dallen's Journal: meta-slashdot

I just created a "New Discussion" in slashdot called "Meta Slashdot". I'm rather curious what the point to new discussions are, since as far as I can see, they are only linked from the list of posts on my User Info page.

I would love to see a thriving discussion of meta-slashdot, but I'm not certain what the method of starting that would be. Buying OSDN Self-Serve ads to publicize? Posting to Kiro5hin? Emailing anybody who posts to /. to tell them? (Just kidding about the last one).

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Addition, 7 March 2002, 10pm: michael tells me new discussions are useful for just that, discussions by users. But unlike the journal entries, user-added discussion entries go stale and evaporate two weeks after they are created.

Which is why I added this note, since his explanation will go away in two weeks...