Journal AB3A's Journal: News is only news when it's fresh... 2
I used to watch slashdot for interesting and timely news stories. And sometimes it's still there. Sure, they dupe (and dupe and dupe and dupe some stories to death), but I'm a former usenet newsgroup veteran, so it's not hard to mentally filter that stuff out.
But lately I've noticed that they are merely copying from other such forum sites. And it isn't even timely. I posted this to Technocrat and it showed up almost immediately. I thought it would be out of date, since Mark Russinovich's Blog was already a couple days old. Then, several days later here it shows up on Slashdot.
You know, news is only news if it's timely and not well known. I think Slashdot is sliding a bit here...
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A former veteran?...
Likewise, I am a veteran of usenet. In any case, the dupes never bothered me. The 523 "dupe!" posts per were pretty annoying, as they dramatically change the S/N ratio. Of course, that was back in the day. When I read the front page. Anymore, unless it's linked to from somebody's JE, the front page is mostly mythical.
Ironically, there was a big drop in quality when /. got bought up and became "professional".
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