Personally, I liked the mix. Having people post interesting and Q / awakening related topics (and/or links to topics on other news sites) was a great way to consolidate information. Searching many of those other news sites for relevant information can be very tedious. After spending some time on gatewaypundit, I quickly began to appreciate people posting the items worth reading - it was much faster than searching them out on my own.
I also think that helped to keep the research topics relevant and in focus. Seriously, if all you had were a few dozen people posting original research as they found stuff and had time, there would only be a few posts a day, there wouldn't be as much traffic, and the place would likely end up with more shills than posters. It's one of those things were you have to be careful of what you wish for.
I completely agree, though I like writing my own opinion pieces I rarely have the time or energy to do so. But there was nothing better when getting off a long days work than to be able to quickly check the boards for what you missed during the day. When 400-1000 people are each posting one gem they found during the day, it made it easy to catch up on everything.
Yoda tells me he foresees this habbening here and that little green Muppet is rarely wrong.
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