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
The moderation system is awesome. It is the one thing I always notice the lack of when reading other blogs. It also is much better than the binary system on some blogs, and Reddit and Digg, which tends to lead to an even larger herd (hurd?) mentality than here. But there has to be more, Kuro5hin has a much more expansive and powerful (or at least arcane) mod system, and has collapsed under the weight of its own lack of relevance long ago.
The thing that probably lead/. to keeping its glory is the diversi
I could complain about moderation all day long, but the bottom line is that it generally works from the reader's standpoint.
The one thing that most/. posters don't understand is that moderation is for the general unregistered user's benefit, not your karma score. If you browse Slashdot without being logged in, the discussions are boiled down the essential gist of the issue,without hundreds of posts of nerd nonsense.
Age and quality. (Score:5, Insightful)
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The moderation system is awesome. It is the one thing I always notice the lack of when reading other blogs. It also is much better than the binary system on some blogs, and Reddit and Digg, which tends to lead to an even larger herd (hurd?) mentality than here. But there has to be more, Kuro5hin has a much more expansive and powerful (or at least arcane) mod system, and has collapsed under the weight of its own lack of relevance long ago.
The thing that probably lead /. to keeping its glory is the diversi
Re:Age and quality. (Score:2)
The moderation system is awesome.
I could complain about moderation all day long, but the bottom line is that it generally works from the reader's standpoint.
The one thing that most /. posters don't understand is that moderation is for the general unregistered user's benefit, not your karma score. If you browse Slashdot without being logged in, the discussions are boiled down the essential gist of the issue,without hundreds of posts of nerd nonsense.