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jcd writes:
"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.
So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by oodaloop on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:05PM
Agreed. Fewer junk articles, and more news from around the world. As an American, I'd love to see more articles about politics and other news going on in other countries without it being about what it means to America. I might even tolerate metric units in TFS.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by ragequit on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:11PM
I second this. Things HAVE to happen elsewhere in the world, right?
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(Score: 1) by TWiTfan on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:37PM
I'm not big on political stories. I guess they're better than those advertisements-disguised-as-videos that Robolimbo was infamous for posting on /. but not by much.
If real life were like D&D, my Charisma score would be a negative number
(Score: 1, Insightful) by sar on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:50PM
Please no politics. Politics is bullshit with no hard facts where anyone can fart and label it Truth.
I for one prefer science and technology where you can't bend facts.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by oodaloop on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:59PM
What the politics is about may be bullshit, but the fact that elections are contested in a given country is important and factual. I want to know about laws being proposed, sanctions against countries, what kind of person won the election in another country, etc. I don't want to hear left-wing vs right-wing debates about the same tired subjects, but some political stories are important to know about.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by sar on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:21PM
Contested elections will be interesting for me if TFA includes nice statistical analysis of tampering. Or analysis of security holes in yet another e-voting machine.
Politics enough but still on technology side would be pirate party premier in some country. More for the fact that he would understand computers and would probably do some interesting decisions while in power.
Or some baltic country completely ditching physical currency and going electronic only.
With who won elections in other countries I am not so sure. Too many countries, too many similar parties, too many unknown names.
But what I would really like to see here more would be for example something similar to article about this uber nerdy lady that wrote how she decoded GPS signal from audio feed of some helicopter video of street car chasing...
(Score: 1) by quadrox on Friday February 21 2014, @01:23AM
I loved that Slashdot posted anything that matters. Maybe there were a few useless articles, but overall I would rather have to much diversity than to little. I want to keep up to date on all the important stuff in the world - this excludes celebrity gossip, but definitely own will include politics.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:03PM
Whilst I almost entirely agree, whenever you have things like the DMCA and DeCSS, detaining Jens and Dmitry et al., and shit like that, which is stuff that matters to a nerd like me, you can't but dive into US law and US politics.
So politics only where there's a strong nerd interest.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Buck Feta on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:30PM
>> I might even tolerate metric units in TFS.
If Soy is about science and tech, the style guide ought *require* metric units.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by kwerle on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:57PM
Ugh! If you want to see world news, use the BBC - it's awesome!
I want a software/IT/tech/science site, not another world politics.
My .02
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday February 21 2014, @05:41AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2, Insightful) by goody on Thursday February 20 2014, @10:04PM
You can go to the BBC or Al Jeezera to get political news from other countries and without an American slant. I say keep this site about science and technology -- real news for nerds.
(Score: 1) by EJ on Thursday February 20 2014, @11:50PM
I'm sorry, but I'm just not at all interested in political nonsense. I can get that just fine from fark.com, and I'd expect as valuable a level of commentary from users there.
I went to slashdot.org when I wanted to know that Google was selling Motorola to Lenovo, that Google fiber might be coming to my neighborhood, or that my phone was about to be owned if I used its web browser.
I like the idea that SN could be a place where any story I see is something I'm probably going to care about. Politics just annoy me, and there isn't anything I can actually do about any of it.
(Score: 1) by oodaloop on Monday February 24 2014, @11:22AM
Can you do anything about Google selling Motorola to Lenovo? This site wasn't created to cater to just your interests. We all have varied interests, and we all see articles we like and article we don't like.
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