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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: 1) by Common Joe on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:38AM
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.