I guess its just the way of the world. I've long used Slashdot but after a while the trolls start to take over and the conversation goes from informative to her

I guess its just the way of the world. I've long used Slashdot but after a while the trolls start to take over and the conversation goes from informative to herpderp gradually. I've seen this happen to Digg, Fark, and k5. Recently, it's also started happening on reddit. I would go there for the interesting articles but the frontpage is loaded with shitty fake AMAs, slanted political blogs, or stupid pictures. I could filter this stuff out, but then that would defeat the purpose of having community driven content. Just remember, reddit didn't kill Digg and blogs didn't kill Slashdot. Digg was killed by the trolls in its membership. And Slashdot was killed by the latent racism/nationalism/sexism in some of its posts (if you ever read some of the comments concerning H1B, outsourcing, etc. it was fucking scary). I stopped visiting because the level of dialog dropped through the floor. Also, this occasionally happens to HN, but I believe the community has been much better at keeping these shenanigans at bay. Unless the comments are well managed and moderated then they shouldn't have a problem keeping traffic up. But like anything in life, people move on and eventually it will happen here too.