Credit Where Credit Is Due

[WhiteZero]

I have a very simple request to make to the News Posters:
Please take a few extra keystrokes and credit the forum member that originaly posted the update about the MOD/whatever that you made news about.

Thanks.

 

[The Mullinator]

As someone who has never posted news about a MOD/whatever I also agree with this. Its always nice to give credit. Of course things get hazy however if a news item is posted and the poster had no idea that someone had already created a thread giving the same news.

 

[GonzoBabbleshit]

I'm sure there are plenty of occasions where a few people have tried remind the staff of the same bit of news though, what then?

I've emailed news in quite a few times, I can't say I really mind if I get a mention...I don't do it for the glory! It was nice to get a mention once though!

 

[CrazyHarij]

You're anonymous.

 

[xLostx]

Thanks for creating this thread WhiteZero. credit.

 

[WhiteZero]

Alot of sites out there do give atleased some kind of prop for it.
Like, "Thanks to [Insert Name] for the heads up" or something like that.

It's very little to ask and is common courtesy for helping out the news team.
I'm not upset about not getting credited myself, as common as that is, but I feel it's something that should be taken to thought. I know if I were a News Poster I would credit people myself. Perhaps I'm too thoughtful...

xLostx, you never contribute anything to the discussion at hand. It's only ever pointless drivel like "I just own everything" or "are you gay?"; like something I would expect out of a 12 year old with to little homework to do, I hope you can prove more worth than that*. I'd appreciate it if you kept your crap out of my threads, unless you have something usefull to say. Thank you.

* - Denotes a sincere comment.

 

[StardogChampion]

Is it really worth a credit though? All you're doing is posting a link to a website that updated it's news.

In the future, if I made a thread about the HL3 demo being released before it was posted on the front page, why should I get credit?

But maybe you should get credit, I'm just saying...

 

[WhiteZero]

It's helping the team out with their "job". They didnt have to actually goto the offical site and check for an update, they just come across the news here on the local forums while browsing.

Like I said, it's common to give credit on many sites.

 

[xLostx]

xLostx, you never contribute anything to the discussion at hand. It's only ever pointless drivel like "I just own everything" or "are you gay?"; like something I would expect out of a 12 year old with to little homework to do, I hope you can prove more worth than that*. I'd appreciate it if you kept your crap out of my threads, unless you have something usefull to say. Thank you.

lol you looked up like my 10 most recent posts, if you actually looked at the threads they'd make sense. But yeah, I own you noob. ROFLMAONAISEOMGWTFBBQOWNAGE

 

[Solaris]

I actually find you hilariously funny.

 

[Sulkdodds]

It's cause he's the non-thinking-man's Shens.

Quite a lot of the time the news post is made completely indepedent of the forum post. Also quite a lot of the time the mail we recieve is from the mod team themselves, or from the organisation the news is coming from. Half of them are press releases.

None of the emails I've recieved since my mailbox-forwarding thingy was set up have been from independent sources, and in those cases the actual news post is giving credit isn't it?

But yes, although the last time I personally got news from someone on this forum was a very long time ago, we will make sure to bear this in mind.

 

[Pesmerga]

we will make sure to bear this in mind.

A dirty, crack-snorting lie.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Curses. Foiled again!

 

[Sui]

Err.... no?

Simply put, there are a billion and one other places where we find news (I look up the news myself from a huge collection of bookmarks that's ever growing), and even if we do spot a thread made by someone in the Mod section, I don't think the author of this thread requires credit for simply stumbling over a mod update.

Oh yeah, and there's one more reason; News posters are stereotypically gits :E

 

[Chris D]

As a rule, we'll give credit to sites like ModDB and the other HL2 sites if we've seen the news there first.

The rest of it is generally found on the mod's website or sent to us via e-mail by the mod team.