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Folks, it appears Kuro5hin is dead:
The site was founded by Rusty Foster in December 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot.[10] Kuro5hin's membership once numbered in the tens of thousands,[11] but its popularity declined significantly from its peak in the early 2000s.[13] On May 1st, 2016, the site was closed down permanently.
I didn't visit it. It seemed then like the bunker where the tinfoil hat brigade hung out. In the Slashdot days it served as the guardrail for conventional wisdom. But now that the tinfoil hat brigade has been entirely vindicated, and Kuro5hin is dead, it makes me a little sad. What are your favorite memories of Kuro5hin, and will we see its like again?
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Do not use if foil seal is broken.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @03:34PM
I think the editors should be careful about posting political stories in which either TFA or TFS is clearly biased, unless there is a decent rebuttal or opposing view (perhaps offered by the editor) in the summary.
Other than that, I'm not in the "It better be News for Nerds" camp.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @03:50PM
Is to just completely rape and lampoon any subject brought up with factual information. The bias part doesn't matter as long as the citations are true and unbiased, even if the story isn't. Just look at politics. If you can get stories from RT, BBC, (Insert some US rag here), Al Jazeera, and whoever else, you will eventually end up with a bunch of biases that will eventually balance out. The trick is covering the stories from multiple angles and not using a single story as your sole citation.