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Slashdot Adds Politics section

category international | politics / elections | other press author Tuesday September 07, 2004 20:10author by R. Isible

US Elections covered

Slashdot, the original and largest web-based discussion forum noted for it's advocacy of GNU/Linux as an operating system and its hundreds of thousands of rabid URI clickers has added a discussion section for politics.

Slashdot has well over half a million users, mostly working in the tech industries. It was one of the earliest web-based discussion forums (actually existing as ChipsNDip initially).

It's topics of discussion up until now have been to do with all things nerd and tech: "news for nerds. stuff that matters" is its byline. Mostly politics has been treated as flaming and trolling, irrelevant to the nerd/geek community unless it has an overt technological edge.

Now Slashdot has added a new topic area explicitly for the discussion of politics. It will be inevitably focussed on the US elections this year, but may evolve.

Related Link: http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/04/09/07/1513235.shtml?tid=124&tid=162&tid=219

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This is horrible
author by DJFelixpublication date Sat Sep 11, 2004 21:09author email jmarler-tdma at emarler dot comauthor address author phone

This is absolutely terrible. Slashdot has enough left-wing wining without a politics section. I think politics should be left to the politics blogs. Keep it out of Slashdot.

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