Thornir Alekeg
Albatross!
Not having read all the posts in this thread, I would like to say that I think things are just fine. I have enjoyed, now that we have a speedy server, checking out some older, longer story hours (Old One's Faded Glory story hour was great, but before the server update it was painful searching through page after page of comments looking for the next update). And I have found some new ones that are great - I'm really enjoying Alsih2o's new story hour. Unfortunately for me work has begun to interfere with my reading story hours (I think I may have lost a couple of levels of Procrastinator). I think the presence of the "big name" story hours have led to an increase in the number of well written story hours, as well as an increase in some people who want to try, but have not managed to achieve the same level of writing. They may or may not get there with time. I can think of a couple of "big name" story hours that were not written all that well to start, but became progressively better as they kept at it and got feedback from readers.