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{{Short description|Technology-related news and B2B software comparison and review website}} {{Italic title}} {{Infobox website | name = ''Slashdot'' {{(-}}''/.'') | logo = Slashdot logo.png | caption = Screenshot of the ''Slashdot.org'' main page | url = {{URL|slashdot.org}} | language = English | type = [[Online newspaper]]<BR>[[Social news]]<BR>B2B software [[Review]]s<ref>{{Cite web |title=Best Business Software of 2025 |url=https://slashdot.org/software/ |website=Slashdot}}</ref> | registration = Optional | owner = Slashdot Media<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/slashdot-media-to-merge-with-bizx-llc-creating-a-market-leader-in-b2b-software-technology-and-data-1028780285 | title=Slashdot Media to Merge with BIZX, LLC, Creating a Market Leader in B2B, Software, Technology, and Data | website=[[Business Insider]] | access-date=2020-01-12 | archive-date=2020-01-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112202047/https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/slashdot-media-to-merge-with-bizx-llc-creating-a-market-leader-in-b2b-software-technology-and-data-1028780285 | url-status=live }}</ref> | author = [[Rob Malda]]<br />[[Jeff Bates (technologist)|Jeff Bates]] | key_people = Logan Abbott ([[President (corporate title)|President]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sdbj.com/news/2016/jan/28/slashdot-media-acquired-bizx-undisclosed-price/ | title=Slashdot Media Acquired by BIZX for Undisclosed Price | work=[[American City Business Journals]] | date=January 28, 2016 | access-date=July 25, 2020 | archive-date=July 22, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722140501/https://www.sdbj.com/news/2016/jan/28/slashdot-media-acquired-bizx-undisclosed-price/ | url-status=live }}</ref> | launch_date = {{start date and age|1997|10|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/slashdot.org|title=Slashdot.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info β DomainTools|work=[[WHOIS]]|access-date=2016-10-14|archive-date=2018-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201143255/http://whois.domaintools.com/slashdot.org|url-status=live}}</ref> | current_status = Online | revenue = Advertisement, optional subscription | programming_language = [[Perl]] }} '''''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. Slashdot also offers a business software comparison<ref>{{Cite web |title=Best Business Software of 2025 |url=https://slashdot.org/software/ |website=Slashdot}}</ref> directory with over 100,000 software products. The website was founded in 1997 by [[Hope College]] students [[Rob Malda]], also known as "CmdrTaco", and classmate [[Jeff Bates (technologist)|Jeff Bates]], also known as "Hemos". In 2012, they sold it to<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dhigroupinc.com/our-company/default.aspx?section=cTimeline|title=DHI Group Inc. - Our Company|website=dhigroupinc.com|access-date=2016-06-03|archive-date=2016-05-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521194347/http://www.dhigroupinc.com/our-company/default.aspx?section=cTimeline|url-status=live}}</ref> DHI Group, Inc. (i.e., Dice Holdings International, which created the [[Dice.com]] website for tech job seekers<ref name="dice2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.dhigroupinc.com/press/Press-Release-Details/2012/Dice-Holdings-Inc-Acquires-Online-Media-Business-from-Geeknet-Inc/|title=Dice Holdings, Inc. Acquires Online Media Business from Geeknet, Inc.|access-date=16 April 2017|archive-date=18 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618125029/http://www.dhigroupinc.com/press/Press-Release-Details/2012/Dice-Holdings-Inc-Acquires-Online-Media-Business-from-Geeknet-Inc/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="theh2012" />). In January 2016, BIZX acquired both '''slashdot.org''' and [[SourceForge]].<ref name="MarketWired20160128">{{cite web|title=BIZX Subsidiary SourceForge Media, LLC Acquires Slashdot Media|url=http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/bizx-subsidiary-sourceforge-media-llc-acquires-slashdot-media-2091995.htm|website=MarketWired|date=January 26, 2016|access-date=October 15, 2016|archive-date=November 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109140923/http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/bizx-subsidiary-sourceforge-media-llc-acquires-slashdot-media-2091995.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="bizx20160127">{{cite web|title=BIZX Subsidiary SourceForge Media, LLC Acquires Slashdot Media|url=https://www.bizx.info/press/bizx-subsidiary-sourceforge-media-llc-acquires-slashdot-media|website=bizx.info|date=January 28, 2016|access-date=October 15, 2016|archive-date=June 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603061418/https://www.bizx.info/press/bizx-subsidiary-sourceforge-media-llc-acquires-slashdot-media|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="PRNewswire20160128">{{cite web|title=DHI Group, Inc. Announces the Sale of Slashdot Media|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dhi-group-inc-announces-the-sale-of-slashdot-media-300211026.html|website=[[PRNewswire]]|date=January 28, 2016|access-date=October 21, 2016|archive-date=October 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022024832/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dhi-group-inc-announces-the-sale-of-slashdot-media-300211026.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In December 2019, BIZX rebranded to '''Slashdot Media'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/slashdot-media-to-merge-with-bizx-llc-creating-a-market-leader-in-b2b-software-technology-and-data-1028780285|title=Slashdot Media to Merge with BIZX, LLC, Creating a Market Leader in B2B, Software, Technology, Social Media Manipulation and Data|website=BusinessInsider.com|access-date=2020-01-12|archive-date=2020-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112202047/https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/slashdot-media-to-merge-with-bizx-llc-creating-a-market-leader-in-b2b-software-technology-and-data-1028780285|url-status=live}}</ref> 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 ''β1'' or ''+1'' to the current rating, based on whether the comment is perceived as either "normal", "offtopic", "insightful", "redundant", "interesting", or "[[Trolling|troll]]" (among others). The site's comment and moderation system is administered by its own [[open source software|open source]] [[content management system]], [[Slash (CMS)|Slash]], which is available under the [[GNU General Public License]]. In 2012, ''Slashdot'' had around 3.7 million [[unique visitor]]s per month and received over 5300 comments per day.<ref name=dice2012/> The site has won more than 20 awards, including [[Webby Awards|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]]".
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