Would you appreciate a journalistic news source?

[Sheath]

Hmm, I can appreciate what you are saying Reactor. But I also think that a forum format is only good if you are wanting to sift through discussion and find things to chat about. If you are interested in seeing current events, a news blog could be a speedy and informative way of doing this.

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[Reactor Worker]

Why not create a new topic in the forums for each piece of news, and set up an RSS feed that you update with links to those new posts? For those that want truly up to date information, that would be the fastest way of letting them know. Your first article could even detail how to set up one of the many RSS feed readers available. The feed would serve a secondary role as being an archive of all the posts you've made.

[Sheath]

Why not create a new topic in the forums for each piece of news

It seems rather unprofessional doing it this way. Anyone can just post a topic, having a purpose-made website for publishing seems far more attractive from both a publisher and a readers perspective. And I tend to believe that every topic slides to an offtopic state really fast. If anything, just having a single topic and bumping it with a link to the main site each news article would be fine enough.

[Reactor Worker]

It seems rather unprofessional doing it this way.

You audience has an average age of about 10; professionalism has little bearing for the content at hand. It sounds more like you're are in it for the ego boost. If that is the case, then building your own site is the best way to go.

If you honestly want to relay information to the majority of the community effectively, this is the ideal venue. Part of what makes a forum great is that the topics that interest the community the most stay up for the longest duration and get the most views. What content stays visible to the audience correlates directly with what "the people" want to read. If you post an article here it will likely get read many times before it drops off the radar, and the pressure to grab the communities attention is an ideal motivation for providing interesting, relevant content. From that effort you can build credibility and notoriety.

My point is that relevance and novelty is more important to your audience than presentation or coherency to a strict publishing format.

[tails]

Everything you have ever done has failed.

[MillCzarr]

Everything you have ever done has failed.

Failure, isn't an option.

[fawkes..]

Like any piece of software, news on updates to the program, mods, or additions to the game, along with articles related to the community, events, and areas of interest would make the blog a bit like a community news paper.

We don't need to be told a update is out , we will all know . the only way that point would work well is if Badspot gave you hints on realse dates.

[Black Lightning]

I would love to read it. We need something to tell us the best servers, the best builds, and who to ban when they get on your server. If you want help writing it, I can help.

[The Titanium]

Failure, isn't an option.

You failed to use commas properly.

:U

[fawkes..]

I would love to read it. We need something to tell us the best servers, the best builds, and who to ban when they get on your server. If you want help writing it, I can help.

You can't ban people from your server because they got banned from other peoples server
And i'm pretty sure Icy is capable of writing without you helping

[heedicalking]

We have a news source. It's called the Blockland Forums. A blog about what you're doing wouldn't be bad, but we don't need a website which tells us what is going on when we have one right here. If you want to interview people just make a topic on it. I basically just see it turning into an advertisement for whatever you think should be advertised. That's why a blog for just your blockland activities would be better.

I think it's more of a you want it to say you made it, not that you want it because it would be useful. I honestly don't see it being useful unless it's made for a specific user. A "What Icygamma is doing", focusing on mainly you would be better than "What Icygamma and the occasional "lucky guest" are doing".

If there was going to be any blockland blog, I would want it from Ephi or Badspot. I wouldn't want a blog about recent blockland "drama", or how "kalphiter is flaming servers", or "Best add-on this week". I can already find all that out on the forums. The only blog I would be interested in reading would be one by the developers and their opinions on things.

[Barnabas]

You could always try making a yearbook sort of thing. A year is usually long enough to have many interesting topics to write about.

[_Rave_]

This will fail if you try to do it alone.  You will need people to help, but people that are intelligent and fairly active.

[Sheath]

you're are in it for the ego boost.

Oh, lets not go there. That seems to be a common conclusion to everyone trying to start a project. I don't like that baseless comment.

@tails:  Thats not true. I've had many successful projects that were done and finished. I just have the ability to know what its time to call it quits on things that don't work out.

[hudgat]

This will fail if you try to do it alone.  You will need people to help, but people that are intelligent and fairly active.

Like me! Not.