[abcd_f]

What a brainfart of a comment. You are missing the point completely.

Facebook isn't a publishing platform. Apple didn't undermine its best feature in existing product by introducing iPod.

[argonaut]

What an unnecessarily mean-spirited comment. Did you really need to say your first sentence?

That being said, maybe you're missing the point. Maybe svbtle wants to be a mainstream publishing platform and is just bootstrapping its initial user culture by curating the users. Maybe not.