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Slashdot is happy to criticise Digg's approach, but for a long time /. was swamped by reposts and commenters still regularly criticise poor moderation decisions
by halo 19y ago
Slashdot is happy to criticise Digg's approach, but for a long time /. was swamped by reposts and commenters still regularly criticise poor moderation decisions (grammatical mistakes, misrepresentation of articles, trollbait, blogspam) that /.'s moderation should be able to fix. Whatsmore, over time even /. has conceeded and accepted social contributions via Firehose.
I'm not sure either model is better than the other, frankly.
- pstuart 19y agoI have fond memories of Slashdot. I remember in the early days reading this really inspiring essay about Lisp by some guy. That said, I'll glance at it once a day but will rarely dive in. I worry that Reddit will suffer the same fate. There's definite room for improvement in this area, maybe even a new startup or two...