Relevance of news stories!
Creating a competition is a good idea to get more people posting about news stories, but I think the primary problem is that the news stories are generally not interesting! For example, Telewest tops UK broadband providers.... ok, that is interesting if I have shares in the company or I live in a region where Telewest provides an ISP service, but so what? The site is supposed to be for PC enthusiast information. Primarily I would imagine that is games, hardware, and new technologies on the horizon. maybe it's just me, but I just feel that many of the stories that get posted are generally not exciting enough to discuss. Also, the competition will probably not increase activity on the site after it ends because the fundamental problems will remain.
Creating a competition is a good idea to get more people posting about news stories, but I think the primary problem is that the news stories are generally not interesting! For example, Telewest tops UK broadband providers.... ok, that is interesting if I have shares in the company or I live in a region where Telewest provides an ISP service, but so what? The site is supposed to be for PC enthusiast information. Primarily I would imagine that is games, hardware, and new technologies on the horizon. maybe it's just me, but I just feel that many of the stories that get posted are generally not exciting enough to discuss. Also, the competition will probably not increase activity on the site after it ends because the fundamental problems will remain.