Doug Henwood wrote:
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> What is the point of putting up ten articles a day? Not to sound like
> an old fart or anything, but do quantity and novelty totally trump
> quality?
It's a cafeteria not a gourmet restaurant. The readers of the site make the selection they need. The editors of the site have better things to do than make fine, measured judgments of what to put on the site, what not to.
A classical principle of criticism and hermeneutics: a text is judged by the purpose which generates the decorum of the given text. Texts range from scribbled notes on bits of paper to (whatever high point you choose). A note passed to a neighbor at a lecture is not to be judged as one would an issue of PMLA or a volume of MECW.
It would be destructive if all left publications (paper or electronic) followed the same principles of selection and editing.
Carrol