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heh...no, by "overkill" i mean i think it would be more of what we already have enough of. i don't think we need this blog and a newsletter. our daily lives are already overloaded with information; i personally don't want one of my favorite gaming sites to start bombarding me with information as well. i'm already overwhelmed by having a new blog entry i have to deal with every day when i log in (it would be nice to be able to hide that blog banner at the top of the main page so those of us who don't want to be bombarded with information could just forget brainking.info exists until we choose to go read it - a new news entry every single day is too much for me). i personally wouldn't subscribe to a newsletter if you started producing one. brainking is a great gaming site, but it's not my life, and my life throws more information at me than i can keep up with as it is. i don't need my gaming sites throwing any more information at me.

you seem to love information, with the brainking.info site and that "press monitoring" link you instituted and all that, and that's just fine - for people who are as into information as you are. but some of us aren't. some of us are just stressed out by too much information; our personal lives give us enough to think about without the distraction of a bunch of outside sources yammering to us about what's going on everywhere else. i understand and respect that some people want that, but i hope the point will never come where those of us who don't want all that news and outside information will be unable to escape it while at brainking.

sounds good. regarding the news announcements, i guess i'm just over-picky - i'd like to go to brainking and have my games and my fellowships and that's it - for everything else (except really important announcements that you have to know about in order to play on the site) to be hidden behind the links menu or on brainking.info where we can seek it out if we want it but don't have to see it if we don't. because those blog entry banners exert a subtle pressure on the user: your only choices are to go to brainking.info to read the latest post, or wonder if you're missing something really important. i'd prefer that those banners only appeared maybe once every couple of weeks, in the case of something really vital happening, and that all the smaller "what's new" updates and news-bits went into into the blog but were not announced on the main page. it's just not necessary that i know about every single tweak that's made to the site; the ones that affect me i can stumble upon in my use of the site and be surprised and delighted and go to the discussion boards and say, "yeah! go, Fencer!"...but i don't like feeling pressured to either look at brainking.info every single day or wonder what you felt was worth announcing because i clicked "remove" without reading the entry.

basically, i'd like a spam filter. someone or something that will separate the really important, vital announcements from the non-vital ones and pass the vital ones on to me while shielding me from the rest...because to my mind, the rest are just that: spam. there's a new piece of spam at the top of my main page every day now and i find that annoying.