Whitesoap: Digg Meets Slashdot

Jason let me know about this cool site he’s involved in, called Whitesoap. Whitesoap is a news site, taking some of the great ideas from both Slashdot and Digg and creating something unique in its own right. The process: Stories are fed to the site by RSS feeds, users vote those stories up like on Digg under the “Undiscovered” tab, and a group of editors chooses which of those stories gets promoted to the front page and the “Featured” tab.
Slashdot’s moderated process ensures uber-crap doesn’t make the front page, but is slow and completely non-transparent, very secretive and not at all friendly. Digg’s process is mostly transparent and completely user controlled, but due to the juvenile nature of most internet communities, is struck with the occasional awful, unimportant, and inaccurate story, and the community tends to bury stories that are controversial to its audience.
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Original post by Nathan Weinberg