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Was the problem the design of the site or the community? I was never really a big /. user but from everything I've read, it seemed like the community was the m

by joeblau 13y ago

Was the problem the design of the site or the community? I was never really a big /. user but from everything I've read, it seemed like the community was the main issue.

toomuchtodo 13y ago
The community. Definitely the community. I used to be a frequent Slashdot reader, but moved on to Reddit.
- jff 13y ago
  Talk about non sequitur...
- joeblau 13y ago
  So to me, this is like a mechanic saying "The engine on your Datsun is rusted out, let's fix your car by painting it Ferrari red." I mean I just went to the site and it looks like Gizmodo or Engadget 3 years ago.
- taspeotis 13y ago
  For me, Slashdot killed Slashdot. The editors increasingly did not care about editing the content that was submitted (and not just from a grammatical standpoint). I stopped subscribing to Slashdot's RSS feed just in time to avoid shit like this [1] appearing in Feedly. To be fair to Slashdot, however, they have removed the "stuff that matters" tagline from visibility on their site (it's in the source). That, and Hacker News seems to be about 3 days ahead of /. so it's kind of redundant to read it. Unless I want to learn about new keyboard shortcuts. I read Ars too, which is sometimes a bit behind HN but also covers different material. [1] http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/08/26/0010239/the-greatest-keyboard-shortcut-ever http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/08/26/0010239/the-greatest...
  - rgbrenner 13y ago
    I started reading slashdot in like 99.. the editors didn't 'edit' the stories back then either. In fact, as far back as I can remember people have been complaining about the editors no longer doing their jobs.. which is weird because as far as I could tell, they never did them to begin with.
- gutnor 13y ago
  The community indeed. I'm still a /. reader, but I have to say, it is very occasional that I do not know what the comment will be before opening them. Most of the +5 comment are traditional /. "meme" (OSS good, closed-source bad, MS bad, Google good, ...) and their counter of course. That has always been the case to some extend (that's /. DNA), but it has gotten to the point that it is extremely hard to find any type of information whatsoever just an endless battle of people throwing rumours (you would think that the majority of /. reader are board member of major tech corp), group-think opinion or unrelated info at each other to "win". It reads now like a political blog for teenagers. HN has great comment, to me that the closest to reproduce the /. experience of 10 years ago (although it could use a good flamewar between friends once in a while) But even the more chaotic reddit manage to show interesting comments on top.
AmVess 13y ago
I just looked at my comments and submissions for the last year. 12 comments and zero submissions. Before, I'd punch out 12 comments in a day. The problem started with the lateness of the submissions...easily trailing other sites by days at times. I quit posting submissions because they'd never show up, despite being fairly interesting topics on other sites. Then the quality of the comments started going downhill, largely a product of the overall malaise that fell over the site brought about by the rather mentally torpid powers-that-be that ran the site.

by joeblau 13y ago

Was the problem the design of the site or the community? I was never really a big /. user but from everything I've read, it seemed like the community was the main issue.

toomuchtodo 13y ago

The community. Definitely the community. I used to be a frequent Slashdot reader, but moved on to Reddit.

jff 13y ago
Talk about non sequitur...
joeblau 13y ago
So to me, this is like a mechanic saying "The engine on your Datsun is rusted out, let's fix your car by painting it Ferrari red." I mean I just went to the site and it looks like Gizmodo or Engadget 3 years ago.
taspeotis 13y ago
For me, Slashdot killed Slashdot. The editors increasingly did not care about editing the content that was submitted (and not just from a grammatical standpoint). I stopped subscribing to Slashdot's RSS feed just in time to avoid shit like this [1] appearing in Feedly. To be fair to Slashdot, however, they have removed the "stuff that matters" tagline from visibility on their site (it's in the source). That, and Hacker News seems to be about 3 days ahead of /. so it's kind of redundant to read it. Unless I want to learn about new keyboard shortcuts. I read Ars too, which is sometimes a bit behind HN but also covers different material. [1] http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/08/26/0010239/the-greatest-keyboard-shortcut-ever http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/08/26/0010239/the-greatest...
- rgbrenner 13y ago
  I started reading slashdot in like 99.. the editors didn't 'edit' the stories back then either. In fact, as far back as I can remember people have been complaining about the editors no longer doing their jobs.. which is weird because as far as I could tell, they never did them to begin with.
gutnor 13y ago
The community indeed. I'm still a /. reader, but I have to say, it is very occasional that I do not know what the comment will be before opening them. Most of the +5 comment are traditional /. "meme" (OSS good, closed-source bad, MS bad, Google good, ...) and their counter of course. That has always been the case to some extend (that's /. DNA), but it has gotten to the point that it is extremely hard to find any type of information whatsoever just an endless battle of people throwing rumours (you would think that the majority of /. reader are board member of major tech corp), group-think opinion or unrelated info at each other to "win". It reads now like a political blog for teenagers. HN has great comment, to me that the closest to reproduce the /. experience of 10 years ago (although it could use a good flamewar between friends once in a while) But even the more chaotic reddit manage to show interesting comments on top.

AmVess 13y ago

I just looked at my comments and submissions for the last year. 12 comments and zero submissions. Before, I'd punch out 12 comments in a day. The problem started with the lateness of the submissions...easily trailing other sites by days at times. I quit posting submissions because they'd never show up, despite being fairly interesting topics on other sites. Then the quality of the comments started going downhill, largely a product of the overall malaise that fell over the site brought about by the rather mentally torpid powers-that-be that ran the site.