I think this is part of the problem - Even though the jgarzik stated[1] that all articles should try their best to follow the definition of Notability[2] this basically boils down to whoever is reading the news and how it interprets it. This "subject to my own opinion" argument coupled with the absence of moderation leads the sub to its current state I guess. I also think that we get to see similar news being spread in other sections of the forum, where they generate a somewhat good level of discussion, and it seems that whenever they fall in this sub users basically ignore it (most of them) - This probably already means that we've lost faith in this particular sub of the forum.

I totally understand the original purpose of it - after all in 2012 and before users would had to try really hard to find news regarding BTC - but nowadays considering the hype around it we just blink and we have dozens of websites telling us the same thing but in a different set of words. Should we perhaps limit the amount of times users are able to post in that particular sub? Per month all users would have 5 links that they could post there and to prevent double-triple-quadruple accounts I would say that only ranks above or equal to Hero would be able to post there. I know this implies coding and that may be something that wouldn't be a top priority, but other than closing the sub I don't see any more "real" action that could be done - Other than adding more mods to it considering the influx of threads it has.

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[1]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76487.0
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability