Comments on: Slashdot Comments vs. Digg Comments

By: Krista

Krista — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:29:27 +0000

informative post, keep it up.,

By: LordKaT

LordKaT — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:45:35 +0000

I find that comparing both Digg and Slashdot is difficult. While their purpose both appears to be reproting on geek news, they go about it in totally different fashions: Digg is a community-created website whereas Slashdot is a more traditional editorial type of site.
Also, the actual comments themselves are displayed differently: Digg displays them flat, while Slashdot displays them in threaded order. Digg's system of commenting is prone to “quickies” (similar to Fark) in which a person will just post a comment and not bother reading any of the above comments.
Slashdot's system, on the other hand, provokes discussion, since, when you reply to an author, your comment is displayed AS a reply to the author. This not only helps segregate your comment from, say, a trolls comment, but it also helps the author find your comment and reply it to.
Digg users generally tend to be younger and more immature in nature, while the older crowd thends to lurk on Slashdot. Both sites have their issues with trolls.
In my opinion, both of them suck. Digg is too community driven for my tastes (thus, it tends to post hyped up fanboy news to the front page), and Slashdot is too reliant upon its editors, which often leads to potentially good stories going down the *******.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:59:22 +0000

Hi!
I definately prefer digg since the whole website is more structured. Slashdot is just a mess… It's therefore hard to read the comments. I don't think that there are quality differences though.
Tobias

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:15:06 +0000

Brilliant bait for the double-whammy Slash/Dugg Effect.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:54:56 +0000

*sigh* Please do not feed the Chris… uh, trolls.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:34:33 +0000

Digg has the worst commenters. But they cover more stuff, or at least stuff that I find more relavent. Slashdot seems more specialized, but also has smarter commenters. BOCTAOE.