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• #1 | written by robbo 395 days ago Rating: 1 | Rate comment: + -

  See, I feel I am being selective.
  
  As I said, my site publishes 10-20 news stories a day. I don't feel posting even 5 of those headlines is showing a lack of selectiveness (and, as I said, I'm typically posting 1-2 stories a day with this week being exceptionally busy because we have a lot of good content: interviews, videos, exclusive photos, coming out of comic-con).
  
  I DO think the stories are of interest, which is why I'm posting them here.
  
  It's certainly not spam as the whole point of comicne.ws is to invite links of interest from the community. And, I think it would be disastrous for me to say, "Oh, I won't post this one because maybe people won't respond to it."
  
  Just as I think it will be disastrous for people to say, "Oh, I won't post this link, because it might not get noticed in the first week it's up."
  
  I do see apathy in the community, but it seems to apply to ALL stories submitted here. As you correctly point out, and as I have also observed. The most recent story voted up to the front page is over six weeks old.
  
  People aren't voting on anything right now and it's not because articles are being pushed down the queue to fast.
  
  I really don't believe in any way that the problem is me posting too many stories. It think the problem is the community hasn't really formed around comicne.ws the way we hoped it would.
  
  In my opinion, when comicne.ws grows to a critical mass, there will be dozens, perhaps hundreds of stories here every day. Some will get voted onto the front page. Many will not.
  
  The community does not need to be diminished by discouraging people from participating. The community needs growth.
  
  It needs more links in the news area. It needs more people voting and pushing things into the published area.
  
  So, I agree that there's miles to go for the community here to take shape. I'm going to continue to participate because that's the lifeblood of sites like this.
  
  
• #2 | written by robbo 395 days ago Rating: 1 | Rate comment: + -

  So...I've been called out on axio's blog as an "abuser" of comicne.ws. Apparently links to stories on my site are the "crap" referred to above.
  
  I posted the following comment there, but I thought I'd post here as a way to get the conversation moved to the community where it belongs.
  
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  Heya,
  
  Noticed your post on comicne.ws and then this one here. I thought I'd chime in here since you call me out by name as an "abuser".
  
  I don't quite get posting links from my site constitutes abuse of comicne.ws
  
  Jonah invited me to beta test the thing and expressly stated that I certainly self-promote by posting links to my site.
  
  And, contrary to what you state above, I'm hardly posting links to "everything on the site". I've only posted links to articles that are written primarily and specifically by C2F staffers.
  
  In fact, Ive rarely been posting more than one link per day. This past week, the usage has been much heavier as we've just returned from Comic-Con and have several exclusive news items to offer readers. But even then, I've been posting no more than five links. But, of course, the site usually publishes 10-20 new stories a day.
  
  So, all I'm doing is calling attention to stories I think are interesting to people.
  
  This seems to be the very purpose of comicne.ws or digg...to call attention to stories of POTENTIAL interest to the community.
  
  Then THE COMMUNITY decides whether or not it's interesting.
  
  The only reason the queued area seems C2F-heavy is because nobody else is posting news items.
  
  My presumption is, that once Comicne.ws attains a brisk level of traffic there will be plenty of news items posted on a daily basis, and my 1-5 items won't offend you so.
  
  And there will be an actual community to decide what's cool, fun, newsworthy or whatever.
  
  
• #3 | written by axio 395 days ago Rating: 1 | Rate comment: + -

  I have no qualm with your site or your site's content, I read most of the news entries. I just think that you need to slow your roll about constantly linking to everything and be selective. It makes this site feel spammed when it is overloaded with one site. As a submitter you need to look at how the community responds to your submissions - do they like it, do they hate it, or are they apathetic towards it? If they hate it or are apathetic about it, stop linking to those types of stories. People clearly aren't voting on everything you are submitting - especially the giveaways - and yet you still keep posting links to it? If you want a good example of a submitter, look at the types of stories augiedb submitted. I used to submit things from everywhere into the que, but now I don't see the point when it is going to be bumped down a few pages because theres another 7 entries this week about some DVD being given away.
  
  

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