I understand the desire to build a community, but I think that would work better if it wasn't all mixed in with the news like that. The ability to reply to the news is fine, but the "interesting stuff" posts that just start conversations should be kept out of the news. Otherwise you'll end up destroying your ability to provide useful news at all. I know I for one don't want to hunt through a bunch of that stuff looking for what's actually news; if I want to talk about something other than the news, I'll go into the forums myself. That's what they're for.
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