications
[00:00] <TITLE>
"Plantronics is Working to Help Collaboration with Far-Flung Workers, Suppliers, and Clients" appears along with the SlashdotTV logo bar reading "Chris Yeich, Geeknet" over a view of Chris sitting in front of a a white (p)leather surface.
[00:03] Chris>
With today's increasingly distributed workforce where a worker can work from an office, from home, on the road and even at a coffee shop, collaboration is the name of the game.
For IT decision makers it means that they've gotta find new ways to use new technology to help facilitate that collaboration.
Unified communications is one way to get there.
I had the chance recently to speak with Plantronics about collaboration and unified communications, and here's what they had to say.
[00:30] <TITLE>
The SlashdotTV logo bar with "Karen Auby, Senior Manager, Public Relations, Plantronics" fades in and out of view.
[00:30] Karen>
Plantronics has really been focused on understanding how businesses are working today, because the idea of going to a place to work and clocking in at 9 and leaving at 5 - it's sort of an outdated method.
Now, people are working wherever they are, whenever they can, and just really producing results that are meaningful for a company.
So I can understand it's a big challenge for IT to be able to keep everyone connected as they become more distributed.
Plantronics has really been looking at how to help our own employees collaborate, because we have people who work in Europe.. we are a global company, we have offices in Asia, and in Europe.. and keeping them all connected is extremely important for product development, for marketing, for business development, for finance - regardless of the area within the organization, collaboration is really important, and it's something that Plantronics is very, very focused on.
[01:25] Chris>
So when it comes to unified communications you [...] bunch of different types of technologies.
Where do you see some of the biggest hurdles for IT managers in being able to effectively implement a broad-based unified communication strategy?
What is some of the stumbling blocks that you see based on your experience working with IT orgs?
[01:44] Karen>
Well, to be honest, I think a lot of it is end user adoption and getting end users excited and interested and feeling like IT isn't pushing down another thing they need to learn, but actually understand - as an end user - understanding "Hey, this is actually gonna make my job easier - this is gonna make life better for me, and less frustrating."
So I think the importance of simplicity and training and ease of use really can't be overstated.
If you want unified communications or any collaboration tools to really affect ROI, affect the bottom line, affect innovation within a company.
[02:20] Chris>
One last question for you:
So Plantronics - a lot of focus on audio quality.
Tell me a little about how that component, that specific component of audio, fits into the overarching - again, the umbrella theme of - unified communications, knowing that we've got tools like Skype chat, instant messaging.
Where does audio fit in?
[02:39] Karen>
There's so much emotion that comes out in voice that you don't get in text.
There's a difference between "Hey, great job" and "Hey! Great job!", and so we really believe in the power of voice.
So you can get business done so much quicker sometimes just by picking up the phone, rather than back-and-forth e-mails.
I, personally, think that - and Plantronics definitely, the company, we believe that - voice is a natural way to communicate and that you see tools that embrace voice as the easiest, most synchronous, communication method is really one-on-one voice calls, and/or conference calls as well.
As f
Has it really come to this? (Score:5, Insightful)
Slashdot has been an enormous factor in making me the nerd I am. That sounds cheesy, but I seriously started reading when I was 14. It was a big deal to me to find a huge community of other people who really saw the world like I did, unlike anyone else in my (small) high school.
But I really can't justify sticking around if the "stories" are just "Isn't Plantronics great?" videos. This is nonsense. I understand that Slashdot needs to make money, but if you guys can't keep doing that off of (normal) ads, then just shut it down. It's not worth this painful death.
I put up with trolls. I put up with Idle. I put up with the shitty Ajax. I didn't much mind the "itwbenett" stuff, where people were just submitting their online articles, as long as they were interesting. I even put up with the sponsored "ask slashdot", since it was clearly marked and had the potential to be somewhat interesting. I wasn't that guy bitching about every little thing- things change, but it's not a big deal.
We all know about Plantronics. They even make a decent product. But I don't go to Slashdot to read paid-for content posted by companies about what companies say about their products.
