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 was a friend of friend of Taco and thus able to comment in his journals. I ripped him a new one for some faggoty journal entry he made. He then defriended robogoatgruff (uid 20, my friend of a friend of taco) so I couldn't comment in his journals and I have since never had mod points.
"Flattery is all right -- if you don't inhale."
-- Adlai Stevenson
Age and quality. (Score:5, Insightful)
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The probability of receiving moderation powers is inversely proportional to the frequency for which you post on Slashdot.
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plus an unknown constant vaguely related to pizza.
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I was a friend of friend of Taco and thus able to comment in his journals. I ripped him a new one for some faggoty journal entry he made. He then defriended robogoatgruff (uid 20, my friend of a friend of taco) so I couldn't comment in his journals and I have since never had mod points.