Either I'm terrible at writing Slashdot articles or /. doesn't think that Pathfinder is important enough to post an article about, because they keep ignoring or denying my PF articles on their site. I don't think they understand the gravity of what Paizo has done, how important the community involvement piece is, and how ridiculous Wizards looks right now.
I'm not going to presume that Paizo wants Slashdot's attention in this matter, but I do believe that Pathfinder is "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." If anyone in the community is more influential at /. or better at writing articles than I, I might suggest you do so.
I really hope that /.'s decision isn't based on who writes their advertising checks. That would make me very very sad.
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Either I'm terrible at writing Slashdot articles or /. doesn't think that Pathfinder is important enough to post an article about, because they keep ignoring or denying my PF articles on their site. I don't think they understand the gravity of what Paizo has done, how important the community involvement piece is, and how ridiculous Wizards looks right now.
I'm not going to presume that Paizo wants Slashdot's attention in this matter, but I do believe that Pathfinder is "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." If anyone in the community is more influential at /. or better at writing articles than I, I might suggest you do so.
I really hope that /.'s decision isn't based on who writes their advertising checks. That would make me very very sad.
Either that, or people don't want the site even more slashdotted than it already is under the load of people downloading the PDF of the core rules.....
Either that, or people don't want the site even more slashdotted than it already is under the load of people downloading the PDF of the core rules.....
I think we're beyond the "CRASH!" stage of things at this point, aren't we? If that's the case, and Paizo has simply requested they hold off on the /. story to save the server, then that is certainly far more noble a reason that those I've assumed in the OP.
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I don't think Slashdot asks permission before running a story (maybe they do, but I doubt it). We might be able to survive a slashdotting -- we've made a bunch of performance and reliability improvements since Gen Con. But the next few days would be a terrible time to get linked since we're moving our servers and the site will be down during that time.
Either I'm terrible at writing Slashdot articles or /. doesn't think that Pathfinder is important enough to post an article about, because they keep ignoring or denying my PF articles on their site.
To be honest, tabletop RPGs are a niche, and Pathfinder is a niche within a niche. Even articles about D&D (the biggest tabletop RPG around) only get a smattering of comments on Slashdot, from what I've seen.
To be honest, tabletop RPGs are a niche, and Pathfinder is a niche within a niche. Even articles about D&D (the biggest tabletop RPG around) only get a smattering of comments on Slashdot, from what I've seen.
Yeah, it's all about the video games, it seems. /. really isn't the "thinking man's" site I thought it was.