On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 22:18 +0200, Martin Jeppesen wrote: > > It probably got rejected because it wasn't inflammatory enough. :P > > It atleast brings their motto to a new level! =) > > Stof that matters?
I think it is important to be a little more objective here. 1) Slashdot is a news site, not any particular group of people's PR site. It has no obligation to publish anything. 2) Slashdot prints news. That means something must have happened. This will offend people, but the OG project hasn't really produced much since it was last on Slashdot. Lots of talk and some organisation, but no goodies. In the end, the world is filled with much more talk than goodies. No goodies, no real news. Talk is cheap. 3) Slashdot has been criticised in the past for being used as a mouthpiece by astroturfing parties. I can hardly blame them for ignoring any particular news submission that smacks of astroturfing. The OGP may be important to us, but it's just one of a million sources of noise for the Slashdot moderators. It's important that we don't expect to get lucky just because we did once or twice in the past. They owe us nothing, and if I was one of them and read this thread in the archives, I would never publish anything submitted about OGP again - we obviously expect the world handed to us on a plate, and Slashdot is our personal PR agency. Enough said, I hope. -Ray _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
