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#21 January 14, 2008, 10:22:55 pm

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Quote from: Esh on January 14, 2008, 10:09:12 pm

Why would you make an update about political opinion anyway?

wouldn't be the first time someone thought to write about shit unrelated to gamemaking, playboy. there've been articles about random bullshit before, or at least the idea of them; not to mention mailbags which, while community-related, are still essentially the same thing in that they have nothing to do with the focal point of the site.

btw who gives a fuck about swearing. like, no one who's going to be writing an article is going to be swearing that profusely anyway, so is it really an issue? HEH PROFESSIONALISM is kind of a dumb/nonsensical point to make, considering a site like sa has people swearing in their articles pretty regularly and they're far more professional than gw will ever be, let alone the gw temp site.

Last Edit: January 14, 2008, 10:26:23 pm by bazookatooth

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#22 January 14, 2008, 10:24:00 pm

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Well, I'm sure that we're allowed to use our own common sense discretion towards writing articles; while I'm sure a random 'shit' or 'fuck' in a good article would be overlooked, the idea here is not to let swear words carry or represent an article, only supplement it. I'm sure every article would be judged on an individual basis and not by some swear counter or the like. Like I said, I'm assuming article writers are left to common sense discretion towards usage of swear words in their work.

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#23 January 14, 2008, 10:28:43 pm

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Quote from: bazookatooth on January 14, 2008, 10:22:55 pm

wouldn't be the first time someone thought to write about shit unrelated to gamemaking, playboy. there've been articles about random bullshit before, or at least the idea of them; not to mention mailbags which, while community-related, are still essentially the same thing in that they have nothing to do with the focal point of the site.

well yeah, mailbags and co would make sense

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#24 January 14, 2008, 10:31:19 pm

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Quote from: Feldschlacht IV on January 14, 2008, 10:24:00 pm

Well, I'm sure that we're allowed to use our own common sense discretion towards writing articles; while I'm sure a random 'shit' or 'fuck' in a good article would be overlooked, the idea here is not to let swear words carry or represent an article, only supplement it. I'm sure every article would be judged on an individual basis and not by some swear counter or the like. Like I said, I'm assuming article writers are left to common sense discretion towards usage of swear words in their work.

I think you are all forgetting this is a tempsite. this is essentially used TO weed out staffers for GW6 (or at least, should be) and clearly they would consider a site primarily visited by young people shouldn't be written like your average Steel Paladine post but setting the limit to begin with seems so contradictory to the idea of a relaxed, almost bloggy atmosphere.

Quote from: Esh on January 14, 2008, 10:28:43 pm

well yeah, mailbags and co would make sense

esh why do you think mailbags and co (co is totes maybe???) are more in line with what people want to see than politics? the presidential primaries thread has more posts than the gw6 thread!

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#25 January 14, 2008, 10:32:02 pm

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Quote from: Esh on January 14, 2008, 10:28:43 pm

well yeah, mailbags and co would make sense

and not politics? fkdlsjfldasmfk man please i know [hope] you are not this dumb. you are on a gaming website and a large portion of your posts concern FILMMAKING and you're seriously going to come into a topic and ask "hey ummmm why would you be posting random non-gaming-related articles on the mainsite exactly????" like there is not clearly a market for miscellaneous articles that do not in some way concern rm2k at gw.

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#26 January 14, 2008, 10:33:58 pm

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Quote from: bazookatooth on January 14, 2008, 10:32:02 pm

and not politics? fkdlsjfldasmfk man please i know [hope] you are not this dumb. you are on a gaming website and a large portion of your posts concern FILMMAKING and you're seriously going to come into a topic and ask "hey ummmm why would you be posting random non-gaming-related articles on the mainsite exactly????" like there is not clearly a market for miscellaneous articles that do not in some way concern rm2k at gw.

rofl what the fuck

all i was asking was why you'd make an article/update about your POLITICAL OPINION

that's clearly not saying NO GUYS NO POLITICS

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#27 January 14, 2008, 10:36:19 pm

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because...I like to think I can write well on politics occasionally? it's something I enjoy?

do...do you know who I am?

ESH THAT MAKES LESS SENSE.

