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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."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Schafer2 on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:28PM
What the Soylent dev/admin/business teams have created is a fantastic site structure in a few days. I want to clearly and loudly say "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
The best submitters and commenters from
With just a few thousand registered users, SN is already at a significant fraction of
Are we going to be the same as Slashdot?
There is consensus on not selling out. This means no one is going to be trying to recover their crazy investment by monetizing the heck out of SN. That's the big win right there. We're not going to be the same as
As far as story topics go, we need to be careful not to be exclusionary. We each have different likes, and probably imagine that most others feel just like we do. This could quickly lead to divisiveness. While I'd prefer to discuss Python PEPs, Linux kernel changes, RFCs, and the like, we'll all be better off if we agree to just filter out the topics/submitters/editors on our personal "Katz" list.
Having said that, I do believe the "News for nerds, stuff that matters" (still