Forum:Establishing a weekly news system

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Hey,

So I thought I'd kick start the new forum-based method of community discussions by proposing something myself, with the hope that others weigh in with some input and maybe contribute some of their own ideas.

To get down to business, one thing I feel that we're lacking with is Community news, and news related to The Sims series in general, with only one delivery method per month which only gives a basic outline of what happened the past month and doesn't serve too much in order to keep users notified of what's going on.

With this in mind, I'd like to propose that a weekly news system, delivered by administrators, is implemented. The system would present Community news in one section, with references to active discussion threads on this forum, any active RfA/RfB nominations and really anything that's happened which is community related while another section could present news from The Sims series that's taken place the past week such as new announcements or something major related to an upcoming release.

There are various ways of presenting it, with a news blog being the most familiar and most approachable method, but as we have the whole page to discuss this, we can decide how we want to present weekly news after we've decided whether or not we even want to do this. Note that this isn't designed as a replacement for the newsletter but rather a supplement.

With this, I think it'll do better to serve users and keep them in the loop with what's going on as well as encourage more input within the community. So what does everyone think? Lost Labyrinth • (c) • (b) 15:43, November 4, 2012 (UTC)