A terrible idea
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by ligtreb
From the latest eRepublik Insider:
In order to decrease the number of articles spamming different countries one small step that will be implemented starting today is that you will be able to publish articles from your citizen account only in the country in which you have citizenship.
This is a terrible idea.
I understand why the admins would want to stop spamming and trolls -- they're annoying. However, this goes way too far.
There are lots of citizens in this game with friends all over the world. Not allowing them to publish in a different country hurts the other countries as much as the citizen.
There are lots of people who have a citizenship solely for anit-Political Take Over reasons, and live most of their e-life in their original country. They should be able to publish in their original country.
Many citizens publish in another country for diplomatic reasons, not every foreign article is spamming or trolling.
This is a global game, a lot of the fun is interacting with people all over the world. That becomes harder if you can't move your newspaper.
The media module is one of my favorite parts of this game, but I fear this rule change will hurt it immensely. I learned about a lot of the foreign newspapers I'm subscribed to because they published an article in the USA, and I know I have many international subscribers who may have seen an article I published in Canada, Croatia, India, Poland, Serbia, Spain or the U.K.
There are ways to stop spamming and trolling without eliminating the ability to publish in another country.
You can limit people to 1-2 articles per day.
You can limit newspaper moves to 1-2 per week.
You can charge a citizen gold to move their newspaper.
You can allow only citizens of a the country the article was published on to vote on articles (so trolls don't get into the Top 5).
I thought of those off the top of my head, and all would help the problem much more than the idea the admins came up with without taking away a citizen's ability to publish elsewhere.
I ask those of you who agree with me to please comment in support, and hope the admins see my article and the others who agree with me like Joe Newton.
Signing these open letters couldn't hurt either:
http://forum.erepublik.com/showthread.php/103785-Open-letter-LET-US-PUBLISH-ANYWHERE?p=1297767#post1297767
http://forum.erepublik.com/showthread.php/103783-Do-you-want-the-admins-to-change-the-media-back
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true...votado !
People will have to globally advertise = more gold for admins
Agreed
voted
Agreed. I enjoy reading foreign articles and most of the time my exposure to them was because they posted one in our media at some point.
voted
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/this-is-eden--1542364/1/20
VOTE THX !
HAIL EDEN !!!
"You can allow only citizens of a the country the article was published on to vote on articles (so trolls don't get into the Top 5)."
This.
this is dumb, protest this shiz!!
Voted, there are other things they should fix, this is not a big problem.
Signed so hard I'm bleeding on the petition!
In soviet eRepublik. Media read you!
Agreed! Admins, stop making ridiculous changes that destroy the game and the community!
You can limit newspaper moves to 1-2 per week + charge a citizen gold to move their newspaper after.
Great article as always
I agree! This is a ridiculous new rule, that seriously hinders game-play and the sharing of information across multiple countries.
Admin FAIL!
agreed
Support. Well said.
Did they simply pull something out of their butts for lulz?
Freedom of press!
Agreed
voted
Couldn't agree with you more. MMM projects can't work, communication with the general public of a friendly nation is now dead...'tis a joke a half.
Voted.
Trolling your articles puts bread on my table.
Stop gold-eater admins!
Absolutely.
True.
You is right.
I have more voters on Brazil than CSR.
Voted and supported!
100 hundred per cent right ligtreb
V+S
Keep writin' ligtreb
agreed
Agreed
agreed voted terrible ideas as of late. just like the bonus for doing the only thing the game offers to date.
maybe a solution : allow to publish everywhere, allow the president to delete foreign articles. It can work, but I'm not sure that it will be only benefits.
Voted and subscribed. Media helps make a global community.
Agreed and voted!
Added 200 votes due to both truth, and to cleanse our Top 5.
Great idea 🙂
Completely ludicrous. It's like the developers spend hours brainstorming ideas and then pick the worst one they can.
they did this bcs of serbian spam with that stupid article, the only solution is not to delete article like those, nor to give them FP, its to delete their complete newspapers so they lose all subscribers and have to pay again
Zelja, your hate for people from Serbia is immense...
"You can limit people to 1-2 articles per day."
Improve quality too. Like that idea.
I agree this idea isn't a great one. However instead make it possible to have the countries leadership the ability of letting an article be allowed in their country for readers might be a better choice. Though it sounds crappy as well, like China deciding what it's citizens can read on google, it at least allows for some chance of readers for foreign articles. The "spammers" will find ways to get their crap posted by a US citizen or a dupe account of some sort. The spammers and real people we want to keep out will find a way in. While those who really do have something good to say will be shut out.
- TheNorm
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Ligtreb's ideas here are far more creative and would fix the problem far better than what the Admin is intending. Please think about those suggestions.
V&S
Admins want more ads -> more gold. Also, there's a chance they will bring back the possibility to post in different countries but you'll probably have to pay for it -> even more gold. Everything's about gold in this game...
"you will be able to publish articles from your citizen account only in the country in which you have citizenship."
so, whats with co-accounts newspapers??
agree
voted the articles make this game the social experience it is instead of 2 clicker, i thought that was obvious