Brutha: Thanks again for your thoughtful responses. The posts you highlight are not very representative of the content on the site, so yeah, I think a fresh look might be in order. Most of the posts these days are original essays; the posts you highlighted are older posts that follow more of a "lifehacker" model, which works for lifehacker.com, I guess, but that I don't find all that useful.
Still, the idea of integrating our semi-regular writer's forums into ours is appealing -- like you said, if they don't have the traffic to build critical mass on their own, it might be a real benefit.
I agree that it's probably a good idea to make a clean break, but it may not be something I can do. I will definitely bring some of these ideas up with the rest of the lifehack.org crew, though.
Thanks for your time and thoughts -- I appreciate it!
--Dustin |