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I’ve been getting fed up with /. for a while now, but today it officially “Jumped the Shark“. They posted a made up quote from Linus Torvalds that was used to illustrate a point in an article at The Register. A point that was deliberately provocative and hard to believe, to draw attention to some of Torvalds recent comments on another matter. The /. editors are so clueless and sticking to routine that they can’t actually go and edit the main body of the article (on the front page) to point out the mistake, it’s a tacked on “update” to the main body of the article.

What’s always been good - until now - about /. has been it’s interesting tech/geek headlines, but that has become so horribly sub-standard. It’s never been a great site for anything approaching informed comment, as it’s heavily populated by both trolls and fools. But foremost amongst them have to be the editors for posting atrocious submissions which they clearly haven’t actually read beyond the first paragraph. So, once again, I’m stuck looking for some useful technology information source that had what /. used to have, which was a great source of information.

Here’s hoping the supposed owners/operators of /. slap down the editors and move the entire website over to a more useful and informed service, with more clued up - professional - editors, because until they overhaul this tired and pitiful website, they’ll soon be loosing readers by the thousands.

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