Re:This was a triumph.
by btmorex on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @03:18AM
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I always though the biggest problem with slashdot was that the moderation somehow lead to an extremely insular community. There was a prevailing "slashdot" opinion and that was pretty much the only opinion expressed in highly moderated comments. I was a reader for years and that's pretty much why I left.
What's strange is that slashdot moderation isn't that different from any other site, but for whatever reason, I think it hurt slashdot far more than any other site. Maybe, it's just that by default not that many comments are displayed as opposed to reddit or hn, so it's all the more noticeable when the top 20 or so comments all are basically the same.
Re:This was a triumph.
by philwelch on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @03:51PM
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I usually found a lot of highly moderated comments opposing the "Slashdot groupthink", particularly ones that criticized the "Slashdot groupthink" by name. But there were a lot of shared cultural assumptions there as well.
What's strange is that slashdot moderation isn't that different from any other site, but for whatever reason, I think it hurt slashdot far more than any other site. Maybe, it's just that by default not that many comments are displayed as opposed to reddit or hn, so it's all the more noticeable when the top 20 or so comments all are basically the same.