Letters to the editor
Posted Jun 27, 2002 20:52 UTC (Thu) by
faramir (subscriber, #2327)
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Letters to the editor
The new comments sections are in my opinion one of the worst aspects
of the new LWN layout. Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I like
newspapers, letters to the editor, etc. I also read/skim slashdot, kuro5hin,
advogato, etc. On-line discussion systems almost always suffer from moderately
to extremely high noise to signal ratios even with various systems to
try to rate people's messages. In my opinion, automated systems are not
good enough yet to handle this job well. I believe that LWN's letters to the editor
section was almost always worth reading because it was moderated by someone
whose job was to make careful selections. I also believe that the difficulty
of sending a letter to the editor also increased the quality of the
messages. It is human nature to put more effort into a letter
which is going to take some effort to publish. I know I'm spending less
effort writing this then a previous message which LWN published
a few months ago...
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