Amiga.org news are less and less Amiga related

[redrumloa]

cdfr wrote:
Is there no moderation mechanism ?
If I submit news about fishing will it go live ?  :-o

Oh heck no. I've posted a few news items that never made it. In hind sight they probably shouldn't have. The moderators here do an excelent job. As soon as there is more Amiga specific news the volume will pick up.

[Kees]

erm .. see if all posts there are amiga related ... also see if we have posted some of the stuff aswell ...

Next to that .. we also have forums where some of the 'news' is beeing discussed .. I think we cover almost everything .. and if you disagree .. feel free to submit :-)

[Kees]

Oh heck no. I've posted a few news items that never made it.

hehe .. thats because you're a crappy newsposter..   ;-)

joke

[alx]

I'm happy with major tech stories being posted if there's a lack of more Amiga-related news for the day.

But is there any way to have an option so users can filter out non-Amiga content if they want to (ie hide news in a "non-Amiga" topic)?

[Kees]

erm .. it might be possible .. but at this point .. we're not going to do such a thing ... sorry ... :-)

[Kees]

Here is some news ... www.amiga.com seems to be down ... :-(

Edit - And its back up  :-)

[GadgetMaster]

Kees wrote:
hehe .. thats because you're a crappy newsposter..   ;-)

joke

To be fair Red has the second highest amount of accepted news submissions.

The title for the highest amount of news submissions is held by a certain individual whos identity I shall not divulge lest his lack of a life become too apparent. Don't bother checking because you won't find that info in the top members list anymore due to his relatively low post count in other categories. :-P

I suggest that the qualifying criteria for top members should be revised with a higher point system for news posters as an incentive.

[odin]

amiga.com down

Yup, indeed down.

Oh no! Not again! They must be finally bust now!


;-)

[Kees]

You should know how many submissions we had to delete .. 5 a day i think .. hehe  ;-)

[takemehomegrandma]

@ cdfr

I quickly went through the last 20 news posts here and 15 of these are IMO very Amiga related:

fxPAINT 2.02 available
"Amiga Arena History" presentation online
Magazine Obligement 41 now out
Amiga Arena: Jubilee Special offer together with e.p.i.c. interactive
Beatblox 1.0 - 060 fix by Up Rough Released!
OS4 Screenshot Running AmIRC
Pegasos Event in Washington, DC This Weekend!
New Amiga Sound App From Up Rough Soundsystem Out!
Computer City October News
The Faces of Amiga.org
Amiga Freunde Ries Page Online
Amiga Arena Fullversion - Virtual Karting II
More BAS Photo's
AMIGAplus 10/2003: Netted
MorphOS Officially Ready for IBM Technology

... and 5 is perhaps not strictly "Amiga" related, but kind of interesting to many people anyway:

The New Mozilla - kind of interesting, since Mozilla for Amiga might actually happen some day

X86-64 vs G5 - kind of interesting, since a Pegasos with G5 has been announced, and I guess that an A1 G5 will come too in the future

Israel bans Microsoft Software - news like these are signs of openings for alternative computer systems

Firm sues Microsoft over music download service - OK, perhaps not very Amiga related

Pegasos Platform Gets More Linux Support - interesting to many people here that owns or in a near future will own a Pegasos

So I do not agree with you, and I really can't say what you base your observations on. And I don't see any problems here whatsoever. My feeling is that most news posted here are indeed Amiga related. If it is the *quantity* of news items you are questioning, how about posting some news yourself?

[Kees]

Here is more Amiga related news .. :-)

[meerschaum]

ya know for the first time I couldnt agree more, why dont you guys let Rich Woods post his "news" right up on the front there???, it'd be interesting to read

[Kees]

We posted a story about the Amiga Inc situation a while ago ... and to be honest ... the posts that apear on ANN and Moobunny (no offend to the sites intended) always result into warzones .. something that I'm not a big fan off ... Next to that .. i find the pictures that Rich Woods took and uploaded from the Amiga Inc employees houses and cars rather disgusting.

we will post the result of the lawsuit ...

[JoannaK]

Kees: About news... Is there any concerning this Amiga.org magazine?

[Kees]

yeah .. we'll go online soon .. heh .. sorry to keep you waiting  ;-)

[amigamad]

If you can find amiga related news then submit it. If you cant then technology still advancing so posting news about something that is not amiga related still has importance .a lot more visitors of this site use pc ,s than amigas.

And amiga.com is working for me so that last 100 dollars must now be spent. :-)