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Then maybe the trick to get user-generated commentary right is to avoid attracting a large audience of meme generators and buffoons?

• monk_e_boy 11y ago
  It's a hard trick to pull off. Slashdot didn't seem to be run by morons, the stories were filtered by editors the user moderation was complex and nuanced yet it still succumbed to the lowest common denominator.
  • TuringTest 11y ago
    Yes, that's one possible natural progression of a site that becomes popular; although in the meantime, Slashdot gave us a decade or more of valid insights. Maybe the fate of all online communities is to die of popularity, or die by its users abandoning the site and it devolving into a clique of a few unconditional regulars; the key is to make good use of them while they last.
  • mike_hearn 11y ago
    I've been reading and posting to Slashdot for about 15 years and I haven't noticed any obvious change in the quality of discussions in that time. You say "it succumbed to the LCD" but that's pretty subjective. My own experience suggests it's pretty similar to how it always was. The biggest drops in Slashdot quality have been due to botched rollouts of badly implemented features not changes in the commenters.