This is too much. If you're seriously going to have a half-dozen "stories" a day that are just ads for some gadget or service or so on, then I won't be here.
In case this wasn't clear enough, you known that line that companies cross that pisses their users off and sends them into a death spiral, a la Digg? You just crossed it. Step back very quickly or you'll have big problems.
Re:Has it really come to this? (Score:5, Insightful)
In case this wasn't clear enough, you known that line that companies cross that pisses their users off and sends them into a death spiral, a la Digg? You just crossed it. Step back very quickly or you'll have big problems.
This.
Seriously, did y'all have to kick Taco out before you could pull this crap? I've been reading /. daily, no, more than daily, for nearly 10 years, and this post made me seriously think about quitting.
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This is the first time that I'm considering finding alternatives to Slashdot. There is no excuse for this. Slashdot staff should know better. I'll have to look around, what do you all suggest as alternative?
(Even the captcha is on my side, the word is "LISTEN". LISTEN /.)
I haven't had to look for alternatives before, either. Maybe Boing Boing?
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He's been at it for a few weeks. Check out his comments. I can't quite figure it out either.
But, is there a science thing? (Score:4, Informative)
I mean, I get the slashvertisment, but.. most of the time, there's at least something newish. Plantronics sells flimsy microphones in even flimsier plastic packaging at outrageous prices that may or may not connect to the audio jack on your device-that-has-a-standard-audio-jack.
If they don't at least have some kind of wonder gadget that revolutionizes the headset industry in some not necessarily meaningful, but at least interesting way, I fail to see the point of their presence on slashdot.
What's next? A zinc bolt manufacturer advertising their not particularly unique or inventive bog standard zinc bolts, without ever actually using the word "bolt" or mentioning or displaying an any of their actual products?
Also, I had to watch an ad before watching the ad.
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You can't really trust a company that has the following somewhere in their product catalog: "UC Enablers are products that strategically build the bridge from desktop reliance to PC Voice and all the liberating possibilities of Unified Communications". I pity the fools who fall for this verbal abomination.
My Karma is Excellent, Please Disable Advertising (Score:5, Insightful)
Please?
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I never checked the box in the first place(thanks, AdBlock Plus!) but I may just have to now.
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I've checked the box. It didn't help.
This will crater out just like Digg (see stats) (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:This will crater out just like Digg (see stats) (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm sad to say I'm agreeing with this post, and seeing my UID will also provide some frame of reference. I don't even mind story/ads as long as they're disclosed as such but this is just pathetic.
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That's what the kuro5hin folks figured too. Don't even look, it's a post-apocolyptic wasteland today.
Please turn off advertising (Score:4, Insightful)
My karma here has been excellent for well over 10 years. I'd like to turn off advertising, please.
Or, maybe let's change the moderation system to allow moderation of stories, not just comments, and add '-1 slashvertisement" mod option.
Or maybe, it's simply time for a slahdot clone -- just the same only having editors with both integrity and a brain.
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You realize editors with integrity and a brain was dropped long ago when we got kdawson right?
If you are going to put ads in the news feed... (Score:3, Insightful)
Slashdot editors: I understand you need ads. I understand you need sponsors, but if you are going to post them, please mark them as paid content. Seriously. If you don't you will loose your core readership, and maybe you already are, but this isn't going to help things. Was Rob Malda the only person keeping this from happening? Yes, Slashdot readers have valuable eyeballs, but treat us with respect, otherwise you will loose us. One of the key reasons geeks still defend Google and Gmail is that they set a precedent for tasteful and obvious ads with Adwords. Please hold yourselves to the same standards.
Stop the tripe (Score:5, Informative)
If you are looking for a way to make long time, loyal, readers revolt, then you have found it.
Can someone recommend the new slashdot (Score:4, Interesting)
The signal:crap ratio is getting a bit high and this just blew it off the charts, are there some recommendations on alternatives sites that are currently what Slashdot (unfortunately) was?
Is this an experiment? (Score:3)
To see how many readers dislike? Add one more for me, please.
