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From the DetroitYES! Project [use of the ! is inconsistent]
From the about page:
The DetroitYES! Project takes on these questions by providing a setting where an audience of those who care can meet, discuss, and carry forward the evolving portrait of Detroit, far beyond the artist who started it, and guide the socially cutting edge city and region forward its uncertain future.
DISCUSS DETROIT!, the largest forum in the project, has over 41000 posts and 1900 pages (not clear yet if pages = threads in the common forum vocabulary). About 40 threads will be active on any given day. A fair number of threads reference, link to, and summarize news articles. The site is not positioned or used exclusively as an aggregator. Forum members also post original questions, commentary, and research, much of it informal.
One recent post on a police raid started with short commentary, expanded with links to local news article, analysis, and investigation: http://atdetroit.net/forum/messages/5/141046.html The aggregating function is not entirely through the explicit posting of news articles. The forum is a central location for news topic from many sources, including neighborhoods, alternative media producers, and personal experiences.