Furthermore, this is a major and controversial design change experiment which should have been approached in a less autocratic way. Why not have an opinion poll? And no, those two locked-at-23-posts for/against threads don't cut it. Now for my more biased views. The opposition to cover models has reared it's ugly little head every now and then for goodness alone knows what reason, but has always been shut down in the past, what has changed? Besides, over the years various PCF editors have emphatically stated that the cover babes are not going anywhere and most of us don't want them to either. The only viable reason for getting rid of the models that I can think of is that some of them may be slightly too scantily-clad to be suitable for younger readers, but assuming that was even an issue in the first place, it would most likely have been dealt with by either covering the models up or getting rid of them years ago.
PCF is my favourite pc magazine, but a few months ago I picked up a copy of NAG and found it to be very interesting and informative with very well-written articles and great features. I was surprised, since I'd been led to believe that NAG was rubbish, but in fact it is better than PCF in some ways and they tend to have fewer spelling errors and typos (sorry guys, gotta be honest here). Your cover models are what give you an edge over your competition and make your magazines stand out on the shelves and without them you'd be just another pc mag. I'm sure most of us readers are willing to concede that this month's cover was just one of those "losing-the-plot brain explosions" that happen from time to time and forget it ever happened
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As for the anti-cover models squad, you presumably buy the magazine to read the computer and games content, so why exactly do the cover girls bother you so much anyway? On second thoughts I don't want to know, unless you have a valid reason like the one I listed some lines above, rather take it up with your shrink. Put another way, it's not so much a question of why the cover models should stay as why they should go, enough said
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P.S. Please please please let things go back to normal next month...