Slashdot Adds Politics section

international | politics / elections | other press Tuesday September 07, 2004 20:10 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.