Yep, formerly Racer-X. What you're saying is right. The biggest problem right now is a very archaic moderation system (requiring approvals for stories to be pushed to the front). Most of the approvals only come about by friends of site owners or even site owners making multiple accounts. Poor quality articles have also been a huge problem because of the influx of contributors from countries like India, Pakistan, etc, where their first language isn't English. Of course the killer is the sourcing rule. I think a lot of smaller, decent English based blogs have left TechSpy because of that. I guess all blogs have to start somewhere even if it means basing their stories on other posts, right?

TechSpy unfortunately doesn't have a huge user base like N4G, so convincing people to actually post here has always been a challenge with these major stumbling blocks.

Thankfully all these problems will be alleviated later this year. I know I said in the past that the new site should have been live by now, but delays and delays have set back the timeline.

@Speed-Racer Though, I agree that filtering out poor quality articles is a huge problem but you should refrain from defaming one country as not all people of a country are same, I am from India also and though our first language isn't English, some people here can speak and write English very fluently and can articulate each word with great precision. "Writing" is a skill, NOT some "patent" own by one or two countries so I think anyone from any country with the right talent and right skill should be able to deliver a fine article written in English.

@Devil - The thing is, I'm not assuming. I can see where every user is posting from, and sadly what I mentioned earlier is the case. I'm not blanketing those two countries, but it just happens to be where at least 90% of troubled articles pop out from.