Sectioning metafilter / newsfilter

May 8, 2001 1:40 PM

Why are the homepage posts so saturated with the popular news outfits like Reuters and New York Times. Maybe two sections could be created. One for the popular news items, and one for the more offbeat, colorful, hard to come by stories/links/reports/etc.
posted by jwurtzel to bugs at 1:40 PM (5 comments total)

This is a "human bug" not a "system bug."
:-)
posted by tamim at 2:42 PM on May 8, 2001

I think I agree. Is it time to split MeFi?
posted by ericost at 3:07 PM on May 8, 2001

Don't split MeFi. Instead, make each author select a category for their front-page posts, and allow readers to select which categories they want to view. That is a far more elegant solution and it creates subcommunities with a great deal of overlap, instead of the psychologically stronger division a whole new site would create.
posted by kindall at 5:28 PM on May 8, 2001

And cupholders! We want cupholders!
posted by zempf at 5:52 PM on May 8, 2001

They better be big enough for an X-Treme Big Gulp™.
posted by kindall at 11:56 AM on May 9, 2001