| Cloudman said: 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. |
Well people post news on a forum for much different reasons than why they would be posting actual news articles. You post news articles to alert. You post news on a forum to discuss. I think the accolades of having your news article posted on the site far surpasses the little recognition you'd get for being the one to copy-paste a news article in a thread, so the difference isn't really comparable. You'd get points for this too, likely more, so there'd be that too.
I mean, the burn would be similar to making a news thread that is beaten by someone and locked after a bunch of people posted on it. I feel like that's a really weird, loser's-mentality way of looking at it though. The other way to look at it, the way I see it, is that if I write this news article as quickly as I can with the best quality that I can, I'm confident enough in myself and my ability to comprehend and adhere to the guidelines presented to me to know that mine will be the one selected.
I don't think it will discourage people from posting the news at all though, since forum posts are done for a different reason and are held less accountable.
