Slashdotter

plural Slashdotters

1. InternetA user of the social news website Slashdot.

   […]unlike the iVillage audience, Slashdotters usually respect serious questions.

   2001, Darren Sean Wershler-Henry, Mark Surman, Commonspace: Beyond Virtual Community, →ISBN, page 257

   2 more examples

   On the popular hacker hangout Slashdot.com, wags stoke rumors that a “major software company” will soon offer free software—embedded with advertising. “Sounds like a nightmare waiting to be rebelled against,” says one poster, “NatePuri.” Fellow Slashdotter “el_flynn” doesn’t mind, “as long as there is an option to disable it.”

   2000, Forbes, page 286

   According to one Slashdotter, Google solves all kinds of problems for society and provides most of its services for free, which prompts users to overlook Google’s infringements of privacy in order to target their ads and keeps them from hating Google.

   2017, Sabrina Gabl, Verena E. Wieser, Andrea Hemetsberger, “Public Brand Auditing: A Pathway to Brand Accountability”, in Nil Özçağlar-Toulouse, Diego Rinallo, Russell W. Belk, editors, Consumer Culture Theory (Research in Consumer Behavior; volume 18), Emerald Group Publishing, part II (Revolutionizing the Market: Consumer Activism and Sustainability), page 158