Re:Leaked Documents Reveal Facebook's Global War on Data Pri...
by protomyth on Sunday March 03, 2019 @07:58PM
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Slashdot was fun and I too learned some amazingly arcane stuff on certain topics. HN does have humor sometimes, one of my favorite threads is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12781157 looks towards the bottom. I guess we all need to be serious these days lest someone doesn't see the funny. Slashdot was pretty amazing for a community policing itself as opposed to making moderators do a lot of the heavy hauling, but you really need people to stick around and do the work.
you have meta moderation divided among a vast population of users, who have to give up commenting rights for the article. you can filter for a variety of personal tastes (funny, insightful... even troll), a friend/foe modifier and so much more.
but yeah, the sanitized community and centralized moderation on HN or reddit makes for an /infinitely/ superior first visit experience, but after you log in and learn the minimum of the system (which fits nicely with the /. proposal anyway) it is in a completely different class.
on /. i actually learn some deep arcane stuff about a topic (and have a few laughs) as opposed to the serious HN hive mind, which i personally use in lieu of the (missing) article summary.