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Slashdot is going to a

Slashdot is going to a subscription model. This is after Salon and The Motley Fool have also gone to a pay-to-play system, and that's just out of the sites that I browse. All of them also happen to be in a downward spiral toward digital oblivion. So much for Internet communities. Different topics, different hit rates, different audiences, same result. Probably because all these bulletin boards always end up either as circle jerks or flame-fests, and it all ends up as white noise anyway.

On the other hand, the Freepathon is going well. So I guess some types of zealotry still pays.