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from the I'm-so-meta-even-this-acronym dept.
jcd writes:
"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.
So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:30PM
There's one thing that'll make you different from slashdot. MickLinux can't register with Create an Account. It causes a 500 Server Error one time, another time it goes to the registration page, but then entering the requested information yields an "invalid-bare" exception.
Aside from that, here's something I'd like to see: a kind of a tech startup venture method.
Here's the deal: On one branch people who have ideas for how to solve a certain tech problem post the idea. The ranking of their idea is according to their tekscore, which in turn is based on successful tech startups that have already occurred. Each individual can split his tekscore between some or all of his ideas, as he wishes.
So you have a good idea, and want to start it up, then go ahead and post your idea, and start breaking it down into subtasks, and working on everything you can, yourself... but then start helping others solve their problems. As a lead pushes towards success using your help, they credit your tekscore with a preliminary credit. When the lead succeeds, he announces that, and 1000 credits gets divided evenly according to the preliminary credits. That pushes your project up on the list, to be better noticed -- and presumably closer to fulfillment.
For this to work, the problems have to be well defined, with a clear goal.
Anyhow... just my two cents.
(Score: 2, Informative) by DECbot on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:36PM
Had a similar issue when I used an undeliverable email address during registration. I changed the address to something that I knew was working, and now I have an account.
(Score: 1) by Koen on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:42PM
"tekscore, which in turn is based on successful tech startups that have already occurred"
Are you talking about businesses? I come here to read about interesting stuff, not to read about biz fluff.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @02:29AM
(Score: 1) by MickLinux on Friday February 21 2014, @06:46AM
Yes and no (yay, I'm on!). ... but if they know how to make it and others want it, it CAN become a microbusiness, and later a business.
I'm talking about a product, not a business. People use a product
One might be a way to make mosaic tiles out of waste plastic. Another might be a better designed open-design velomobile.
One might be a design for a private network that uses relay computers just tacked to telephone poles, and lasers from optical mice.
One might be a phased network of optical telescopes that could see the asteroids as far as Saturn.
The problem of the ugly American is not so much that people dislike Yanks, as it is that they dislike jerks.