Forgive me if this is in the wrong place or answered elsewhere. Is there any place to discuss the articles that appear on the home page? I was curious because that one about underground pyramids in Crimea was giving my BS detector DIF-flashbacks.

ImpureEnvelopeCrusher wrote:
Choose a section that looks most relevant (or just general if it doesn't seem right) and just go for it

I'm guessing esoteric zone-history section in this instance.

Lately they have been fucking hilarious: like the one about the ITCCS being a valid court that has authority rather than the work of Canadian con artist Kevin D. Annett.

Just start a thread, and I will link it in the story

btw, if you have any interesting relevant articles, pm me the link, i'll post them.

Can anyone post articles, or do we have to go through you?

mikey mikey wrote:

There was supposed to be a wee news team but so far I think only marina's stepped up... so get joining the newsteam mikey

psketti wrote:
I'm happpy with that Psketts - I can't see anything wrong with an editorial policy for articles or info on the front page, so to speak. After all it is the window to the world in that articles that appear there will influence their initial perception of what SZ is about.

ETA: Having one person, in this case Marina, as the first point of call for posting articles makes sense to me. Otherwise we face a situation where people like wots his name have access to the forums showcase.

I'll join the news team.

If I may

mikey mikey wrote:
I vote for you to join News at Ten Mikey...as long as it's not crap not that it would be....

Well I am just taking psketti up on her offer

So unless there is any objection....

I am trying to keep on top of posting the articles on the FB page now if that's of any use.

Or.....

Anyone wishing to discuss an article, make a thread in Today's News, link to the SZ link to the article and discuss away!

I think the whole article thing allows stories to be associated with the site without any comment or criticism alongside it.

Why do we need it?

mikey mikey wrote:

Well the original idea was to have a team so that the personal view aspect would be removed due to it being discussed as team before publishing. The team was;

Marina
Tackler
Silva
Peril - but he was going to be covering things from a satirical slant daily mash style.

I was gonna link you to a couple of threads there mikey but it seems I dont have persmission to access them

I do agree though that it needs more than one to write the articles otherwise the articles are just posts and one persons opinion.

I agree sketti, besides they are not supposed to be in your face like they are now on front page, rather have the welcome post big and the articles as thumbnail that ya can zoom/click.
novum said he'd sort it, but under the circumstances it's understandable why takes so long, and I'm only preparing them to have as many when that's sorted considering nobody else that agreed to wants to do that anymore.
oh, and i think mikey is just being a pain for the sake of it, i offended his beloved pope now he's chasing me all over the forum.

marina wrote:
Huh?

mikey mikey wrote:
Oh I get it. You're annoyed by this, are you?

My posting history here shows that I do not take any offence to valid criticism of the pope, the RCC and Xtianity. In fact I often join in. I was just pointing out that this fellow is a judicial authority of one who had previously been exposed as a con man who takes people's money and runs.

Should have done your homework, Marina.

I think it adds something to the site, it's good to see the front page changing when you first log on and I try to browse what has been posted. It would be good if more people could do it, I would have put my name forward, but I don't have much time to post and I'd rather post anything I come across on the forum.