Cnet, please consider moving Natali back to once a week.

I was trying to add to the sentiment that I do not feel that Natali is a good fit for this show. The user name choice should have probably been 'I2ndthat_No4Natali', but the viewpoint of the post remains the same.

So I caught up to where people were at with this thread, and while I still don't completely agree, I can at least see where they're coming from.

Natali does often have a negative undertone to much of what she's saying, but I wonder how much of that is just the New Yorker coming out. Same with the fact that she always has to one-up things other people say; which could just be a deep rooted effect of trying to fit in to the show and gain peer approval.

Still though.. Honestly, I think it's just nice to imagine how cute she is when she's speaking, rare to find a tech enthusiast like her.

Yeah but you don't listen to Rafe for the information/opinions, you primarily listen to him for his comic-appeal and wild rants.

Still though.. Tong is the comic master.

Sorry, I never could stand Molly. She was why I stopped listening for a year. A rant is only meaningful if you have your basic facts right. Too often, she didn't.

Where are you getting your numbers from?

In the show, for yesterday, she did a much better job interacting with other when she had the person from the 404 in the booth with her. She still isn't able to talk about tech very well. She seemed happier to talk about dancing than the tech stories.

Like I said, she could be good on a podcast, but I don't think she has the passion and knowledge of tech to be on Cnet. She'll be an on TV personality on CNN or MSNBC later, but I bet she doesn't stay in tech, because that doesn't seem to be a love of hers.

...she was using the fact that she couldn't fix her computer to avoid and interrupt almost every story.

*sigh*

Most likely that 404 gut set up remote desktop as a prank.
Nobody could ignore that.

Seriously, the 404 is an ok pocast and being in sales I understand the benefit of cross-selling but can we tone down the 404 references just a smidge?

You too, have just promoted the 404.

Please stop reading Balls_Maximus' forum posts, they are filled with lies, and are potentially hazardous to your health.

Read at your own risk.

Nothing personal against Natali, but the show has become terminally boring since she became co-host . Nothing is going to change that. not more time, not more half-a-chances. We need a host is up to the job from day one.
That's my opinion. Kwahhn has a different opinion but he is starting to sound like a paid public relations person. I'm not saying he actually is, just that his post are indistinguishable from what a snide PR person would say.
I encourage those who would like to see Natali replaced to continue to let their voices be heard.

There's a small number of people, cross-posting and creating new threads which say the same thing, making unsupported allegations which are mostly extremely subjective, and then saying, "Look, there's a whole bunch of posts saying there's a problem so there must be a problem". The fact that a number of people (I suspect they are the actual "large majority" that was referenced earlier) simply do not bother to reply to the irrational flaming because they prefer not to roll in the mud even to argue against an unjust attack. For this group to take the silence as proof that they support their tiny but squeaky minority is sad.

The fact that Kwahhn is quixotic-enough to try to talk rationally to people who are apparently deeply enjoying their own irrationality is something that he might want to look at, but it is all to his credit that he is taking the time to speak up.

I found it very interesting that your last sentence was not a call for a real debate, but just for those who support your position to speak up.

There's a better way to vent your frustrations with the change rather than calling Natali an "annoying babbling head" or "she makes my ears bleed" (just to name a few). Those are the types of posts I'm against.

It's unfortunate that some of you do not approve of the change but you are entitled to you opinions but please convey those opinions in a respectful manner.

CNET, I'm awaiting my check. kthnxbai.

Saving the show? Listen, I have been here longer than just about any of you, have been a listener since the beginning. The show, in my veteran opinion, is as good as always, if not better.

If you don't happen to like Natali's style, that is fine, but don't project your personal feeling out to the rest of the BOL fans, as if there is some significant trend.

Natali is smart, funny and does, indeed, have an edge to her. I think folks get so easily fooled by the good looks and softer voice into thinking that she, herself, is soft.

Tom and Molly.
Tom, Molly and Veronica.
Tom, Molly and Jason.
Tom, Molly, Jason and guest.
Tom, Natali, Jason and guest (including Molly).

It is not as if the show has never changed, and it is not as if the show has been weakened by these changes.

Yeah, that charity 1-up thing was just childish on Nats part. It totally stole Tom and Mollys thunder for what they were doing.

Plus Nat couldn't resist talking about twitter. She was starting to have withdrawals.

Molly and Tom have a $250 bid for their chat session. Great going guys!!!
We love you guys.

Replying to myself because I can't edit my original post, but just wanted to say that like a few people I've seen, I'm a longtime listener who registered just today for the first time specifically to see if other people were missing Molly and to voice my opinion on that too. I think the main difference between Molly and all the other new people is that the former seemed really excited to be on BoL and to have put some thought into the show in between episodes, whereas the new people seem to convey an attitude of "welp this is just another thing I do during the day".

I feel like the quality of the average poster on the BOL forum has gone down considerably lately. Maybe it's just that I miss intelligent observations.

I'm not even sure why the Natali haters even bother me, since I know that these crybabies are only acting out because they miss Molly.

Okay, seriously? These anti-Natali threads are past stupid. Get over it, she's the official host along with Tom, if you don't like it, don't listen.

The people reposting these threads are children: grow up, already. Not only do they upset the community, but I guarantee you they upset the BOL crew. Molly said as much on the show: knock it off already.

BOL is jumping the shark.

Agreed. I think (as others have stated) that the main issue here is that Natali is not Molly. Molly was burnt out. Raising a kid and writing and hosting 7+ shows per week is hard people and I get the feeling she didn't think she was being enough of a family person (though this is pure speculation) at the same time if your job was becoming too much for you wouldn't you change it. Molly also by the looks of it wants to do something new. She's been doing BOL every weekday for 4 years - take a look at your local news or any other daily show a lot of people don't last that long and for those people it is their only job.
I like Natali but there is no question that she is going to change the dynamic of the show for the very simple reasons that she is not Molly and is 3000 miles away from the rest of the hosts (on a sidenote any time she has been in SF in the past I think her performance has improved. Presenting from a windowless box on your own every day can't be easy). Natali is possibly a softer, less ranty personality than Molly but that is who she is. She is a perfectly accomplished tech reporter and good at her job.
On a last not everyone's hating on Natali's going off topic confuses me. From past chat sessions and the like I remember the best BOL's being when they went deep down a rat-hole. Yesterday's programme was among the best I've heard in the last few weeks.