Is Pipedot now ad-supported? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-03 01:33 (#2S0D) Why in the world is this "article" here? Re: Is Pipedot now ad-supported? (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-03 10:53 (#2S0J) Because someone took the time to submit it to the pipe, and I found it interesting. If you'd like to see other types of articles, you know where the submit button is. Meanwhile, if you don't like the project, feel free not to fund it. Re: Is Pipedot now ad-supported? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-03 16:03 (#2S10) So if someone were to submit a piece about some artist you like who's trying to pay for making a new album on Kickstarter, you would post it? There have been plenty of great articles recently -- I really wouldn't expect that "because it's there" is a coherent reason for something making it to the front page of the site.Can you elaborate a bit on your editorial decision process -- is it truly as simple as "it's there, I found it interesting, so I hit the green button"? No other inputs to the decision process?
Re: Is Pipedot now ad-supported? (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-03 10:53 (#2S0J) Because someone took the time to submit it to the pipe, and I found it interesting. If you'd like to see other types of articles, you know where the submit button is. Meanwhile, if you don't like the project, feel free not to fund it. Re: Is Pipedot now ad-supported? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-03 16:03 (#2S10) So if someone were to submit a piece about some artist you like who's trying to pay for making a new album on Kickstarter, you would post it? There have been plenty of great articles recently -- I really wouldn't expect that "because it's there" is a coherent reason for something making it to the front page of the site.Can you elaborate a bit on your editorial decision process -- is it truly as simple as "it's there, I found it interesting, so I hit the green button"? No other inputs to the decision process?
Re: Is Pipedot now ad-supported? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-03 16:03 (#2S10) So if someone were to submit a piece about some artist you like who's trying to pay for making a new album on Kickstarter, you would post it? There have been plenty of great articles recently -- I really wouldn't expect that "because it's there" is a coherent reason for something making it to the front page of the site.Can you elaborate a bit on your editorial decision process -- is it truly as simple as "it's there, I found it interesting, so I hit the green button"? No other inputs to the decision process?