Forum:News Team Updates

While the idea of changing the news to biweekly is going on here I thought I might as well propose a few ideas I had.

1. Changing the News team again, Allowing in new members and changing out the older members if they so desire.

2. Updating the Community news to have the the active War Rooms and recent blog posts. Making that the more noticeable thing. I find the news to be more about the community and not really about the actual CoD news.

Well, Both are basic things and I would like to hear anything else that could be done!

Thank you. 00:01, January 12, 2015 (UTC)

Discussion
yeah, there should be some new news team members. as far as recent blog posts goes in the news blogs, if i become a member of the team then i will automatically put those in there since i was planning on doing so. 00:05, January 12, 2015 (UTC)

With news team members, like I mentioned in my blog, it'd be best to have a rotation, schedule, all that. Its hard to keep sometimes, which is why the last one fell apart. I don't think trying again while adding in some dedicated (as of now) users. It's not that hard to make a news blog, so finding wiki members that have the ability and dedication to do so is the priority. I say this as, yes, most members of the team have been busy as of late, maybe even forgetful, or just have lost interest. They can't be blamed, since it's bound to happen to most. 01:02, January 12, 2015 (UTC)
 * if there does end up being a rotation on it though then i wouldnt always be able to do my part sometimes because im only on every other weekend. i still personally think it should be that people call dibs; and even moreso will it become a problem if news becomes biweekly. 01:09, January 12, 2015 (UTC)
 * "most members of the team have been busy as of late, maybe even forgetful, or just have lost interest." That's pretty much what happened to me in 2013, and is why I don't feel I should even consider joining back in, because I'll just forget. 01:10, January 12, 2015 (UTC)
 * We tried a rota twice. On both occasions it failed. Unless we can guarantee the news team members are always free, and always able to alert us to last moment changes, a rota won't work. As proven in the last two attempts. 10:17, January 12, 2015 (UTC)

I agree. There are some older members that aren't so active, and there are newer users to the community that I feel would be a great addition (Sun, Didkins, and yourself, respectively.) There have been a couple times where Twig has needed to fill in, because certain members forgot. I almost filled in a couple weeks ago, but as soon as I was about to, Deathman did it. About what the news would feature, I personally find that it should be more about the community, as it is community news after all. Of course, I'm not saying the CoD news isn't important, just saying that at times, it seems it's more of a secondary task to put into the news (which I have no problem with.) Anyways, yeah, we should get something done about the lineup. 01:07, January 12, 2015 (UTC)

Something I believe is an issue is we forget that "community" expands to outside the chat. We've had multiple blogs in the past that seem to feature jokes, images and/or polls that only certain people understand. The current use of anime is very akin to all the MLP images we used a few years back, it only applies, and is relevant to a specific audience. And from a personal level, while I happily tolerate anyone that chooses to watch anime, or use it in a comment, when I see it plastered everywhere it's just annoying. We need to remember that the one thing the whole community has in common is Call of Duty, and not anything else. While it's fine to feature outside stuff, we need to ensure it's not getting to an overbearing level where it just alienates more people than anything else. 10:23, January 12, 2015 (UTC)


 * ^This x1000. While I do think that we do need a new news team, or at least new members who are more active, this is so true. The news blogs have gotten increasingly boring for me with all of the inside jokes involved, especially with the polls. I always thought that if we do polls on the weekly news blogs, they should more akin to how the Fallout wiki does theirs more so than how we currently do ours. Conqueror of all Zombies (talk) 10:49, January 12, 2015 (UTC)


 * ^As an avid anime fan, I agree that we need to make sure that the content we put on blogs should appeal to (or make sense to) all audiences on the wiki. It may be funny the first couple of times, but it does get annoying if you can't understand anything that's written on the blog.On the other hand, it seems that writing these kinds of jokes and whatnot on blogs has become a habit to some people, so I think it will be difficult to just stop doing it instantly.  04:17, January 13, 2015 (UTC)
 * although i dont like mlp or anime, i think the news team members should be able to put their own personal touches on the news blogs by adding some of those things, even if it does only apply to a certain audience. however i think they shouldnt overdo it, just have a gif or photo of whatever and if they wanna add more they can put them in the comments like username does. 22:14, January 14, 2015 (UTC)
 * Perhaps it could be a rule somewhere? Capt. Miller  11:08, January 15, 2015 (UTC)
 * There's a fine line between putting your own personal touch and over doing it though. Conqueror of all Zombies (talk) 00:34, January 18, 2015 (UTC)

Since I'm becoming more active, I guess I could join the news team. I have a tonne of free time in my week (Holidays and whatnot), and I won't be doing two sports in one week until April (Basketball starts up in February). Capt. Miller  11:08, January 15, 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm also actually interested in helping out in the news team, but due to my priorities IRL, I think that might be a little hard right now.  00:06, January 18, 2015 (UTC)


 * As am i, difference is, i never have ANYTHING going on, so i could be up to joining the news team, but i may need a couple of weeks to adjust to the norm. which i assume happened to every NT member up until now. 00:10, January 18, 2015 (UTC)

If updating the news team does become a possibility, I would be fine with somebody else taking my position. I feel that my overall activity on the wiki has been dropping, as well as the possibility of me getting a full time job soon would probably take up most of the time that I'm on here. 00:19, January 18, 2015 (UTC)

I can be dropped out if needed, I'm not nearly active enough to qualify in my opinion. Also, as goes for the content, I agree with Sam, there is a bit too much unrelated stuff only some people would understand or like. 10:36, January 19, 2015 (UTC)

I am also starting to become more active and I always check YouTube for the latest trailers and for any new news on the web. I would also like to join. 20:22, January 23, 2015 (UTC)
 * Any users that want to join the news team will need to go though the trial period. 10:23, January 25, 2015 (UTC)
 * I would be happy to go through the trial period. 13:29, January 25, 2015 (UTC)