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I don't know if the Slashdot editors are doing censorship to try and protect Slashdot or not, but this submission was just rejected. I would like to think that somebody else simply submitted it before me and that we will see it posted later today, but we will see.....

Businessweek and Techdirt are asking if the Slashdot effect is going away. They note that one year ago Slashdot contributed 5.5% of tech news sites. However, as of last month, the power of Slashdot linkage had fallen considerably to 4%. This is in spite of the growth of Slashdot's traffic which is at 300-500k visitors/day. They essentially conclude that due to the increase in total numbers of sites that carry tech news, the Slashdot effect is watered down. They also conclude that individual blogs which also carry nerd worthy news are rapidly growing further diluting the power of the Slashdot effect on large media sites, although they note that while the traffic to large sites is decreasing, Slashdot traffic to small sites is still a powerful force.

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  • The tech news genre really needs a proper and comprehensive news site and forum. Blog sites like boingboing are good but not proper, they have a mad leftist slant and /., while comprehensive, just isn't run well enough.

    There is an open niche out there which needs to be filled and there will be lots of diversification until it is filled by some big well run player.

  • That's interesting news.

    I'd suggest that it's less censorship and more a general culture of avoidance, by the slashdot editorial team, regarding talking about things slashdot.

    Very rarely do we hear anything, save sparing updates about servers and big code changes, about slashdot itself, from slashdot. I think this is sort of good and sort of bad.

    CT's journal is a bit more verbose about it, but I've oftened wondered-- where does one go to get news and (good, thought-out) views about slashdot?
    • I've always wondered why there isn't a meta.slashdot.org. Go to the place where slashdot users come to talk about things they have in common, and talking about the one thing they all have in common gets you modded offtopic. Brilliant.
  • I enjoy most of your blog, and the pictures, but today I'm going to have to deduct points for sloppiness.

    First, do you mean 5.5% of incomming traffic to tech news sites, because if I were an editor I would hit delete the moment I read that first sentence. If I have 200 submissions to review and I spend an entire minute reading all the way through each one, that's three hours of my life gone. Poof. Time I could have spent writing code or chilling with the family.

    Second, you abuse the term "slashdot ef

    • C'mon -- I'll give you the first, although it's hardly beneath the normal standards of the editors. But bitching about "Slashdot effect"? The point is that the magnitude of a true "Slashdotting" has (supposedly) declined. Even if one splits hairs about whether the "effect" is still in effect if the site can handle the load, even the most limited definition is still a corollary of the size of the traffic burst.

      Anyway. Like someone else said, Rob and Jeff have always made it clear that they won't encourage me

  • Maybe it's more and more people who have learned to absorb the gist by comment osmosis, so they no longer RTFAs.

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