On 02/06/2014 09:21 AM, Barry Roberts wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I think I can quantify why I don't like it. The problem is, and this is >> something slashdot's owners don't understand, is that the actual content >> on slashdot isn't the stories, it's not the pretty pictures; it's the >> moderated comments. > > Heh. I can say without reservation that that is not why it's worse > for me. I don't read comments on slashdot. Even for free, the price > is too high for stupidity.
You are indeed a rare person! If it weren't for the comments I wouldn't find any value whatsoever in slashdot. In truth if you read at a level 2 or higher, the comments are quite interesting, relevant, and educational. That's a reason I signed up years ago. Comments do suffer from groupthink (which depends on which faction got in first). Slashdot has been a fairly good example of community discussion done right, and maintained a fairly high quality of comments, due to the moderation system. Comments modded to +5, for example, are almost without exception truly good. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
