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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by etherscythe on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:39PM

    by etherscythe (937) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:39PM (#7033)

    We come here for the comments. So, let's speak to the strengths of our participants.

    EVE battles were cool the first time or so. Novelty's worn off for me. Good to toss in there for variety on occasion.

    Mostly, though, I want to see people exploring new stuff. What are people doing with Raspberry Pi units? What do we do about privacy when everybody's got Google Glass? What tech has NASA made available to the average home? Why is software security so difficult? How do you keep your concept of 'self' in the age of Facebook tags and Twitter auto-generated messages? Naturally this is just off the top of my head; what I find most valuable is the questions like these that I never would have thought of on my own, and the equally interesting answers. Any one person may not be so great on the internet, but somehow this and our predecessor community made a giant mound of shoulders for me to stand on, intellectually :)

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by moondoctor on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:28PM

    by moondoctor (2963) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:28PM (#7064)

    i think you are dead right.

    i don't think we're after full scientific papers and content you need a PHD for, but i do think that a lot of people are here because slashdot got more and more joe Q public type stuff. A lot of the things I'm into my friends have no clue, and it's nice (read: fucking fantastic!) to have a place to go where smart people are talking about interesting subjects.

    i would vote E, all of the above on the survey.

    i'm after anything interesting in the technology/science vein. I'm into software, electronics, machines, etc. but I'm also fascinated to read up on biology, chemistry, math, physics - all the rest.

    i think the problem is that websites end up tempted into thinking that getting the most visitors is the holy grail. for making money, that is true, but it ends up steering the content towards a generic and dumbed down (and often snarky) mediocrity. if you're running a site that has a relatively small and specific audience that won't tolerate clickbait, you probably ain't gonna get billionaire rich. if that's ok with the people running things it can work.

    finally, I think that pieces about highly technical subjects written by people that don't really understand the subject are a huge problem. that, and misleading/overblown/snsationalist headlines. speak softly and carry a big stick.