Slashdot is not the addiction it used to be for me. It seems less relevant now that I can use an RSS reader to pluck out the stories I like. However, it is interesting when Alan Cox, Bruce Perens, or some other high profile hacker chimes in.
I quit cold turkey a few months ago, and I've never felt better. It finally dawned on me that most of the articles were sensationalistic and one-sided, and they have no sense of clarity in journalism. Plus I remember reading one site that talked about how one of the main moderators pretty much blocked stories and banned people who would disagree with his p.o.v. That and reading the comments can really warp your mind -- people are modded up if others agree with their comments, not necessarily if they are correct or not.
Now I mostly read OS News (which I'm starting to like less, as I realize that it's also used as a personal soapbox for the editors sometimes) and Newsforge for my daily addiction. Now I get pretty much the same stories, but without the Chicken Little syndrome.
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