Sounds fine, especially as new articles will still be listed on the home page and:
“Removing a left nav link will remove an exit click that doesn’t currently provide any contextually or categorically relevant articles useful for our readership.”

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Will you still be able to see recently approved articles in each category?

I like to keep track of what other people are writing in categories I work with, and I generally use Google Reader for that.

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George,

Yes.

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Effective changes usually work well once we all get used to them. I’ve used the link to see what’s coming on in new articles (generally listed), but it isn’t really a necessary link to click.

I actually prefer to click on the specific topic to see what’s up top.

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I think you should get rid of it for the reasons you stated. It’s irrelevant.

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I never even realized it was there, so it really won’t bother me one way or another, but your reasons sound perfectly valid to me, especially since they are available through other ways. Plus, anything that lessens ’scrapers’ is a plus to me.

Love and stuff,
Michy

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U r the “guru” u know what is right. Do it since it doesnt prevents us from viewing latest approved articles. i went through it a couples of times and it was quite useful.

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It’s been decided to shut down this effective today.

All of the categories and all of our expert authors will continue to have their XML/RSS feeds working.

All that is being shut down is the RECENTLY APPROVED ARTICLES feed and page.

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I assumed that page was a search engine strategy giving time for the search engines to pick up new content? But if it is being used by scrapers, then axe’ing it makes sense now.

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