An LWN status update [LWN.net]

An LWN status update

Posted Sep 29, 2005 9:44 UTC (Thu) by ikm (guest, #493)
Parent article: An LWN status update

A one week old content is already sufficiently old enough to not fully satisfy just anyone. Old news are not news. Increasing to two weeks would only alienate non-subscribers, but won't do no good. This is similar to lowering one's salary in hopes that one would do better because of that. That never works -- it only gets people angry and lowers their incentive further.

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An LWN status update

Posted Oct 1, 2005 23:04 UTC (Sat) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link] (1 responses)

Most of the week-old content isn't news; it's analysis and reviews. It's not really getting stale in that week period.

An LWN status update

Posted Oct 3, 2005 14:54 UTC (Mon) by ikm (guest, #493) [Link]

Still, it's analysis and views mostly in response to the current events; besides, when you know it's a week old, you don't really care -- it's OLD regardless -- some people have already read it before you week ago :) Well, at least it's what I feel, and people tend to care about what they feel :)