I guess there is a “Catch 22” for any frum website that is based on a commercial advertising business model. If you lean towards an exclusive chareidi “ultra-frum” target audience, there may not be a sufficient audience who use the internet (even with some filtering) to provide sufficient ad revenues. Obviously, YWN casts a wider net and attracts MO readership (and probably some other “hashfafos”) who come to the site for the timely and generally objective coverage of issues not addressed on other sites and the robust CR dicussions and debates. Its editorial standards are clear and from first-hand experience, fairly consitently and agressively applied by the editors and Mods. It ultimately comes down to the individual reader….if a photo of a woman (appropriately attired) or a story about a secular news event will be offensive, stay off the internet or patronize one of several ultra-frum websites that offer very limited coverage and perspective of matters of interest. to the large percentage of the tzibur.
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