5 Jan
2003
5 Jan
'03
1:31 p.m.
Actually, SlashDot is populated by a humongous number of people, many whom
are intelligent, educated, and erudite. These, however, are not the typical
*posters*. SlashDot attracts an active troll population because of the
exposure. I typically read at +5, maybe dropping down to +4 if there aren't
many replys, or +3 if I have moderator points (which I rarely use).
Judging SlashDot purely by the posts is like judging all of humanity by the
Jerry Springer audience.
--jcwren
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Tothwolf
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 22:21
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: ./ does the Reuters article... :(
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jeffrey H. Ingber wrote:
This is SOP for Slashdot. If you think the news
snippet is
a slam, wait
until you read the feedback. You will not find a
single positive,
constructive comment.
It seems to me this has more to do with the moderators than
the posters. I
actually did find some positive and constructive comments,
but I had to
dig for them.
I'd imagine that Slashdot in general is mostly going to be
read by folks
with little or no interest in older technology (newer is
*always* better
right??), so I'm not at all surprised by the overall
feedback. It could
also be that some posters don't want to risk being
embarrassed in public
by talking about their favorite old computer ;)
Yet another likely reason for the lack of supportive comments
is that many
of the potential posters (and moderators) are not very
familiar with the
systems that are frequently discussed on classiccmp. Heck, one poster
seems to think that magnetic core memory isn't going to
function due to
its age.
-Toth