Journal daemonburrito's Journal: /. Beauty 3
I have been reading discussions at -1 for a couple of months. I learned a lot in that time.
I learned to appreciate things like the GNAA and that ascii-art goatse troll. Their very existence is now somehow comforting. I learned that trolling can be educational in a Socratic sort of way.
But it was starting to weigh pretty heavily on me, and I had forgotten how pretty slashdot can be.
Tonight, I was reading without logging in for the first time in ages, and I picked the first story on my feed, What Al Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells. It was a bit of a flamebait submission, really, but the discussion was amazing.
As I wasn't logged in, I was browsing away from my -1 setting, which had become slashdot for me. At 3, a thoughtful, reasoned, informed, and funny discussion emerged, like the Tengwar inscription on the one ring - like the slashdot I remembered from years ago. Bruce Perens even posted some overtly political comments! (Wish he would have done that when I was getting flamed on Technocrat...
I hope I have someone around to slap me if I ever use the phrase "slashdot groupthink". For all of its weaknesses, slashcode is freaking amazing. This is the only place on the interweb where there is room for the GNAA and Bruce Perens. It's a system so beautiful that it can handle twitter (the personage) without the editors having to be police. Hell, it wouldn't be slashdot if someone was banned for attempting to game the system. Yes, I am even grateful for twitter. Let he who has not trolled cast the first whatever it is they cast at trolls.
Thank you slashdot!
Well said (Score:2)
Same reason I stick around here, too.
Re: (Score:1)
Thanks.
Btw, your journal took a couple hours of my life yesterday. Good stuff.
Re: (Score:2)
Many thanks. As Sam the Butcher said, I try to be worth the mouseclick.