Gametab's grand social experiment seems to have floundered a bit. Those of you who use the gaming news tabulator, and everyone who likes gaming should, probably noticed the addition of a news nexus a few weeks back.

The idea was to allow the everyday reader to post their own gaming news stories and have the readers pick which ones they like the best to create a sort of top ten list. It's a fantastic idea that both huge (1 Up) and teeny (RedAssedBaboon) sites are or have played around with.

Monday, the Gametab folks apparently decided to pull it from their site and give it a space of its own. The new site, Pikuru (the only gaming site with a worse name then Kotaku), will be 100 percent community-based news system.

I both love and hate this system. On the one hand I've long held that the point of blogging is to remove the walls between the reader and the writer, but on the other hand I still want there to be a wall. This is mostly because I have a fragile ego and like to feel special.

Go check out Pikuru and see what it's like to write for a soon to be huge site.

Pikuru [Pikuru]