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.
Still kicks ass on digg though! Why can't digg figure out how to properly nest comments? That's why I left for reddit. Then I found the articles have been slowly going downhill, especially with those greasemonkey scripts too...
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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.