On: The 50 Best Websites of 2011

[mseebach]

That's addressed to the Slashdot defectors who'd gotten used to every link being wrapped in a couple of sentences of clever commentary.

The spirit of that guideline is that a link should speak for it self. If it can't, don't submit it. If YOU want to say something, write a blog post.

[yid → mseebach]

Slashdot's wrapper commentary hasn't been clever in quite some time, unfortunately. I had a very low uid there, and witnessed the decline firsthand. Count me in as someone concerned about editorialized headlines at HN -- I really don't want to see it go the same direction as /.