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....
Age and quality. (Score:5, Insightful)
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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....
Groan (Score:2)
Tragically this is because the degradation is instead shifted to the editors.
And the fact that there have now been 100,000 First Posts!
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How many "soviet russia" and "overlord" jokes ? I would scrape the site and find out for myself, but don't want to slashdot slashdot.
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Yeah it would be cool to have some sort of linux kernel swear counts [vidarholen.net] but with /. stories, which matches some patterns like:
Come on /. devs, bring us a xmas gift ! ;)
Re:Groan (Score:5, Funny)
# cowboyneal
there, fixed it for ya.
signed,
grammar nazi
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# cowboyneal
there, fixed it for ya.
signed, spelling Nazi
FTFY.
Signed,
semantics and spelling Nazi.
Wikipedia calls it "Culture". (Score:2)
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You forgot me you insensitive clod!
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