I'd block ALL Roblimo stories, except... (Score:2)
I'd block ALL Roblimo stories, except... watching the comments is irresistible, like a slow motion car crash.
One has to wonder how Roblimo feels about being an anchor around the neck of /. - does she hate having the slashvertisement beat, does she hate /., does she perceive some value to these slashvertisements?
Yep, even if I block her "stories", they still are ruinous to our beloved Slashdot's prestige and reputation. I don't think the brain trust behind these abominations realize how quickly a downward s
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He. Robin "Roblimo" Miller. [wikipedia.org]
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He. Robin "Roblimo" Miller. [wikipedia.org]
Thanks for the correction!
I thought I'd read somewhere that "Robin" was a she. Oops, apologies to Roblimo.
But I still think he's doing harm to /.
yeah (Score:2)
Advertisers - seriously, when you sucker slurp for being posted here like this, a crapload of us cross you off the list of being purchasable.
And that sucks because I used to like plantronics.
No more wallet for you..
WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
Last Post (Score:2)
No more. If you're this beholden to your corporate sponsors, please let them know they can advertise with impunity, since your remaining readers are obviously ok with it. I'm done. Thank you for the good times and the bad. From OMG Ponies to the 9/11 po
Not my last post, but getting closer (Score:2)
Well, NoScript put a big yellow box at the top of this article, so at least I didn't have to watch it. Did the video auto-play, too? There are few things on the web that I hate more than auto-playing commercials.
NoScript makes the web bearable these days, but it's a crying shame that it's necessary.
But, back to Slashdot, it seems to me like there's been an awful lot of shark-jumping since Taco left. I'm not going to completely bail just yet, but I'm finding myself spending less and less time here. It was gr
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Later dudes. If this site isn't good enough for Taco, it isn't good enough for me. It's been a fun ten years, and I've learned a lot and met some interesting people.
But this sucks. See you over at ycombinator.com and maybe osnews.com Too bad, I used to love linuxtoday.com as well and they bit the dust ages ago, and for the same reason: "We need more ads!"
Me, I'd rather build a site that fits a niche perfectly and makes just enough money to get by. You guys are obviously going for the big bucks instead.
Here's how to fix slashvertizements (Score:5, Insightful)
It's simple really... pan the product!
Everyone post their negative experiences with the company, in gory detail.
Even if you've never used the product, some well-placed negative innuendo or skeptical comparison (use this open source alternative instead!) will serve to disadvertize the product.
After awhile, a short while (I'm hoping), the editors will realize that the readers don't want this, the sponsors will realize that they don't want this, and the practice will stop.
People keep moaning about apathy in the face of an unlikeable situation, well here's our chance. Let's change the system.
All together now, one... two... three...
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Ok Plantronics (Score:2)
I wont watch your ad, but is this the same overpriced Chinese garbage you have been vomiting out for the last decade? If so I would rather spend my money on something that's not going to fall apart or break in a month. K THX
PS: stop with the ass slashdot
FOADIAF (Score:5, Interesting)
Well guys, I guess it's been, what, 15 years, give or take? I can't say I was the first or second slashdot reader, but I might have been the thousandth. A lot has changed in that time, and there are a lot of tech news aggregators with comments these days. Many have advertising-driven business models, a brave few try other models from time to time. But virtually all of them are far less offensive than this crap, in that they have ads at the top of the page which are obviously paid content separate from the editorial function of posting, well, tech news of one sort or another. Each of us has a certain threshold, be it qualitative or quantitative, beyond which we clearly recognise that something has become intolerable. Often it's difficult to articulate that threshold's location until it's been crossed, or at least to imagine each and every possible fashion in which it could be crossed. But here we are, way the fuck on the wrong side of that threshold, and you've lost another reader. I'm not sure how you plan to make up for the inevitable loss of other readers like me; maybe you're not even planning to or thinking that far ahead. Maybe you figure advertisers are so stupid that they'll gladly pay vastly higher sums for these sore thumbs that they think your apparently even more retarded readers won't know are ads. Maybe they're right. Maybe you're right. I hope not, but I'm certainly a lot wiser than I was 15 years ago, and I wouldn't be surprised by anything at this point. So, please, take it to its logical conclusion. More ads. Less pretense of editorial independence. I'd suggest you do what the bottom-feeding Chinese link vendors do and just fill your entire page with paid links, graphics, and videos. Maybe throw in some real American know-how like real-time auctions, and tie it into Facebook so that you already know everything you could ever want to about people who like to be products. After all, many of our country's best and brightest now spend most of their time and energy finding more ways to sell other people as advertising viewers. I'm sure you'll think of something, and I hope for irony's sake that you make a mint. But you'll be doing it without me. Given the choices you're making, I don't think you'll miss me, as I'm no longer part of your target audience.
