As other people are saying, this is a massive problem with facebook's algorithm. Since there is no downvote, you have no way of saying you did or didn't like a specific type of article.
Now, second to that there's the problem that our own community was upvoting the shit out of this stuff. I think the attraction was in kind of a satirical mixed with car-wreck sort of concept where it was so horrible yet you couldn't help yourself but reading it and upvoting it. Even though Gus with those puppies fucking pissed you off, for some reason you cared that Taylor Swift mentioned him on E. Hell... I know that as much as I want to cut my eyes out for seeing that I gave a shit in a big way.
What is REALLY horrifying for me is the fact that we DID have original content. We had a guy at the Olympics - a guy who made it there because he ranked as our top features journalist over the last year - and he was writing his heart out. He got paid, and as a matter of fact, sending him was our single largest editorial expense we have ever spent on a single event.
He wrote these articles:
https://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/44179/Freeskiing-Olympic-Qualification-Explained?c=latest&o=2
https://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/44438/Sochi-From-the-Inside?c=latest&o=2
https://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/44454/Olympic-Slopestyle-Redeemed?c=latest&o=2
https://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/44479/A-Day-to-Remember-in-Sochi?c=latest&o=2
https://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/44509/A-Ski-Day-in-Sochi?c=latest&o=2
https://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/44532/Olympic-Ski-Halfpipe-Preview?c=latest&o=2
https://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/44559/Sochi-Men-s-Halfpipe-Qualification-Results?c=latest&o=2
https://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/44561/My-Crappy-Photos-from-Pipe-Qualis?c=latest&o=2
https://www.newschoolers.com/membernewsread/44573/How-I-Almost-Got-Thrown-Out-of-Halfpipe-Finals?c=latest&o=2
AND he's still writing more. These are fucking artwork, and Ethan is a quality journalist.
A massive problem is the nasty habit that people have gotten into, which is getting all your ski content from facebook. The shit that does well there is the completely sensationalized bullshit that your average monkey could get into. Its fucking garbage, yet people hang out there and stop going to sites directly to get their content. Its like a bad heroin addiction or something.
If everyone who complained about the news coming on facebook just stopped trying to get their ski news from facebook - even unliked us - and just upvoted the good news they see here and downvoted the shitty stuff... then as skiers we'd have a great place where we can see both internally created news, and good stuff from around the internet.
That is what we're trying to do here. We're trying to give you one place you can go and get your fill of all the best stuff out there on the internet that matters to a skier just like you.
The funny part about all of this though, is that both idiots and core skiers alike have never paid as much attention to what we're doing as they did during the Olympics. We've had record traffic, record new users and record amounts of people re-activating their old accounts.
So whatever kind of horrifying bullshit Gus was doing with puppies, Goepper was doing to teenage girls everywhere or Joss was slaying whatever.... you people fucking loved it. The numbers sadly don't lie.
I don't get it... or maybe I do.
Anyway, bottom line is support the good content with upvotes, and downvote the shit.