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I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

I will say quite openly that everything in general does not have what you could call an *emphasis* on factual/informative writings, and i would say that that e2's psychological tendencies to reward the poorly constructed sex jokes written by 14-year-olds and vaguely neglect factual writings *have* probably driven off some people who would have been beneficial to the site (although i would say there have been MINIMAL effects from this). However, i must say i completely completely disagree with what you are saying. What i suspect you are neglecting to realize is that whether e2 is deeply informative or not depends on the *kind* of information you are looking for. If you are looking for scientific or mathematical concepts, then e2 damn near achieves its ultimate goal of providing decent coverage for every single thing you could possibly think of to look for. If you are looking for information on technical things (i.e. computing, programming, UNIX) then e2 is only about halfway there. If you look for serious historical material, you're going to find damn near nothing (a shame, because i think the web-of-definition-links format of e2 would be perfect for history writeups.. but i digress.) E2 has certain places where it is strong and certain places where it is weak, and i for one see the weak places less as a deficiency than i see them as a CHALLENGE, to help e2 grow to encompass those things it neglects now.

I will say this-- if you compare e2 to the more facts-only wiki-like endeavors such as h2g2, you will find that while those site's writings are in general more *in-depth* than the corresponding e2 nodes, e2 has a *much* larger coverage of disparate things. E2 contains general summaries for almost everything there is, but exhaustive coverage of few things. Whether this is a good or a bad thing i cannot say, although i DO know that there are a good number of pockets of extremely esoteric material where e2 just SHINES. E2 may never be as consistent as the moderated h2g2, but i think it's safe to say that you won't see people feeling quite as free to just ramble about pagan holidays and canadian politics and other quirky such things with as little abandon as they do on e2.

The thing you have to keep in mind is that not everyone on Everything has the same goals for the site. The site has no one single use. If everything2 is good at anything, it is leaving people free to slowly mold the site to their own purposes; talk to a bunch of e2 users and you'll find that each one probably has a different vision for where everything2 should go, and it is possible-- given time-- for every single one of those visions to be fulfilled, without interfering with any of the others. You care about the informative aspects; some people on e2 ignore those aspects, and care only about searching for people's life stories. There are people who really just want a community. There are people who just sit around and post collections of elizabethan poetry. The strength of e2, in the end, really lies not in how much content is there *now* but in its flexibility.. because that flexibility in the end gives it the potential to be more than its competitors will ever be.

And one thing you have to give e2: The s/n levels are EXPONENTIALLY higher than they are on slashdot; i would perhaps say, although this varies from part of the site from part of the site, they are even higher than on kuro5hin. And unlike slash or really even kuro, the nature of the site means that you rarely have to wade through crap to get to the good stuff. If you get the hang of looking for things the right way, you can just spend hours clicking through what seems like an endless supply of fascinating material, and learn the entire time, without having to look at a single sex joke.

Taco: fix the god-damn wandermeister!

Thank you.

E2 has 848762 nodes, writeups 465248, and 29384 users.

"Node" is any object in an Everything system. In context, it is also used to refer to an "e2node", a page on E2 containing zero or more writeups with the same title. "Writeup" is an individual comment posted by a user. e2nodes with 0 writeups are called nodeshells. As for users, I'd say at least a good quarter of E2's users created a new username and fled without adding any writeups.

apparently the node_id numbering system does not start on zero, since there are 848726 nodes and the node-id reaches 1000000.

Everything node_ids are assigned serially. Deleted nodes are kept in the Node Crypt (but hidden to everybody except the admins or "gods") and are available to users through Node Heaven.

E2 has 848762 nodes, writeups 465248, and 29384 users.

"Node" is any object in an Everything system. In context, it is also used to refer to an "e2node", a page on E2 containing zero or more writeups with the same title. "Writeup" is an individual comment posted by a user. e2nodes with 0 writeups are called nodeshells. As for users, I'd say at least a good quarter of E2's users created a new username and fled without adding any writeups.

apparently the node_id numbering system does not start on zero, since there are 848726 nodes and the node-id reaches 1000000.

Everything node_ids are assigned serially. Deleted nodes are kept in the Node Crypt (but hidden to everybody except the admins or "gods") and are available to users through Node Heaven.

E2 has 848762 nodes, writeups 465248, and 29384 users.

