While they both target the tech audience, they focus on different parts of it. Slashdot attracts a lot more of the detail focused folks who are implementing tec

While they both target the tech audience, they focus on different parts of it. Slashdot attracts a lot more of the detail focused folks who are implementing tech "in the trenches" but have a greater tendency to obsess over minor details (often very important to implementation). The quite visible scoring system tends reward hive thinking and a sense of self-righteousness. Places like HN, consciously or not, appear to have learned from the worst of Slashdot's forced consensus model and made adjustments to weaken that tendency. Of course it still happens, just look at how the lab leak theory was handled here. HN is still quite susceptible to hive thinking and resulting poor moderating (sorry Dang, but you did fuck you there, hope you learned from it) but it is nothing on the scale of places like Slashdot. The above is in addition to all of the meta problems the site has had with change of ownership, management, catering the advertisers, etc.