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  • Funkydick [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    The cool commenters were all driven off long ago by the relentless political posts.

    Used to be, NASA scientists would post in rocketry threads and you'd get people saying "hey, that's my lab! here's what we're up to." But no, the site's new admins removed the "News for Nerds" slogan and started relentlessly posting politics stories unrelated to tech. And sure enough, the site is now the same 150 people talking to each other. Threads don't often go above 50 posts. And there are people who who spend all day on the internet, herding their dozens of accounts, and use the bounty of mod points to mod to oblivion anything they don't like.

    Oh, and the duplicate stories. They never stop. There are two on the front page right now.

    • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Thanks for that info. I remember it used to be a fun and interesting place, especially the comment section.

      I'm looking forward to Hexbear comment threads where NASA scientist, or programmers from cool projects or Linux distros can add to the conversation. :penguin-love: