Should VGC Have User Submitted News Articles?

[Slarvax]

spemanig said:

Slarvax said:
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...

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.

Well, I just see it on the technical way. Let's say that there's a whole section (Mini forum?) for writers. We submit drafts or pending news/articles/reviews there. We also have bios, upload pictures to a media database to use on the articles, we have to upload other pictures to the article to make banners, etc... All those things are locked behind the "Writer" privileges. 

Now, what you want to do seems... complicated. You would have to give every user access to some of those things without interfering the writer-exclusive priviliges. You would have to seperate the mini forum to "User submitted news" and "writer submitted news". The media database would also have to be separated. There would have to be guidelines for every user to follow, and I highly doubt we can trust on everyone to follow them (well, this can be fixed during editing).

I don't know much on the case, but it seems like a lot of work on the Administrators side.