Slashdot right now is the place to go when you want to read about 2 day old news. These days there's very little I see here that I haven't already seen on Ars, Engadget, Giz, TechDirt, BSG, etc.
I know the mission statement probably doesn't care all that much about Slashdot being a news breaker, it's always been more about the discussion, but the discussion becomes a bit stale when the story goes up 18 hours after the rest of the world posted about it. If you want the quality of commenting to rise again, mak
I know the mission statement probably doesn't care all that much about Slashdot being a news breaker, it's always been more about the discussion, but the discussion becomes a bit stale when the story goes up 18 hours after the rest of the world posted about it.
While I appreciate the desire for timely news, there are also up sides to the delay. One big up side is that the story has somewhat settled down and there's more facts going around than speculation and knee-jerk reactions.
In that respect, though, I do miss Slashback. You'd essentially get the best of both worlds most of the time. On the one hand you'd have articles posted quickly, loads of knee-jerk comments, as well as some more noteworthy comments. On the other, after a few days, there would be a Slashback post summarizing a few of the news articles, developments since the original ones, and sometimes including some of the top comments from the previous posts, which then served as a basis for further discussion with a far greater SNR.
While I appreciate the desire for timely news, there are also up sides to the delay. One big up side is that the story has somewhat settled down and there's more facts going around than speculation and knee-jerk reactions.
True, but at the the same time, doing this also removes a lot of input from people who aren't necessarily going to be interested in the topic still. Which may not be a bad thing, but at the same time it removes a lot of the momentum from the conversation, and potentially results in a lot of
I'm not sure I value the comments of the people who are only interested before we have any facts. I could read plenty of those on CNN.com and choose not to.
I do think, though, that having editors create and submit some of their own stories could help speed the flow of content. If something happens that they know will be a slashdot story, it might make sense to write a blurb and post it as an editor, rather than wait for it to make it through the firehose process. It can always be posted again two days la
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In all seriousness (Score:5, Interesting)
Slashdot right now is the place to go when you want to read about 2 day old news. These days there's very little I see here that I haven't already seen on Ars, Engadget, Giz, TechDirt, BSG, etc.
I know the mission statement probably doesn't care all that much about Slashdot being a news breaker, it's always been more about the discussion, but the discussion becomes a bit stale when the story goes up 18 hours after the rest of the world posted about it. If you want the quality of commenting to rise again, mak
Re:In all seriousness (Score:3)
While I appreciate the desire for timely news, there are also up sides to the delay.
One big up side is that the story has somewhat settled down and there's more facts going around than speculation and knee-jerk reactions.
In that respect, though, I do miss Slashback. You'd essentially get the best of both worlds most of the time.
On the one hand you'd have articles posted quickly, loads of knee-jerk comments, as well as some more noteworthy comments.
On the other, after a few days, there would be a Slashback post summarizing a few of the news articles, developments since the original ones, and sometimes including some of the top comments from the previous posts, which then served as a basis for further discussion with a far greater SNR.
http://slashdot.org/archive.pl?op=topics&keyword=slashback [slashdot.org]
( Look for the ones beginning with "Slashback:" )
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While I appreciate the desire for timely news, there are also up sides to the delay.
One big up side is that the story has somewhat settled down and there's more facts going around than speculation and knee-jerk reactions.
True, but at the the same time, doing this also removes a lot of input from people who aren't necessarily going to be interested in the topic still. Which may not be a bad thing, but at the same time it removes a lot of the momentum from the conversation, and potentially results in a lot of
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I'm not sure I value the comments of the people who are only interested before we have any facts. I could read plenty of those on CNN.com and choose not to.
I do think, though, that having editors create and submit some of their own stories could help speed the flow of content. If something happens that they know will be a slashdot story, it might make sense to write a blurb and post it as an editor, rather than wait for it to make it through the firehose process. It can always be posted again two days la