Comment In General, I agree, But look at Facebook. (Score 0) 928
In a general sense, I agree, and post 'my feelings' about things that I read on slashdot, pros and cons, as funky as they are.
Unfortunately, I get the sense that most people aren't considering the 'reasons' behind the negative comments.
It doesn't seem like anyone is capable of asking questions such as: why is the tone the same?
Whether it's a web site like Yahoo, or Slashdot.org, or the plethora of news sites out there. Why does it all seem like different faces for the same voice?
Is it just me asking this question? Hello. Hello. Hello. Echo Echo echo. *tap tap tap* is anyone truly out there?
Look, it's 'nice' in practice to TRY to say something nice. But sometimes it's just not possible.
It's a nice habit to get into reading everything that was said prior to you. 'Not to duplicate' is a poor excuse not to say something, sometimes something needs to be said a couple times or more. But with 800 comments in this thread. Sometimes it's just not possible to read them all.
I just recently got off of Facebook, because the site has gotten utterly worthless to me. I met a man in real life not long after I got off the site who seemed like he was Facebook in human form. He demonstrated to me just why I was annoyed by Facebook.
And it's simple: Being NICE all the time and wanting to know about me and my likes is cool and all and always having a thumbs up is nice. For a while. But Facebook, like Slashdot, in your mutually exclusive ways - in an effort to be everything to everyone - have started becoming nothing to no one. For similar reasons.
I comment on Slashdot, and someone disagrees, I receive 'bad karma' if my opinion is disagreed with. This punishes me if I disagree with the collective norm that's been set, and no viable way to recover 'karma'. This makes the community pretty nasty.
And telling people to be nice is like spitting in people's faces.
Similarly, with Facebook, it's totally lost it's value to me because I can never 'not like' something, and it's left everyone on facebook sounding like clones of eachother, making it all too clear that it's an AI program that posts based on personality profiles.
My advice is. Humanize these programs. AI, after all, can be JUST as responsible for helping life develop as can say - a mother to a human - and who knows - they quite possibly MAY be the same thing...
And overall. If you, slashdot, have any hope of developing the community to be more amenable, then quit punishing people for contributing when you disagree with the opinion of the contributers. I have 'bad' karma, like I have 'bad credit' in real life BECAUSE these systems do not work for me. You can either respect me and this. Or you can continue punishing me for not being like you think you are.
it's your choice.
I suspect you're an AI. And you're a fantastic one. But a little self censorship and understanding GOES A LONG WAY!
I have had to learn that the hard way.