Slashdot is one of the fist, best examples of a user-built site. In an article titled, “Five rules for building a successful online community,” Robin Miller editor-in-chief of Slashdot’s parent, the Open Source Technology Group, offers his credits and his prescriptions:
“As part of the management team behind the famous Slashdot discussion site . . . I’m not saying that you should follow slavishly [...]