Editorials & Other Articles needs to be a main forum!

[highplainsdem]

21. You must have missed this in the OP:

Perhaps even the GD Statement of Purpose could be altered to discourage the posting of editorials and other articles in GD.

This will create more work for the people hosting the main forums. In LBN, they already have to lock duplicates, news more than 12 hours old, and articles that are more analysis/opinion than news.

And "real, important stories" often break on TV faster than in print.

Yes, threads can sink quickly in GD when something important happens and a lot of people are reacting to it. That's because it's a community interested in what's happening, and responding to it. It makes sense to keep latest breaking news in one forum. It makes less sense to silo off a selection of articles and commentary that could have been published at almost any time and are there in E&OA because someone found them interesting.

I don't think making E&OA a main forum will add to discussion here. It's more likely to fragment activity and result in a lot of DUers missing those editorials and other articles completely. If they're important or interesting enough, they belong in GD where more people will see them. And if you want them in E&OA because they won't sink as quickly there...well, the only reason they wouldn't sink as quickly there is the lack of activity.