@cuimhne, Exactly!
N-rama occupies such an amazing niche. Sacrifice that for convenience?!

Since this was posted (around midnight, Saturday night) there have only been two Queubot posts in twelve hours. It seems that Neatorama management has witnessed the fury of its user base and modified its approach.
I love you again Neatorama. Good compromise to limit the posts. Keep it up.

There seems to be two camps.

1. Apologists who trust blindly in neatorama management decision making.
2. and "SHUT IT DOWN!"

By opening up the front page to user submitted content (even housed in blog format), neatorama is opening itself up to problems that plague sites like digg.com.
Example: From time to time users will submit content, then lobby their friends to press the Neat button. There may be no such thing (yet) as ‘power users’ on neatorama, but with the upcoming queue determining front page content, there’s bound to be manipulation.
I think I've witnessed this a few times.

@Paul, I think you're being overly optimistic. By 'evolving' and undergoing 'change', neatorama is at a serious risk of losing its niche that could quickly be replaced by other quality sites like boingboing. I'd rather see us adopt one of their strategies of allowing 'guest bloggers' to post quality content.

@Dan/rellimz Thanks for posting this. The site is changing and users should talk about those changes on the front page.

Neatoroma, quantity over quality? Not so neat.

@sw
From the website:
"Took 2nd place in Round 1 of the Master of the Macabre contest."
Link to actual contest is here:
http://www.projectbreakout.com/shortfilm2/

I need to follow up by saying my previous post is based on a big assumption!
Maybe people thought this was actually neat, but given my own reaction, I thought there was foul play afoot.

By opening up the front page to user submitted content (even in blog format), neatorama is opening itself up to problems that plague sites like digg.com.

From time to time users will submit content, then lobby their friends to press the Neat button. There may be no such thing as 'power users' on neatorama, but with the upcoming queue, there's bound to be manipulation.

What about the risk of breaking the glass on your first break?

See also:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1638620095847449258&ei=B--HSavaAoLorgKShO38Cg&q=harvard+biovisions&hl=en

This seems like a good reason to not eat cows.