Make your own news!

[Витой]

It's been a long time since we wrote any news entry on our website. More than two years, to be precise! There are many reasons for that, mainly it's because we simply lost our beta enthusiasm.

So we had an idea - why don't we let the users write the news themselves? And there's definitely something to write about! Some new mods get released, other mods publish media updates, and also some new unseen beta content appears at VCC discord... So now anyone of you can create a thread in the news section of our forum and it will automatically appear on the main page of our website.

Of course there are certain restrictions on what to write and how to write:

• The news entry must be about the cut content. Not strictly Half-Life cut content, but necessarily Valve cut content. After all our website is dedicated to it.
• The news entry should contain...news. No need to write reddit-like threads with crappy memes and questions on "how do I launch maps in beyta???"
• If it's a long text please spend five minutes of your time on proper editing. It's very desirable to use bb codes and properly attach screenshots with them
• The news entry should follow the  forum rules

We'll try this idea as an experiment, initially. If the idea will work and the users will post proper quality news entries - it will be great. If not - well, it's not the first time .

[Bruner]

I personally think that these user generated news posts should probably be approved by moderators or admins first before they go public, just so there isn't the possibility of bad actors just spamming a bunch of bullshit, nonsense, and straight up lies and having it displayed for the whole site to see.

[bruno]

Cool. It will bring life back to the site in one way or another. Obviously just like Bruner said stuff like this must be checked first. Can't wait for the wave of clueless young beta fans trying to make their news articles about discoveries made +5 years ago.

[Витой]

I personally think that these user generated news posts should probably be approved by moderators or admins first before they go public, just so there isn't the possibility of bad actors just spamming a bunch of bullshit, nonsense, and straight up lies and having it displayed for the whole site to see.

Obviously just like Bruner said stuff like this must be checked first.

Yeah, we had these concerns as well. Unfortunately current site's engine doesn't support pre-moderation for newly created threads. But I thought that after all we're pretty small community with no huge ammount of registered users. I think we can handle the situation if someone tries to troll/spam news section manually.