Let's make journalism more fun!
Day 718, 22:07
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by MooN-StaR
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Hello everyone!
This is my first international article and I wanted it to be worth publishing by proposing an interesting offer..
I believe that Newspaper module is the least developed module in eRep. Every citizen who reaches level 8 and has spare 2 gold pieces can become a journalist. Of course freedom of speech and expressing ideas are presented to the citizens by giving them the opportunity to own a newspaper. But we are all aware that some people use their newspapers for evil, malicious or just useless purposes. Opening articles about useless stuff, spamming, trolling, selling commodities, bringing RL issues to eRep, opening newspapers just to gain a Media Mogul Medal are among dozens of other things that are done by just owning a newspaper. Im sure this situation irritates many citizens like me. At this point I came up with some ideas that can make Journalism a more amusing, competitive and truly beneficial feature of eRepublik and I would like to share these ideas with you.
First of all, the amount of gold paid for owning a newspaper should at least be the same amount as owning an organisation account which is 5 golds, so that citizens who really wish to make journalism will dare to pay for it.
The number of articles that one newspaper can publish should be limited. (Such as up to 2 articles per day) After exceeding this limit every newspaper owner will have to pay for each article they publish with increasing amounts of gold. i.e. for the 3rd article: 1 gold, 4th article: 3 gold and 5th article: 5 gold…
To prevent bigger newspapers from taking advantage of this new system, and to prevent them from making excessive propaganda, a publishing fee should be charged from newspapers according to the number of their subscribes. This will also prevent people from becoming fake media moguls. For example, a newspaper with 100 subscribers will pay 0,2 Gold for each article published. For 200 subscribers it will be 0,3 gold, 300 subscribers 0,4 gold, 500 subscribers 0,5 gold.. See chart below.
0-100 subscribes 0 gold
100-200 subscribers 0,2 gold
200-300 subscribers 0,3 gold
300-500 subscribers 0,4 gold
500-1000 subscribers 0,5 gold
1000-2000 subscribers 1 gold
2000+ subscribers 2 gold
Journalists can only see the number of votes given to their article by the people who liked it. It is the number of these votes which promotes the article to “Top Rated” category. Right at this point I have an idea that will encourage journalist to publish better quality articles and to develop an auto-control mechanism. An addition of “Deny” button just below the “Vote” button will allow the readers to vote accordingly if they do not enjoy the article. Addition of this “Deny” button will also allow the journalist to see what percent of their readers didnt enjoy the article, and encourage them to writing better articles. That will be the sole feature of “deny” button and it will not be effective in promoting articles into the “Top Rated“ category.
The offers that I have made so far can make some jurnalists mad, since opening a newspaper, paying for every extra article and for every article they publish will cost gold! However, to promote high quality journalism there should be a way to get the golds back that the journalist spends. When the article gets a pre-defined amount of votes, the publishing fee paid for that article will be returned to the journalist. Moreover, articles with extensive success can also be awarded with extra golds too!
A lot of other features can be added to Newspaper module along with the ones I mentioned. The results of these features will be pleasant for the journalist who really make efforts in creating high quality and unique articles, making journalism more competitive and amusing whereas it will result in decline of number of newspapers whose aims are trolling, spamming and wasting peoples time.
Also, please visit my forum topic regarding this proposal and share your ideas there as well! http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/137551/let-s-make-journalism-more-fun/1#post1530007
Please don’t forget to vote if you like this article.
Hello everyone!
This is my first international article and I wanted it to be worth publishing by proposing an interesting offer..
I believe that Newspaper module is the least developed module in eRep. Every citizen who reaches level 8 and has spare 2 gold pieces can become a journalist. Of course freedom of speech and expressing ideas are presented to the citizens by giving them the opportunity to own a newspaper. But we are all aware that some people use their newspapers for evil, malicious or just useless purposes. Opening articles about useless stuff, spamming, trolling, selling commodities, bringing RL issues to eRep, opening newspapers just to gain a Media Mogul Medal are among dozens of other things that are done by just owning a newspaper. Im sure this situation irritates many citizens like me. At this point I came up with some ideas that can make Journalism a more amusing, competitive and truly beneficial feature of eRepublik and I would like to share these ideas with you.
First of all, the amount of gold paid for owning a newspaper should at least be the same amount as owning an organisation account which is 5 golds, so that citizens who really wish to make journalism will dare to pay for it.
The number of articles that one newspaper can publish should be limited. (Such as up to 2 articles per day) After exceeding this limit every newspaper owner will have to pay for each article they publish with increasing amounts of gold. i.e. for the 3rd article: 1 gold, 4th article: 3 gold and 5th article: 5 gold…
To prevent bigger newspapers from taking advantage of this new system, and to prevent them from making excessive propaganda, a publishing fee should be charged from newspapers according to the number of their subscribes. This will also prevent people from becoming fake media moguls. For example, a newspaper with 100 subscribers will pay 0,2 Gold for each article published. For 200 subscribers it will be 0,3 gold, 300 subscribers 0,4 gold, 500 subscribers 0,5 gold.. See chart below.
