I joined Newstrust.net this week. While I think it is a great idea in theory, I'm still not sold on its ability to work in practice. I look at it as Web 2.5. It's not only interactive for the readers but also, in a sense, against the readers. What does the bible say on this one? Judge not lest you be judged -- I'm not too sure, it's been a long time since those three years of Catholic school.
It is a complicated system of readers ranking stories and the web site ranking readers and other readers ranking each other and ranking the rankings and, whew, confused yet? I know I am. It is all in the spirit of true transparency and forcing the anonymous mob with their infinite wisdom to take responsibility for their views and biases. With the complicated premise of the site, it is imperative that the navigation be simple and clear. It's not.
Figuring out how to sign up isn't too bad but then once you do the site only shows you how to review stories. The figuring out of setting up your own profile to get your member ranking up and learning how to rank and review other users is up to you. I don't have a great answer on how they could make a clear, intuitive navigation system for the site but until they do I think this will be relegated to a really, really good idea.
At the moment, the site requires a lot of work and a lot of thought on the part of the reader, which I don't think most readers are willing to do. I'm currently trying to graduate, plan a two-moth trip abroad, find a job after graduation and training to run a marathon - spending half an hour a day ranking stories and reading reviews to decide which stories I want to read just isn't at the top of my priority list and I believe a lot of people will feel the same way.
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