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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: 1) by Common Joe on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:21AM

    by Common Joe (33) <{common.joe.0101} {at} {gmail.com}> on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:21AM (#4708) Journal

    The question is, what stuff matters now? If we stray a tad from the strictly technological news, I would be all right with it. General news ought to be permitted, particularly events throughout the whole world. Really do not want that "it's too U.S.-centric" issue again.

    I hate to say it, but the only way to keep people happy in a scenario like this is to categorize the stories. One person wants only highly technical articles while another would be happy with tech articles and general news. Apply a filter and both are happy. Stories would need to be able to fall into multiple categories. Making these categories, keeping them up to date, and keeping the users engaged enough to update their preferences with these categories is a big challenge.

    Just my opinion