Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era
by bena on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:10PM
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Slashdot was always more IT focused. Digg and reddit were more general appeal.
And as a larger portion of the online audience became "non-IT-related" people, Slashdot mattered less and less.
Although, I've always liked Slashdot's moderation system. Users who have been well moderated in the past were randomly selected to moderate pages. And scores were capped so you didn't have snowball effects where if something started getting negative traction, it would get buried.
It was harder to game because populism didn't work and there were no moderators to complain to. I never had to worry if marking something a "Troll" would cause me to get bombed with messages. The user would never know who did it.
And as a larger portion of the online audience became "non-IT-related" people, Slashdot mattered less and less.
Although, I've always liked Slashdot's moderation system. Users who have been well moderated in the past were randomly selected to moderate pages. And scores were capped so you didn't have snowball effects where if something started getting negative traction, it would get buried.
It was harder to game because populism didn't work and there were no moderators to complain to. I never had to worry if marking something a "Troll" would cause me to get bombed with messages. The user would never know who did it.