Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold Date: 31 Jan 2016 17:29:16 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: randy@therandymon.com X-Trace: individual.net U5rMx6f/rOSZLAiyIlh9lwGW8tpaJ9jRmUiKtbIRYUAvHvM0r+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:rfK86kZfC8Eup/njeI08MFpXStw= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:10227 On 2016-01-30, Caecilius wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 04:13:31 +0000 (UTC), Rich > wrote: > Will the new owners do any better? IMO, only if they realise that > slashdot has two key differentiators: the informed readership and the > comment moderation system. Nowadays I only go there to read the > comments on news stories I've already read elsewhere. Sadly, the informed readership is mostly gone. Not sure if it's a demographic thing, smart people shifting elsewhere, or the effect of a younger generation mostly accessing Slashdot on a cellphone with limited time/attention, a poor, touchscreen keyboard, and a small resolution. These days the comments are more often pathethic. Shame, as I used to go there to learn, and learned so much by reading smart people's posts. Hackernews is better for high quality, tech comments these days. Slashdot has the intellectual level of Reddit. And Usenet remains pretty darned awesome.