That's what I think, anyway. All these slashcode sites... how many are there, can anybody name them all? Anybody? Hands? All these /code sites, and others as well, suffer from a lack of contributors that add credibility to the site. Plastic was a good go at it, but I realized that there are just so many useless opinions and snippets of garbage to wade through that it isn't worth my time to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Then there's k5. Nice, long, thought-out articles that sometimes can be very informative, but who has time to actually read all that stuff? I put k5 in second.

Then there's quorum.org. It was a good idea, but it seems that - and this is something a lot of these sites suffer from - there is a group of people who identify themselves as an elite faction within the site who pat each other on the back and act as if they know each other and mod each other up a lot. Only problem is, they have bought into such a deep and abiding groupthink mentality about themselves that they are afraid to reply to a foreign post unless another member of the group signals its okay to, by replying themselves. At least that's how it looks to me, Andy Rooney...

Did you ever notice that a site can be taken over by a bunch of guys who all live in the same town, or go to the same school, or belong to the same SC clan? I have. In fact, that's the problem with half-empty.org. They admit it, too, calling themselves the 17-19 year old males from Florida. They even have an acronym for it. You guessed it: 17-19yomffg. Sounds almost sacreligious, don't you think?

Here's an interesting site: Adequacy.org... as this is my second day here, I think I'll reserve judgement, but I am not so sure that all these articles are necessarily truthful.

Why would somebody want to tell a long story that was a lie, though? I would think that people have enough to do without making up stuff. But that's just me, Andy Rooney...

So, when all is said and done, I think I prefer good ol' Slashdot. You can get good information from there, and if somebody does mislead or lie, why there's always five or six people to catch them on it almost immediately. And that's what I like about it: it's full of people. Of course, that's a good reason to avoid it altogether. It, too, has a lot to slog through before you get to any real meat. But - and here is a bonus as far as I am concerned - you don't have to moderate. To a guy with a 56k modem and not a whole lot of RAM to throw around, that's an attractive feature.

If only I could find a site that would make me rich, better looking, or less goddamned boring, I think I would stay there until I lost my job, my health and hygeine, and my mind. Yeah, that would be the site for me, Al Franken, um, I mean Andy Rooney....