[ranting-moth]

Yeah, the sad story of Slashdot. It was 'the' place to get hacker news back in the day.

It always had a crazy crowd but was well enough moderated that you kept coming back.

Then just one day shit hit the fan. To me the stories were no longer interesting or you felt they were sponsored. Didn't they get acquired?

That might be why the crowd moderation stopped working. It just turned into a cesspit.

[ksherlock]

IIRC... Slashdot was acquired by andover.net which was acquired by VA Linux which later changed its name to SourceForge.net, then was sold off to Dice.com then was sold off to the current owners.