Why I like saidit. It doesn't have downvotes, and that is pro free-speech. When you have downvotes that discourages people from speaking up. We don't need downvotes. If someone says something dumb here, then it just won't rise up, and that's enough. There doesn't need to be double punishment.

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Agreed. I left for a few reasons.

  1. Shit ‘editors’ choosing stories with click bait potential over actually interesting stories.
  2. Shit ‘editors’ who wouldn’t even check for broken links let alone correct serious factual errors in story summaries.
  3. Terrible mobile site that even today is utterly shit. Want to reply to a comment, then get back to where you were in a long thread? Slashdot says NO!
  4. Annoying UI changes to the site that make it worse while ignoring the actual under-the-hood problems. Slashdot still doesn’t support UTF-8, meaning that anything but American English characters (e.g. £) gets rendered as escape sequences. Kind of embarrassing for a site that used to attract coders.
  5. Too many normies and a resulting decline in interesting technical stories.