Slashdot's community largely serves as moderators, and users with a high "karma" ranking at the site are more likely to be granted "mod points" upon logging in.

Slashdot's editors rarely editorialize and report—most Slashdot articles are a short (user-written) summary and one or more links. The site's content is the comments, ...

Nearly five years ago, a 21-year-old computer-science nerd made his first postings on a Web site known as Slashdot. Those messages marked the beginning of what would become an Internet phenomenon.

Slashdot is ugly- At the same time that these resources have developed cool graphical backdrops for their content, Slashdot's admittedly improved user interface is still the key to gobs of ...

Rob Malda, known to nerds everywhere as CmdrTaco, has resigned as editor-in-chief of Slashdot, the influential website he founded 14 years ago. Malda, who launched the site while still a college ...

But Slashdot was based, at least conceptually, on a Web site that I ran on my personal home page, which was HTML. There was no system. It was just me pasting into text files.

What does slashdot effect actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

Slashdot. With a tagline "news for nerds," Slashdot is aimed at tech-minded users and is seemingly built on inside jokes (the URL is designed to be intentionally confusing when read aloud, ...

Dice Holdings, Inc. Acquires Online Media Business from Geeknet, Inc. Slashdot and SourceForge Significantly Increase Reach into Global Technology Community New York, NY and Fairfax, VA ...

You are viewing content tagged with 'slashdot' - iTWire - Technology News and Jobs Australia ...