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It's also another kind of echo chamber, where the majority can penalize you for going against the group-think both by downvoting your posts and by providing you
by wccrawford 5y ago
It's also another kind of echo chamber, where the majority can penalize you for going against the group-think both by downvoting your posts and by providing you with fewer votes.
- mariusor 5y agoYes, but in all fairness, slashdot, unlike reddit had a niche it was pursuing: "tech news". Granted there were meme posts during its heyday too (eg, micro$oft bad) but I think opposing opinions were given way more consideration than similar discussion garner on reddit (or even here, on HN) to this day.
- wccrawford 5y agoI think that was true at one point, but later I don't think it was true. Well, at least compared to HN. I think it was always better than Reddit, but I don't expect intelligent discussion there like I do on tech news sites.
- mariusor 5y agoI was thinking of the period before the exodus to digg and reddit happened. I'm not sure about the year... before 2006-2007, I guess.