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Has-beenternet

by cmdrtaco 3y ago

Has-beenternet

DonHopkins 3y ago
I miss suck.com too!
jedberg 3y ago
I refuse to be called a has-been yet! :P ps. Hi Rob.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  Give it some time ;)
- midasuni 3y ago
  You must be new here
- cykros 3y ago
  Get off my lawn! No really, it's protected by sharks with friggin lasers on their heads.
jacquesm 3y ago
Hehe, 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 ago
still-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 ago
Seriously, what are your latest thoughts about tacos?

Has-beenternet

DonHopkins 3y ago

I miss suck.com too!

jedberg 3y ago

I refuse to be called a has-been yet! :P ps. Hi Rob.

jacquesm 3y ago
Give it some time ;)
midasuni 3y ago
You must be new here
cykros 3y ago
Get off my lawn! No really, it's protected by sharks with friggin lasers on their heads.

jacquesm 3y ago

Hehe, 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 ago

still-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 ago

Seriously, what are your latest thoughts about tacos?