Slashdot’s Firehose is Public (and Mostly Useless)

Slashdot’s Digg-like (although they claim it has nothing to do with Digg) voting system - Firehose - seemed to be a logical step for the community-driven news giant, but I’ve been using it since it was introduced as a beta and I must admit that I don’t see the point of it. You vote for stories, but, it has absolutely nothing to do with what ends up on Slashdot’s front page. Furthermore, while Digg’s upcoming section is a great place to find fresh news, Slashdot’s Firehose is nowhere as eventful, easy to use or interesting. The only feature worth mentioning is Firehose’s filter, which lets you filter out news with bad score (e.i. lots of negative votes).

Don’t get me wrong: Firehose is a nice addition to Slashdot. But a revolution, or even a step forward to giving more power over content to Slashdot’s community, it is not.

3 Responses to “Slashdot’s Firehose is Public (and Mostly Useless)”

  1. bob Says:

    Why are they bothering to change the current system? What’s the point? Slashdot’s editors, with all their foibles, has made the site what it is.

  2. Tal Says:

    Hi Stan, Slashdot in my opinion as well is not usefull there are social bookmarking sites that are much better such as Digg,reddit,del.cio.us etc. im am totally agree with you, great post.

  3. Daily news Says:

    good post!i love almost these

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