Should VGC Have User Submitted News Articles?

[Cloudman]

spemanig said:

Cloudman said:
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.

Well news is posted on every forum, but that's not the point I'm getting at lol.

I wonder what difference would it be if we adopted this idea and what would be the benefit?

It would seem to me it would be just more work for people to post news for perhaps the same or less of a payoff than just copy/pasting news.

And what would happen to people who posted news before? Would their submissions be rejected then?

I dunno if people would be interested in having to do more work just to post news. I think the reason we see people post news with very little original text from the poster is that it seems like a rat race to post news first and get the benefit of points. All the extra effort of arranging it as your own is pointless as someone will likely beat you to the punch.

I think it could or could not be a good idea, as it could just discourage people from posting news in general. Though it could mean we would get higher quality posts, haha.