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| 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. |
| 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:
--- Quote from: Reactor Worker on December 08, 2010, 01:54:39 AM ---Why not create a new topic in the forums for each piece of news --- End quote --- 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:
--- Quote from: Sheath on December 08, 2010, 01:58:05 AM ---It seems rather unprofessional doing it this way. --- End quote --- 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. |
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