by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @03:35PM (#50910193)
Jeff,
How does this Slashdot question thing actually work? Does some Slashdroid from Dice cold call you and ask you to do the Slashdot community the favor of answering our questions? Or, do you pay Dice for access to their community for your marketing purposes.
Many people will take this question as an offense or a challenge, I mean no such disrespect. I think that many others here on Slashdot would like to know the truth behind these community ask Slashdot posts.
As a follow up; if the answer is the latter, that you initiated the "conversation", why did you choose Slashdot and not Reddit?
Most of the time (and in this case) we contact our interview guests. We don't accept money for interviews. Occasionally someone will have something coming out and will reach out to us if we've asked for an interview before. Our James Cameron interview last year was such a case. That is the exception however. http://interviews.slashdot.org... [slashdot.org]
Off topic from the interview but on topic, I have seen Slashdot ask for people through HARO (http://www.helpareporter.com/). In the last case it was looking for a interview on Skype. I assume that is sometimes used for some of the interviews posted, but probably not most of the site Q&A interviews.
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A used car salesman knows when he's lying.
How Does This Work? [Serious] (Score:2, Insightful)
Jeff,
How does this Slashdot question thing actually work? Does some Slashdroid from Dice cold call you and ask you to do the Slashdot community the favor of answering our questions? Or, do you pay Dice for access to their community for your marketing purposes.
Many people will take this question as an offense or a challenge, I mean no such disrespect. I think that many others here on Slashdot would like to know the truth behind these community ask Slashdot posts.
As a follow up; if the answer is the latter, that you initiated the "conversation", why did you choose Slashdot and not Reddit?
Re:How Does This Work? [Serious] (Score:5, Informative)
Most of the time (and in this case) we contact our interview guests. We don't accept money for interviews. Occasionally someone will have something coming out and will reach out to us if we've asked for an interview before. Our James Cameron interview last year was such a case. That is the exception however. http://interviews.slashdot.org... [slashdot.org]
Re: (Score:0)
Off topic from the interview but on topic, I have seen Slashdot ask for people through HARO (http://www.helpareporter.com/). In the last case it was looking for a interview on Skype. I assume that is sometimes used for some of the interviews posted, but probably not most of the site Q&A interviews.