Slashdot really doesn't get it and as a result, it's becoming a ghost town. I used to visit Slashdot constantly. Now I look once or twice a week.<p>Digg, Reddit, and even YNews to some extent, can be filled with junk but they let me decide what's important, rather than what someone named Commander Taco finds important. It's the same as Wikipedia: give me all the information and leave the onus on me to separate the wheat from the chaff.