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What Have We Created?

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-so-meta-even-this-acronym dept.

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."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by krishnoid on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:06PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:06PM (#3699)

    Virtually every member here is going to recall the slogan, "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters."

    If we can't get the rights to that, I was thinking we could try 'Soylent News and Nerd Report'.

  • (Score: 1) by frojack on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:46PM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:46PM (#3750)

    Or maybe just SoylentNerds? ;-)

    Its got a ring to it.

    But I'm not sure we want ALL the stuff that came from Slashdot. Some was getting pretty old.

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  • (Score: 1) by unitron on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:38PM

    by unitron (70) on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:38PM (#3958) Journal

    Okay,so then there're two of us here old enough to remember US News and World Report.

    Maybe even 3 or 4.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by zim on Friday February 21 2014, @01:40AM

    by zim (1251) on Friday February 21 2014, @01:40AM (#4106)
    The nerd thing is now mainstream popular.

    Drop it. Time to move onto something else.

    • (Score: 1) by JeanCroix on Friday February 21 2014, @10:13AM

      by JeanCroix (573) on Friday February 21 2014, @10:13AM (#4301)
      Sadly, this. "Nerd" has somehow become a badge of pride, but with no more entry requirements than trendy thick-rimmed glasses and a fanatical devotion to the Big Bang Theory.

  • (Score: 1) by Foobar Bazbot on Friday February 21 2014, @02:05AM

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Friday February 21 2014, @02:05AM (#4115)

    Since /. is still actively using that -- not on the page anymore, but it's still in the >title< (even in beta (fuck beta!), it's the one thing they forgot to wreck) -- I really doubt we can get away with using it.