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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 evilviper on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:33PM

    by evilviper (1760) on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:33PM (#3808) Journal

    I'm seriously concerned for the future of Soylent if those in charge don't already know the answer to this question.

    When you post a bunch of Apple rumors, and political flame bait, what kind of readers will you attract? What kind of comments will you get? /. was at it's best, way back when, when it published HARD science and technology stories. That's where it got its audience, it's intelligent community.

    In a global warming or other BS story, would you get comments like this one:
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=230181&cid=186 77583 [slashdot.org]

    Or this:
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=954211&cid=248 83605 [slashdot.org]

    Or this:
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=593717&cid=239 32479 [slashdot.org]

    Slashcode is a good system, but ONLY with an audience of above-average intelligence. Just imagine a flood of YouTube video commenters coming in and doing all the moderation and m2 around here!

    Soylent is getting lots of people from /. in the hope of a better site, but they just won't stay around long if this place turns into HuffingtonPost.

    I know I'm not the only one who believes this:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=349025&cid=212 24209 [slashdot.org]

    This site has the opportunity to be an old-fashioned /. ... maybe even a BETTER /. than the original, but it won't happen by forgetting your core user-base.

    --
    Do YOU see ALL home-page stories?
    dev.soylentnews.org/search.pl?tid=1
    github.com/SoylentNews/slashcode/issues/78
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    Total Score:   5  
  • (Score: 1) by Common Joe on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:38AM

    by Common Joe (33) <{common.joe.0101} {at} {gmail.com}> on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:38AM (#4713) Journal

    I'm seriously concerned for the future of Soylent if those in charge don't already know the answer to this question.

    Unless they are Steve Jobs (*cough*), it's good that they are getting feedback. They have a lot of ideas about what they want, but they are looking for ideas to make this site better or so that the same mistakes don't happen here as they did at Slashdot.

    Why did Slashdot decline? How can the decline be measured? Can this be plotted over time? These questions cannot be easily answered. Sure, we can give specific examples of X or Y or Z, but that is only a fragment of a snapshot using examples. It doesn't answer those three questions. I think they are asking this question so they can get a lot of snapshots about what the community wants and then use those answers to guide SoylentNews in a better direction. It's easier than asking the harder questions which would be impossible to answer anyway.

    Disclaimer: This is only my opinion and interpretation of what I saw and heard as I watched the SoylentNews being constructed.