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By now, you have had the chance to read the updates of both NCommander and Barrabas. Nonetheless, you may still be wondering quite a few things about the site and its staff. Here is your chance to ask us anything. These questions can be general in nature, in which case the staff will select a spokesperson to answer it, or it may be specific to an individual. If the question is for an individual, please ensure you identify that person specifically enough.
We will select the best questions from the thread and provide answers to the community. These questions may not be the highest rated, although we will probably use those first.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by fliptop on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:11PM
By what metric(s) will you consider the site to be a success or failure, and how long will that determination take to quantify?
If you have second thoughts about booking a trip to an Indian casino, is it a reservation reservation reservation?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by SMI on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:31PM
Just my opinion, but I honestly think that this site is already a success. Much gratitude to all involved!
(Score: 1) by fliptop on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:21PM
Perhaps, but what I want to know is, how is that success measured? Amount of traffic? Number of registered users? When /. shuts down due to lack of readership?
If you have second thoughts about booking a trip to an Indian casino, is it a reservation reservation reservation?
(Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:27PM
If the average Soylent article receives more comments than the average Other Site article, I'd call it an unequivocal success. Maybe >= 100 comments per article could be considered base success?
A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:42PM
I feel like I need to comment on this, because your comment could express much of the sentiment, but it's not actually the drive of all this.
Except for the initial inception of the (old) slashcode, this site has no relation, good or bad, with the "Other Site".
Sure it's in the same segment of news and has a similar interface and functionality, but that's that. Specifically it's not intended to *compete* with the "Other Site". Just, disregard it. Forming a site just to make an other site fail sounds just wrong.
I'm sure that users will compare, and have preferences, but the whole idea is just to make the best site possible (certain on this point), that is also s much comminuty driven as possible (this is what I hope, and what I feel the intentions are).
That being said, I do hope Dice will DIAF, but that's not the point.
Also, I'm not saying that you implied everything I'm saying, but there is some confusion about this, and I felt like clearing this up. Please note that I'm not by any means associated with SN, I just reported some bugs.
(Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:38PM
Yeah, that's a noble sentiment. I'm just saying that if we end up leeching away their users (just by soylent existing), that's going to say a number of things to people who are informed about the situation. Intent is somewhat disconnected from results in this case, I think.
A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.
(Score: 1) by mtrycz on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:06PM
Yes, I actually they diaf and the whole community migrate, but that's not the point. I don't think that'd happen if it was the point.