Forum:How to run the News Team Application Page System

So, branching off the recently closed forum Proposal for News Team additions, The News Teams application page currently lacks any form of guideline on how to accept New Memebers, What to look for in New Members, what you can use to understand if an applicant could be beneficial to the News Team, etc. This forum aims to simply implement a system for reviewing and accepting new News Team members, and nothing else.

There have been some ideas as to how to accept New Members to the news team. One I particularly like comes from the formentioned forum, and was posted by Drkdragonz66:
 * "For the people who want to become news team members, we give them 2 old news things to write a 'mock' blog post. If the blogs are agreed to be good news blogs by a number of existing news team members, then they are given news blog membership and we put them on the list of the people on COD:NEWS. I'm gonna suggest we need 3 out of the five "founding" news team members to start (out of Bovell, COD4, N7, Smuff, and me) to approve the application, the ammount of members needing to approve the person applying increasing as the news team grows."

Other ideas could be things such as a "trial" period. Where a user, after a consensus has been met by the Senior Members of the News Team, is accepted and given a sort of 1 month trial. If they perform well during this month, they are given full membership in the News Team. Or it could be as simple as the senior members of the News Team voting to accept a user.

A final piece we have to work out, is just who gets to vote for these applicants acceptance? Currently, the App page is run by 5 senior members, but thats out of an 8 person News Team. It may be more fair, and possibly even an easier process with less fighting and headaches, if all News Team members are granted a vote.

Let's just try to find a system that works, and that most of us can be happy with. 04:39, April 27, 2012 (UTC)