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Utopia Forums News Team
So instead of further derailing another thread, I figured I should make this it's own thread.
As far as the image coding thing, it seems like with every option there are some problems...
a.) Just allow image coding on the forums for everyone. Then we run into issues with spam bots flashing up giant dongs all over the forums.
b.) Set up a subgroup for an official news team and only allow them to post images.
c.) Allow images to be posted, but they must be approved by a mod. As I said earlier, this would be a nightmare for the mods with everyone wanting to post images.
d.) Just continue to not allow image posting. The whole story will be text.
So it seems clear that b and d are the likely outcomes here. I said earlier that the bulk of the news stories have always in the text, so I don't think the news stories without displaying the banners will be missing much. That said, it's always fun to have banners up. That's why we have them in-game and such.
My problem here is, I'm not all too sure on the feasibility of setting up a 'News Team' subgroup for the forums, or how soon something like that could be done. So if that's something that we definitely want to try, it may take a while to set the whole thing up...
With all that said, on to the actual News team deal. If we're going to do this, I would like all aspects of the game covered. From the lowly ghettos to the top kds. I know ghetto wars aren't exactly the most exciting things to report on, but perhaps contacting ghetto players about changes that affect them would be cool. The point is, I don't want any kd to feel excluded from the News.
So, who exactly would want to help with a project like this?
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I dont wanna help out but I would love to read the stories lol
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And with this I announce I am officially applying for a position at utimes!
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Steel says +1 to giant dong pics!
I may-possibly-potentially-sorta-kinda be interested in this idea though.
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I will consider you 100% fully invested in this DH lol
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I used to edit for utimes but got sick of that pretty quick, so it's hard to say lol.
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Where would we get our news information from...? Tell me more.
(b or d are the best choices)
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The SOP: interview a leader from both kingdoms, write a draft telling an unbiased story of a conflict, present the draft to the leaders for approval or content editing, get approval of final draft from both leaders, edit, publish.
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FUNSHOW is currently at war with Zenobias Zealots, we are wondering if the war is for real does anyone know about it?
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No it's a fake war. Funshow is in a retal war with Rage, who are in fake wars with ZZ and SG respectively.
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Let's stay on topic please =]
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I know Mad Scottish was interested and he said he wanted to talk with a few people about writing articles again.
I'd be willing to do it as long as I knew for sure there were people who were going to report on top kd stuff. Plus I'd like to find some other people to report for ghettos.
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Don't worry Palem, for the ghetto reporting you can just ask your kd-mates how the changes affect them ;)
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I am interested in writing on the basis that there are several at least a couple of others who will be writing as well. I dont want it to be a case of, everyone coming to me about it, when I already run an alliance and a kingdom. I would end up more than annoyed pretty quickly.
But it is something that interests me a lot, and it is a lot of fun.