Reply #156: "Karma whoring" and the "herd mentality" are very real things at Slashdot

[hunter]

To catch the attention of all the random moderators at slashdot you've got to dangle shiny things in front of them. Often this makes the writing dishonest. You can be wildly successful at places like Slashdot writing as a witty and handsome troll, but this comes at the expense of more honest posters.

At DU people are sorted out by their interests. I contribute to the topics I am most interested in, and the topics I know something about.

Any "filtration" system should be based on that. I don't see that my usual hangouts here, say "Environment and Energy" or "Science," are all that crowded.

The growth of General Discussion is probably self-limiting. As it gets too loud and fast in GD people move away from it, and as it quiets down they come back. Mostly, like the Lounge, it really doesn't matter which threads you decide to jump into and out of. Eventually you get a pretty good feeling for where and when the discussions that are most important to you might be, and a moderation system such as Slashdot's would hurt that.