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Slashdot

Slashdot (/.)
Type of site
Online newspaper
Social news
Available inEnglish
OwnerSlashdot Media[1]
Created byRob Malda
Jeff Bates
Key peopleLogan Abbott (President)[2]
RevenueAdvertisement, optional subscription
URLslashdot.org
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedOctober 5, 1997 (1997-10-05)[3]
Current statusOnline

Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news stories on science, technology, and politics that are submitted and evaluated by site users and editors. Each story has a comments section where users can add online comments.

The website was founded in 1997 by Hope College students Rob Malda, also known as "CmdrTaco", and classmate Jeff Bates, also known as "Hemos". In 2012, they sold it to[4] DHI Group, Inc. (i.e., Dice Holdings International, which created the Dice.com website for tech job seekers[5][6]). In January 2016, BIZX acquired both slashdot.org and SourceForge.[7][8][9] In December 2019, BIZX rebranded to Slashdot Media.[10]

Summaries of stories and links to news articles are submitted by Slashdot's own users, and each story becomes the topic of a threaded discussion among users. Discussion is moderated by a user-based moderation system. Randomly selected moderators are assigned points (typically 5) which they can use to rate a comment. Moderation applies either −1 or +1 to the current rating, based on whether the comment is perceived as either "normal", "offtopic", "insightful", "redundant", "interesting", or "troll" (among others).

The site's comment and moderation system is administered by its own open source content management system, Slash, which is available under the GNU General Public License. In 2012, Slashdot had around 3.7 million unique visitors per month and received over 5300 comments per day.[5] The site has won more than 20 awards, including People's Voice Awards in 2000 for "Best Community Site" and "Best News Site". At its peak use, a news story posted to the site with a link could overwhelm some smaller or independent sites. This phenomenon was known as the "Slashdot effect".

Slashdot also now offers a business software comparison[11] directory with over 100,000 software titles.

  1. ^ "Slashdot Media to Merge with BIZX, LLC, Creating a Market Leader in B2B, Software, Technology, and Data". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  2. ^ "Slashdot Media Acquired by BIZX for Undisclosed Price". American City Business Journals. January 28, 2016. Archived from the original on July 22, 2020. Retrieved July 25, 2020.
  3. ^ "Slashdot.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools". WHOIS. Archived from the original on 2018-12-01. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  4. ^ "DHI Group Inc. - Our Company". dhigroupinc.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-21. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
  5. ^ a b "Dice Holdings, Inc. Acquires Online Media Business from Geeknet, Inc". Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference theh2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "BIZX Subsidiary SourceForge Media, LLC Acquires Slashdot Media". MarketWired. January 26, 2016. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  8. ^ "BIZX Subsidiary SourceForge Media, LLC Acquires Slashdot Media". bizx.info. January 28, 2016. Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  9. ^ "DHI Group, Inc. Announces the Sale of Slashdot Media". PRNewswire. January 28, 2016. Archived from the original on October 22, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  10. ^ "Slashdot Media to Merge with BIZX, LLC, Creating a Market Leader in B2B, Software, Technology, Social Media Manipulation and Data". BusinessInsider.com. Archived from the original on 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  11. ^ "Best Business Software of 2024". Slashdot.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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