Last updated: 9-10-2000 by Inoshiro
Kuro5hin.org is a site about technology and culture, both separately and in their interactions. It is updated whenever interesting things appear in the submission box, or whenever your humble hosts rusty and Inoshiro feel inspired to write something.
Kuro5hin.org is a community of people who like to think. You will not find garbage in the discussions here, because noise is not tolerated. This is a site for people who want to discuss the world they live in. It's a site for people who are on the ground in the modern world, and who sometimes look around and wonder what they have wrought.
It's also a site for people who need a laugh now and then.
I (rusty) use and create Free Software (as well as Open Source Software) so you'll probably find a decidedly pro-Linux, and pro-freedom bent around here. I have no interest in Microsoft, so you will not see stories about this bug, or that flaw, in their software posted by me. I also created this site.
I (Inoshiro) am responsible for the smoothness of the machine running Kuro5hin, most of the documentation, and occasional writings on the site. I use Slackware as the Linux flavour of choice, although I'm also partial to OpenBSD -- not that I force this on anyone ;)
Besides the two admins, Kuro5hin relies on its readers -- it exists for them and through them. Submit stories about interesting things that you hear about, things you think of, or other things which strike your fancy. This site has an open submission queue. Any user can see and vote on all submitted stories. If you want to see something posted, you can make it happen by participating in the moderation of the stories in the submission queue..
Garbage will not be tolerated. Others can and will rate your posts into oblivion. Mojo is our system designed to facilitate this community filtering. We have no intention of trying to stifle anyone's free expression and legitimate arguments (no matter how much we might personally dislike them). We hope most of you agree that this is the only way to keep a site usable and worthwhile, and that (as Bruce Perens put it) what we need is more "Freedom" and less "FreeDumb."
Now go read, think, and post. And be sure to tell your friends. ;-)
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