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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
Anything that contributes to the spirit of the community is something that contributes to PA. Or did you think that initiatives like ng-gallery.net dragged people away from the game?
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The portals not supposed to be something thats there as a community spirit building tool, its there to portray a professional product that captures potential players imagination, which is an illusion that none quality controlled blog that are basically offtopic instantly shatters.
Just look at the articles on the old portal for example
- We have Kal posting about being sent on management courses and the lack of access to PPV movies and mini bars in hotels
- myk about birthdays, uni, drinking and such like
- Squishy about going to poland, sniffer dogs thinking hes a drug smuggler and then drinking
- Fiery mainly about the various hassles of being a mum
and thats just from PATeam. While most of them arent too bad a read, Fierys especially are really well written the amount of info about whats being done with the game in minute and from it you really only get that PATeam spend almost all their time parting and drinking
And if we look at Managerleague and their blog system we see that alot of the blogs on their portal fall into the same kind of style
Now I'm not saying there isnt a place for things like this that, as we see with the forums there quite clearly is a market and a need for community spirit building tools, the same goes for things like ng-gallery but it just doesn't belong on an official portal. Its either something that the best of it belongs on the forums, is a community project much like the PAwiki or not be as part of the portal but as seperate site under the PA banner