{"id":55,"date":"2006-03-01T17:12:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=55"},"modified":"2006-03-02T02:04:53","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T02:04:53","slug":"slashdot-is-dying-experimental-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Slashdot Is Dying: Experimental Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot is dying, and this is another example of why.<\/p>\n<p>I just posted ATs amazing link to the BBQ Newsblight admission that filesharing is not theft, a great link, no doubt about it.<\/p>\n<p>I posted it on Digg; 1 hour, 36 minutes later, its <a title=\"Submission, dragging Slashot down down, dragging it down!\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/software\/It_s_Official:_File_sharing_is_not_theft._It_has_never_been_theft._-_BBC\">on the front page<\/a>, blasting BBQ with a Diggstorm of traffic. I submitted the same story to Slashdot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>  It&#8217;s Official: &#8220;File sharing is not theft.&#8221;<br \/>\nWed March 01, 04:24 PM  \t Rejected<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there you have it.<\/p>\n<p>Why should anyone bother to submit stories to Slashdot, when they are going to be rejected, <em>no matter how hot they are?<\/em> And now with Digg&#8217;s <a title=\"Digg's new commenting system\" href=\"http:\/\/diggtheblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/digg-comment-system.html\">new and superb commenting system<\/a> coming online soon, there will be no reason to visit slashdot ever again. All the teenage trolls will dissapear from view, you can get cool stories on the frontpage guaranteed &#8211; as long as they really are cool &#8211; and be guaranteed that <em>no one else&#8217;s cool stories are being rejected and kept from your view<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: here is <a title=\"Mininova Torrent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mininova.org\/tor\/237324\">a torrent of the Newsblight item<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot is dying, and this is another example of why. I just posted ATs amazing link to the BBQ Newsblight admission that filesharing is not theft, a great link, no doubt about it. I posted it on Digg; 1 hour, 36 minutes later, its on the front page, blasting BBQ with a Diggstorm of traffic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}