Comment Re:6, 6.1, 7? (Score 1) 632
If something is off topic then it should be modded down. If someone likes to read off topic posts, they can.
Most of the time when I'm reading Slashdot I don't have time to do anything but skim the articles and maybe look at a few comments, and I need for those comments to be focused, to the point, brilliant, short, and informative. Think in terms of the writing on the op-ed page of the New York Times - that is what I like. A few quick posts, full of disagreeing opinions, to give me a quick sense of what the standard, divergent opinions are on the given subject.
In the last 6 years there's maybe been 10 times when I've had time to drill down and read all the posts under a given topic here on Slashdot (tonight being one of those 10 times, which is why I discovered your post). Some people have much more free time and are therefore free to explore widely on a more frequent basis than myself. Some people read every single comment under posts that interst them. I say more power to them. If they like reading obscure posts, they certainly have a right to. But those posts shouldn't be moderated up, or I'll have to read them on the nights when I've almost no time to read.
Most of the time when I'm reading Slashdot I don't have time to do anything but skim the articles and maybe look at a few comments, and I need for those comments to be focused, to the point, brilliant, short, and informative. Think in terms of the writing on the op-ed page of the New York Times - that is what I like. A few quick posts, full of disagreeing opinions, to give me a quick sense of what the standard, divergent opinions are on the given subject.
In the last 6 years there's maybe been 10 times when I've had time to drill down and read all the posts under a given topic here on Slashdot (tonight being one of those 10 times, which is why I discovered your post). Some people have much more free time and are therefore free to explore widely on a more frequent basis than myself. Some people read every single comment under posts that interst them. I say more power to them. If they like reading obscure posts, they certainly have a right to. But those posts shouldn't be moderated up, or I'll have to read them on the nights when I've almost no time to read.
