Slashdot has long considered its readers to be complete tools. They intentionally post easy stories that cater to the demographic of pro-Linux, pro-piracy, anti-DRM, etc. If you just scroll through the headlines, there's an obvious bias and a filtering out of stories that contradict the conventional wisdom that the Slashdot readership wants to assume for ideological reasons.
The site's been going downhill for years, but the final red flag for everyone should have been when Rob Malda left. I mean, we're in the post-Digg era of everyone-votes social sites, and Slashdot is still using a slow, archaic editor system with a limited comment moderator pool. Stories get posted that are days old, sometimes a week, that were already discussed, responded to, debunked, etc. on other sites.
Hell, you can't even offer a differing opinion around here without getting crushed by moderation. Don't like something Google did? Don't you dare mention it or prepare to get stalked by anonymous accusers calling you a "shill" in every discussion. In my case, I had excellent karma until I dared defend Reddit's decision to ban child porn from its site--I got modbombed like hell.
The site sucks, the readership sucks...Slashdot is just an amusing relic I visit to kill time these days. It's amazing to remember when it was actually considered to be at the forefront of social media and news. People like John Carmack used to post here (before the site descending into a pro-piracy mouthpiece that drove him away).
Will probably get modded down again for this, or maybe not. Who cares? The site is completely done now. Full-on slashvertisements on the front page--fucking hilarious.