Forum:Doing Something with the News Team

Now, I don't want to offend anyone on the News Team, but since around the end of last year or the beginning of this year, there have been less and less news blogs made. At this point, only the biggest stuff (map pack releases, game trailer releases) gets mentioned in news blogs by the News Team. I believe this is due to the poor reception of recent Call of Duties; and with the bad reception that the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare reveal trailer got, I feel this may go down even more soon. It's to the point where non-News Team members have been making news blogs. There aren't even any Weekly News blogs anymore.

Based on these points, I think it's time we do something with the News Team. At the beginning of last year, a forum was made about changing out members of the News Team since, at that time even, Weekly News blogs were being made less often. I do not think simply changing out News Team members is the answer anymore. I have a couple of ideas that we could do instead:


 * 1) Make it so all users can make news blogs, but that only News Team members can add the news categories to the blogs, just like with the Opinion blogs category. I don't know how we'd pick new News Team members though, I guess we could stick to having them picked by bureaucrats, or they could maybe even be nominated for the position.
 * 2) Retire the News Team usergroup and have admins control what blogs get the news categories and which get the Opinion blog category. Again, we would let all users make news blogs.

Regarding the picking of which blogs would get the news categories, it would probably have to depend on quality, especially if duplicates were made. Also, I'm pretty sure I had some other ideas of what we could do, but unfortunately I've forgotten them.

I'd say we've pretty much given up on the Weekly News blogs, so I don't think they need to be taken into consideration when deciding this, but we do need to think about the Monthly Newsletter. I don't subscribe to them, so I don't know if they're being done anymore; if they aren't, then if we do retire the News Team usergroup then I suggest we simply retire the Newsletters alongside the News Team. If they're still being made, then we need to discuss what to do about them as well.

Also, maybe some of you are thinking I should just request to join the News Team if I think it's not active enough, but I do not feel I have the time - both in hours that I'm on and in days that I'm on - to keep up with making news blogs all the time. If I did choose to do so, I'd probably be spending most of my time I'm on Wikia making news blogs. If we allowed everyone to make news blogs, though, then I could make them from time to time when I find info to report. Besides, I think it would be good to allow everyone to make news blogs because I would think more of the news would get reported.

Again, I hope I do not offend any News Team members with this. I don't think the News Team is lazy, I think it's from lack of interest in the Call of Duty series after the past few Call of Duties, as I said above. Also, I hope I didn't make this too long, I just wanted to get all my points across as best I could. 02:20, May 29, 2016 (UTC)