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Non Photo Realistic Quake
Nick G Superstar writes "From the site: 'NPRQuake attempts to capture the elements of different drawing techniques, and immerse the viewer in worlds drawn entirely in the prescribed style. If you have ever imagined running around inside a painting or a drawing, you are beginning to get the idea.' Warning: the site is slow." Update Remember this story
when we first ran it? Hemos doesn't. Obviously he was a bit pre-occupied this morning. Wonder why.
What is going on? Where is *any* evidence of 'news' in the item? Where does it say 'Yesterday, NPRQuake was announced' or 'Congratulations, NPRQuake has hit revolutionary milestone which will change the face of technology'? There isn't any evidence of this item even attempting to be news. And this is probably a good thing, because there isn't any respect in which it *is* news. For one thing, this site has even been featured on Slashdot before, and therefore by definition would have to have something major happen before it could be news on this site...
People all say 'That's why I've gone to K5', but the reason I haven't abandoned Slashdot whilst also reading K5 is that K5 actually isn't trying to do the same thing, and I don't see it as somewhere where I can get all my tech news. I don't necessarily agree with the calls for a user moderated queue, but part of the reason for that is that Slashdot used to be vaguely user moderated - if people hadn't bothered to submit an article, or had been rejected, after a few days of its publish, it never went up. This is no longer the case, and we frequently have people asking why something six months old was posted.
Come on! Surely one advantage of paid editors rather than user sustainability is that the editors can be expected to check out for a second the sources, preview links, etc. before posting, and do a simple archive search to determine if it actually is *news*...