News Academy?

[Klaus-Dieter]

Hello everybody!

The last days were - apart from the great Christmas holidays where you hopefully got a lot of (Lego) gifts, too - some very exciting days where we got a lot of new information about new sets for next year's summer.

After I had read all this information I thought that it would be right to reward all people which bring and brought us news about new sets, shared us pics, posted links and gave us price and availability informations with an award in the from of creating a groop called "News Academy" (similar to the Reviews Academy) which members then would have a sign with an "N" on it in their avatar (similar to the "R" for the Reviews Academy). These people namely have to work hard in order to get this information/these pics - and often it's not without riscs for them.

Of course this award should not be given immediately - the news must firstly be proofed. But at the latest after we have seen the sets appearing on Lego S@H we know if the information/pic(s) were right. And then these members would get member of the "News Academy".

I don't know how much work that would be for our admins which have to do a lot of hard work anyway - and which they do imo great. So it mainly would be their decision whether they wnat/can do something like that. But I thought that firstly it would be interesting to know how the general attitude towards my idea is.

So please vote!

Thanks, happy holidays and a happy new year!

Klaus-Dieter

Edited December 26, 2008 by Klaus-Dieter

[Lt. Col. Thok]

I agree, such an idea would be good; however, considering that the volume of news is, at times, low, I believe that an academy would not be good; perhaps...a guild, only for people who get good news.

[Erdbeereis]

While I don't think this is a terrible idea, I think it just wouldn't work too well. Mainly beacause often the people who post it here technically weren't the first to find it.

Also, this may increase the amount of people who don't check if a certain news item has already been posted, because they want to increase their respective "news count", and then we'll see the same thing posted numerous times, which will just cause trouble.

It is an interesting idea though.

[xenologer]

Isn't most prerelease set info either:

Intentional leaks by TLC to spur interest.

Leaks from priveleged people like employees who are breaking their NDA agreements.

It seems to me that the ability to provide such information is just a matter of who you are and what connections you have. It's not exactly something that can be learned in an 'academy'.

So, I don't see the point...

[JimBee]

Not a bad idea, but it's a little...useless. I mean, people get lucky finding news and posting it here, or by finding it (like in a catalog) themselves. If you really have a knack for being right about rumors and such, you could be like Sam89, a Shadow Admin (who is a master at finding and confirming news and rumors).

So, no, I don't think this is a good idea. Besides, how could the "News Academy" work like the RA? You can't really be taught to find good news, it's just luck and natural snooping skills.

[Siegfried]

Well, sorry to say, I don't like the idea. Why? Largley becasue as Erdbeereis1 said, we get enough people posting old news as they were in such a hurry to be "first". This would make it worse.

People who post great news tend to be rewarded with titles anyway...

(This was in the wrong forum too...)

[Eskallon]

I don't think this is a very good idea as finding new news can be just luck or you could be breaking rules if you work for the lego company. Also as others have said you can not learn how to find correct news.

[Buttons]

I agree with Sinner and Erdbeereis 1. Also as a sidenote, I bet there is someone who works at a toy store and takes photographs of the order catolouges they get from Lego without letting anyone know apart from the internet.

If this is true this would explain the blurry pictures - Just imagine a snitch worker who is huridly trying to take pictures of 2009 sets as he/she hears their boss coming.

Just a thought.