omg, voices from the hellmouth was sooo cringe. Who was that? typetypetype
oook, JonKatz, and it lives on
(tl;dr for my post here, there was a segment of the slashdot population who really identified with the Columbine shooters, the trench-coat mafia, i guess in terms of being picked on at school by the popular kids or something? it was sort of like "of course Columbine, what did you expect from those of us living at the hell-mouth you've created for us" If I have any of that wrong it's because I couldn't stand reading any of it in the first place)
I mean the reason YC (and by extension, HN) became a thing was largely because of pg posting on Slashdot about similar themes.