Here's your chance to weigh in on the great Raw Story debate [View all]

[Miles Archer]

This isn't "meta discussion," this is me, once again, trying to do a temperature test in the name of doing quality posts on DU.

I'm not sure if Raw Story existed when I first became a DU member (as some of you remember I was Amerigo Vespucci before my computer died and took all of my data with it, so I became Miles Archer). What I do know is that as long as both sites have existed, I've used Raw Story as a source.

The most consistent negative feedback I've gotten is that the over-sensationalize some of their headlines, tabloid-style, and that much of their content is simply poached from more established news site, with additional commentary of varying quality.

Lately, if I see that an article was lifted from WaPo or Politico or Newsweek (as examples), I'll go to the source instead and post the original content. Other times, I'm too busy or distracted with other things and just post the Raw Story content.

So if you have an opinion on that and would like to share it, here's your opportunity. I did a similar post regarding Twitter, and since receiving your feedback, I have made an effort to post the content of the tweet as well as the link itself. That's what I'm looking for...doing posts that best serve the this community.