| I share the same feelings. I used Slashdot for many years, starting when Rob Malda ran the site. The past year or so has been the worst, in my opinion, even when considering the Beta era of discontent. The stories used to be primarily about tech (or related subjects), with a minor focus on politics. But lately I think it has been the opposite. There is much more emphasis on general politics, with tech being a minor focus, in my opinion. While I'm not very interested in politics to begin with, what bothers me the most is how partisan I think things have gotten. The stories have what I consider a rather left-wing bias. The same goes for the modding, where I think it's common to see centrist and right-wing comments often downmodded, even when they express a very reasonable and relevant set of ideas. I feel that Slashdot has moved from perhaps being an open, varied, quasi-libertarian environment to one that's much less open, much less diverse, and much less enjoyable. So I stopped visiting it about a month ago, and I don't miss it at all. |
I left for basically the same reason, but quite a while ago. I forget which of the editors it was, but he would interject politics into everything. And even after people asked for a politics section (which could then be turned off), to keep politics out of the tech stuff, he would still put political stuff all over the place.