Thread: Contributors welcome

If anyone has a knack for writing and cares to contribute to the GU home page with brief news articles on their favourite game related tech or games themselves, drop me a line and I'll grant you access.

Following on from this - for anyone with a bit of writing flare, preferably some history doing so, I'll swing you something nice in return if you're making a few posts a day. Perhaps your monthly WoW subscription, or something similar.

You should of keept it as a intrinsic motivation factor. Now that you've placed a extrinsic factor on it eg.. paying money. People will look at it and think, well I like writing reviews/news, but paying me 50cents to do so you got to be kidding me.

The other thing you could offer to turn it from externict motivation to intrinsic is to use a token economy instead. eg.. badges, highlighted on the avatar that they're superior in some way or form that other memebers.

Actually this bring to the next point, if your willing to offer money for the service then you should be getting a reward financially for the person doing the work.

rec, has there been any effort put into getting the articles to also display their content in the forum thread that goes with it yet? excess clicks for the suck

There's no way of doing it as yet. The primary issue is that the CMS data (articles) isn't stored in a regular 'forum post' - it creates a standard forum post that links to the article page. The problem there is that when that article is edited, the mechanics would have to be smart enough to also go and edit the forum post it created accordingly. And then there's the problem of the article system supporting in-post features/functionality that the forum does not.

surely if it's generating a thread though, it can at least dump the article content into a quote box?

Not officially - and even if it did, as per my last reply, what about when the article is edited (sometimes dramatically)? It apparently doesn't have the smarts to go and update that quote box, which is obviously a huge issue. Having to edit two copies of the same article isn't something anyone wants to do.

bah, defeatist attitude ;P

Originally Posted by chad

You should of keept it as a intrinsic motivation factor. Now that you've placed a extrinsic factor on it eg.. paying money. People will look at it and think, well I like writing reviews/news, but paying me 50cents to do so you got to be kidding me.

The other thing you could offer to turn it from externict motivation to intrinsic is to use a token economy instead. eg.. badges, highlighted on the avatar that they're superior in some way or form that other memebers.

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