I would've liked to have been able to make a bit of a supporting post for the poll before it was used but oh well. Here's what I would have said...
I think Flayrah has two different categories of submission (in a very broad sense) the news stories (and I'm lumping opinion pieces there too) and the reviews. I'm not against any of them and think they are all important but I do worry that with the proliferation of reviews that can happen actual news, which is usually slower but I'd say more pertinent, gets buried, which makes Flayrah more of a review site than a news site. I think if the front page were seperated to show a different feed for news and reviews we could have both types of story without the faster stream eclipsing the slower stream.
Although I suppose your view really depends on how important you think the types of story are relevant to each other. I do think the news stories are more important than the review, though I certainly think reviews have a purpose and are useful to keep.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
I would've liked to have been able to make a bit of a supporting post for the poll before it was used but oh well. Here's what I would have said...
I think Flayrah has two different categories of submission (in a very broad sense) the news stories (and I'm lumping opinion pieces there too) and the reviews. I'm not against any of them and think they are all important but I do worry that with the proliferation of reviews that can happen actual news, which is usually slower but I'd say more pertinent, gets buried, which makes Flayrah more of a review site than a news site. I think if the front page were seperated to show a different feed for news and reviews we could have both types of story without the faster stream eclipsing the slower stream.
Although I suppose your view really depends on how important you think the types of story are relevant to each other. I do think the news stories are more important than the review, though I certainly think reviews have a purpose and are useful to keep.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~