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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: 2, Interesting) by No Respect on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:16PM

    by No Respect (991) on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:16PM (#3946)
    I remember all that, too. Remember the Fall of 1993? Known as "Eternal September" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September [wikipedia.org] that was the time when AOL, who used to market itself as "the internet", turned loose its horde of "me too" dolts onto the internet. To me, the whole social networking craze is tailored for those kinds of people. I like the corporate walled gardens of FB and Twatter and Disqus. They act as honeypots attractng the sort of people who, quite frankly, I have no desire to interact with. There are enough idiots to deal with in RL every day without having to wade through their prodigious ignorance in the online world too.

    So I kind of agree with some of what you're suggesting, but not all of it.
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