# Discourse News Aggregator Plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-news-aggregator-plugin/127269
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 31, 2019, 8:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-news-aggregator-plugin/127269 "2019-08-31T08:24:45Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-news-aggregator-plugin/127269/4 "2019-09-01T00:37:22Z")

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In general this is a very risky strategy for a community since (if automated from some external news source) you are basically spamming your forum with auto-generated topics. This will quickly inundate your site with low value topics that have no replies.

The organic community based way to do this is either:

- Curate the news and post topics based on what you (or a core of power users / editors) think is interesting, whole sites are based on this strategy such as [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net).

or

- Have an active community that already posts topics, and wait for the community to post topics about interesting news events themselves, or otherwise encourage them to do so

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