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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: 4, Insightful) by TWiTfan on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:30PM

    by TWiTfan (2428) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:30PM (#3731)

    Agreed, don't make the same mistake that Digg did. Keep it tech related, "News for Nerds" and all that. Trying to be too many things to too many people will only help you digg your own grave.

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  • (Score: 1) by EETech1 on Thursday February 20 2014, @10:26PM

    by EETech1 (957) on Thursday February 20 2014, @10:26PM (#3999)

    Soylent News...

    Feed your nerdy brain with what matters most!

  • (Score: 1) by philip on Friday February 21 2014, @08:45PM

    by philip (1614) on Friday February 21 2014, @08:45PM (#4633)

    Yes, please: make it "News for Nerds"
    As 'nerds' have become popular in pop culture, the term has lost its meaning.
    When 20-something former cheerleaders in bars claim to be nerds* it illustrates the problems we're talking about.

    *this actually happened, and also, I have nothing against former cheerleaders being nerds, or former cheerleaders who aren't. I am just using this anecdotal experience to try to illustrate a point.

    Also, there are so many people on /. that are very opinionated that I have become conditioned to caveat everything I say, in order to preemptively defend myself from people. I hope I can shake the habit here.