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Regarding "how to train your dragon". We anticipate that you would Google for it, and that you would find your way to Captain Critic, see some of his other reviews, have a read of them. The next time you look for reviews you see the same thing, and before long you just decide to sign up for RSS.

Then you notice some good comments in the RSS (we'll be sending the top comments with the feed). One day, one of them provokes you so much ("How dare they say that about the matrix") that you click the reply link and let him know your opinion.

And so on. Its not about newstilt, its about the journalist. You like his movie reviews, you'll come back next time. We're giving the journalist everything they need in terms of services to make it happen.

Thanks for explaining. Be interesting to know how many people use RSS. I've never got into it FWIW. If I really loved a review I would of course bookmark the site and pop back every so often though.

I do think a narrower focus would make building a community easier though.

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