assume the staff is covering nothing btw. if someone even wants to take shit I've started over I'm all in favor of that as long as you do at least as good as I would have, and hopefully better as I'm a terrible staffer all things considered. people have ideas but god if someone is going to complain THEY HAD ONE IDEA LIKE I DID!!!



I'M OUT OF HTEM NOW!!!

yeah there's a bigger problem than possible repetitiveness going on.

hey!  the joke wasn't very funny to begin with!  go away man.

i could have written a stupid article about naruto every week and gotten more views than all the Alabaster trade: History of Abu-jahib economy Average game: A review regardless of content because interesting pages get spread by word of mouth and apparently everyone is ashamed of GAMING world

like even if you knew i was joking you should have taken it at face value and held me to it. but that's cool, i didn't want to write it anyway, thought it'd help you guys out since me and DS are the head naruto authority here. maybe you can ask DS to write some articles about naruto in finnish once you realise what a mistake you've made.

Alright, well I wouldn't mind doing a few articles on puzzle design and procedural dungeon generation ala rouge so maybe these would be good topics??

Oh okay.  I thought that maybe there were more staffers than that, and if people have very different hours then I guess the staff forum is all we really need.  

Still thinking on that name change.  You can temporarily set it back to Bled atm.

I'm sure a lot of people are in the same situation as me: we want to help out but have school/work and other shit that prevents us from being reliable permanent staff. I mean, it is pretty easy to write an article once every few weeks in your spare time but once you're under the "journalistic" pressure to meet deadlines and write regularly it becomes a lot more difficult. But you guys aren't idiots so you already know that.

I'm assuming you guys are only, as steel said, ANGRY but not necessarily surprised. People promising to submit any sort of writing, music, or other artistic work and then disappearing is not a NEW phenomena. Hell, I've done it a few times. I admit I did not keep up much with the varying amount of active staff members, but one explanation I can offer is that as one or two or a few staff drop out it increases the frequency at which current staff have to produce new articles/reviews. Someone may have signed up with an assumed estimate that they would only have to submit something once every two weeks, but when 20 staff members drops to 15 or 10, the remaining guys realize they have a lot more work to do and no longer have the means/motivation to continue their job! It's domino effect from there.

Not trying to be sarcastic, but what are hoping will come out of this topic? The called-out dudes will be overcome with some e-shame and submit an article or two? A couple people might send an app and join the crew but unless you can find some untapped source of GW's who are reliable, can write decently, and have time to spare they are probably not going to stick around for long!

topics have goals much like ambitious teenagers and soccers.

everyone seemingly wants GW to succeed but won't actually do anything to fix it. just saying "guass i'll give it a shot..." isn't really good enough, this is something that is hard for a lot of people to accept here. everyone fucked up here by letting GW slide down like this. we have to try twice as hard if we want to get back the kind of status GW used to have, and beyond that as well. don't you guys remember that we used to have an advertising forum because we had so many adverts here? GW is the kind of site now that needs to advertise on other sites. that's how the situation is. steel is right about nearly everyone at one point saying GOTTA CHIP IN but then did absolutely nothing when given the chance.

we could really use reviews, and i'm pretty sure practically everyone here has played an indie game. if you ever played something noteworthy, write up a review for it and submit it to the mainsite. you do not have to be staff to do this. articles are the same deal. there has to be at least one topic you are interested in that you could write about. don't try and force yourself to write an article just for the sake of writing one. write about something you think needs more attention or something you find interesting. i'd also like to point silver4donuts submitted an article and it's good. if he can do it, anyone can.

the commitment you make is entirely up to you. i've never been big on titles, you don't need to have a GREEN STAFF NAME to be staff. just write a lot of articles and you'll happen to be that. if you don't have the time or enough topics you'd like to cover then just do whatever you can.

what the fuck is your problem fatty this ain't no time for jokes

nah but for reelz tho it would be cool if someone would do an article promoting/reviewing recent gwer released albums.

I was also thinking about writing articles about shipping and stuff but I'm probably going to wait until I get another job at sea and then I'll write a few articles about where I went and shit.

phew... it's a good thing i wrote an article or i'd be up there too. ps read it ya goofs! it's pretty good! nobody read it!

chef your shit games articles are actually very good! : )

okay so I have said a couple of times that I'd like to write some football articles but firstly I don't know how much readership there'd actually be and secondly I wouldn't know how to apply to be an article writer!

asdf I guess I have not been keeping up with the new main site

nah but for reelz tho it would be cool if someone would do an article promoting/reviewing recent gwer released albums.

I was also thinking about writing articles about shipping and stuff but I'm probably going to wait until I get another job at sea and then I'll write a few articles about where I went and shit.

I've done two of these in the last 6 months. whoops

hahaha jesus christ i had no idea there was an article submission form. i did not ever go to the mainsite until last week when i realized i could not find the articles on the forum index.