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Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org
With the US Presidential Election coming up, we've had a lot of story submissions that we would like to post, but they don't fit very well on the Slashdot main page. To address this, we'll be running special political coverage between now and the election in our new Politics subsection of Slashdot. Please submit stories directly to the section for consideration.
As with all sections on Slashdot,
there will be stories available within that section that don't get posted to the main page, so please visit the section if you are interested in more coverage.
We'll do our best to be fair with story selection. We think we can do a good job since the Slashdot editors represent a diverse spectrum of political ideologies. The discussions are up to you guys. Here's hoping the experiment works!
Why is it that slashdot is getting involved in politics? shouldn't slashdot be focusing on matters of tech, stuff thats important to nerds? STUFF THAT MATTERS? who cares about politics? lets discuss the latest thing that could be made into a beowulf cluster or debate on what would happen if we were in soviet russia or even ways of making PROFIT! politics are BOOORING and not really what (i thought) this site was aboot. If you wanna discuss politics i'm sure there are 100s of other sites for that type of stuff politics is derived from 2 words "poli" meaning "many" and "tics" meaning tiny bloodsucking insects
the Slashdot editors represent a diverse spectrum of political ideologies
Yeah, everything from liberal to socialist!
So now there can be as many "Bush sucks" articles as there are "Windows sucks" articles.
And they're so fair and unbiased, I can't wait to see the Bush-as-borg icon.
Anyone else miss the old slashdot which was a decent spot to discuss tech?
I really don't care about the politics of a bunch of college kids. Oh well, a new section to block. Problem is, I bet 90% of front page stories are "politics".
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
so let's see here, we have a few communist editors, socialists... democrats... no one crosses that moderate line that i can think of... or maybe they're censored by the other editors?
As long as the debate is which of the 'two' parties is better, we are all fucked.
Payed for by the Committee of Karma Burning for a Freer America.
USian is a derogatory term. I'm an American. The fact of the matter is, the United States president is one of the most powerful people in the world. We have an important election coming up here in the states, and right now, I don't give a fuck what you think. From my point of view, you don't matter, you racist.
Yeah, I know it's probably not racist, but I'm pissed off at this blatant attack and don't feel like finding the right word.
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.
> I think the normal moderation system should not apply for the politics
/. hivemind thinks at that moment in time.
> section.
Nah, politics isn't the worst abuse. Try saying something that isn't worshipful of Steve Jobs in an Apple related article and watch how fast you make -1 Troll. Moderation is what it is, what the
You just have to do what I do, save the Karma gained from slagging DMCA and all that crap and burn it slagging the sacred cows into burgers. Lost some saying Howard Dean was insane months before he "had a scream" and everyone else suddenly noticed. Lost more saying Kerry was a traitor, now the swift boat vets he served with are pushing that truth hard enough people stuck reading the mass media will figure that one out also... hopefully before election day.
A lot of Bush policy needed some hard questioning and a vigorous campaign is a good thing for the country, too bad neither of the candidates the Democrats put forward this season were fit for duty. It is about time for them to just shatter and reform as two or more parties and clean out the deadwood in the process because it is growing clear that they no longer know to get elected in a national race.
See how easy it is to make that Karma BURN!
Democrat delenda est
Guys, great work on the template and the colors. And, how about we do a makeover to the IT section. ;-)
Cheers
Adolfo