My efforts to redraft my chapter on collaborative weblogs drove to engage in some historical excavation of the development of the site. Perhpsa someone somewhere will find these useful, over time I may actually develop a sort of a mini annotated history.
The story introducing the broader moderation system on Slashdot, and some interesting discussion amongst the first wave of moderators can be found
here. Cmdr Taco outlined his criteria for moderator eligibility in
this story. The introduction of the metamoderation system is
introduced and documented
here, and Cmdr Taco's reflections on its first weeks of operation can be read
here.
The first story underlining the problems Slashdot faced in scalability is
here.
The announcement of their takeover by Andover.net and a discussion of its implication unfolded
here. Although copyright remains with the poster of any given comment, Jon Katz did
appropriate a large number of comments for his book 'Voices from the Hellmouth'. An interview with Hemos and Cmdr Taco is available
here.
'Zoo' was introduced in January 2002. Here's the
discussion.
(10) See also slashdot discussions archived at
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/08/0250221&mode=thread&tid=124 and
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/07/120249
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Theres also a
discssion of the SPP which has nothing to do with the other links in this section.
