[digi_owl]

IMO /. got right, more or less. Limited amounts of votes, can't vote and comment on the same topic, and both ups and down are hardcapped (-1 to +5, starting at 0 for anonymous, 1 for registered).

I just wish they never had tried to "modernize" their site, as the 2.0 commenting system is a downright mess.

[arbitrage]

Another large problem with /. is the ageing of their userbase. It's very overtly conservative, now, with few new users getting on board.

[pbhjpbhj]

I'm not sure if that's (just) aging per se, perhaps Conservatives are, er, more conservative and so less likely to leave to find something else. That would leave older sites that were once the mainstream to become automatically more [C|c]onservative.