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: 5, Insightful) by SpallsHurgenson on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:43PM
I agree. I actually enjoy some of the discussions on Slashdot regarding politics or economics, because it allows me to read - and discuss - these important issues with other geeks; people who have some understanding of why I take privacy violations so seriously, or look at electronic voting with great wariness. Yes, I can read about this stuff on other websites, but there the focus tends to be much more black-and-white, My Team versus Your Team without much discourse on the underlying problems (this happened on Slashdot too, but as often was moderated down to tolerable levels).
It's not the topics - not the article - that draws us to Slashdot (or Soylent); it's the comments. I want to hear what other readers say, and not just their opinions on the latest Linux kernel or whether OCZ SSDs were really that bad. Micro-focused as we sometimes can be, geeks as a whole have more than one interest and have more than one dimension to them. I enjoy hearing from them on other issues than purely tech and science. I mean, where else am I going to get this sort of intelligent conversation?