"Node" is any object in an Everything system. In context, it is also used to refer to an "e2node", a page on E2 containing zero or more writeups with the same title. "Writeup" is an individual comment posted by a user. e2nodes with 0 writeups are called nodeshells. As for users, I'd say at least a good quarter of E2's users created a new username and fled without adding any writeups.

apparently the node_id numbering system does not start on zero, since there are 848726 nodes and the node-id reaches 1000000.

Everything node_ids are assigned serially. Deleted nodes are kept in the Node Crypt (but hidden to everybody except the admins or "gods") and are available to users through Node Heaven.

Do you know what of the highest-rated writeup on E2 is? I will REMOVE the fucking toilet seat if you don't shut up, with a total of 357 votes at the moment. It's a stupid whiney rant by everything god moJoe, where he spends six paragraphs drawing out an argument that could be easily summarized in one sentence (women shouldn't complain about the way the toilet seat is left). What is so goddamn amazing about that node that it has more than three times the score of almost any other node in existance?

Meanwhile excellently written informative (as opposed to whiney or ranting) nodes sit in the single digits, too boring for the E2 elite to bother with. I'd come up with some examples, but E2 is so slow at the moment I don't have the patience (every page is taking at least a half-minute to load).

There are a lot of awesome things about E2, and I've read some amazing stuff there, but peoples' voting tendencies are one of the things that keeps me from noding more often. It sucks to put a lot of time into a node only to see it completely unappreciated.

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all your mir pieces are belong to us!

You have worse grammar than CmdrTaco. It's piece, singular.

By the way, it's "set UP US", not "set US UP".

If you write bullshit, your writeups will be deleted. If you don't node for the ages; otherwise, your writeups will be deleted. The majority of former noders who bitch on /. about E2 never read the Everything FAQ and Everything University. For examples of what the E2 community likes, browse the Cool Archive.

If you write bullshit, your writeups will be deleted. If you don't node for the ages; otherwise, your writeups will be deleted. The majority of former noders who bitch on /. about E2 never read the Everything FAQ and Everything University. For examples of what the E2 community likes, browse the Cool Archive.

If you write bullshit, your writeups will be deleted. If you don't node for the ages; otherwise, your writeups will be deleted. The majority of former noders who bitch on /. about E2 never read the Everything FAQ and Everything University. For examples of what the E2 community likes, browse the Cool Archive.

If you write bullshit, your writeups will be deleted. If you don't node for the ages; otherwise, your writeups will be deleted. The majority of former noders who bitch on /. about E2 never read the Everything FAQ and Everything University. For examples of what the E2 community likes, browse the Cool Archive.

If you write bullshit, your writeups will be deleted. If you don't node for the ages; otherwise, your writeups will be deleted. The majority of former noders who bitch on /. about E2 never read the Everything FAQ and Everything University. For examples of what the E2 community likes, browse the Cool Archive.

...I can only say it gave me extreme pleasure to remove CmdrTaco's misspelled, one-line, insightless writeup under The X-Files. Childlike-scrawlings may fly on Slashdot, but there's no Crayola font in the real world.

How can it be node 1,000,000 if it is also node 999,998 .. isn't that cheating?

His name is Douglas Daft.

Douglas... DAFT .

Heh.

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8 *MEG* to run a word processor?

Remind you of Emacs (Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping)? No, wait, Emacs has easter eggs such as M-x tetris and M-x doctor.

8 *MEG* to run a word processor?

Remind you of Emacs (Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping)? No, wait, Emacs has easter eggs such as M-x tetris and M-x doctor.

Yep, all that content, and yet when there's a slow day at work I can still run out of interesting stuff to look at on the internet.

little gamers, penny arcade, goats (not goatse), and badtech: online comics. It'll take a while to browse the entire archive.

everything 2: nearly half a million writeups on topics from aardvarks to zzyzx.

Yep, all that content, and yet when there's a slow day at work I can still run out of interesting stuff to look at on the internet.

little gamers, penny arcade, goats (not goatse), and badtech: online comics. It'll take a while to browse the entire archive.

everything 2: nearly half a million writeups on topics from aardvarks to zzyzx.

