What a shame. What a real fucking shame. I've been coming here for 20(?) years because there used to be a lot of smart, scientifically-minded people here. Now, just look at this thread. Lots of anti-science Trumpers, Russian bots and troll, and old crotchety angry people who lost their way.
This should be a "duh article. Of course Scientific American endorsed Biden. Just today, Donnie Dipshit said TWICE how he knows more than scientists. He can't even speak English. He can't read the word "Yosemite
It's been revealed that Turning Point USA is paying Teenagers to troll post. [thedailybeast.com] People have been buying and selling low Id/. usernames since I started.
/. does lean conservative (little 'c', as in, "don't change stuff"). The average age is getting up there, most of us held onto decent jobs and we're afraid of losing what we have. But there's a difference between being scared of change and being willing to support an anti-science nut like Trump.
Ignore the trolls, if you've got mod points upvote good pos
Slashdot has got much more partisan than it used to be.
It certainly wasn't ever even slightly apolitical, but the politics aligned much more along early internet freedom lines; the feeling was broadly in favor of personal freedoms, suspicious of law enforcement especially heavy handed law enforcement of computer crimes, deeply suspicious of large corporations and the legal support on them, against indefinite copyright laws.
Sort of a cross between "live and let live" and "fuck off and let me use my computer in peace".
There was some variety, there were always gun nut libertarians, religious wackos and Loony Lefties, but defense of party above all was very very rare.
And we could all agree that Orrin Hatch was a total shithead. Now I'd expect him to get staunch defenders here due to his party affiliation.
Mostly I think it's just the natural growth and eternal September. Back then, this was a nerd forum sought out by nerds when nerd was a pejorative, and we cared disproportionately about the internet and computing. That's not niche any more.
Thank you for a great comment. I'd just add a little thing to it, to make it more complete: after "Loony Lefties" you should have mentioned "Loony Righties", too, to cover the whole spectrum of/. population. Of course there are those here, too.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
- Henry Spencer, University of Toronto Unix hack
/. becomes right wing (Score:1, Insightful)
This should be a "duh article. Of course Scientific American endorsed Biden. Just today, Donnie Dipshit said TWICE how he knows more than scientists. He can't even speak English. He can't read the word "Yosemite
I think a lot are troll (Score:5, Interesting)
Ignore the trolls, if you've got mod points upvote good pos
Re:I think a lot are troll (Score:5, Insightful)
Slashdot has got much more partisan than it used to be.
It certainly wasn't ever even slightly apolitical, but the politics aligned much more along early internet freedom lines; the feeling was broadly in favor of personal freedoms, suspicious of law enforcement especially heavy handed law enforcement of computer crimes, deeply suspicious of large corporations and the legal support on them, against indefinite copyright laws.
Sort of a cross between "live and let live" and "fuck off and let me use my computer in peace".
There was some variety, there were always gun nut libertarians, religious wackos and
Loony Lefties, but defense of party above all was very very rare.
And we could all agree that Orrin Hatch was a total shithead. Now I'd expect him to get staunch defenders here due to his party affiliation.
Mostly I think it's just the natural growth and eternal September. Back then, this was a nerd forum sought out by nerds when nerd was a pejorative, and we cared disproportionately about the internet and computing. That's not niche any more.
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