   Back to work...
  Greetings, fellow denizens of the News Team HQ. Holidays are over and it is back to work for me. Seeing as there are a couple of news items up already today I'm going to do some admin guffins. Unfortunately, MSN has gone FUBAR so I can't talk to any of you directly.I'll go through recent posts and add relevant stuff to the FAQ (e.g. link to PR list, procedure for adding a message to rejected news items) and then I'll compile a list of up-to-date action/discussion points for the next News Team meeting.I will also go through the rejected news items for May and delete the ones that have a posted reason for the rejection [These will still be accessible if we have to find the reason, it just means they won't be cluttering the top of the news discussion forum making it easier to see the new submissions]
Any chance that submitting a "Disapprove" moderation will actually do something other than closing the thread and deleting all replies? It's easy to miss the subtle change to the icon on a 20" iMac display.;Quote:Original post by stimarcoAny chance that submitting a "Disapprove" moderation will actually do something other than closing the thread and deleting all replies? It's easy to miss the subtle change to the icon on a 20" iMac display.According to Kevin the "Disapprove" option has never worked, it certainly doesn't remove the NOT YET APPROVED tag or move it from the top of the forum. That's why we have to use the delete-then-approve procedure that Michalson told us about. It may not be worth asking the Dev team to look into it if we are wanting a whole new system some time in the near future...   ;  The following changes have been made to the FAQ:Linked to resources rather than try to keep them in sync with the sticky threadLinked to PR sticky threadAdded a note that US English is preferred for news storiesAltered the "Rejecting User Submissions" section to include the posting of an explanatory message in the thread of the news submissionAdded superpig to a new contact list as "Development Team Liason"Added a section explaining how to add suggestions for sitewide improvements (i.e. non-news) to the wiki;Added some points I found in the latest threads to the next meeting agenda:- Editorial and Analysis section- Introduction of a sticky Sickness/holiday thread- Some posting icons don't match on form and front pageAlso included the outstanding actions from the previous meeting.   