Wait, I'm a bit confused as to what youre saying. I'm sorry. Could you please clarify a bit?

I'm honestly content with the mega threads we currently have and the news spread between them along with the news sometimes going from one Mega thread to it's own forum topic.

Yes, if done correctly, it could work out really well, but it all depends on whether users will be willing to contribute to this either as an editor or a normal poster that adds in news bits

I'm not saying we should do away with any of that. No matter how many news articles are written, there will never be a better place to discuss the news than in the forums. But I do think that we'd be turning a bling eye to a lot of the site's potential if we didn't steer that passion and focus that into something that could drive more viewership. I don't think that user submitted news articles would take away from the mega threads, threads posting news articles, user review threads, etc., at all.

Since you feel that the site is different now, do you also think that the as it once was Game DB wouldn't work anymore because of that difference, or is it a different situation there?

I mean, I'm sure everyone is. Even I am, but that's not really what this is trying to address.

It's more trying to address the issue of news articles being posted in a timely manner. That's really difficult to achieve the way things are now, and it isn't really anyone's fault. It's just an issue of circumstance. There's obviously a desire to have news articles, or else we wouldn't be paying people to write them, so I can't imagine anyone is particularly pleased with the situation. I feel bad whenever I see Will post like a dozen articles withing the span of like 2 hours because he's trying to catch up with news he probably couldn't get to because all the writers are posting this stuff in their spare time, so I was suggesting this as a way to alleviate most of this.

Like I said to Spurge, I don't think this would effect the Mega Threads at all, because those serve a completely different purpose than this does.

Yeah, that would really be the most important part. I know I'd be more than willing to be an editor for a program like this, and seeing how many game DB admins we have on this site makes me believe that there are probably others who share this feeling. As for users submitting actual news, I can only speak for myself. I would be inclined to submit a few if the option was there, but I'm not sure who else would feel the same. I do know that if, under my proposed layout change, I came to VGC and saw news somewhere else on Pokemon Sun/Moon that I didn't see an article about here yet, I'd want to immediately submit something, but that's just me.

Trucks said that the incentive for Game DB was VG$, so there would hopefully be a similar incentive here, and hopefully that would work.

Well... VGC does take its time to publish news.
The biggest problem would be how to make it work. Just looking at how Writers write stuff, it seems like it would take a lot of work for Trucks to do.
Oh actually... yeah, it seems really hard. It's because of the way the site is built, and the "Writers section". And I dont even know what Machina and/or the rest of the team think on it...

Personally I'm against it. We have the forums to copypasta articles from other sites and then argue about them. Plus we volunteer for thread creation and actually have an incentive to do it (GamrPoints).
Plus the need for editors acknowledges a bottleneck. By the time the editors get through the vast volume of material they receive there will already be a relevant thread up. This is assuming the contributors are paraphrasing and not copy/pasting.
I say let the writing team do their thing. The OC we have been getting from them is pretty good IMO (reviews and other interesting insights), and the sales analyses from Will are nice. I may be alone in this but I don't read the articles for the news - no offense to anybody but it will always come to the threads quicker and in relative quality. Way she goes

How so? I was actually hoping to get a writer's perspective on this.

Again, I want to make it clear that I don't think it's anyone's fault that the news doesn't always come out in a timely manner. I'm not trying to blame anyone. I think it's a tragedy of circumstance.

I was hoping that mod-approved volenteer editors of the same ilk as the Game DB Admins would help alleviate the difficulty of implementation. This way all of the user submitted articles would all be of a level of quality by default, meaning that no one would need to pick up the slack as much.

Don't we sort of get news threads mades daily? At least when there is new news posted. It may be directly copied, but I feel there is usually news posted on the site.