Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Gaming Slashdot

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Nathan Odle wrote:

> So here's what I'm wondering...since Slashdot is pretty much the holy 
> grail where this sort of thing is concerned, can a guy more-or-less 
> "guarantee" a post with a large number of unique submissions?

I'm guessing not.  Slashdot gets so many submissions that they 
reject almost everything not directly submitted by an editor.  Your 
article would have to be supremely buzz-word compliant to have a 
chance even if dozens of "excellent karma" types all submitted it.

> Before anyone bitches - yes I'm being very blatant with my motives
> here...but maybe you would still like to help?  To my knowledge
> this sort of thing hasn't really been tried before.

Ha ha ha!  Look, maybe nobody would talk about doing it or brag 
about doing it, but it's certainly the case that lots of people try 
to get their friends to get their articles posted.  Of course, 
there's another group who are less than pleased when somebody links 
to them, and their server is reduced to a puddle of liquid silicon 
and magnetic scraps by the subsequent traffic.
 
> What I'd ask you to do is, go check out the article - then submit an 
> item to Slashdot regarding the piece.  The link to the article is:
> 
> http://www.fastsilicon.com/showarticle.php?a=33

I see no real chance that this would ever be accepted unless there's 
somebody there who is just completely fascinated by cache memory 
design. And even then, they would probably only post it if it came 
from Ars Technica or something.
 
jking


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