Need feeback from our members

**Blacksmith1** · 08-02-2011, 02:51 PM

As I am sure you have noticed, about a month ago the news went from the daily round up and 1 to 3 or 4 pieces a week to small flood of daily pieces.
I would like our members to post some honest opinions about the content here.
suggestions of what you would like to see are also welcome.
As it stands my main guide is the number of views for each piece here in the forum. this leads me to believe that IT pieces concerning social media are popular, as are any pieces with an unusual title. but it doesn't tell me what anyone is actually taking the time to read, or what they think of it.
So, please, be honest, be brutal if you have to, but let me know what you think.

[edit]OK, to clarify, this is about the news pieces, the reviews are a separate section of the site with the exception of the daily round up, which is Victor not me.[/edit]

**Joshua_Mahr** · 08-02-2011, 02:58 PM

I check any of the reviews that have hard core facts and tests. Mostly PSU, CPU, Mobo, and MEM reviews. I also like the new tech stuff but only if its tested not predicted. Don't really care about HP articles about Voip and net. We pretty much know all that they are just bringing it to business. Stay away from biz articles thats not us here as far as I know. Ill write more as it come to me.

**James86** · 08-04-2011, 05:11 AM

I read most of the articles you post and I agree with Josh stick to the tech related articles and interesting ones

**Saryn** · 08-04-2011, 05:57 AM

I read a lot of what goes though. I don't comment on it, but I read a lot of it. Stick with tech and interesting stuff.

**ET3D** · 08-04-2011, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by Blacksmith1

As it stands my main guide is the number of views for each piece here in the forum. this leads me to believe that IT pieces concerning social media are popular, as are any pieces with an unusual title.

I imagine that many people don't go through the main page or new page, but get the news through the forum. That would make interesting titles stand out more than content or images.

**Blacksmith1** · 08-04-2011, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by James86

I read most of the articles you post and I agree with Josh stick to the tech related articles and interesting ones

Originally Posted by Saryn

I read a lot of what goes though. I don't comment on it, but I read a lot of it. Stick with tech and interesting stuff.

define interesting. what interests me may bore you , and vice versa. ok tech seems to be the most stated but if ypou look at the titles that have been viewed with 0 repiles the 2 IT stories concerning social media have a ton of veiws more than some of the tech/hardare stuff.

**ET3D** · 08-04-2011, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Blacksmith1

define interesting. what interests me may bore you , and vice versa.

There's a good likelihood that a definition of "what interests you" will be good enough. There's a good chance that things you add just because you think someone might like them are not that interesting for the readers.

Did you personally find the IT stories concerning social media interesting?

**Blacksmith1** · 08-04-2011, 07:55 PM

As a matter of fact I did, tho' not as interesting as the other stuff. I read alot of articles on internet infrastructure expansion in foreign countries also. But no one I know finds those of interest at all.... But point taken, IT isn't the focus of this site.

**Joshua_Mahr** · 08-05-2011, 02:51 PM

Black most of the Tech stuff I like.(Mostly Reviews and New upcoming Tech) But you have to remember those things will not get a lot of comments cause its new. Not all people can comment due to high tech level of articles. And if there is a really good review on a PSU or other component there is not a lot of chatter about it except for a thanks. People tend to only write things the reviewer missed. Not things they liked about the review.

**Blacksmith1** · 08-05-2011, 03:04 PM

I'm not talking about the review/article (building the quiet game machine or other how-to's) area, I'm talking about the News section under that. the new product releases, contest announcements, Software releases, and other stuff I've found like the one about the kid that died from a blood clot caused by a gaming marathon.
I'm trying to help up the overall site readership, and without knowing which articles tank, I can't decide which ones to avoid. Based on the # of views they get here in th forums the IT pieces seem to be very popular but the responses I got seem to indicate otherwise. Starting to see my dilemma?