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18Jun/072

Slashdot learns from Digg!

It seems that Slashdot.org, has introduced a Digg/reddit type moderation system where the users vote up or down some story, which may eventually aid the moderators in approving them to the system.

Officially dubbed as "Firehose", it says:

"The Slashdot Firehose is a collaborative system designed to allow users to assist our editors in the story selection process. Try tagging and voting on the entries below, and by using the 'feedback' menu by each entry. The hose can contain submissions, RSS Feeds, bookmarks, journal entries and Slashdot stories. "

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Slashdot, once the feared for its 'slashdot effect', has been tamed since the introduction of Digg, compare the alexa rankings of the three sites, digg, slashdot and reddit. Firehose may be an attempt to take its once coveted position back by opening up its moderation system.

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  • http://tvt.blogspot.com/ al

    I love how Digg / Reddit types seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that Scoop has had all these features and more for years and years.

    Also, Slashdot still generates more traffic over time to a site than Digg’s relatively short-lived front-page stories. http://www.kottke.org/06/01/digg-vs-slashdot

    Digg users more readily letting their computers get infected with Alexa spyware is more a reflection on them than on the site’s real popularity.

  • http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/ irfanhab

    I believe thats right. I really hate to use Alexa, but is there any other real metric?

    Digg is a very very segmented site, people who go there have different interests hence not every digger sees all popular diggs.

    Whereas in Slashdot, the users have similar interests and hence if there is any thing in the frontpage, majority of the users visit it, and slashdot frontpage stories last longer than digg frontpage stories.

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