Yep, all that content, and yet when there's a slow day at work I can still run out of interesting stuff to look at on the internet.

little gamers, penny arcade, goats (not goatse), and badtech: online comics. It'll take a while to browse the entire archive.

everything 2: nearly half a million writeups on topics from aardvarks to zzyzx.

If you don't like C, they have standard compilers for C++, Pascal, COBOL

Do they have a compiler for object-oriented COBOL, i.e. ADD 1 TO COBOL ?

Not that Everything is a bad site, but sometimes it gets old looking at EVERY word being linked...

but try teaching a 45 year-old english teacher Linux if all he's ever used is an old mac.

The GNOME people call this phenomenon Baby Duck Syndrome. Users believe that the first software product they use is how all software should work from then on, because like baby ducks and geese, they've "imprinted" on the first thing they saw.

but lets set the minimum requirement as needing a 500MHz PIII or better and at least a Geforce2 or Radeon. Anything cannot be considered an innovation

All those first-person shooters seem to be innovating off each other ;-)

or cutting-edge in any way...Unless it meets those requirements, it's not breaking new ground.

Not everybody has US$2500+ to spend on a mobile system that meets those requirements. US$100 for a Game Boy Advance system buys you an awful lot.

C'mon, now...the GBA raises a sub-NES quality game system to sub-SNES status now.

Bull. GBA is as powerful as the Super NES ever was, and it's easier to code for because of good C compilers for ARM (the Super NES's 65c816 is very NOT C friendly). It's even more powerful because GBA includes sprite scaling and rotation, which required Super FX acceleration on Super NES. We're talking 3DO or Saturn graphics here.

I saw people playing one of those ancient Atari 2600s a while back (ATTN: 70% of slashdot readers werent even born when these things were in use...so stop talking about them, they're DINOSAURS) -- it gave me a headache just looking at that awful blocky crap

Atari 2600 had backgrounds of 2 colors (out of about 16) per scanline and 40x100 pixels. It also had only 128 bytes of RAM and half a scanline's worth of VRAM. Heck, it was just barely Tetris-complete[?]. GBA, on the other hand, has a 240x160 display with 511 simultaneous colors and sprite scaling and 384 kilobytes of RAM.

If you want the best graphics, get GIMP, WinGIMP, or Photoshop. If you want the best animated 3D graphics, get a DVD player. If you want gameplay and don't want to waste money, get a GBA.

Not if you could connect to the 'net... E2 from a few miles up... YES

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While representatives' votes are certainly a matter of public record

Not for an anonymous voice vote; both the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act[?] and the DMCA were passed this way. What are they supposed to record publicly, the decibel levels of the ayes and nays?

While representatives' votes are certainly a matter of public record

Not for an anonymous voice vote; both the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act[?] and the DMCA were passed this way. What are they supposed to record publicly, the decibel levels of the ayes and nays?

Since we have some real life innovators who are still living why don't we ask them. Off the top of my head I would recommend Tim Bernes Lee[?] or Alan Kay[?] as perfect candidates for a /. interview on the topic.

SAN DIEGO, California:
San Diego Superior court appears to be after another party in its spammer court case, this time slashdot is being sought for what is known as the "slashdot effect" after a story posted on their web page pointing at signonsandiego completely knocked out their servers causing a panic. CmdrTaco was unavailable for comment at press time.

ObModComment: I found that interesting and as on-topic as my original post, but there's no accounting for taste, I guess.

I guess the important question to me is: does the increased likelihood of a potential victim being a gun owner significantly decrease the perceived benefit of committing a crime against that person, or against society in general when you can't tell whether a person has a gun or not? This is the statistic that the NRA (which I mostly disagree with, btw) should compile to really make their case. I don't have a good feel for this, but then again I don't normally frequent particularly dangerous neighborhoods. I imagine if I lived in a bad part of the city, where police protection was spread a little more thinly, I might be more inclined to be a gun owner. I would argue that unless the laws in Australia make it just as impossible for criminals to get guns as it is for average citizens, then the balance of power has still shifted toward the criminal element.

Here, we take it easy. Life is more important than what the "founding fathers" believed in. Who cares, just give up your wallet and get back to watching TV. Better than fighting it out and dying. I only have a credit card and a few bills in there.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, 1759. (c/o everything2, so don't blame me if this is a misquote.)

I can just plug the cable straight into my java ring-piece!

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