That's exactly what I had in mind. At the least, some highly distilled FAQs on various subjects could emerge. At best, it could morph into a collaborative consensus-building sort of thing.
Then people could take the Slash codebase and use it to set up specialized sites, e.g. on politics, jazz, saving the world, etc. I know I would, at any rate...
Unfortunately this whole debate is off the main page now and in the dustbin of history;-) Oh well, we can bring the idea up again sometime.
From my earliest Slashdot-lurking days, I've wished that the interesting, lively debates didn't get whisked off the front page and into oblivion so soon.
Imagine a page or pages, linked to Slashdot's front page, called:
- Current "Liveliest" Discussions: ordered by comments/minute - Week/Month/Year's Hottest Debates: ordered by total no. of comments - Active Debates: "old" articles with recent comments (ordered by "recency"?)
Etc... other criteria are possible.
Wouldn't this add a fascinating static element to Slashdot? Eventually certain discussions would emerge as "Slashdot's All-Time Great Debates" , with thousands of comments from a period of years. Set your threshold to +30 to savor the distilled, democratic wisdom of 30000 slashdotters;-)
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That's exactly what I had in mind. At the least, some highly distilled FAQs on various subjects could emerge. At best, it could morph into a collaborative consensus-building sort of thing.
;-) Oh well, we can bring the idea up again sometime.
Then people could take the Slash codebase and use it to set up specialized sites, e.g. on politics, jazz, saving the world, etc. I know I would, at any rate...
Unfortunately this whole debate is off the main page now and in the dustbin of history
From my earliest Slashdot-lurking days, I've wished that the interesting, lively debates didn't get whisked off the front page and into oblivion so soon.
;-)
Imagine a page or pages, linked to Slashdot's front page, called:
- Current "Liveliest" Discussions: ordered by comments/minute
- Week/Month/Year's Hottest Debates: ordered by total no. of comments
- Active Debates: "old" articles with recent comments (ordered by "recency"?)
Etc... other criteria are possible.
Wouldn't this add a fascinating static element to Slashdot? Eventually certain discussions would emerge as "Slashdot's All-Time Great Debates" , with thousands of comments from a period of years. Set your threshold to +30 to savor the distilled, democratic wisdom of 30000 slashdotters
What do you think?
Dugan