No, don't worry, not that kind of slash. Don Park has first posts about slashdot going downhill in the past year, I personally think it's been much longer than that. I stopped reading much more than the headlines quite a while ago. He also has an interesting post about bloggers ruining Google's pagerank algorithm. In some cases it might make sense for blogs to be the higher rated sites for some things, but I can certainly see it working the other way.