Comparing Hacker News & the Slashdot Effect

Re:Comparing Hacker News & the Slashdot Effect by petercooper on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @11:34AM (#3071341)

In other words, Slashdot sent fewer people, but they stuck around a little longer.

His hunch is that it relates to the story. My hunch is that HN users usually have many links to read through on any particular visit, whereas Slashdot's post level is low enough that you can spend 10 minutes on a single item. They're pretty chalk and cheese as far as experiences go.

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Re:Comparing Hacker News & the Slashdot Effect by CmdrTacoMalda on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @12:56PM (#3071790)

That's a good point, although the question is on HN and SD, what % of items do users actually click on? While HN has far more single news items, Slashdot has a lot of comments, and the articles themselves are longer. Apples & Oranges to be sure.

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Re:Comparing Hacker News & the Slashdot Effect by Angostura on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @06:22AM (#3075017)

Or perhaps it was people like me who had been away for the summer and had missed Taco leaving Slashdot, so when faced with the story when click-crazy attempting to find out what had happened.

Are stetsons, really cool? I thought that was fezzes

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