agilepartners.com— A look at the average number of comments per story over the last 7 years reveals that community activity on Slashdot is declining. Are sites like digg and del.icio.us killing Slashdot?
Dec 21, 2005View in Crawl 4
I comment less frequently on /. than I used to because my karma is already excellent and I rarely have something to say that hasn't either been said or will be said by someone else soon enough.
I think it has at least as much, if not more to do with RSS. The reality is that I rarely comment either here or on Slashdot. By the time I see it in the RSS feed there are already more comments than I want to read, and I almost never come back to a story to look at more comments. For instance, I'll never know if anyone read or even responded to this comment.
kryptogrowlDec 21, 2005
you know, you could just go to china with your current small one.
tomaburqueDec 21, 2005
This is really inappropriate. Slashdot is important. Digg is not important. Pull this before you embarrass yourself some more.
ke4rohDec 21, 2005
I comment less frequently on /. than I used to because my karma is already excellent and I rarely have something to say that hasn't either been said or will be said by someone else soon enough.
dtbondDec 21, 2005
Im sorry, but Slashdot blows
pkscoutDec 21, 2005
I think it has at least as much, if not more to do with RSS. The reality is that I rarely comment either here or on Slashdot. By the time I see it in the RSS feed there are already more comments than I want to read, and I almost never come back to a story to look at more comments. For instance, I'll never know if anyone read or even responded to this comment.
hadjDec 21, 2005
By coincidence I wrote this against digg's pure democratic way of promoting links.
hadjDec 21, 2005
with this, I mean this entry:<a class="user" href="http://www.archintellect.net/2005/12/21/is-diggcom-relevant-enough/">http://www.archintellect.net/2005/12/21/is-diggcom-relevant-enough/</a>(digg does not support HTML comments)
bitweeverDec 21, 2005
Digg -- Like Slashdot for grown-ups.
reybrujoDec 22, 2005
"Digg -- Like Slashdot for grown-ups."Hehehehe, you just made me chuckle. Let's see in 7 years if Digg is around.
forseDec 22, 2005
Well digg became rather...uninteresting due to ammount of spam posting and non tech related stories.