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Ray Cassick20-Feb-09 6:44
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Ray Cassick20-Feb-09 3:28
Ray Cassick20-Feb-09 3:28 
So, in an attempt to beat this horse to death yet again, an idea came to me about how we could potentially make article submission just a bit better. At very least stop the offenders from being able to say they did not know what makes a good article, etc...

We have a few articles that details how to write a good article around here. We also have a ton of great input from the other writers that take their time top post high quality stuff. The problem is this:

1) It is scattered all over. Yes, I know, you can look for it, but if you don't know its there them...

2) there is nothing that makes a submitter responsible for viewing it before they have the right to submit an article. A lack of enforcement simply breeds ignorance.


So, I propose this. All new accounts, before they are able to submit an article, must go through a short 'class' that shows them what a real article is. This does not have to be something really complicated, but it should be substantial enough to maybe weed out the lamers that are trying to post questions and code snippets as articles. Maybe do a short video in Silverlight that they watch, or at very least a decent writeup on how to write an article, how the submission process works, etc...

...Then, test them on it. Make them go through a simple 10-20 question multiple choice test. Then, if they still create junk have the ability to reset their validation and make them go through it again the next time they try to do submit another article.

Yes, this may discourage people from writing articles a bit, but I think the people that see the real value in the good work will still do it, and the ones that don't, well we can just let them pass by I think.

Thoughts?


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GeneralIssue with printing articles - Orange bar down left of 1st page, and MORE. Pin
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