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Originally Posted by billborden
I understand your point, in part, but--by limiting thing to Japanese only links--you are cutting out a large (I would say the largest) portion of the users of this thread from adding anything. As you have said yourself, you have less and less time to spend on this, and I imagine that many of the other seniors are in the same position. Limiting the pool of contributors when the mainstays are able to spend less time researching doesn't make sense to me. Also, I have always seen this thread as an aggregate of what is out there. Yes, I could check all the English language sites myself, but real-life limits that. With a broad-spectrum of people bring their info here, we all benefit. There are enough users here to weed out the false leads, and fill in the questions once the info gets here, but if we're limited to Japanese only sources, that puts the onus of all the original research on those few members who can understand them. And, I'm very sorry to say that, while reading written Japanese may be "a fine skill to have",I'm comfortable saying it's not a practical option for the majority of readers.
And I don't really think you need to worry about staying competitive. I've yet to find another site near as complete as this thread has been--hell, this thread is the reason I became a member in the first place.
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NeoSam has a point there. This thread needs an identity of its own. It doesn't have to have its own site. But at least, let it have its own credibility of being a first hand source straight from Japanese sources.
I think NeoSam imagined of turning this thread into something
MoonPhase like, which is where he took most of his information from. It might be awesome if we have the people to do it.
