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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5715120" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>When people repost in smaller traffic sub-forum areas, those posts tend to reach a comparatively small audience on ENWorld.</p><p></p><p>Admittedly, people post where they are supposed to on these matters, too. So a product announcement by a publisher or somebody posting a press release on their behalf ends up in the publishers forum, while some Pathfinder fan might post a link to another site in the Pathfinder forum.</p><p></p><p>Neither approach is "wrong."</p><p></p><p>News articles, however, reach a HUGE swath of ENWorld traffic that don't even bother to visit ANY of the forums at all. This is actually a HUGE number of visitors to the site, many times larger in terms of individual IP addresses than the number of people who visit any and all of the forums, <em>combined</em>. On top of that reach, News articles on the front page of ENWorld are also e-mailed to 110,000+ people every week.</p><p></p><p>In the end, the fact that somebody posted an hour or two earlier and beat the news post to the front page with a link in a low traffic forum area is neither here nor there. </p><p></p><p>From time to time, I have refrained from posting topics to the news page on a few occasions BECAUSE of this kind of forum posting activity (sometimes it's helpful -- and sometimes <em><span style="color: wheat">it just isn't</span></em>). However, when it comes to significant news stories, they will go on the front page whether somebody posted them to a smaller forum area or not -- even when there is an existing thread on the General discussion forum too, if the news warrants it.</p><p></p><p>In the end, ENWorld is a very large website and each user develops his or her way in how they each use ENWorld. Those individual approaches are often very different from one another in terms of how each member uses the website, what areas they visit -- and what areas they each tend to ignore. No method of use is more "valid" than any other. </p><p></p><p>If <strong><em><span style="color: wheat">unity of purpose and clarity of message</span></em></strong> was the point of ENWorld, Russ could just make a blog called ENWorld.org and stop people from even posting comments to his few posts a day. I'm quite certain, however, that people want more than that from ENWorld. Moreover (if not more importantly), I'm quite certain Russ does too. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>In the end, ENWorld is very much a reflection of its individual users' widely divergent interests and differing approaches to the topic of RPGs generally -- and D&D specifically. If the end result sometimes looks like we are herding cats -- that's because we usually are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 5715120, member: 20741"] When people repost in smaller traffic sub-forum areas, those posts tend to reach a comparatively small audience on ENWorld. Admittedly, people post where they are supposed to on these matters, too. So a product announcement by a publisher or somebody posting a press release on their behalf ends up in the publishers forum, while some Pathfinder fan might post a link to another site in the Pathfinder forum. Neither approach is "wrong." News articles, however, reach a HUGE swath of ENWorld traffic that don't even bother to visit ANY of the forums at all. This is actually a HUGE number of visitors to the site, many times larger in terms of individual IP addresses than the number of people who visit any and all of the forums, [I]combined[/I]. On top of that reach, News articles on the front page of ENWorld are also e-mailed to 110,000+ people every week. In the end, the fact that somebody posted an hour or two earlier and beat the news post to the front page with a link in a low traffic forum area is neither here nor there. From time to time, I have refrained from posting topics to the news page on a few occasions BECAUSE of this kind of forum posting activity (sometimes it's helpful -- and sometimes [I][COLOR=wheat]it just isn't[/COLOR][/I]). However, when it comes to significant news stories, they will go on the front page whether somebody posted them to a smaller forum area or not -- even when there is an existing thread on the General discussion forum too, if the news warrants it. In the end, ENWorld is a very large website and each user develops his or her way in how they each use ENWorld. Those individual approaches are often very different from one another in terms of how each member uses the website, what areas they visit -- and what areas they each tend to ignore. No method of use is more "valid" than any other. If [B][I][COLOR=wheat]unity of purpose and clarity of message[/COLOR][/I][/B] was the point of ENWorld, Russ could just make a blog called ENWorld.org and stop people from even posting comments to his few posts a day. I'm quite certain, however, that people want more than that from ENWorld. Moreover (if not more importantly), I'm quite certain Russ does too. :) In the end, ENWorld is very much a reflection of its individual users' widely divergent interests and differing approaches to the topic of RPGs generally -- and D&D specifically. If the end result sometimes looks like we are herding cats -- that's because we usually are. [/QUOTE]
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