Re:the slashdot effect on scientists... (Score 1)

Who cares. We probably speed up the discoveries of those scientists who read our comments! Think about it. If there are enough people looking at their website and if 25% of those people are commenting, there are still a consiberable amount of comments. Since most people comment more than once, that effectively doubles the number of comments. No offence to anyone, but about 15% of these comments are then actually on topic and contributing lots of things. That means that 7.5% of the comments are useful and relevant. If the scientists want some help, or just fresh-thinking, they could log in with a high threshold of 3 or 4. This would contribute many new ideas to research projects. On a side note, what do you people think of /. being labeled as a "weblog" by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal? I didn't like it. Since there are so many stupid people in America, I'd expect the /. effect to increase over the next couple of weeks. I know that this article is an old one that was two or three days old, but I'd like to see /. continue to prosper.