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Post by kempff on Aug 16, 2009 16:56:00 GMT -5
^LOL, leave it to Ophelia to cut the ice.
That's the most realistic idea we have yet. We're not anything of literary merit, just a RP forum.
We can be forum wide in scope, easy to do, and quickly done with Ophi's idea.
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Post by prythian on Aug 16, 2009 16:57:25 GMT -5
Eh, yeah, I kinda like that idea or Nascent's as long as the person who gets appointed in charge of it also interviews people for the 50% they write. Like, say, interviewing QMs AND members that participate in quests for information on quests, etc.
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Post by nascent on Aug 16, 2009 17:13:26 GMT -5
I think I sense a plan coming together...! ;D
Ophelia, your idea of replacing articles with "highlight links" is not only efficient but altogether appropriate for the way things work here. Still, so it doesn't feel like just a straight page of links I'd think one or two actual written pieces (short, of course) would also be appropriate. This way we can incorporate interviews and other such things (maybe a "coming attractions" type of semi-reveal when the Staff are putting together something new and cool?)
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Post by kempff on Aug 16, 2009 17:30:18 GMT -5
Somehow I doubt Ophelia is going to respond soon.
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Post by Night Sky on Aug 16, 2009 21:38:55 GMT -5
Wow a newsletter? Never saw that in a rp forum before, the closest thing to that was just random pms from staff about recent forum activity. I'd like to see ads about joining factions especially if I could advertise my own faction lol.
But what would be posted that members couldn't already find in the boards already? Like real news I think it would have to be something that just happened, not something that occurred sometime ago. I think if you want to keep readers interested in this the newsletter would have to show breaking news that you can't find anywhere else.
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Post by kempff on Aug 16, 2009 22:15:55 GMT -5
Yeah, that's a problem with them.
For all the neat interviews, stats, stories, coverage on quests, etc, it can all be found on forum and relatively quickly. If someone wrote this all up they'd be done fast, so long as they have a work ethic.
That's why you need something new every once and a while or it gets boring. Or you need a very interesting personality. That's why Colbert, O'Reilly, Eddie Izzard, Richard Pryor, Cronkite, Oprah, etc all became popular.
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Post by Rocket! on Aug 16, 2009 22:22:42 GMT -5
I've done some newspapering type stuff. Though it generally only involved me doing book reviews Yahtzee/Zero Punctuation style. With less crudity.
That count as a personality? xD
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Post by kempff on Aug 16, 2009 22:27:28 GMT -5
Yahtzee is a one man destruction Windows Movie Maker image creator annihilation lightning bolt of deadly hilarious criticism THAT GOES SO F$@%^#$ fast your eyes pop out and you cry from laughter.
Plus, we'd never had something like him on the interwebs.
So, kinda be hard to imitate him and be seen as original.
But, counts as Faux personality. I don't think he'd had gotten the job if his personality and videos weren't so unique.
Is there really a consensus idea of what this would actually do?
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I did post in shades of grey if anyone even remembers that lmao