After a short break, the letters page is back!
And, er, you’ve been asking us difficult questions…
Gah.
Best laid plans, right?
And youve ben asking us more tricky questions.
That we have tried to answer.
Right here, in fact.
I [nice things redacted] Den Of Geek, and have done for a long time.
Its [nice things redacted] site out there and I [nice things redacted] every day.
I do have a question though.
Whats with these long news articles with lots of updates on them?
Cant we just have one individual news article for each story?
It was much easier to comment on.
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Carry on being [nice things redacted].
Youre far better than [best redact this bit too].
Peter
Simon replies:Thanks Peter.
We think youre [nice things redacted].
Im going to give you all the facts, and then talk through why we do what we do.
We moved to the longer news aggregation format for two reasons.
Firstly, it tends to be more actively looked for by people coming into the site.
Secondly, in truth, it brings more readers in for exactly the same piece of material.
The bare statistics are that more people have been reading round-ups than individual articles.
Hopefully that explains what weve been up to.
Hello Den of Geek!
Do I think your sites any good?!
Anyway, diving right in.
I know its been touched on before but I wanted to brooch the subject of TV reviews.
Case in point being the latest incarnation ofHeroes.
Its a show I think I want to watch.
Season one of Heroes has to be one of the most outstanding TV shows in the last 20 years.
So, now Im in the predicament of do I watch it or not?
So when I seen you did a review I was like Yes!
However, your review contains spoilers so I cant read it yet.
They already know if they like it do most people care if you do?
However Id trade those [redacted] articles (sorry writer!!)
for a spoiler-freeWalking Deadreview as I could then use it at work to build on my anticipation/excitement.
Anyway keep up the….hmmm…work.
Just work I wont say whether or not I think its any good.
Much love!StJohn82
Louisa writes:Thanks for getting in touch.
This is a tricky one.
A universal experience we can all relate to, there.)
Its sort of down to what you see as the purpose of a TV episode review.
Itd be more clear-cut if we reviewed vacuum cleaners on the site.
Our role then would be to steer consumers towards buying the best-functioning machine and avoiding a dud.
Because its TV and not appliances, though, its obviously a more subjective, complicated game.
That said, well put our heads together and see what we can come up with!
Firstly, and I know you hate this, but [redacted].
Are there any plans to make your site responsive in the near future?
Thanks, and again, [redacted].
John Barker
Simon writes:A quick answer to your question: yes.
If that makes sense.
yo let me know.
Were always on the lookout for new writers, new ideas, and things we havent thought of.
Firstly, were not paying much, in truth.
But we do our best.
We do appreciate, incidentally, the number of people who offer us work for free.
That you should get something for it if its benefitting someone else.
But that notwithstanding, send a sample of two of your work, and your pitches.
We promise, genuinely, not to rip your pitches off.
Lordy, were knackered after all the grown-up responses weve had to do there.
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