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headphonics

#28 January 14, 2008, 10:36:33 pm

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oh sorry esh

i figured i didn't need to spoon feed the concept of political journalism to you my mistake!!!!

seriously this is even worse than what i initially thought you were saying. w...why would you feel the need to write about... POLITICS???

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#29 January 14, 2008, 10:37:12 pm

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yeah so steel and i are pretty gay it turns out

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#30 January 14, 2008, 10:37:35 pm

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I wouldn't read an article about some policy change or election since you know barely anyone here is actually a reporter and everything would be a repost from some other news site. An opinion piece is like any other opinion piece on GamingWorld, game making ones as well.

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#31 January 14, 2008, 10:39:34 pm

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Quote from: dangerousned on January 14, 2008, 10:36:19 pm

because...I like to think I can write well on politics occasionally? it's something I enjoy?

do...do you know who I am?

ESH THAT MAKES LESS SENSE.

sorry steel clearly I wasn't FOCUSING on you when I wrote that

my bad

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#32 January 14, 2008, 10:56:24 pm

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anyone can write on politics man, I was just saying, are you unaware that is one of my major interests?

I don't understand anything you are saying!!!

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#33 January 14, 2008, 11:02:09 pm

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Okay, let's stop this guys. Like I said, we really want to introduce every aspect of our community and that's why political articles are also fine. I dunno if Esh misunderstood the idea or why he'd start debating the whole thing but yeah, it's fine.

Also, I think some swearing is fine (can make articles a lot more interesting to read actually) but going overboard is not fine. Good thing is that you can't really flame anyone when you post articles on the main site. But yeah, I don't mind if people swear a bit but basically it's not something I want to see if you are writing a more serious article. I think people who'd swear in their articles know exactly what I am talking about.

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#34 January 14, 2008, 11:05:00 pm

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Yeah I'd love to do this but I both DO NOT HAVE A RELIABLE INTERNET CONNECTION and AM NOT HILARIOUS AT ALL so I'm probably not the best candidate.

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#35 January 14, 2008, 11:07:13 pm

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ughhhh part of me wants to say OKAY LEMME GIVE IT A SHOT because I like writing dumb shit a lot but on the other hand I don't feel like it at all GOD.

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#36 January 14, 2008, 11:09:12 pm

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edit: i was countering stuff here but i dont need to seeing as ds already said stuff ho ho

also steel call me on this the next time i post my art on gw's main page

edit2: also im in favour of having policits articles and shit because a) itll make steel shut up here, b) i dont have to read them and c) if they get linked to forum topics i can just stay out of those set topics and never run into it by accident!

edit3: and on the swearing thing, someone with manually select what appears on the front page, ya? if you get articles full of shit you can just not put them on the main page, so, yeah, if that's the case i dont even care if we get articles full of shit, theyll just be filed away where they arent shoved in peoples faces.

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#37 January 14, 2008, 11:25:03 pm

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edit3: and on the swearing thing, someone with manually select what appears on the front page, ya? if you get articles full of shit you can just not put them on the main page, so, yeah, if that's the case i dont even care if we get articles full of shit, theyll just be filed away where they arent shoved in peoples faces.

No. You post a topic in a site article forum (haven't decided on a final name or anything) and it will be linked on the site. Of course we will delete or edit articles if needed.

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#38 January 14, 2008, 11:28:07 pm

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oh ok then. well as long as it's moderated somehow i guess whatever people submit is fine.

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#39 January 14, 2008, 11:31:43 pm

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Quote from: Jester on January 14, 2008, 11:09:12 pm

edit: i was countering stuff here but i dont need to seeing as ds already said stuff ho ho

also steel call me on this the next time i post my art on gw's main page

edit2: also im in favour of having policits articles and shit because a) itll make steel shut up here, b) i dont have to read them and c) if they get linked to forum topics i can just stay out of those set topics and never run into it by accident!

edit3: and on the swearing thing, someone with manually select what appears on the front page, ya? if you get articles full of shit you can just not put them on the main page, so, yeah, if that's the case i dont even care if we get articles full of shit, theyll just be filed away where they arent shoved in peoples faces.

jester you have the unenviable talent of shoving the least amount of thought into the most amount of words I have ever seen.

considering how most of your posts are oneliners...

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#40 January 14, 2008, 11:33:31 pm

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or maybe i just think differently from u...

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