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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:21PM
I think if we can stay away from 'xyz but with a computer' we will be doing way better by a long shot. For example someone using a computer to stalk someone. Or using a computer to commit a crime. Kinda techy but not really. Just basically being a criminal but now with a computer.
Also I think we should reign it in a bit with the arm chair lawyering. I enjoyed watching the IBM/Novell/SCO thing. But it got really out of hand.
It seems many stories on /. seemed to be little more than to get people pissed off and yelling at each other. For example should CEO pay be tied to some %. How in the world does that have anything to do with tech other than our paycheck? This is natural for a for profit 'news' company. If it bleeds it leads.
They will sneak in. But if we can keep focus we will bring in a decent crowd.