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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, Insightful) by sar on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:50PM
Please no politics. Politics is bullshit with no hard facts where anyone can fart and label it Truth.
I for one prefer science and technology where you can't bend facts.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by oodaloop on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:59PM
What the politics is about may be bullshit, but the fact that elections are contested in a given country is important and factual. I want to know about laws being proposed, sanctions against countries, what kind of person won the election in another country, etc. I don't want to hear left-wing vs right-wing debates about the same tired subjects, but some political stories are important to know about.
Many Bothans died to bring you this comment.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by sar on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:21PM
Contested elections will be interesting for me if TFA includes nice statistical analysis of tampering. Or analysis of security holes in yet another e-voting machine.
Politics enough but still on technology side would be pirate party premier in some country. More for the fact that he would understand computers and would probably do some interesting decisions while in power.
Or some baltic country completely ditching physical currency and going electronic only.
With who won elections in other countries I am not so sure. Too many countries, too many similar parties, too many unknown names.
But what I would really like to see here more would be for example something similar to article about this uber nerdy lady that wrote how she decoded GPS signal from audio feed of some helicopter video of street car chasing...
(Score: 1) by quadrox on Friday February 21 2014, @01:23AM
I loved that Slashdot posted anything that matters. Maybe there were a few useless articles, but overall I would rather have to much diversity than to little. I want to keep up to date on all the important stuff in the world - this excludes celebrity gossip, but definitely own will include politics.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:03PM
Whilst I almost entirely agree, whenever you have things like the DMCA and DeCSS, detaining Jens and Dmitry et al., and shit like that, which is stuff that matters to a nerd like me, you can't but dive into US law and US politics.
So politics only where there's a strong nerd interest.
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