Anyone wanna be a newshound?

[trickey]

My suggestion, therefore as a breakdown:

[*]Community: trickey
[/list]

Good with everyone?

I'm unclear as to what exactly 'community' news entails beyond the topics covered by the other categories. Not complaining or disagreeing with the breakdown, I'm just not sure what items I should be looking for.

 

[Darkness]

Sounds fine to me.

Seconded.

 

[Morrus]

I'm unclear as to what exactly 'community' news entails beyond the topics covered by the other categories. Not complaining or disagreeing with the breakdown, I'm just not sure what items I should be looking for.

Your Greyhawk newsletter is a perfect example - community news is about fan sites etc. as opposed to publishers. The best way to see what I mean, I guess, is tocheck the communty news section in the daily news.

 

[Khan the Warlord]

OK, I'm giving you guys the abillity to start threads in the news forum; others can reply, but cannot initiate a thread. We'll try this for a week, and then we'll see how it's going.

I don't know if "giving" means soon or that you already tried, but when I attempted to create a new thread in the news forum, it wouldn't allow me to.

 

[Morrus]

I thought I had... as usual, vBulletin's permission system beat me.

OK, try again now. I hope I have it right this time.

 

[jaldaen]

Is the Breaking News forum going to be remaining at the bottom or will it be at the top once it gets going?

I would prefer to have it up top... b/c I hardly ever scroll down the page (all the forums I read regularly are up top ;-)

Jaldaen

 

[Khan the Warlord]

I thought I had... as usual, vBulletin's permission system beat me.

OK, try again now. I hope I have it right this time.

Well, it worked this time around -- my first news post is available now.

 

[Morrus]

Is the Breaking News forum going to be remaining at the bottom or will it be at the top once it gets going?

I would prefer to have it up top... b/c I hardly ever scroll down the page (all the forums I read regularly are up top ;-)

Jaldaen

Depends how it goes. Right now, while it's experimental, I'll leave it at the bottom.

 

[Morrus]

I've been thinking about it, and I'm going to go with the alt IDs.

Three reasons:

1) It seems kinda fun to me and appeals aesthetically.

2) It creates a certain distance between your news reporting ID and your regular ID. That way, if you want to go and spout off somewhere, you're not doing it as a representative of EN World, but as yourself. You are then more free to say what you want.

3) The ID can be passed to a new person should you decide to stop doing it.

I understand if anyone doesn't want to do it - but I am going to make it a requirement for newshounds. The ID needs to be the name of a fictional comic book reporter (no real people!) - such as Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Peter Parker, etc. etc.

Let me know when you've registered an ID and I'll give the ID access to the forum.

One last thing - please don't add a sig to the alt ID. It'll just make the news reports look untidy with all those sigs everywhere!

 

[Peter Parker]

Peter Parker reporting for duty, sir!