rho's Journal: This is Freya with OSDN marketing

"This is Freya with OSDN marketing: she needs 1000 Slashdot readers to fill out some damned silly survey before they'll let her see sunlight again. The unspoken subtext here is that we really think that you're a bunch of lonely, tosspot wankers who'll do any damn fool thing if you think there's a chance for a gash to be thankful to you and sleep with you out of obligation. Even a kinda goofy-looking one who looks like she's about to lunge for your throat."

Perhaps OSDN should fire their marketing people, including Freya. If you haven't seen this Slashdot ad, don't compulsively click reload until you do. It's not worth it.

What's with Slashdot advertising? It's the most incestuous bunch of crap I've seen. If you can't sell an ad to a company like newegg.com where a click on a Slashdot ad will get you 10% off a hard drive, then you're complete shit at sales. Not that I've ever seen an ad ANYWHERE where a click will get you a discount, or a freebie of some kind. Take that back--I clicked on a Slashdot ad to get the free RSA algorithm t-shirt. Back, oh, what... 5 years ago?

There are ads on /.?

[pherris]

This [mozdev.org] takes care of the ads. Although it will remove image, flash (aka: internet pollution) and text ads I only block the first two. IMO text ads are acceptable. Barely acceptable, but acceptable.

Ads? Haven't seen any

[Safety Cap]

Not that I have them blocked---I don't. I just ignore anything other than the stories, just before I click through to my messages. I suppose if things got really back with full-screen ads, then I'd have to settle for reading the RSS feeds... :)