Clarification on what is considered "news."

[philreed]

I would appreciate an official declaration from EnWorld on what is "news."

 

[Morrus]

"What I consider interesting".

Sorry, I'm not going to bind myself to any rules or a policy, and I reserve final judgement on what makes the news page and what doesn't. That means 4E rumours will - much to many peoples' chagrin.

 

[Nifft]

Perhaps some examples of borderline cases would help?

-- N, impartial spectator

 

[Morrus]

Help who? I'm not even sure what the angle of the question is. I can't think of any particular examples off the top of my head, although from the sounds of it Phil has something in mind. I think he'd need to be more specific; the question's just too vague for me to answer.

 

[philreed]

I'm just confused. I had thought that Ronin Arts leaving RPGNow would be news. I mean, with approximately 5% of the PDFs at the site, and ranked #2 for all-time sales, Ronin Arts has been an important part of the PDF industry. I doubt few would argue this point.

Any top 20 company leaving RPGNow is at least as much news as the announcement of a new $1 product is.

I'm just trying to get a better handle on what is and isn't news to the community.

 

[Morrus]

I'm just confused. I had thought that Ronin Arts leaving RPGNow would be news. I mean, with approximately 5% of the PDFs at the site, and ranked #2 for all-time sales, Ronin Arts has been an important part of the PDF industry. I doubt few would argue this point.

Any top 20 company leaving RPGNow is at least as much news as the announcement of a new $1 product is.

I'm just trying to get a better handle on what is and isn't news to the community.

We just don't cover retailers unless it's something *really* exciting. We don't even do it for WotC who are EN World's "biggest news" source. The focus is on the products; if someone decides they want to buy, say MMII, it'll take them 3 seconds to find out where to buy it. On a lesser scale, same thing with PDF publishers.

There's a million online retailers out there, and just as many brick & mortar retailers. It's not a subject I want to start getting involved in.

 

[philreed]

We just don't cover retailers unless it's something *really* exciting. We don't even do it for WotC who are EN World's "biggest news" source. The focus is on the products; if someone decides they want to buy, say MMII, it'll take them 3 seconds to find out where to buy it. On a lesser scale, same thing with PDF publishers.

There's a million online retailers out there, and just as many brick & mortar retailers. It's not a subject I want to start getting involved in.

I'll keep this in mind.

 

[Morrus]

On that note... it is, actually, on the news page.

 

[Fifth Element]

There's a million online retailers out there, and just as many brick & mortar retailers. It's not a subject I want to start getting involved in.

With that in mind, could you comment on the requirement that posts about new products point to the RPGNow affiliate on ENWorld (if they are available there)? If you don't want to get involved with retailers, why is this a requirement?

 

[Morrus]

With that in mind, could you comment on the requirement that posts about new products point to the RPGNow affiliate on ENWorld (if they are available there)? If you don't want to get involved with retailers, why is this a requirement?

I'm confused. Do you imagine my response will be different from earlier today when you asked me this same question?