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Re:FOADIAF (Score:4, Interesting)
Concur...
I wonder if Taco had to sign a non-compete clause when he left, and how long it might have left to run...
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Doubt he'd want to compete with the crap in this toilet anyhow.
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I'm not quite as low of an ID, but I'm right there with you. I'm out.
Goodbye, everyone. Last one out of here, shut off the lights.
JTDC! (Score:3)
Now we know why Cmdrtaco left. This is terrible.
Note to editors: you are killing a once great site. Please stop before it's too late.
100% Marketing 0% Content (Score:2)
A Few Suggested Tags (Score:2)
Inception (Score:2)
Hah! I'm Hijacking This Story! (Score:2)
I don't always read slashvertisements... (Score:2)
Big Mistake (Score:5, Insightful)
Who thought this would a good idea? How dumb are the corporate owners?
If this goes on, I'm going to start using those threads to list as many slashdot alternatives as possible. There many good sites out there looking for active commenters.
Watch how mods are going to help your audience leave your site.
How much for a front-page ad? (Score:2)
Is there a list anywhere? I have that natural v1a9ra pill shop and want to place an ad on the front page too.
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I am also looking for a pricelist. Since shark jumping is so obvious lets transform /. into a premium video advertisement site on the Internet.
No point crying about past good times, lets innovate!
another key downturn event? (Score:2)
I'm still waiting to see some sort of apology or april fools cover for this story, but maybe it is a continued significant downturn in advertising standards at slashdot, along the lines of my recent complaint/submission about the 'sugar daddy dating' advertising - http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=30347589 [slashdot.org] - that I got flooded with (~50%, cookieless, fresh profile front page view coverage). That seemed to only last a week or two, either because of a one-off ad-buy coincidence, or slashdot(or
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news.ycominator.com
Also known as hacker news.
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Oops.. typo. It should be news.ycombinator.com
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It's off my iGoogle homepage - replaced by tech reddit as suggested elsewhere. I guess I'll check back in a few years if it's even still here, but it's just irritating me these days.
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I have asked the people who run Slashdot these days to handle videos differently, and I am refusing to have my name anywhere near the more blatantly promotional ones.
Realize that I am doing this in spite of the nasty cursers and insulters, not because of them.
FYI - there have been some decent/informative videos, and there will be more of them in the future. Some will like them, some won't.
- Robin
Re:Robin 'Roblimo' Miller (Score:4, Informative)
I have asked the people who run Slashdot these days to handle videos differently, and I am refusing to have my name anywhere near the more blatantly promotional ones.
From above:
"Posted by Roblimo on 07:26 PM April 4th, 2012 "
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^This. *sigh*
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Robin -
First, one story shouldn't be taken out of context. Thank you for many valuable and enjoyable hours Slashdot has filled in my life over the years. Personally, it's been my favorite site in the history of the web, no exaggeration.
I have asked the people who run Slashdot these days to handle videos differently, and I am refusing to have my name anywhere near the more blatantly promotional ones.
The problem is not the ads, but the coverup. Ads are fine. I know it's not your intent, but you're effectively deceiving people by presenting an ad as editorial content. If you lose that trust, we don't know what to believe -- maybe other stories are really ads, maybe submiss