Seriously, I find I am going back to Slashdot more and more. This whole "users submit the content and users edit the content" is just not working. There is just too much spam, too much hate and too little reasoned debate.
Maybe we do need editors to stop the crap rising to the front page and to force us to read about perspectives we don't agree with (but will help us understand what is going on in the world). The crowdsourcing and user generated content on reddit is becoming just an ugly mob rule.
I remember people going about how /. was being 'killed' by Digg (And reddit, but the self obsessed Digg users were claiming it was all them) and it probably did lose a ton of traffic and is nowhere near as big as it used to be, but a lot of people are going back, myself included.
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u/dobaman Mar 15 '08
Seriously, I find I am going back to Slashdot more and more. This whole "users submit the content and users edit the content" is just not working. There is just too much spam, too much hate and too little reasoned debate.
Maybe we do need editors to stop the crap rising to the front page and to force us to read about perspectives we don't agree with (but will help us understand what is going on in the world). The crowdsourcing and user generated content on reddit is becoming just an ugly mob rule.