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I've always felt their success was being the first large network using both threaded comments and up and down voting for visibility. That combination was kille

• adw 3y ago
  Slashdot was way way earlier. Also massively overcomplex (metamoderation) and full of trolls and much narrower. Reddit was basically Slashdot 4chan, in a meaningful sense.
  • lmm 3y ago
    Metamoderation was an elegant way to handle slashdot scale, particularly given that they didn't have anything like subreddits. I suspect that partly kept it "narrow" - if you weren't into tech news or whatever, then you wouldn't enjoy slashdot. For a while there was a whole family of sites using the same codebase but with a different community feel, like Plastic and I think maybe K5?