Slashdot Ad Free: Worst Subscription Service Ever
from the try,-try-again dept
John Taylor writes "I wish that I didn't agree with this guy, but Slashdot has fucked up badly this time. What he doesn't mention is why they are doing it - cue the OSDN Deathstar. I would pay Slashdot if they offered something cool, but they haven't. This is so pathetic, it is unreal." This is, of course, referring to Slashdot's decision to charge people to get rid of the big annoying ads they're planning on introducing. The article linked here points out that they've come up with the worst possible system for doing that. Most of Slashdot's value (they say) comes from the community - and the new pricing scheme discourages that part - because the more you use Slashdot, and the more you participate... the more you pay. They're actively discouraging their heaviest users. It also points out that it's all negative reinforcement. They don't give anything extra of value to users who pay - they just make users who don't pay have a worse experience.
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actually, that could be useful...
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Slashdot needs to lower expenses.
Driving away users will lower bandwidth. Given the BIG ad is in the upper most section, it is easly ignored.
But when has /dork cared about the users?
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Ads? What Ads?
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Problems with Slashdot
Phillip.
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