Colony of Gamers News Submission Guidelines

[Variable Gear]

Originally Posted by Purple Santa

Hyperbole = catchy headline?

More like incorrect headline. Try to leave the FUD to EvAv, CoG Editors. :rolleyes:

[Purple Santa]

Originally Posted by Variable Gear

More like incorrect headline. Try to leave the FUD to EvAv, CoG Editors. :rolleyes:

I promise to leave all catchy headlines to the editors of CoG.

[Dukefrukem]

I can't post news.

Dukefrukem, you do not have permission to access this page.

[DoctorFinger]

Either send a tip to the email account, or write the post according to the rules in the forum and PM me about it.

[Dukefrukem]

Originally Posted by DoctorFinger

Either send a tip to the email account, or write the post according to the rules in the forum and PM me about it.

What do you mean by send a "tip" to the e-mail account?

[Iron Past]

Curious, is the tip link taking the place of submitting news, or will we be able to do our own write-ups and submit those in the future?

[MachEnergy]

There's a few unanswered questions here before mine, but I am also curious as to the news submission email we are supposed to send a tip to. I've crawled all over the site and cannot find it. What is it, and where is it listed so I can see it with my own eyes and realize how poor my search skills are.

[axion]

Originally Posted by MachEnergy

There's a few unanswered questions here before mine, but I am also curious as to the news submission email we are supposed to send a tip to. I've crawled all over the site and cannot find it. What is it, and where is it listed so I can see it with my own eyes and realize how poor my search skills are.

Front page, right hand side under Site Navigation area is the Network and tips area. Send us a tip is inside that box.

[MachEnergy]

Nice. Thanks! A custom graphic and everything!

[J Arcane]

Something's sort of bothered me, from time to time, and it's happened again recently, and it's been suggested I bring it up here. For the sake of time saving I'll post the convo I had just now about what I'm on about:

J_Arcane> You know something I miss about Evil Avatar? ACtual user posted stories.
I'm sitting here trying to think what I miss about Retarded Giant...
...
...got nothin
I just don't like the news policy on CoG sometimese.
Especially when I see things like an original thread getting locked and ignored in favor of one from one of our precious editors.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to just let the original guy's thread survive and move it?
Got a recent example?
The Warcraft movie news.
The handling of that makes no sense to me.
Its just in accordance with the news policy on CoG
I know, and I'm not blaming you, I'm just saying I don't like the policy.
For that you may want to voice your opinion in the CoG news submission thread

I think the removal of the news posting from user hands, to me, gives less of a feeling of direct community involvement in the process, and that sense is even more damaged by instances like I mentioned, where a users thread that scooped the editors gets locked in favor of an editor's thread.

I realize some of you guys are trying to make this site all serious and shit or something, but the user-posted news was one of the things that gave the former site the dynamic that drew us all there in the first place, and I think we're really missing out on something by losing it in favor of just being yet another news site.

We've got a cadre of users that are known for being ahead of the curve on news, and in fact, it's seemed an awful lot lately like the non-news forums are more up to date than the news is, and it seems like that's sort of silly and inefficient for a news site.

To take the Warcraft example, Sandman posted his story last night before I went to bed, just as the news was disseminating through out other channels. The official thread doesn't go up until the next morning, and then the original thread gets locked. Wouldn't it have made more sense to just newsify his post a bit and bring it to the front page? Shit half the scoops I see in the other forums are even in the standard news post form.

It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me to keep doing things like this, when we could be a lot more on the ball and a lot more community invested.

[AgtFox]

Um, there is the ability for a user to submit news. It's right on the front page in the "Network and Tips" box. There is a link for submitting news. It is basically the same situation as at the old place. You send it in and then we edit/approve it as needed. Basically this replaces the old "Tips" thing talked about in this thread.

We added this BECAUSE we wanted more community driven news because most of us (if not all) have full-time jobs during the day. We did ask though that if you plan on submitting news to put in your name in your profile if at all possible (there is a first and last name field in the UserCP) so that it comes up First "nickname" Last at the top of the post.

We announced this a while ago, but the announcement seems to have been passed over by many.

I didn't read your whole message, so excuse me if you brought up that the ability is here already.

If you have a suggestion as to where better promote that the ability is there, we'd be open to it. But it was announced on April 2nd it looks like in the Lounge because we figured it would hit the most people.

[AgtFox]

As for the Warcraft thing...I experienced this problem when the PSP Go was actually announced. There were two threads going on, one by Adam Blue that pre-dated the news thread another user made (who submitted it via the link I talk about above on the front page). I tested merging the threads, but the problem is that vBulletin lines it up by timestamp and given that Adam Blue's rumor thread pre-dated the story I had to do a little switcharound of the two posts.

I think the same thing would have happened in the Warcraft director thing. I know I check the Song, Page, Screen forum a lot, but maybe many of the other editors do not. Sandman could have submitted it as news, but as I said maybe he didn't know the option was there. Also, if we would have just pulled it fron Song, Page Screen and into the News section it would have been below the ones whose threads started after that.

Just trying to explain things a little more. We are a bit hamstrung by vBulletin's timestamp situation when trying to merge threads or trying to move them into the news section only to see them halfway down the page.

[AgtFox]

I've changed the name of the right side box on the front page from "Network and Tips" to "Feed and News Submission". Hopefully that will make it stand out more. As you can see, Suave Peanut just submitted news and I approved it.

It had the source links in there and all.

[MMORGHuntress]

That woulld probably Cool FTW!!

[Jboy001]

lol... I love bots

[Food Nipple]

Originally Posted by Jboy001

lol... I love bots

I'm not so sure, it could be a person that failed the turing test.

Hmm. I don't know if that person was a bot as this post seemed related to the content of the thread.

[Jboy001]

perhaps we should have given it another test...

[HenrySoren]

Originally Posted by Food Nipple

I'm not so sure, it could be a person that failed the turing test.

Or a bot pretending to fail the turing test...

[Food Nipple]

Originally Posted by HenrySoren

Or a bot pretending to fail the turing test...
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What is the deal with all the hidden javascript in 3 of this guy's four posts? It doesn't display unless you quote him.