Forum:News Team Possible Schedule

Hi.

I was wondering earlier about the possibility of having a Schedule for the News Team. We could have a schedule for The Weekly News, like going: N7, Callofduty4, Smuff, and KATANAGOD. Same concept going for Game News, except different order. It could go like this (Keep in mind, these are examples): Damac1214, Crazy sam10, Smuff, Drkdragonz66, Bovell, Callofduty4, Madnessfan34537, N7, and then KATANAGOD.

In the possible case of a News Team member being away or busy, I had a very simple idea. One being that The News Team member in the list right before the person who is busy/away can do their news.

The reason I believe there should be a schedule, is because At the moment, the news is being thrown around to whoever wants to do it. You can see in Weekly News blogs that some tell others to do it, or ask them to. This, I believe, isn't completely fair. What if there is a News Team member who is never asked to do it? That's where this schedule could come into hand.

This may be a bit complicated, in terms of having a schedule put somewhere, so one can remember it, but I believe this it's all worth it.

Thank you for reading, and please leave your thoughts below. 23:26, August 25, 2012 (UTC)

Discussion
Comment - Sounds like a good idea. Having someone as a designated backup for when someone is M.I.A. would help clear up a lot of confusion around the news team. 01:27, August 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * Per Red. 01:30, August 26, 2012 (UTC)

Comment - How about we have people who want to do Community New blogs sign up to do so by adding themselves to a roster for rotation. Basically this:


 * Smuff
 * N7
 * Callofduty4
 * KATANAGOD
 * Crazy sam10

Now, say I wanted to add myself to this roster and start doing community blogs, I would simply add in my name under the bottom one so it would read:


 * Smuff
 * N7
 * Callofduty4
 * KATANAGOD
 * Crazy sam10
 * Damac1214

Now I would do the Community news after Sam, instead of Smuff, who now does it after me. If a news team member is absent on the day that they are supposed to do it, than we simply move down the list to the next person. For example, based on the above list, if Cod4 was absent or missing, Kat would take over. 01:47, August 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, now add me to the list :3 01:49, August 26, 2012 (UTC)

Question - Is this for the News Team? Or the Community News team? 01:51, August 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Community News. 01:52, August 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * It's for both teams, not everyone on news team can do weeklys on a schedule. It means all the Weekly news team members are on a schedule as well as all Game news team run on a schedule. 11:33, August 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * "You can see in Weekly News blogs that some tell others to do it, or ask them to." It's for the weekly news, doing this for game news would be much to complicated. Game news blogs are written as news is found and as quickly as possible. 12:18, August 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * It's two separate schedules for the two different teams. 12:33, August 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * If that's so, a schedule for the game news team is ridiculous and over complicated. Weekly news makes sense, as people are always asking each other to write the weekly news because they can't/don't want to. Game news is usually instantly picked up the second it is found, the only person who I can think of that asks people to write game news blogs instead of him is Drk. A game news schedule adds to much complication to a generally simple and effective system. 12:39, August 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * There's no point for a list for game news, seeing as we all have our ways of finding news and there's no point in waiting for someone else to find it (they might not even find it), when the entire point of the news team imo is to spread the news as soon as possible (or something like that). 06:50, August 30, 2012 (UTC)

Support - At first, I read simply "News" instead of "community news" and I was preparing for a huge oppose. Nope.

I truly wouldn't mind a scheduling for the community weekend news. It seems we've run into a problem of "who's doing who" when it comes to these news blogs. Scheduling wouldn't be much of a problem and seems like it would be beneficial. DarkMetroid567Talk 02:18, August 26, 2012 (UTC)

Support - This I believe is a good idea, it helps keep a constant schedule on the news blogs, and makes it much simpler then shoving it off to the next person. 02:50, August 26, 2012 (UTC)

Support Per Damac - Per Damac, but I was wondering if it would be anything similar to this. If not, still seams like a good idea to me! Side note: The people should be picked by the main news team to help for a week or two, they would be chosen similar to how chat mods are picked. 03:37, August 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * I only used Bold as a visual reminder of where to put your name, there is nothing special about it. 03:45, August 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed :/ 03:52, August 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay the fix still doesn't make sense. Why have a list of users if someone still has to choose someone to do the news? Why not just go in sequential order like I said? 03:55, August 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * :\, I get it now, and the sandbox is unnecassary. 04:00, August 26, 2012 (UTC)

Support this is more organised than it currently is, I'd prefer this way for that reason, and the fact that it is definitely more fair for everyone on the news team, because as Madness said it is possible some news team members may be asked less than others. 07:25, August 26, 2012 (UTC)

Question - Since I've stopped doing the clan ops blogs, am I even still considered part of the news team? Also, I wouldn't mind doing a blog or two. 10:56, August 26, 2012 (UTC)

Support a weekly news schedule Oppose a game news schedule. 12:41, August 26, 2012 (UTC)

Support Per Damac. 20:32, August 26, 2012 (UTC)

Support - Also per Damac. 06:14, August 30, 2012 (UTC)

Support Per Damac, though I oppose any scheduling for actual news blogs as different users have different strengths suited to the subject of each piece of news. 14:43, September 2, 2012 (UTC)

Header
As most people already know, I made a new News Team header. For obvious reasons, it is not the currently in use one. But here it is: 14:56, September 2, 2012 (UTC)


 * Maybe smaller images? 15:59, September 2, 2012 (UTC)