Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users

Re:Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users by johnohara on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @05:07PM (#7562399)

I'm not sure what Slashdot actually is anymore. The titles of the entries appear interesting at first, but when you read the associated articles, any substantive content seems to vanish into thin air.

I'm still interested, it's just not that interesting.

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Re:Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users by tdk on Thursday April 10, 2014 @05:27AM (#7564974)

The draw of /. used to be its comments. Nowhere else could you get such informative discussions. often with the people involved in the story. The rating-of-comments concept has been copied by many other sites, but few of them have a user reputation system and fewer get it right. This is why I pretty much copied /. for my own site.

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Re:Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users by dredmorbius on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @06:24PM (#7562900)

And this is different from much of the socially viral Web how?

I agree that Slashdot's lost its way and cachet, but substance is hardly prominent across much of the Internet today.

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Re:Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users by gametheoretic on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @08:38PM (#7563521)

Agreed; nowadays anywhere you go, there's some snarky dude saying 'hardly'.

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Re:Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users by username223 on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @08:50PM (#7563560)

According to their (IIRC) tag line, it is/was "news for nerds, stuff that matters." Basically, HN for the late 90s, but with better features.

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