Comments, comments, comments!

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Submitted by dave on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 06:36
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Just thought we'd take an opportunity to ask you all to help improve your community and ours by posting comments as much as you can on as many stories and as often as you can.

Far too often stories come and go without anyone providing their opinions of them apart from giving them votes. It would of great benefit to the community if we all participate more often in this way.

The reasons for commenting go far beyond you simply having your say by expressing your opinion. When you comment you provide useful information and insights. You add value to the information already provided in the submitted posts. You open up and stimulate discussion on the topics covered by the posts. And you encourage others to participate too.

Comments and communication are an essential part of creating a healthy community.

Big, in-depth comments are great, but even simple messages saying how and why you enjoyed or didn't enjoy a post, or how and why the post was or wasn't useful to you add so much value to what is already provided (the post's title, summary and source).

Voting really helps add value too but comments go much further.

If you have the desire to be a part of this community, help it grow and make it more worthwhile and valuable to others, please comment as much as possible, whenever and wherever you can.

Thank you so much for your participation so far and for your continued and increased participation to come.

All the best.

The FSDaily team

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Anybody up to writing good directory software?

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Since the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).

Is better education the key to finding better software?

Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward Russel

I read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.

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