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Originally Posted by BigD  It's an experiment with an automated news feed, which appears as threads. It allows users to comment on the specific news story without having to identify and link it themselves. As you are a guy with some interesting views on the world, give it a try 
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Automated? That means it is feeding off some newsfeed, not a good idea, cos it will generate a lot of junk. (I still think most of the news are crap or not interesting to me at least)
Also, this list inherits what the news-stream (journalists and their bosses) want us to read, and not we choose to read what interests us.
Next, the threads contains only links out. This means the reader leaves our forum site. (This is generally not a good internet site practice to navigate the users out of, we normally try to channel them INTO our site and not vice versa)
As I said, the category or section is good, but the automated threads should have a rethink.
Anyway, who needs news....we've already got gossip about neighbours, flame wars about usernames and jokes about swiss and indians...
HAT
