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I was really into slashdot for like a year, and then quickly saw the tides turn in favor of trolls for some reason and left.. I mean, it went from being a place
by earlz 11y ago
I was really into slashdot for like a year, and then quickly saw the tides turn in favor of trolls for some reason and left.. I mean, it went from being a place I check multiple times per day to now I never go to slashdot unless someone explicitly gives me a link. I think they lost their community somewhere in the multiple buy outs. Their bias supporting Sourceforge during the adware bundling debacle I think was when there was a mass exodus, and now it's pretty much just trolls left.
- btilly 11y agoThere have been many mass exoduses from there. I was into Slashdot back in the 1990s. I lost interest about 15 years ago. When the Sourceforge thing happened I was mildly surprised to see that Slashdot still existed.
- stcredzero 11y agoBack in the mid-2000's when Slashdot was "working" -- It was this: A bunch of yahoos would post enough inane comments, that an expert who actually worked there would get annoyed enough to write a long, insightful post full of actual facts.
- btilly 11y agoIn the late 90s, everyone who was technical and cared about Linux/open source/etc monitored slashdot. EVERYONE. A lot of the experts who got annoyed, probably had been following it from then. But as time went by, being said expert got tiring. Eventually the trolls drove them away.
- username223 11y agoYep. "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." It used to have some useful software news. Then it turned Randian and political, and it was just too tiring to wade through the BS. It apparently still exists, but I see no reason to look at it.