Sadly, all these limitations on media sources have made the site less interesting.
I don’t think its the people.
There simply isn’t as much content to comment on.
I think the overabundance of bloggers has also contributed.
For every significant news story, there are a dozen blog posts rehashing the same story ad nauseum. Most of them are simply long rants with poor English and bad spelling.
...Plus most people don’t know how to effectively exerpt.
We click on a story because of the interesting title. But many posters simply exerpt the story’s introduction, which rarely rarely gets to the facts of the story.
So if we want to find out what the story is about we have to go to the original source which is off site.