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: 1) by r00t on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:15PM
Frankly, if it's mainstream news/drama I'll find my way to it on a news/drama/crap site. For instance, natural disasters are tragic, yes, but do they really need to be submitted as articles on a "tech news" site?
So much mainstream news these days is really just a pacifier for prime time TV addicts anyway. It's biased. It's a paid-for political grandstanding platform and for the most part, doesn't even legally need to be based on factual events (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/07/31/364678/- Fox-News-wins-in-court). It's not really news anymore, it's entertainment.
So, I would like to see strictly nerd content on SN, or at least content that has some sort of technology angle to it. It's why I come here. I depend on the community to find things that would be of interest to me that are worthwhile reading and knowing about. I try to give back by submitting articles of that same vein and quality.