0-100 subscribes 0 gold
100-200 subscribers 0,2 gold
200-300 subscribers 0,3 gold
300-500 subscribers 0,4 gold
500-1000 subscribers 0,5 gold
1000-2000 subscribers 1 gold
2000+ subscribers 2 gold
Journalists can only see the number of votes given to their article by the people who liked it. It is the number of these votes which promotes the article to “Top Rated” category. Right at this point I have an idea that will encourage journalist to publish better quality articles and to develop an auto-control mechanism. An addition of “Deny” button just below the “Vote” button will allow the readers to vote accordingly if they do not enjoy the article. Addition of this “Deny” button will also allow the journalist to see what percent of their readers didnt enjoy the article, and encourage them to writing better articles. That will be the sole feature of “deny” button and it will not be effective in promoting articles into the “Top Rated“ category.
The offers that I have made so far can make some jurnalists mad, since opening a newspaper, paying for every extra article and for every article they publish will cost gold! However, to promote high quality journalism there should be a way to get the golds back that the journalist spends. When the article gets a pre-defined amount of votes, the publishing fee paid for that article will be returned to the journalist. Moreover, articles with extensive success can also be awarded with extra golds too!
A lot of other features can be added to Newspaper module along with the ones I mentioned. The results of these features will be pleasant for the journalist who really make efforts in creating high quality and unique articles, making journalism more competitive and amusing whereas it will result in decline of number of newspapers whose aims are trolling, spamming and wasting peoples time.
Also, please visit my forum topic regarding this proposal and share your ideas there as well! http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/137551/let-s-make-journalism-more-fun/1#post1530007
Please don’t forget to vote if you like this article.
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This is socialism.The entire point of this game is to a person in a capitalist nation and be able to do what ever you want. How about we let the admins leave it how it is because the people who don't right good articles don't get read and aren't subscribed to. It's that simple, we don't need the admins controlling our freedom of speech on here. And if we did have a "deny" button, I would click it on yours.
Addition of an ignore button. 🙂
Players can set up so which newpapers do not want to see.
This will solve all the problems.
interesting ideas
Ignore button? How about going to another nation that doesn't spam? After all the guy who spammed in the first place, did in fact spend two gold to do so, so he is can do as he pleases. Oh, and what you call "spam" might not be readily conclusive to everyone.
While I'm not sure about the details, I think we definitely need reform. And Murchdadh, maybe he's earned the right to write what he wants, but I shouldn't be forced to see it under the "news" section. We definitely need an ignore button.
In RL people get paid more for more subscribers and you do get people advertising products through newspapers so I don't agree with your ideas
Its finally your choice what you want to read or you don't want to.
And even if we add those penalties who gets the gold or does it just disappear into thin air which is not good for the economy.
*hits DENY button on this article* \o/
BADGER BADGER BADGER
It may ease the problem of spamming, "fake media moguls". However, in my opinion, the main foucs is how can people easily access to or identify useful information. So I think more sorting methods, like most viewed, most people discussed should be added.
I disagree with this. By having x amount of gold be charged for y amount of people would deter writers from posting information all together, plus the quality of writing could possibly go down to avoid subscribers. That's just my take on it.
What about this idea? I'm new here o i don't really know if this already exists so here it is. How about owner of newspaper could hire staff? This would be like 2nd job in job market. For every article writers could get cash. But if the article sucks, owner fires the write, because every article would cost him gold. How bout this?
ignore buttons r bad mkay
there should be a way to sort articles to interesting and less interesting, a sort of bookmarking feature, but no ignore button
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your ideas aren't the best ones tbh
but yeah I've seen tons of spam papers in eserbia. Some people post an article with just one dot in it. It's really frustrating...
voted & signed.
Tbh I don't think this is such a good system. Yes sometimes the Media is spammed, but the good articles will always find their way to the top somehow. Next to that, almost everything costs Gold and starting a paper already costs Gold, making you pay Gold for releasing some extra articles? And who says people won't use their Orgs?
You worked it out well but I just don't agree with it.
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I dislike spammers, but your ideas of fixing the issue are just horrible...
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If I would be you I would come to eGermany. I've never seen any spam here and so I don't understand your point. But if the points you make are right for your country then I don't think that your proposals are bad.
Horrible idea!! I think the price should stay the same because then nobody would write. And why should it cost money to have freedom of speech at all?
Do you think the Admins are actually going to moderate this either? There to busy banning people for useless things.
subsed
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only people that have citizenship same as authors should be able to deny (unvote) that newspapers.
that would stop enemy countries denying each others articles!
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Voted..
Why the hate for the ignore button? Embrace the ignore button 😃
Voted, already subscribed
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yaxci galdix da!
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Would you have paid 5 gold to write this article?
Mind Blowing!