Re: slashdot presence

On 02/07/2012 07:49 PM, Jure Repinc wrote:
> On Torek 7. of February 2012 09:08:14 Carl Symons wrote:
>> A couple of observations about KDE Promo and Slashdot.org
>>
>> KDE stories with wide appeal that appear on the Dot or PlanetKDE seem
>> to show up on Slashdot shortly thereafter. That's nice exposure. (Is
>> someone from KDE-promo feeding those stories?)
> I've submited some of them during the last fews days. Great to see they are
> coming to the front page. It looks like we can get the word from KDE out quite
> easily. Somebody just has to submit the stories and then hope there will be
> enough positive votes on http://slashdot.org/recent
> And with enough votes we would also be more visible on Digg, Hacker News and
> elsewhere I believe.
> And I have a feeling that there would be a higher chance to get into
> mainstream media if KDE stories are more visible here.
> Anyways, I'm doing my best to submit KDE stories to as many social news
> services and it's nice to see this has some effect.
>
>> Slashdot commenters tend toward snark and repartee, although these
>> comments are only occasionally intelligent or humorous. Thick skin is
>> recommended for reading /. comments if one is at all invested in the
>> original story. It strikes me that many Dot anonymous comments have
>> had a similar insult-driven/can't you take a joke/free speech RULZ!
>> tone. Sticking to the KDE Mission and Code of Conduct is refreshingly
>> different.
> Yeah it is sad to see the nasty comments on Slashdot, I stopped reading them
> quite a long time ago. Where are the days when /. was more like Reddit is
> today. But even on Reddit it's starting to get worse. I guess this is the
> price of popularity.
>
>> This morning, there was a Slashdot story about the Beginner's Guide to
>> KDE Development
>> (http://dot.kde.org/2012/02/05/kde-development-%E2%80%93-beginners-guide).
>> Rohan Garg was part of that team and contributed the Dot story. He saw
>> a Slashdot comment about the lack of a link to the online version.
>> Apologized personally and graciously, even though it wasn't his fault.
>> He emailed dot-editors. Within 15 minutes it was fixed. Outstanding
>> example of how KDE works. Thank you, Rohan!
> Have a great time,
> Jure "JLP" Repinc
>
Thanks Jure, you're doing a great work indeed, I see many of your posts 
on social networks!

Best regards,

Anne-Marie

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