ArthurDent's Journal: Slashdot at 5..

Yikes! It's been a while hasn't it. I'm one of the older timers around here (low 5 digit id.. heh), and /. sure has grown up. I love the journal feature, and the friend/foe/freak/fan stuff is pretty neat too. Slashdot has done a great job of being a discussion site not just about open source, or MS bashing, or computer oriented news. Rather, /. (heh, can't put "/." at the beginning of a sentence for some reason) has been able to cover all facets of geek culture from privacy to world events to religion to science. The level of discourse is very very high looking back given the headaches that have occurred with ACs and moderation and so on. Through it all CT and his buds have managed to make this a place where people discuss serious and not so serious issues with equal aplomb.

Kudos to the /. team and here's to another 5 years!