Who wants a one week moratorium on news items?

December 16, 2000 1:28 PM

Who wants a one week moratorium on news items?
posted by capt.crackpipe to MetaFilter-related at 1:28 PM (3 comments total)

why?
posted by mathowie at 2:15 PM on December 16, 2000

Of the 24 topics posted on 12/15, 8 (or 10 depending your definition of "news") were from news organizations. The last topic posted on mTalk was that there are too many threads getting posted. If the community was forced to get creative with their links for a week, I think we might find a marked increase in the quality and uniquenss of the threads.
posted by capt.crackpipe at 3:04 PM on December 16, 2000

the newsy aspect of MeFi is one of the best things about it. i don't want just a collection of memepool-ish links.
posted by gluechunk at 3:49 PM on December 17, 2000