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Published in China - First steps in eDominations - 10 - 20 Apr 20 03:43

Citizens of the World, 

Today I write to you and to our Admin as well. 

I would not, but I think that situation is getting worse every new day and there must be the way to stop this madness. 
I appreciate Admins work in all the modules all around the game. We have many new things and so on. 
But this time I will not focus on that but on a very specific module in the game. Journalism.  We all know how hard is to make people read something if they simply do not care about that. They are just lazy sometimes and a long articles are the last thing they need. But that is why if you write good articles which are interesting there are many people who will actually read and that is satisfaction for the both, readers and writers. 

Considering the fact that many players has left the game for some period of time, it ended up with very few, usually low quality articles. Admin of course decided to try any thing possible to revive this part of his game. But with the comeback of some players, journalism became alive one more time. And people who write articles I believe doesnt need any rewards or motivation except the readers opinions and feedback. Anyway I can not say that the reward is not good, or maybe motivational. But that reward - Medal and 50 gold prize is meant to be kind of a SPECIAL  When Admin first introduced it I said it will be exploited by many players and some bad articles will get the rewards no matter if they dont deserve it. And I believed so, until I saw that it is not important if you write quality articles or not the one with the most votes will get the PRESTIGIOUS medal. Or it is not that prestigious after all ? 

I just wanna ask players who write articles how do you feel about it? What do you think when you buy votes and get the medal? Or do you just care about gold?

Few things I think Admins did wrong in the past period of time. 
First comments, then votes for the articles as part of the Daily Tasks. 
This brings us nothing good, and it will keep destroying the Journalism. What did you want to achieve with this one? People will just vote random articles and they will not READ. READ is the crucial part of the journalism. What is the point if someone just vote for an article without even knowing what is it about ? 
Day by day I can see more and more, I must say S H I T T Y articles, in the newspapers all around the world. You said guys that you will read them and so on, but I dont think so. if you do and I am wrong I am sorry. 
If you really want to revive this module, you must avoid these kind of promotions and motivations. They are everything but good. Not that they will not revive the module, they will destroy it and VERY FAST. 


What are my ideas about this as well ? 

First of all we should set some rules about writing articles, and we need someone from Admin team to really check them before you guys give someone a medal. 
When I say rules, I will write them like proposition for you what to write about citizens.  If you do not know what to write be patient and wait for an inspiration. 
This is eWolrd, and we are all characters in it. We should act like that and write things only related to our eWorld, not a real one. 

Text articles - it does not matter if long or short ones, as long as they cover any topic game related. And believe me there are many to write about, a lot of possibilities for everyone of us. The best thing with writing an article is when you start the conversation or the debate in the comments, then at least you know someone has actually read your article. Nothing else matters. 

Meme articles - KEEP them game related, funny things are always welcome but do not make nonsense or something just to be made. At least in the game we have always had a lot of situations meme worthy. Do not make memes, or post pictures from the internet about non related stuff to this game. I believe we all know that this is not facebook or some chat, we dont care about these articles. 

Real Life articles - Sometimes it is good to inform people about some stuff, but only if that is maybe something you find interesting. If you write things that are from RL do not use Wikipedia or some sites like that to just copy paste your articles. It is easier to leave the link and who want will read it. Instead try to present something with your own words. It is always useful when you learn something new, but presented in writers own style. So we know you spent the time and focus on that. 

Anyway I do not want to be offensive but when you have good informational article about Daily tasks and you know someone at least tried to explain something to new players overshadowed by some article about something not even game related just because of the spam and buying votes, it is not a really good feeling. 


After all we can all work together, with Admin of course and really fix this module, or wait it dies and spam continues.
What is your choice ? 

Concerned citizen of the New World. 

Xiahou Dun 
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Comments (10)

20 Apr 20 03:45
Karafloum

1st

20 Apr 20 03:46
conquerer

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20 Apr 20 03:52
cinko

We need more ero articles!

20 Apr 20 03:54
BannerLord

So you are simply saying that in 2020 where TikTok is something, reddit is another thing and all the shit content being loved by humanity will not be valid in here ? people give a zero about published articles as long as they do not need that information. Neither admins nor you can change this fact. something funny, something troll, something easy is always overpopular and it will always be. Why the heck a system called facebook one of the most worthed platform ever ? you just snipe your ing friends boobs, ass pictures and get the gossip out of that. Rewarding players is good, pushing them towards to the articles and creating slightly better chance to increased read ratio is also good. I read all the nonsense and good articles, i do care voting the one i see its worthed. People have 24h to vote an article to complete the quest. do not search for the sense where it its not exist just keep sharing your content for the ones loves to read :)

20 Apr 20 03:54
ktab

Important articles of the game gets constantly buried under tones of trash. NAP agreements, tutorials, interesting articles and analysies. People that actually work see their work going to waste. A serious demotivation factor that will bring at journalism the exact opposite results than the initial ones. People that should, will stop writing

20 Apr 20 03:58
Corvus Corax

Is it popular if you must buy votes to get it to top ? Is that funny to anyone or everyone just votes for money and daily task. I bet majority of them didnt even see the article they voted for. And What are you talking about tik tok, this is not a tik tok nor reddit obviously. If admin wanted to make that kind of site, he should. This is not that. Reward for what ? Copy paste article from reddit ? What exactly do you reward him for ?

20 Apr 20 04:07
Karsa Orlong

along with all the good deeds, we should recognize what admins messed up and that part of the game is messed up atm

20 Apr 20 07:06
boskesurr

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20 Apr 20 08:17
smajli

Very good article! This spamming should stop. We must admit that admin at least tried, but sadly failed to reach the goal he had in mind. Fixed one hole in the barrel and created another one. If there were not enough quality articles before, now there are too many bad articles that are even worse than before.

20 Apr 20 13:48
Aridanra

People can randomly vote or comment, but people will not randomly endorse, especially the purple one.. And there should be an official newspaper for every country/alliance..