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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: 1) by Thexalon on Friday February 21 2014, @09:35AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday February 21 2014, @09:35AM (#4278) Homepage

    two areas where you can never reach a consensus, or even an agreement to disagree.

    I disagree with that idea:
    - There's already an understanding in most political or social discussions that you're never really going to convince the "other" side to agree with you.
    - If you're making arguments and not hurling insults, then the discussions clarify different worldviews, their strengths and weaknesses.
    - As long as everyone is coming back to the table, there's a tacit agreement to disagree.
    - On rare occasions, you find agreement where you didn't expect it. For example, a group of Occupy Wall Street folks met up with a group of Tea Party members, and promptly agreed on a number of points, mostly campaign finance and criminal penalties for bank executives.

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    Every task is easy if somebody else is doing it.