Forum:News blog policies idea

Lately, people are bringing in lots of news which knocks other news off the news table. The things is though, when this happens, all the good news gets removed by stupid interviews and single previews which have nothing new, and then noone gets to see the "good" news. I suggest bringing rules about news blogs.

Changes
If you can think of more ideas please put them here.
 * Single previews with no new information should not be added.
 * No news such as "Why there aren't any ladders in Fallout 3".
 * No news on a guy with a Vault Boy tattoo or someone has made a replica of a gun or something.
 * No blogs just for one piece of new info. Those can easily be added in Ausir's tidbits blogs.

Discuss

Poll


No - See my proposed changes below. I'd rather not have any changes; blogs aren't hurting anybody. Nitty Tok.
 * No I strongly disagree with the "No news on a guy with a Vault Boy tattoo or someone has made a replica of a gun or something." part. Those are the only kind of news I read and like. That's celebrating Fallout spirit! And you want to take that away... --TheBearPaw 11:59, September 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * No I don't think that's the right solution to the problem. -- 12:46, September 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * No Even if we realy need the policy I think it should be rather advisory than prohibiting in nature. Veryblackraven 09:06, September 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes but a qualified "Yes". New Previews even with little or no information should be allowed, although perhaps inclusion in a "round up" article makes sense...  Silly things like Tattoos should be right out.  Ladders story as it was, seemed rather pointless but if there was something actually worth reporting about engine background, then it should be allowed.  Agent c 15:58, September 18, 2010 (UTC)

Discussion
Just sayin', I found the ladders thing more interesting than a lot of the same ol same ol previews about NV that have the same footage all over the place. My policy would be just to make sure you don't post anything dumb, or don't post anything that someone else has already. And I think the news posts should be longer than one sentence that just says "here's the preview [link]", because that's not very interesting. 18:02, August 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ausir used to sum up the smaller bits and pieces in "Fallout tidbits" blogs instead of making a separate post for each, which was much more sensible in my opinion. The question would be how to collect the small bits so nothing gets lost until it gets posted eventually. -- Porter21 (talk) 08:57, August 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it was much easier to handle when I was the only one posting news. :) We should probably make it into a policy of sorts. Ausir(talk) 13:14, August 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * How about a forum thread to collect those small bits until there's enough to post? Kris   mailbox  13:25, August 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm for any idea that stops mediocre news blogs from being made. Shadowrunner56 16:46, August 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * I am pro-everything that gives news posts a good layout. Many of the later news have been... well... you know, shitty formatted.--Mr.Lexx(talk) 18:00, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

We could just make something where previews and reviews can go. People can put previews on the page. Tezzla Cannon 16:50, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

I found the ladder thread rather interesting :( sorry if you didn't want it on news.... Colinthetouffe 3:23, August 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * I think that we should be strict on what classifies as news. When people put things on the news channel that doesn't pertain to anything about one of the games, it shouldn't be there. It's annoying when the blogs on the news channel go away because of a bad blog post. We should implement the policy as soon as possible. TrailerParkApe Spew 21:27, August 27, 2010 (UTC)

Could we get some kind of policy implemented double-time, please? I'm gonna perform hari-kari with my Zune if I see another post about a F3 weaopon re-creation IN TEH RL OMG....72.155.115.130 15:06, August 26, 2010 (UTC)

I know. As soon as i posted my bike blog and Play Magazine blog, loads of wannabe news posters came and suddenly started posting crap. Tezzla Cannon 16:37, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * The 'why there aren't ladders in Fallout 3' thing was an actual interview, if you don't remember. Nitty Tok. 19:00, September 11, 2010 (UTC)

Single previews with no new info should be collected up in one big blog, interviews should pretty much always get a blog to themselves, and replicas and whatnot should go under a tidbit blog. Nitty Tok. 19:04, September 11, 2010 (UTC)

The home-made guns were preaty good, but perhaps they do belong in a differnet catagory if they're going to be added. - RASICTalk 19:04, September 11, 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to see a firmer line between "Editorial" and "News". Keep the personal feelings about the news, or the source of the news (except to comment if the source seems to just be unreliable speculation, etc) into the comment section. Agent c 16:01, September 18, 2010 (UTC)