Thread: If you're bored: Engadget's Nokia vs. Apple flame war
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2010-01-19 , 14:45
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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
that particular thread makes me wonder how slashdot, IMO, generally seems more civil, yet they allow uncensored anonymous posting. Even though the audiences are not the same, I still think the two forum philosophies are an interesting contrast.
Posts at slashdot start with low mod points (esp. when posting as anonymous), so comments actually need to be modded up to be displayed by default when amount of comments increase.

The drawback of slashdot moderation scheme is that unless you happen to be among 50 first posters, it's very unlikely that anyone ever sees your comment, no matter how insightful it is.

The Engadget story comments OTOH seems to work as news story comments usually do: comments start modded at 0, and anything that's not negative gets shown.

BTW it's hilarious that Engadget managed to dig out some very ancient (and ugly) Nokia logo for their story