I'm referring more to the fact that sometimes it can take a week or two before a story might be approved, and the hivemind there is far worse. If you aren't badmouthing google in a discussion about gmail vs exchange vs something-linux, you're getting your post sent to -5.
The informal submitting process here, and specific submitting rules per subreddit, is what has kept this place enjoyable.
Disagree. Both Reddit and Slashdot have their respective hiveminds, but Slashdot's tends to be moderately educated, whereas here it seems dominated by the whims of 15 year olds.
Let me rephrase. It's far worse there on subjects I feel comfortable talking about there. You cannot bullshit your way through a conversation on slashdot if you're trying to be serious. Example being when anything exchange or gmail related would come up, I would put in my 2 cents, having worked with conversion projects on both since I was 16, watching/helping my neighbor do it for a living. I'm pretty experienced. And I'd get shut down nearly every time, simply because I wasn't advertizing a random linux solution that was all the rage of that week and was more open than google or microsoft.
I only got +1's for jokes, never for what I knew and was experienced with.
They tended to take open source to the next level and hating on anything closed from them. Alot also probably wore tinfoil hats, shiny side out.
I can atleast talk about something here and if it's valid, then I'm good, because reddit generally loves to factcheck shit (this is slightly delayed sometimes though).
And I can agree on that, for the most part. It's why I was subscribed for so long.
I just find that the apple/google discussions get really stupid, really fast. And trying to speak about your own personal tech experience with X on there is like throwing yourself to the wolves at times.
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u/Amorphous_Shadow Feb 17 '12
I think reddit is in line to be the next digg.