| RolStoppable said: I wonder what the process for hiring writers has been. Take Jake Weston for example who is probably the writer that receives the most criticism. He has no posting history on our forums, so he must have proven himself somewhere else before, otherwise it's just hard to imagine how he got a job as a writer. You don't just make anyone a writer for your website after all. But most of his articles suggest that if anything, he got fired whereever he worked before. It starts with blatant spelling errors and ends with trying to put square stones into round holes to fit an obvious agenda. But the real problem is that there doesn't seem to be any instance of control. On paper, there is an editor-in-chief, but it's doubtful that articles need to be approved before they get posted. In the case of editorials there is no rush to get them up within a few hours, so someone proofreading them to catch at least the most glaring errors certainly isn't too much to ask for. Instead the best we can hope for is the line "this editorial is one man's opinion and doesn't represent the views of the entire staff". This shouldn't be used as an excuse to post whatever someone feels like at any given time, because it reflects poorly on the staff as a whole regardless of the disclaimer. There's a difference between differing, but valid opinions on a given subject and outright lies or ignorance. |
I do agree that there should be more of an editing process for these opinion articles, just to make sure that there aren't any spelling errors and to check for any obvious inconsinstencies in what's written, similar to what we do with reviews, but what many are calling for is for some of these articles to just get denied at face value and I'm not a fan of that. Even an unpopular opinion like Sony is the next Nintendo or Nintendo's Arrogance (articles I knew would get all kinds of crap from our community) should be allowed to be published, just have to be read through to make sure there's nothing obviously wrong about the supporting evidence and to check for silly spelling/grammar errors.
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