On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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. I'm not sure why you think his position is rare. Maybe rare among the self-selected group of people who are active in mailing lists for Linux User Groups? Or the self-selected group of people who still read 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. Maybe the link posted above (http://news-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/02/05/2338203/build-an-open-source-electric-car-in-about-one-hour) was an anomaly (I doubt it), but in what way are the comments at +5 there good? Only one of them is on-topic, and it was a typical Slashdot dismissive sneer, i.e. "This y is just x, except it sucks" The off-topic ones are all whines about the beta interface. Sure, interface preferences are a highly subjective thing, but that kind of nonsense in response is just childish. Nope, slashdot is not getting my attention back. --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
