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Slashdot lets users vote on stories with Firehose
While there's still an active community of Slashdot readers/commentors/submittors, the site's not resting on its laurels. This week, the site pushed its Firehose service into wider release.
What's Firehose? It's Slashdot's answer to the new crop of user generated news sites. It's basically Slashdot classic, but with voting. Each story has a + or - next to its headline. You can use the icons to vote a story up or down.
The stories are assigned a color based on their popularity. The top stories are red, and the least popular are black. You can use a color slider at the top of the page to filter the stories you see. And a Slashdot editor picks some of the hottest stories of the day to put on the front page. If you're a purist, you can skip the Firehose experience and continue visiting Slashdot's main page for your news unsorted by the wisdom of the masses.
[via Mashable]



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