Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Welcome Slashdot refugees! Date: 5 Mar 2014 15:22:37 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <9sdeh9513ibur2mb3g2p31fnop16dc567g@4ax.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net UOnF9BYYeb51rMyNXygiCghQaHpahkzPo+9PlnXyexSq2d8qag Cancel-Lock: sha1:yD+IY6pUxHzAGx9INQ7U6Kah/5U= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1270 On 2014-03-05, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > On 5 Mar 2014 09:37:12 GMT, Huge wrote: > >>On 2014-03-05, Austin Wolfe wrote: >>> John Brownalt wrote: >>>> On 2014-02-07, Oregonian Haruspex wrote: >>>>> Hello all Slashdot refugees. Let me be the first to inagurate a new >>>>> era of Dice-free Slashdotters reveling in the freedom of Usenet, the >>>>> grand-daddy of Internet discussion forums. >>>>> >>>>> Plus this thing supports Unicode! ???? >>>>> >>>> >>>> OMG Poniez!!! I think it must have been a decade since I've >>>> "followed up" on a usenet post. >>>> >>>> Rock On Refugees!!! >>> >>> It has been a very long time since I have been on Usenet and it >>> has been at least a decade since I have followed up on a post also. >> >>OTOH, some of us never left. Web forums are vile. > > Mind you, the slashdot forum was possibly the least vile of the bunch. > > * It was largely unmoderated (other than by the users, but that only > affected score and posts were - aside from one or two exceptions - > never deleted) > > * It allowed - and to some degree even welcomed - anonymous posters, > so you did not have to register to speak your mind > > * You could properly thread the conversation. > > * It, to some degree, allowed you to kill-file certain posters (well, > moderate down) > > * It offered a wide variety of topics, as opposed to most other forums > which tended to revolve around a specific topic > > * It was a text-only medium; no avatars, graphic emoticons, or > pictures to distract from the topic at hand. If you had an image > related to the topic at hand, you posted a link. > > * And - even in its decline - remained fairly technical and > sophisticated, a far cry from the flame-fests and fan-wankage of its > competitors. A veritable plethora of good points, with which I concur. -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 64th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3180 "Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath"