| von pumpernickel | 27 Jan 2012 7:58 p.m. PST |
Is it just me or is anyone else noticing that certain parties (ie Wargames Vault) are adding articles to the news in a manner akin to spamming?
Nearly a third of the hobby news is taken up by this one company with articles that could have been, and in my opinion should have been, one article!
Is there no way of moderating this, or at the very least minimising it so as to give everyone a fair crack of the whip? Or should all start to follow the same practice and break their releases into one pack or figure announcements???? |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 27 Jan 2012 8:36 p.m. PST |
1. It isn't spam when they're paying for it – and yes, Wargame Vault is a TMP advertiser. 2. This has been an unusually slow news week, so it's not so much that there are a lot of Wargame Vault stories, but that there's not a lot of anything else! 3. A lot of companies are now using Wargame Vault to publish their products, so you're just going to see them in Hobby News a lot for the foreseeable future. 4. I get the news feed from Wargame Vault. In turn, Wargame Vault doesn't determine what gets published when on their website – that's decided by the publishers themselves. So there's no way on my end to combine stories, since I don't know what else will "come down the pike" in the next four or eight or twelve hours. (Though I do combine stories when multiple releases are announced at once, which is what I usually do with MicroMark army list announcements, for instance.) 5. As the editor of TMP, I actually prefer stories NOT to be combined when they involve different wargaming periods, as that interferes with TMP readers being able to filter out the news they're not interested in. So, for example, if someone releases products at the same time for WWII and sci-fi, I prefer to get that as two Hobby News stories rather than one. |
| CPT Jake | 28 Jan 2012 5:06 a.m. PST |
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| epturner | 28 Jan 2012 7:23 a.m. PST |
I like all news stories AND pie… Eric |
| doc mcb | 28 Jan 2012 7:29 a.m. PST |
I like pie too, but alas, I'm on a strict diet just now. But I can still enjoy news stories. |
| Connard Sage | 28 Jan 2012 8:13 a.m. PST |
I like Spam. I like pie too. I don't fancy Spam pie though. |
 John the OFM  | 28 Jan 2012 8:16 a.m. PST |
As Bismarck remarked, you do not want to watch Spam pie being made. |
| Florida Tory | 28 Jan 2012 8:40 a.m. PST |
I appreciate hearing about new Wargames Vault offerings. They have a lot of good stuff. Rick |
| noimtheotherguy | 28 Jan 2012 10:23 a.m. PST |
That was Bismark? I would have thought it was the guy who invented spam pie. |
| FatherOfAllLogic | 28 Jan 2012 11:47 a.m. PST |
Zombie bites man, that is not news. Now, man bites zombie, THAT is news! |
| Twilight Samurai | 28 Jan 2012 9:24 p.m. PST |
I would be more worried if TMP started allowing penis enlargement adds. |
| John the OFM | 28 Jan 2012 9:33 p.m. PST |
It does.
Go to Napoleonic Discussion and hover yor mouse over any "bricole" topic. |
| Grand Duke Natokina | 30 Jan 2012 12:45 p.m. PST |
A fried SPAM sandwich with 2 scoops of rice and a scoop of macaroni salad. |
| Jemima Fawr | 30 Jan 2012 11:51 p.m. PST |
It does seem that since around Christmas there has been a rash of 'articles' (i.e. adverts) by a handful of companies, who seem determined to show us absolutely everything in their back-catalogue as if they are 'new releases'. That's rather tedious. |
| Crusaderminis | 31 Jan 2012 7:44 a.m. PST |
"Or should all start to follow the same practice and break their releases into one pack or figure announcements????" Aren't there two companies doing that already? Rather tedious pretty much sums it up for me. |
