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
Tragically this is because the degradation is instead shifted to the editors. Slashvertisements, things in "ask slashdot" that should instead get someone redirected to google, and kdawson....
I know it's fun to rag on the 'editors' here, and kdawson is evidently a troll account (no profile, just consistent flamebait), whenever I consider ranting against them, I think of this post from the 'idle' launch:
Age and quality. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: (Score:5, Insightful)
Tragically this is because the degradation is instead shifted to the editors. Slashvertisements, things in "ask slashdot" that should instead get someone redirected to google, and kdawson....
Re:Age and quality. (Score:1)
I know it's fun to rag on the 'editors' here, and kdawson is evidently a troll account (no profile, just consistent flamebait), whenever I consider ranting against them, I think of this post from the 'idle' launch:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=646041&cid=24603867 [slashdot.org]
We all have PHBs, even /. editors. I love how they all appeared in solidarity, like the ending of a Stephen King novel.
Keep it up, we luv ya really ;-)