Should VGC Have User Submitted News Articles?

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spemanig said:

Yeah, everything you way seems in line with what I'm suggesting... Sort of.

When it comes to back end, what I'm suggesting is, like you say, a separate "mini-forum" for user submitted news articles. That "forum" would have all the strict guidelines the users must follow to be considered clearly stated. Once submitted, they would be curated by the "Editor Admins," or the mod-approved volenteer editors who exclusively read through this stuff. They'd read the submitted articles, choose one once there is an article of high quality, edit it as per usual, and then submit that for the actual site editors to approve for publishing on the site.

As for bios and the like, the user submitted articles and the writer specific articles would be very differently labely, much like on buzzfeed. It would be clear immediately just by the thumbnail if it was user generated. I don't know how it would be done if it were actually implemented, but I wouldn't expect for user submitted articles to do anything more than link the profiles of the writer and editor's profile on the site. It would be very different from the actual writers where you writing under your professional born name. With user submitted news, you would be contributing purely as a user, and you'd be credited to your profile with your username. Instead of "written by John Smith," it would say "submitted by Spemanig and approved by Slarvax," or something to that effect.

As for the administrative side, outside of the initial implementation of this coding-wise, I don't really see how it would be more work than is reasonable. I mean, by the time the news is ready to be approved by them, it is essentially just another article for approval. I can see that they'd have more articles to read through, but I'd expect that they'd want that higher quantity of timely news articles. The point in having median mod approved-editors is to specifically address the issue of having the whole process be to complicated or too much work. They are there to even out the workload amongst themselves so that the administrators only need to work with the "finished" works that they are used to. Ideally, anyway.

Was that a Doctor Who reference? I hope it was

Again, I kind of agree, but it seems complicated for what Trucks would have to do. Mostly because of the way the site was built. There's also the fact that Machina has to read this (as per usual)

Oh and btw, I'm the most inexperienced writer on the site. So there might be other stuff going on that I don't know. Trying to help as much as I can, but I'm not the best to ask