Machina said:
Trucks = http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/5918/truckosaurus/
Trunks = Will = http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/11871/trunkswd/ = guy who does most of the news.
The GameDB was fairly active, yeah, and when a major new game was announced there usually was a rush to be the first to get it added. It really was a great system because most of the content was easy to add even if you knew little-to-no English, it kept major entries' info up-to-date which saved staff time (for example nowadays Will and I have to check upcoming release dates every week because almost no one actively adds that data anymore), and we had some great admins/curators who'd work through the submissions accepting/rejecting them.
I do think articles is a different beast though. I like the idea in theory - because more articles submitted by more people is a good thing and the current system is very flawed - but either hardly any would be accepted because too many mistakes were made (like I said, even current writing staff often forget a bunch of the guidelines and I have to edit them to correct them) or the curators/editors would end up having to make significant edits and the job would be quite an undteraking.
Maybe it could work - if we had plenty of people wanting to be curators and to submit news. I'm honestly not sure about this one, whereas I really am convinced of the need to redesign the front page now, so if we were to have Trucks take on a big project I'd rather it was that or fixing the actual database.
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That's fair. Honestly, I'm wasn't as sure either. I only thought of the idea a few days ago as I was thinking about how a new layout might expose the problem with not having a constant stream of timely news articles.
Even if my suggestion were to come to pass, I would agree with priotizing doing the database, a potential layout change, and many of the other fixes first. No point in having a steady stream of articles coming when the page isn't layed out to take advantage of it or if people weren't used to contibuting to the site in a less demanding way yet.
