Bring back Current News and Vicky the Robot! - [current.com blog]

our groups platform will be launching in the first couple weeks of July. at that point you can create groups for both "Religion" and "Celebrities."

That will sort of become unsettling, but I say.....gewd.....

it's not that we are intentionally depriving our members of what they want. the old system was not sustainable and needed to be rebuilt to be stronger.

one piece of feedback was continually made clear while Current News was on air -- people wanted to see MORE user submissions on air. we couldn't support that, so we made the decision to do what needed to be done to get there. unfortunately that involved pulling down Current News while we rebuilt the system.

the only aspect that won't return is Vicky -- which really just puts an added drain on the timing of putting more community submissions on air at one time.

in the end, this will result in more community stories on air with a variety of ways to participate in voting things onto TV in different channels on current.com.

mario
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But will they be voted on or "editor's picks"?

I agree

I agree that if it made more room for user submitted material, but the material being chosen has become the "editor's pick" which really comes off as favoritism after a certain point. That point being the editor's choosing certain topics or users to pick to be the top stories displayed. It used to be all of us, "the members" of current tv, that could vote on each and every article, and the one that had the most votes would rise to the top to be displayed on TV. Even now, after editior's have their choise of what will become the top stories, none of it is displayed on TV. That is what this posting is about; at least that is what I think.

Oh, I completely agree with you on that bit - the whole editor's pick thing really needs to go. I can understand having featured articles on the homepage, but when they bring the submitted stories back on television, they should relinquish control to the users, like it used to be.

thanks for the feedback on "editor's picks." we'll still reserve the right to feature things outside of the popularity list, however the frequency of this will rapidly slow once we get where we're going. plus, we will also call out our picks with an icon, badge, or message to be 100% clear about where we stepped in.

once we get our popularity algos dialed in for each of our top-level channels, and we start making hourly picks for TV again, the need to do editorial picks will lessen considerably.

thanks again,
mario

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