Hiring: News admin

[Admins]

A lot of fun stuff and updates are happening on Graal servers but not a lot of news are added to graal.net (and the serverlist news). For improving that situation it would be good to have some dedicated staff who talk to server staff to being news to graal.net. This is mainly a helper position and will eventually get global level 1 (RC) to be able to talk to staff. The person who is managing this should be someone who comes along nicely with the staff on servers.

Some questions for applicants:
1. What is your Graal account name?
2. Do you have gold?
3. What is your past experience? (Please post only relevant experience such as creation of news, and updates on graal.net)
4. What would you like to do if given the position?
5. Why should you be given the position over the other applicants?

[Rufus]

Wow, I know the most perfect person for that position. Are you asking for applications via the forums, or would it be possible to send an e-mail?

[Pimmeh]

Originally Posted by Rufus

Wow, I know the most perfect person for that position. Are you asking for applications via the forums, or would it be possible to send an e-mail?

I just posted a topic.

[Dan]

Good luck for every applicant.

[Crono]

I hope Door applies, she would be perfect.

[Darlene159]

Originally Posted by Crono

I hope Door applies, she would be perfect.

I don't. If someone angers her, she might do what she did on the forums.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Darlene159

I don't. If someone angers her, she might do what she did on the forums.

Do you think she'll do that to the primary school message system that she works for too, eventually? What about the college newspaper she wrote articles for? What about the Graal wiki articles she has already written? The news she often submits? Sounds like a pretty bad association to her character you've got there.

[Darlene159]

Originally Posted by Rufus

Do you think she'll do that to the primary school message system that she works for too, eventually? What about the college newspaper she wrote articles for? What about the Graal wiki articles she has already written? The news she often submits? Sounds like a pretty bad association to her character you've got there.

The horrible things she said about unixmad on the forums is what I saw. Stefan should look into all histories of applicants, including behavior on the forums.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Darlene159

The horrible things she said about unixmad on the forums is what I saw. Stefan should look into all histories of applicants, including behavior on the forums.

That's a false representation of why she was banned, because I have never seen her post a single thing about unixmad. Now you're just getting desperate love.

[Chompy]

I'm quite confused here. Will there be one person to be the "News Admin", or a whole team who handle news?

[pooper200000]

Originally Posted by Chompy

I'm quite confused here. Will there be hired one person to be the "News Admin", or will there be a team?

Most likely one person as the News Admin. It would also most likely be that News Admin choice as to if they wish to hire a team or conduct gathering news on their own.

[Matt]

Since the the title in Stefans original post is News Admin, i'd assuming only 1 admin.

[Clockwork]

Do we apply here ? :3

[Rufus]

Here's a suggestion for those applying for this position. Not so long ago I was creating a personal statement for University and Master Storm introduced me to the concept of Flesch–Kincaid Readability Tests. The tests are there to provide a review of the readability of text as the title implies, and with Graal being a game that is provided for users of all different ages and backgrounds, the news you should be submitting should be easy to read.

I've ran a couple of the current news posts through the online readability scales (http://labs.translated.net/text-readability/ and http://www.editcentral.com/gwt/com.e...ral.EC/EC.html) and at current the news posts are being rated as average, which just isn't good enough. There are a lot of jargon terms used in the current news articles and as the news is for the players it would be in good form to reduce this and attempt to liven the articles up. I hope that whoever gets the position takes a look at other games and uses this as an opportunity to make our new articles more community based, rather than at current where it all seems a little cheesy or too technical.

[Pimmeh]

Originally Posted by Readability analyzer

HARD: this text contains either long sentences and/or long or uncommon words. This implies a low readability index. By modifying the selection of words and the sentence lengths the readability can be easily improved.

AVERAGE: the difficulty of the text seems to be average. The majority of well-written content falls into this category.

EASY: This text is easy to read. Easy to read, well-written documents can be easily understood by audiences with any education level.

Average equals good, Rufus. You cannot expect all Graal users to be literary genii.