Revolution is on Slashdot...

[Bernard Devlin]

The main thing about slashdot is that the vast majority of the
commenters don't even read any article that forms the basis for the
discussion.  Slashdotters even have their own acronym for this
behaviour.

One can't expect them to even look at www.runrev.com.  A minority of
those commenters  _might_ have read the original short article on
zdnet.  It's because of such behaviour on slashdot that I rarely visit
that site anymore.  Instead I've been using news.ycombinator.com to
find discussions on interesting technology items for the last few
years.

I think that one can take comfort from the fact that slashdotters are
not the target audience for Rev.  But I'm sure that having Rev
referenced on both slashdot and zdnet will provide useful publicity.
After all, when I first found out by Rev it was entirely by accident.
I was astonished that it was not already well-known.

Here we are almost a decade later, and there's still nothing to rival Rev.

Bernard

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Mark Swindell <mdswindell at cruzio.com> wrote:
> I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the forum interface was "cumbersome."  (I might have chosen a less conciliatory adjective.)  A lot a brain on display there, I'm not sure how much wisdom.
>
> Mark
>
> On Nov 27, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Mikey wrote:
>>
>>> /. is from severe tech heads for severe tech heads.
>>
>> There seem to be many very smart people there, but they have an unusually high tolerance for one of the more cumbersome UIs ever deployed for presenting a nested-thread discussion.
>>
>> I read only a few dozen of the replies there, but what I read I enjoyed very much.  Slashdot is a consistently reliable source for quality recreational argument.
>>
>> Congrats, Kev:  when your product gets flamed by the slashdot crowd you know you've arrived. ;)
>>
>> --
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World
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