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by cmdrtaco 3y ago
Hi.
- jacquesm 3y agoHi as well! One day we should do a get together of the people that made the top 100 web sites work prior to 1998 or so. I'm sure there would be lots of interesting stories.
- cmdrtaco 3y agoHas-beenternet
- DonHopkins 3y agoI miss suck.com too!
- jedberg 3y agoI refuse to be called a has-been yet! :P ps. Hi Rob.
- jacquesm 3y agoHehe, yes, definitely. The ratio of interesting content:junk would be nice to visualize. In the early days of the web I hardly ever ran into a website that wasn't interesting. /. (why not ./ by the way?) was a nice way to discover new stuff when that ratio first started to decrease.
- floren 3y ago> (why not ./ by the way?) My understanding has always been that it's because slashdot sounds really funny when you say the full URL out loud the way they used to on TV: h-t-t-p colon slash slash slash dot dot org
- basch 3y agostill-ahead-of-its-time. the new llm craze should make moderation and metamoderation even easier. i think we will see a resurgence of some slashdot inventions, albeit more automated. collect votes from power users. extrapolate how they would have voted on stories they havent seen. feed people stories based on similar voting patterns, to test if you predicted their votes correctly. maybe a synthesis of two random voters accurately predicts a power voter. id like to see something akin to a reverse subreddit. instead of having posts, i add 50 people to a list and turn them into a voting block. then i follow multiple voting blocks. i can follow other peoples voting blocks. my feed tells me which voting block elected to show me a story. let teams of people build voting blocks together, collaboratively. different voting blocks can have different purposes, like populism or expertise. being able to stumble into well made, premade blocks solves discovery and initialization problems, without having to bootstrap a feed from a low number of my own votes. despite having a lot of blogspam, https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-sitcoms-in-television-history https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-sitcoms... ranker has a some good reranking ideas (like being able to rerank the list by bbt fan votes.) https://wikiless.org/wiki/Circa_News?lang=en https://wikiless.org/wiki/Circa_News?lang=en is another idea that will pop back up. Stories being composed of smaller elements, stitched together, and appended. https://modo.org https://modo.org and https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news have some promise. there are so many building blocks of good ideas, of which metamoderation is still one of the best, that it leaves me both exited for a future where somebody picks up the baton, and disheartened that somebody hasnt yet. is it time for a slashslashdotdot?
- morelisp 3y ago> the new llm craze should make moderation and metamoderation even easier. How can you have actually been there and at all believe this?
- DonHopkins 3y agoSeriously, what are your latest thoughts about tacos?
- unixhero 3y agoYou've contributed so much to the Internet. Thank you.
- cmdrtaco 3y agoThanks!
- Angostura 3y agoThe moderation and meta-moderation system was a thing of elegant beauty.
- mixmax 3y agoI'm till flabbergasted that noone stole it, it worked so well.
- jacquesm 3y agoI wonder if it would work for HN.
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoIt would work, the mods just don't like it
- sltkr 3y agoAny source on that? I would guess it's more likely that the Slashdot moderation system is too hard to implement. It also requires a lot of finetuning (like how to determine how many moderation points to dole out to users based on their karma and activity). The Hacker News developers seem to prefer to keep things simple, so they might reject Slashdot-style moderation for being too complicated, but that doesn't mean they don't like it in principle.
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- monkeytrickster 3y agoThanks for old slashdot, was one of my favorite sites and got me into linux and cool open technology back then. btw the thing you are looking for in the article (10 best stories from hackernews) has already been built (not by me), check out: https://brutalist.report/topic/tech?limit=10 https://brutalist.report/topic/tech?limit=10 (edited for typo)
- pantulis 3y agoHi! I first knew about Slashdot, I think from the classic Afterstep mailing list!
- themagician 3y agoSlashdot still has the best comment system. Respect.
- jstanley 3y agoI got banned from Slashdot and mentioned it in my job interview at Netcraft. I got the job.
- snovv_crash 3y agoI had my voting privileges revoked, but never mentioned it in a job interview. Being a teenager on the early internet was a heady experience.
- dpeck 3y agoIm going to join the mini-appreciate session here and add that there’s still lines from Geeks in Space that give me a smile and chuckle when they pop into my mind well on 20 years later. Cheers to you sir.
- squarefoot 3y agoThanks, Rob.
- brightball 3y agoThe legend. Thank you for all the work you put in over the years there.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoSome of the crazy fan fiction zero point trolling posted in /. still makes me laugh. I joined circa 1999 (pre 9/11!). I think I remember my username, I wonder if it is possible to log in and find what I was posting about in high school... aha