AOL Targets Digg, YouTube With New Netscape Site

Dotnaught writes "AOL has re-launched its Netscape.com portal as a place where user participation is balanced by moderator control. The renovated site will feature community-driven news and user-submitted video, guided by editors called anchors. "The hive mind sometimes doesn't do a thorough job," says Jason Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs, Inc., a blog network acquired last year by AOL."

I believe this

[rolfwind]

The renovated site will feature community-driven news and user-submitted video, guided by editors called anchors.

Is called /. - except for maybe the video. Why is it being compared more closely to digg?

Re:I believe this

[Trigun]

It is being compared more closely to digg due to the minor fact that it's pretty much a ripoff of digg, and not slashdot.
Although, I honestly don't care about them ripping it off. If it's a good idea, and you think you can make it better, go for it.

Re:I believe this

[rolfwind]

Never mind, I take it back. It's not closer to either, but a hybrid of slashdot/digg, taking features of either. It has more voting, ala digg, but as far as I can tell, it has comment system more like /.

I'm hoping the reply system is more like /., on Digg you can only reply directly to the 1st gen comments and it makes getting a decent conversation started difficult.