Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
> >> 2. What actually *is* Slashdot? I keep hearing about it, but I'm still
> >> unclear on what it's supposed to "be".
> >
> > That tears it! Your geek license is officially revoked. :P
>
>  Frankly, I don't blame him. It took me quite a while to figure out how
> to *use* it.
>
>  Not that it's hard to use. It's just hard to tell what the purpose of
> the site is.

Ok, while you guys dutifully newsread for all these years, something called
blogs appeared on the web and allowed people to read articles and comment.
Some more advanced tech news blogs, like Slashdot, even came up with a way to
let readers moderate other reader comments and the moderations to be moderated
themselves.

I guess that's about it.

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