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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: 2) by Shub on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:35PM

    by Shub (474) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:35PM (#3734)

    Speaking for myself, I went to Slashdot mainly for the quality of the comments from a community that offered insight from a range of different industries, and the signal to noise ratio was generally quite good.

    What I wouldn't like to see is zealotry about sticking strictly to technical articles, straying a little bit further a field the odd time is fine. My reasons behind this thinking is that imposing a strict mandate to one particular topic will encourage pedants to argue what is an isn't acceptable, with the end result being users abandoning the site due to frequent argueing from the users centred more around what constitutes an acceptable article, rather than the article contents themselves

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by andrew on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:48PM

    by andrew (755) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:48PM (#3753)

    I'm not here because I didn't like /. stories or comments, I'm here because beta makes the site completely unusable to me.

    Keep a variety of stories please.