Slashdot offers lessons for newspaper survival:
1. No matter how much I or any other reporter or editor may know about a subject, some of the readers know more. What’s more, if you give those readers an easy way to contribute their knowledge to a story, they will.
2. Not all readers know what they’re talking about.
3. No matter what you do, some readers will post malicious and/or obscene comments
4. What if readers post comments that advertisers don’t like?