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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: 5, Insightful) by chuckster985 on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:45PM

    by chuckster985 (1280) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:45PM (#3748)

    I am really hoping that Soylent can attract the people we had on Slashdot. The thing that amazed me the most about slashdot is that you could post the most obscure technical article and some PHD student working on his thesis on this exact topic would chime in. I also remember a story about a health emergency in Antartica. The very next post was McMurdo station checking in. Amazing! I cant tell you how many times I knew about a virus or a DNS problem and got thanks for forwarding info to the admins here. I am OK with soylent staying technical. Space stuff, physics, chem, math, computers, networking, geology, colony collapse disorder, IPV6. I dont care just keep it coming. I had a friend that said to me that if you study any topic in enough detail it becomes interesting.

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  • (Score: 1) by rival on Friday February 21 2014, @01:18PM

    by rival (2700) on Friday February 21 2014, @01:18PM (#4423)

    I was just thinking a few weeks ago that I hadn't seen NewYorkCountyLawyer in awhile, and that made me sad. I just checked Slashdot and saw that he's still contributing, which is great! Apparently I've just been reading the articles at the wrong times or something.

    It would be great to have him here! Along with so many other friends. But THAT is just the point, and I agree with you wholeheartedly. The people you come to know and respect, and the new people you meet and hear amazing insights, humour, wisdom or experience from, that's what it's all about.