Board Thread:Consensus track/@comment-3186827-20130128181104/@comment-3186827-20130129161311

Ikabite wrote: You've presented us with the situation and expressed your own opinion, but we lack any potential solutions. There is nothing to support. I do agree with your opinion, however. And I might add that the News Team is in need of more staff. I've never seen anyone aside from Milkman on it. One person is hardly a team.

That should be the first step into fixing the problem - getting more people in the team to focus on the news. There must be someone out there, who is both willing to do it and is skilled enaugh.

Personally, I consider my english to be way too bad for a duty like this. This discussion is really just focused on the actual tone and format of the news itself. Does this community wish to see news posted in a chatty, casual manner - or in a more formal tone?

The problems about not having a news team are entirely seperate and need to be dealt with later. It is true that although we have a "News Team", the only member is inactive and hardly posts news, so it falls upon the admins to post news when we see it.

I disagree that first step is getting more news team members, as ground rules and policies need to be set first and foremost. Once they are in place, we can use them to help decide who qualifies as a news team member. We already have a nomination process for applying to the News Team, but it is fairly basic and doesn't cover how news should be presented.