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Re:Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds by redcircle on Monday October 01, 2012 @11:02AM (#4597368)
I stopped reading /. long ago due to the embellished story descriptions tacked onto the submissions. They are very judgemental, trollish, and became too trite for me to read any longer. As others here have mentioned, /. has some serious groupthink, and it is visible via the predictable submission summaries.
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Re:Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds by ubernostrum on Monday October 01, 2012 @11:21AM (#4597478)
/. has some serious groupthink

Did you intend the irony here?

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Re:Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds by redcircle on Monday October 01, 2012 @03:24PM (#4598886)
My subconscious did. I didn't mean to imply that HN lacks group think --- I just don't want to see it in the submission summary, and HN's structure prevents that to some degree.
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Re:Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds by tedunangst on Monday October 01, 2012 @12:09PM (#4597746)
The story descriptions, and multiple links, are the best part about slashdot. Instead of twenty submissions completely filling the front page with the latest "what it means to program" and its 19 blog replies, there's one story. With one comment thread, instead of twenty threads all starting off with the same "not this again" comment.
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Re:Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds by Evbn on Monday October 01, 2012 @10:46PM (#4600418)
Well, usually there is one story and the dupe.
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