I've been reading daily since 1997, but I can't condone pandering to a professional victims and hatemonger and giving out a patreon link to fund more of this crap
Reddit was destroyed by SJWs in a matter of weeks, if Slashdot wants to follow the same route and promote safespaces after almost 20 years of being a respected destination, fine.
SoylentNews [soylentnews.org] is a Slashdot-knockoff which appeared during the protest against the "beta" interface. The site runs on a fork of slashcode and has a very similar moderation system. Predictably, the community consists largely of former and current Slashdotters and the overall culture is very similar.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @12:00AM (#50114263)
I think that appearances can be deceiving with SoylentNews. I hate to admit it, but that site makes Slashdot look good, even in the face of awful submissions like this one! The community there is a small one, and in my experience many of the users there are social rejects. This causes many problems. The first is a lack of quality submissions. The ones they do get are often word-for-word copies of submissions here. The rest tend to be very poorly written, if not outright political propaganda from several extremists who are frequent contributors there. The stories there typically make it to the front page very late, even by Slashdot's standards. When they finally do make it to the front page, it becomes clear that the editors there didn't improve the original submissions, but just made them worse! The small community also leads to awful moderating there. You have to browse at -1 to see good comments, and what gets modded up is typically complete junk. Slashdot's moderation isn't good, either, but at least there are enough people here that bad moddings get fixed. Over at SoylentNews, bad moddings stay badly modded. This awful modding drives normal people away, so the only people left to get mod points are the ones who did a horrible job moderating in the first place, which perpetuates the problem without end! SoylentNews was promising for the first few weeks of its existence. But it quickly fell apart after that, and Slashdot, as shitty as it is, still remains a better site than SoylentNews.
What's a good alternative to Slashdot? (Score:5, Insightful)
I've been reading daily since 1997, but I can't condone pandering to a professional victims and hatemonger and giving out a patreon link to fund more of this crap
Reddit was destroyed by SJWs in a matter of weeks, if Slashdot wants to follow the same route and promote safespaces after almost 20 years of being a respected destination, fine.
Any good suggestions?
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
SoylentNews [soylentnews.org] is a Slashdot-knockoff which appeared during the protest against the "beta" interface. The site runs on a fork of slashcode and has a very similar moderation system. Predictably, the community consists largely of former and current Slashdotters and the overall culture is very similar.
Re: (Score:1)
That looks very nice, thanks!
And it even has the "Read More" button instead of a retarded "share" appendage.
Re:What's a good alternative to Slashdot? (Score:1)
I think that appearances can be deceiving with SoylentNews. I hate to admit it, but that site makes Slashdot look good, even in the face of awful submissions like this one! The community there is a small one, and in my experience many of the users there are social rejects. This causes many problems. The first is a lack of quality submissions. The ones they do get are often word-for-word copies of submissions here. The rest tend to be very poorly written, if not outright political propaganda from several extremists who are frequent contributors there. The stories there typically make it to the front page very late, even by Slashdot's standards. When they finally do make it to the front page, it becomes clear that the editors there didn't improve the original submissions, but just made them worse! The small community also leads to awful moderating there. You have to browse at -1 to see good comments, and what gets modded up is typically complete junk. Slashdot's moderation isn't good, either, but at least there are enough people here that bad moddings get fixed. Over at SoylentNews, bad moddings stay badly modded. This awful modding drives normal people away, so the only people left to get mod points are the ones who did a horrible job moderating in the first place, which perpetuates the problem without end! SoylentNews was promising for the first few weeks of its existence. But it quickly fell apart after that, and Slashdot, as shitty as it is, still remains a better site than SoylentNews.