TAY
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Tangerine and I were talking on irc about how a lot of intelligent Stark threads get little to no discussion since they are already "complete" so to speak. Since these threads are already essentially articles, it would make more sense to publish them as just that. So we had the idea of writing articles to be released onto the site at regular intervals (exactly what that interval is we did not decide). Here is a snippet of our conversation:
So what we are proposing is that we begin a sort of Smogon "Scholarly Journal" which has current articles that don't belong on the main page section of the site (i.e. they are not guides), but will hopefully help people to better understand the game and will be interesting to read.
We are asking for two things:
1.) A place to publish these articles on the site.
2.) We need writers. This would obviously be too much for Tangerine and I to handle alone. Tangerine has plenty of ideas regarding what to write about, so you do not have to come up with things to write about yourself (though it would be nice!). Any help we can get will be appreciated.
Here are examples of threads which could be articles:
McGraw's Game Theory
And much more recently:
Offensive Status
Optimal Choice & Team Building
So..thoughts? volunteers?
Code:
[01:05] <Tangerine> why can't smogon have a blog
[01:05] <TAY> lol
[01:05] <Tangerine> like a newspaper
[01:05] <Tangerine> maybe
[01:05] <TAY> chris will say we copied him
[01:05] <Tangerine> have 3~4 articles
[01:05] <Tangerine> each month
[01:05] <Tangerine> about random competitive stuff
[01:05] <Tangerine> like offensive status
[01:05] <Tangerine> etc
[01:05] <TAY> isnt the front page like the newspaper?
[01:06] <Tangerine> not really
[01:06] <Tangerine> that's more like news
[01:06] <TAY> oh you mean like a scholarly journal
[01:06] <Tangerine> yeah
[01:06] <TAY> better analogy imo
[01:06] <Tangerine> that's what i want really
[01:06] <Tangerine> a blog thing
[01:06] <Tangerine> =]
[01:06] <Tangerine> we can have contributors for that too
[01:06] <TAY> well then we could have more contributors too
[01:06] <Tangerine> yup
[01:06] <Tangerine> i have a lot of crazy ideas for the site that i dont have time to do
[01:06] <Tangerine> lol
[01:06] <Tangerine> i mean your offensive status
[01:06] <Tangerine> rather than making it into a discussion
[01:07] <Tangerine> you can just write about it into a mini article like my thread
[01:07] <Tangerine> etc
[01:07] <TAY> just write about it
[01:07] <Tangerine> yup
[01:07] <Tangerine> and then we can post them in stark
[01:07] <Tangerine> and make a "promoting discussion" version
[01:07] <Tangerine> like your probability of hax thread
[01:07] <Tangerine> would be a very good article for that
[01:07] <Tangerine> etc
[01:08] <Tangerine> basically its for things that are not important enough to be on the site but are still interesting
[01:08] <TAY> well
[01:08] <Tangerine> like McGraw's game theory posts
[01:08] <TAY> yeah
[01:08] <TAY> well i think we could do it
[01:08] <Tangerine> we need more writers though
[01:08] <Tangerine> that's the biggest thing
[01:08] <Tangerine> lol
[01:09] <TAY> well that shouldnt be too hard
[01:09] <TAY> chris is me would probably help out
[01:09] <Tangerine> lol no
[01:09] <Tangerine> he shouldn't be writing imo
[01:09] <TAY> what!?!?
[01:09] <Tangerine> he doenst know what he's doing
[01:09] <TAY> i hope you know i was joking lol
[01:09] <Tangerine> oh okay
[01:09] <Tangerine> lol
[01:09] <Tangerine> anyway
[01:09] <Tangerine> there are a lot of good "stark" threads
[01:09] <Tangerine> that needs more visibility
[01:09] <Tangerine> etc
[01:10] <Tangerine> if people want to write i can give them topics to write about etc
[01:10] <Tangerine> i mean
[01:10] <Tangerine> there are so many things i can talk about
We are asking for two things:
1.) A place to publish these articles on the site.
2.) We need writers. This would obviously be too much for Tangerine and I to handle alone. Tangerine has plenty of ideas regarding what to write about, so you do not have to come up with things to write about yourself (though it would be nice!). Any help we can get will be appreciated.
Here are examples of threads which could be articles:
McGraw's Game Theory
And much more recently:
Offensive Status
Optimal Choice & Team Building
So..thoughts? volunteers?