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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5985887" data-attributes="member: 54877">My comments have nothing whatsoever to do with WotC or other established companies who may not see kickstarter funds as a useful avenue. But for the record, I'm against "news glut" no matter what form it takes. It just so happens that kickstarter is the particular glut being discussed here. Data is not inherently information. There's a reason why newspapers have different sections, sub sections, etc. while they try to get you to buy it, so that they can tell your advertisers that you did. If you annoy your customers enough by burying the content that interests them intermingled with a lot of stuff that doesn't, they stop paying attention to what you are saying. (See massive declines in circulation over the last 40 years, caused in part by this.) I realize there is a tension here between making things readily available versus technical and budget limits on filters versus the people paying the bills getting a certain amount of semi-captive eyeballs. But there is, I think, a rather short-sighted tendency among some producers to think that anything that might allow someone to avoid their crucial information is, defacto, bad for them. It's the same instinct behind the idea that of course you'll want to stop your dinner to answer my call where I try to sell you something. You can rapidly reach a point where you aren't going to buy even something you might otherwise like, because I won't stop calling or sending you junk mail. You'll also note that I did not say that it shouldn't be there. I was quite clear that the high noise part was for me, and that I would filter it out if I could. I'm sure other people find it quite interesting, and some would like to make it even more prominent. Ultimately, it won't be much of a problem for me if it stays on its current course. I'll just avoid the news forum entirely, except when I have a link from somewhere else to it that looks interesting. That could be a problem for anyone who wants my eyeballs on something that might interest me and others like me.  You can't resolve this issue easily, as it basically involves a fight over time (and also in this case, money). Heinlein nailed it years ago, in that quote about how others would use up all your time if you let them. Salesman want your attention. Consumers want to give it only to the salesman that have something they want. Every person draws the lines in different places. It is an issue, not a problem--and thus can only be managed, not solved.</blockquote>

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