What's amazing to me isn't that/. has carried on this long, but rather that the comment quality on here hasn't gone the way of most social new sites. It seems that in general as a social news site ages, matures, and grows, the comment quality follows an inverse pattern. Or more simply, as the number of users approaches infinity, the comment quality approaches 4chan. Digg used to be a decent site for discussion; now you'd be laughed at for even suggesting that the comments might be notable. Reddit is quickl
I would appreciate some more understanding of how the mod system works. Like many that posted, I recently got some, but there was a long dry spell. My karma is excellent. But I did have advertising turned off and wondered if that affected my chances. Recently I made a comment that was pretty funny and was modded up as so, then I got some mod points. So do my mod points depend on my posts being modded up? I post and comment regularly, but as we all know, not every post gets read or commented. But I was also trying an experiment where I did not disable the ads at the same time my post got modded up - so I don't know if either was the key. I looked around for more information about the mod point system but failed to find anything in more in the FAQ (I read the FAQ but it does not answer these types of questions).
Congratulations to/. and I agree the articles are mostly interesting, I have learned quite a bit, and I enjoy each evening going through the stories.
My favorite news site always been/. because the attention it gives to stories and the research. It's a 100% better than the juvenile digg and the like.
Congratulation on the 100,000th stories.:-)
"Flattery is all right -- if you don't inhale."
-- Adlai Stevenson
Age and quality. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Age and quality. (Score:2)
Congratulations to
Re: (Score:1)
Congratulation on the 100,000th stories. :-)