"... What's amazing to me isn't that /. has carried on this long, but rather that the comment quality on here hasn't gone the way of most social new sites. ..."
I am surprised /. has survived. The place pretty much as it was back when it started in '97.
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This is my first post [0] for a couple of years. But there was a time when I lived here. I remember when /. was sold & CmdrTaco said all he wanted to do was run it I'm sure I for one didn't believe he'd still be at it now. The sig/noise is still bad if you trawl below the +2 level. But at +5 it's readable. I think the combination of moderation, ability to filter comments (text, best comments at top), culture and relationships have helped shape the site into something still readable. HackerNews exhibits all of the same sorts of growing pains /. had to go through.
I am surprised /. has survived. The place pretty much as it was back when it started in '97.
This is my first post [0] for a couple of years. But there was a time when I lived here. I remember when /. was sold & CmdrTaco said all he wanted to do was run it I'm sure I for one didn't believe he'd still be at it now. The sig/noise is still bad if you trawl below the +2 level. But at +5 it's readable. I think the combination of moderation, ability to filter comments (text, best comments at top), culture and relationships have helped shape the site into something still readable. HackerNews exhibits all of the same sorts of growing pains /. had to go through.[0] http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1475404&cid=30409194