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I beg to differ: the characterization is well-deserved. I'm a habitual Slashdot reader, since 1998. The topics on Slashdot are about the same quality as they w
by astral303 14y ago
I beg to differ: the characterization is well-deserved. I'm a habitual Slashdot reader, since 1998.
The topics on Slashdot are about the same quality as they were last 5-7 years--not great, but still nice and "relevant to my interests." The wording of the article summaries is still pro-Linux anti-Microsoft (and now) anti-Apple inflammatory, and still hilariously poorly edited or vetted. However, that was always a charm of the site, in a way.
The difference is that some 5 years ago, in the face of an anti-Microsoft post, for example, people would chime and say "You know, actually I have developed a great project with ASP.NET and here's why it's good and worked well for me." Or people would post detailed responses, like we see on Hackernews.
Now, I've come to a point where I see so little of those good comments and so much of the inflammatory or ignorant or terribly-humored comments, that it's just not worth my time anymore. I can get the headlines from anywhere else and in the tech world, it's the discussion behind the headlines that's the valuable thing.
- stcredzero 14y agoI've said this here before, as a long time /. reader. The value of /. is that occasionally the clueless masses will piss off someone with actual knowledge, enough to set people straight with a long, detailed post.
- commandar 14y agoYeah, way back before HN/reddit/digg existed, one of the coolest things about /. was that every so often somebody like John Carmack would pop up and comment on a story they had direct knowledge about. Back around 2000 that was pretty novel.
- udpheaders 14y agoThere's actually a technique to this, going back to Usenet. You can draw out the answer you want this way, by saying something technically incorrect as if it were correct.
- jamesbritt 14y agoThere should be an Internet rule or law named for this
- jofer 14y agoHereby coined "James's Law" "Given a large enough crowd, someone is bound to know what in the hell they're talking about."
- stcredzero 14y ago"...and enough cretins who will anger her/him into telling everyone how it really is."
- jamesbritt 14y agoI am deeply honored :)
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- jamesbritt 14y agoHere's a plausible answer: http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2010/05/word-of-the-week-cunninghams-law.html http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2010/05/wor...
- cutie 14y agoThe key to /. is the same as it has always been. Set your threshold to 3 or so and it becomes a delightful site. I set that up in 2002 or so and still visit weekly for fun.