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   And for 3 days in a row, the /dork stories tracked

   

   alternatives(), Mar 1st, 2002 @ 1:17pm

   
   

   about 1 week ago.
   
   The ONLY reason I go back to /dork at this time it to read the user comments, because some of the readers actually share useful knowledge.
   
   Others are just stupid. The one I spotted that was modded up claimed you need a full biohazard suit if you are an organic farmer. (dumb poster, and ever more moronic moderator)
   
   If I find the new add scheme annoying, I'll do exactly what I did with Yahoo and the pop up adds....I'll stop going to /dork.
   
   

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   Har har

   

   wonko, Mar 1st, 2002 @ 2:29pm

   
   

   I tried this with WonkoSlice recently, and while we get far less traffic than Slashdot, I had expected more than three people to pay for the ad-free version of the site. Alas, out of over 1,000 regular daily visitors, only three thought it was worth it, so I recently gave up on it.

   According to the poll on Slashdot, only 167 people (or 3% of those responding) have subscribed. Ouch.

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   Re: Har har

   

   Ed, Mar 1st, 2002 @ 3:17pm

   
   

   But the real question is not the subscriber rate; everyone expects that to be very low. The bigger change /. is making is to include larger, more intrusive ads. How much will their traffic decrease as a result?
   
   Once that happens, I wonder whether /. will be relevant at all. I only read /. now because it saves me from reading every heavily ad-laden page on cnet, zdnet, etc. Once /. gets bogged down with ads, too, I'll have to go to another level of meta-indexing like freshnews.org, which will mean I'll only hit /. when it has a story that looks interesting, and if that is, in turn, just a link to a different news source, then why not cut out the middleman?

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