| Ka-pi96 said: Which would still mean things wouldn't be posted straight away, as I mentioned before articles are often up for publishing before the threads go up. I don't really see how this would change that. Would it really incentivise people to make high quality articles? Some people, yes. But I've no doubt there would be some people routinely submitting low quality ones too. Chances are only a very small number of people (let's not forget that only a small number of people bother with thread making too) will put in the time and effort needed to make a good attempt at an article. In which case why not just make them writers in the first place? |
But it would mean that they would be posted faster than they are now, which is my point. The point isn't to get news articles up the second news breaks, it's to end the end of the day waterfall of catch up news articles we often get. Posting news an hour or two late is better than having news posted 12 hours late like is sometimes the case.
Well of course there would be low quality articles submitted. Those articles would just be denied approval. I also think it must feel pretty good merely being a user and seeing an article you wrote posted to the site being credited to you, so that would be an incentivisor as well. It's a big reason Buzzfeed is a big as it is.
I'm not expecting the same 5 people to write every user news article. Someone might only post a few. Some others might post a lot. That's why you don't make them writers. They might not want to be. They might just want to post a few articles. I post a lot of threads, but I don't want to be an Ambassador. It's the same line of thinking.
