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Wednesday 17 February 2016 16:53 GMT
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indy100 isn't like most news sites. That list of stories, numbered from 1 to 100? The order isn't set by us - it's not a list of what our editors think is important. The article at No 1 isn't our top story, it's your top story. The journalists at indy100 write all the articles, devise all the quizzes, and process all the data as maps and charts, but the readers are the ones with the real power.

See the red 'upvote' button on each article? Click it to make it green and you'll help to send the story to the top of the list. If you share the story, read it, or post a comment, up it rises. Why? Because we are putting you in charge.

Because indy100 is from The Independent you can still trust us to take our facts very seriously (even the funny ones). Some of the stories will have been inspired by the brilliant work in The Independent. Most will be from the crack team of indy100 journalists.

Either way, you can trust it - spend a few minutes on the site, whether clicking on the stories in the list or just scrolling down from one article straight into another, and you'll know what's happening in the world - good news and bad. It's serious stuff. You just don't always have to be so serious about it.

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    1. Comment by buckeye.

      I just read an article about a re-emerging lake in California. It disappeared more than a 100 years ago and "reporter" Harriet Brewster knows why. It happened, "thanks largely to the greed of colonialists, who drained its waters to create arable farmland."

      Harris believes that the settlers of long ago were greedy and didn't care about the environment. I suppose, she's right. They were clearly less enlightened that the progressive folks who have drained, well, just about every river and lake in the West to make room for massive housing developments in North American deserts.

      And yeah, the folks who gave us that modern phenomenon called "smog" have every right to look down on folks who performed physical labor to feed their families and provided food for their communities.

      Yeah, the people who drove horses across the continent are morally inferior to the folks who travel in private jets to Davos.

      I won't even comment on the bias apparent in this "news article." Harris is a modern day, activist reporter. Her bias is expected. Far superior to the journalists of yesteryear.

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