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Sl ashdot is more of a news site where users can post commets. I would like to know the author's reason on why slashdot is a blog. If slashdot is a blog, then it must have the record for being the world's BIGGEST blog.
Saturday March 20, @12:52AM) Slashdot is more of a news site where users can post commets. I think of Slashdot more as a comment site where users can post news. Sur e, the news blurbs are the starter, but the meat of the action is in the insightful, interesting, flamebait, troll posting that occurs after. Th e news stories that have little potential for political/social commentar y get far fewer comments than anything to do with YRO, black-box voting, etc. In this respect, I don't think of Slashdot as a blog, but more of an indi cator of what the Slashdot-reading crowd, which is a tech-heavy bunch , is thinking.
Saturday August 18, @ 11:04AM) Slashdot has been considered a "weblog" for as long as the word has been around. It certainly started out as one, and remains firmly in the weblog format: Snippets of news or something, posted frequently and in inverse chronol ogical order. It also has public comments, like thousands of other weblogs. It's just t hat the comments section happens to be bigger then average, but there ar e other weblogs that often reach into the hundreds of comments. Weblogs aren't just "journals", by any stretch of the imagination. The li nk I give as my homepage is my "weblog" and the last time I had a "journ al-style" entry was on my birthday two years ago. Alternatively, at what point since it started did it cease to be a weblog ? The only major difference between Slashdot's second week of operation and now is the comment load; the format is the same, the news is the sam e, the stupid comments by the editors are the same.
ends with crowds of middle schoolers posting pointless inside jokes. Plus Slas hdot allows anyone to post what they want - so it can be read for humor and for knowledge.
One interesting thing I found out: the content in wikipedia is much more "professional", and enciclopedic than E2's. But the software for E2 has much more possibilities, and is far more entertaining to create content for than wikipedia's. E2's larger weakness seem to be the lacking of sup port for image uploads or linking.
when it's probably as r/evolutionary as e mail and chat. Maybe not, tho, maybe blogs are better, and maybe wikis a re flawed in a way that they deserve to be ignored...
Wednesday July 14, @09:09PM) I see blogs as something that happens thru time. ie today happened this , tomorrow or the next hour other things, and so on. The "default" order is always related to time, latest things on top, and earlier things, ma ybe more important or relevant, go to the storic archives. Slashdot, new spapers, personal blogs, etc are good examples. In the other hand, wiki more about "static" knowledge, like a conclusion you reach after discussing something, and the order is more like a tree of knowledge. Is an encyclopedia, the "natural" orde r are the words/events/people/etc you are defining (and yes, defining is a good term for that), not the time you posted it. Both are examples of collaborative work, of course, but of different kind . There are another kind of collaborative work, that is the process of disc ussing something. Is not announcing, nor defining, but a lot of people t alking around something interchanging points of view, giving new data, e tc. Usenet, forums, comments attached to wiki pages or blog entries, eve n this very discussion, are examples of this third kind of online collab oration. In the discussion you maybe not reach a "conclusion", is not pa rt of the forum itself (but someone could extract what he interprets as a conclusion on some topic and post it in ie a wiki page), is the disc ussion what is the final objective. You can see slashdot (well, and probably most of the linked sites on this article) in two ways, if you see the front page is a collaborative webl og, but looking to single article is more like a collaborative forum.
and similar sites seem to fit the bill for collaborative weblogs far better than discussion forums like /. I think the sites listed have really mov ed beyond weblog status. They really seem to be closer to forums and agg regators. This isn't a bad thing - it's just different and may require i ndependant analysis. They've grown beyond (and in many cases existed bef ore) what is commonly considered a weblog these days.
What it carefully av oids is the discussion of trolls and AC posts. It is summarized by stati ng that -1 in the moderation system is sufficient to render a troll invi sible. Over time there have been a lot of discussions here about trolls and ACs. They have their place here, and they each contribute as well as take aw ay. It would have been interesting to have read a little more about what the study found about trolls and AC posts, positive and negative...
The author is simply talking about online communitie s From pages 7-8: In theory, the organization of a group weblog is similar to the structure Hamilton was searching for. This form of weblog also falls into the gen eral category of an online community, alongside more traditional communi ty forms like bulletin boards and chatrooms. In his study of decentralized mob behavior, Rheingold pursued this line o f inquiry further (2002). Rheingold notes that the m any-to-many media model found in a group weblog empowers the audience by allowing them to create, publish, broadcast, and debate their own poin tof view in ways previously unheard of in the print and broadcast mediu ms. Like others before him, Rheingold was not sure if this newfound abil ity would provide a legitimatecounterforce to societys dominant forces, or just be a simulation of a counterforce that feels empowering but, in reality, is toothless. Nevertheless, he concluded that beforeanyone cou ld reach such a verdict, or determine a way to alter that outcome, there is a need for more knowledge of how such technologies, and the people t hat use them,function today. The author then continues to refer to Slashdot (and the others) as collab orative group weblogs without ever trying to make the distinction betwee n a weblog and the aforementioned "online community".
A more traditiona l weblog, but mixed with more promiment community collaboration features and slash-style ratings. It works really well for serious discussion of topical matters.
Take a monkey from a social group and dye his fur purpl e When you put him back, the other monkeys will throw him out of the tr ee. This behavior can most distinctly be seen on Metafilter, a site I don't e ven bother to participate in. If you are not radically liberal and ( 2) distastefully sarcastic, you are not welcome there. As soon as your o pinions become known, your remarks, no matter what the topic, will be me t with derision and hostility. It's not as bad becau se there's more diversity of opinion here, but it's much worse because S lashdot's "moderation" system makes it possible for unpopular opinions t o be literally silenced, pushing them down below the threshold of visibi lity. Collaborative content sites quickly become exclusive oligarchies.
com/) Yeah, there's the occasional really interesting /. comment that gets nuke d off of the face of the earth- but all too frequently, there's an asslo ad of repetetive and redundant comments that get modded up.... and damne d near all of the "Funny" posts are just NOT funny. I love the fact I can twiddle my user prefs to smack a -5 on "Funny" mods and a +3 on "redundant". It's not perfect, but it kicks a hell of a lot more ass than the k5 mod system, imo.
Wednesday December 01 , @10:55AM) Yet there are times when Slashdot s members and readers function as one c ohesive whole, and it hints at the potential power of such collaborative projects. Occasionally Slashdot will link to a website that is unprepar ed for the massive flow of traffic from millions of Slashdot users click ing onto the same link. The site s server crashes, leaving the site tech nically overwhelmed, or Slashdotted. He also highlighted Slashdot and its 300,000 m embers as an example o...
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