thoth's Journal: Why I Like Slashdot

A followup to my previous entry...

I find time spent on Reddit to be reasonably efficient - I subscribe to topics that interest me and can quickly see what new posts there are. As for the discussion, the higher voted responses float to the top. It is easier to follow and participate on a topic even though it isn't the more recent.

However, Slashdot has value as well: the comments. Other posters have pointed this out, but every article I do read generally has a few very informative posts. Most of those are even moderated to +5 Insightful ;).

Politics, anything related to shall we say large computer companies *cough* Apple Microsoft Google *cough* tends to be dominated by fanboys on both sides, but by picking and filtering what articles to even bother looking at, I can honestly say I generally learn something from most posts.

The catch is since I can't follow Slashdot in "real time", I'm mostly left to pick over topics that are several hours or days old. That's fine, since it makes for even more efficient time usage - glance through and read the "best" posts, for topics I'm interested in - but it also means I'm more of an observer rather than direct participant. Again, that isn't bad but it does mean other people have the burden of making Slashdot worth visiting.

Anyway, ever since I excluded political articles, I'm a much happier Slashdot reader.