| ReimTime said: 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 |
I don't understand why you'd be against it, though. I'm not suggesting that the articles compete with the threads being generated about the news.
I think the writing team is fantastic, like I said I want to be one. This wouldn't stop the writing team from "doing their thing." If anything, it would allow them to do their thing more. You said you don't read the articles for the news. That's 100% fair, but the fact of the matter is that VGC writes dozens of news articles a day regardless, and very often that news is very late.
I don't really understand how the need for editors acknowleges a bottleneck. Editor's would merely disregard copy-pasted articles. That's why they exist. They read through the articles, choose the first one of a high quality, edit and make any necessary adjustment, and then post/submit it for posting by the actual site editors. No news site tries to compete with forums. It's impossible. This is just meant to stop situations where a news article is posted here 6 hours or more after the news initially breakes. Also, this plan would have the same incentive. You'd recieve GamrPoints if your news article was selected under this system.
This is also only for news, so nothing would happen to the OC like reviews, editorials, interviews, rumors, sales analysis', etc. Writers would still do all that. This would just be a way for users to contribute to the news so that it's posted on the site in a timely manner, which is a large amount of the writing content for this site. The largest, in fact.
