Slashdot Out, Digg In?

at 15:30 on 10 January 2006, alvin woon wrote:

Maybe it's just me, but digg can never replace slashdot in my heart, at least for now. All because of one reason: intelligent discourse.

The main reason I (and many people) read ./ is not because of the topics it covers, but the insightful and thought-provoking comments that ensue. I learnt a lot just by reading the comments and you know the comments are funny when they're modded funny ^_^. When the topic is about quantum computing or some nanotechnology stuff which i have little knowledge of but very interested in reading about it, i can be sure that some professionals in that field will join in and offer their opinions. If you offer half baked views with no supporting evidence, you'll get grilled.

Whereas in digg, the first five comments are usually about how this story has been dugged or why this story can end up in the front page. A little childish, sort of, I must say.

But that's just my 2 cents.

at 16:23 on 10 January 2006, David wrote:

I agree about the comments over at digg, but I must say that I really like the way digg is built and handles the news flow coming from a general audience. Letting people vote or "digg" their favourites will keep the top stories interesting, even if the submission forms are open for anyone.

at 16:50 on 10 January 2006, Emil Stenström wrote:

It's funny cause this article is posted at a place that works just like slashdot, a few editors decide what's a good article. Perhaps it's time for a change at stylegala too?

at 17:23 on 10 January 2006, David wrote:

Emil, did you ever take a glance at our public news column?

at 18:32 on 10 January 2006, Dave S. wrote:

"Maybe it's just me, but digg can never replace slashdot in my heart, at least for now. All because of one reason: intelligent discourse."

Are we talking about the same slashdot?!

at 20:40 on 10 January 2006, David B. wrote:

Emil, did you ever take a glance at our public news column?

hahaha too funny! READ, COMPREHEND, LEARN.

at 08:47 on 11 January 2006, Emil Stenström wrote:

@David: Heh, sorry, didn't mean to sound bitter :) I do like stylegala, after all I'm here reading ain't I?

I do know about the public news column. I'm just saying that Digg does not need to have a moderated part at all. What I'm trying to do here is to get people to think about what would happen if stylegala also switched to pure community driven. Would it collapse?

Again, no disrespect to the news contributors, they are the cream of the crop.

at 15:35 on 11 January 2006, Marko Mihelcic wrote:

Well I didn't like much of slashdot (design) but thier articles/links where very good, as for digg- well I dig digg :)

at 21:53 on 11 January 2006, Eston Bond wrote:

"Haven't we figured out that the crowd is generally smarter than any one individual in the crowd?"

Ask any journalist, and they'll tell you the exact opposite; the crowd is what's stupid. I think we all disagree.

I stopped visiting Slashdot years ago - too much nerdiness, not enough useful news.

at 22:28 on 11 January 2006, alvin woon wrote:

Slashdot - too much nerdiness? That's like saying there's too much cheese in a uhm...pizza or cheesecake?

Slashdot is not for all, that's for sure. If you are hoping them to post the latest css tricks, popular image replacement techniques or awesome javascript scripts, well you will be disappointed. Stylegala is a better place for that. But if you are into the latest changes on GNU license, quantum cryptographic, largest prime numbers, .NET library, bayesian filters....

You get the idea.

at 00:47 on 12 January 2006, David B. wrote:

Hey Emil. (this is not the admin david) the public news is not moderated in terms of what gets in , only what gets taken out and its aleways spam. plus the forum has not degraded in a high school ooo wow that cool, ot you suc! type of deal and that is encouraging with more that half of its user probably being under 25.

at 22:44 on 12 January 2006, Matthew Pennell wrote:

Kottke has an interesting write-up of Slashdot and Digg's respective impact on his site traffic - interesting reading. :)

at 22:45 on 13 January 2006, Eric Puidokas wrote:

"Haven't we figured out that the crowd is generally smarter than any one individual in the crowd?"

Just about every philosopher will disagree with that statement. Small, well-educated groups make better decisions than the majority. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

at 02:11 on 14 January 2006, Jonas K. Sekamane wrote:

"Tyranny of the majority" - Alexis de Tocqueville

at 22:06 on 01 January 2008, Logo Designers wrote:

slashdot is like the Wal-Mart of article-publishing - if theyre not fair what can you do about it?

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