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Didn't change last time we had a thread on this. Still the same silly news "headlines". Page views sell advertising, and advertising pays the bills. Why this site can't stand solely on it's own due to content is?

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Exactly.

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I offered some time ago to help out the news team in order to get more accurate news, I got out eventually when I realised that what was expected of me was not to get more accurate news or find exclusive information that really interest modellers but to churn out pseudo news at high speed to beat other websites to the punch and generate more ad revenue.

That is sad but more a reflexion on modern economy and contemporary society than on Armorama, just following the times I guess.
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On a positive note, critical postings are not deleted/removed, so at least here you can voice your opinion. You can thank Armorama for this.

Cheers,

Christophe

It's really quite simple: Manufacturer, Scale, Subject. Just put those items in the titles of your news threads.

Yes, it's repetitive and a little dull, but it's informative which is the whole point (or what should be the point).

Just give us the facts so that we, your loyal readers, can decide if we want to know more. Don't make us hunt around or turn over stones to discover the 2 or 3 releases that we find interesting out of the perhaps dozen or so that you might announce in a given day.

A two sentence post that so-and-so has reviewed such-and-such with a link to the review is not ever going to earn a Pulitzer Prize. All the thread title needs to do is to tell us what the product is.

As Joe Friday said: "Just the facts, mam..."

If it's something that we're interested in, we'll read the review. If it's not, we'll skip it and spend our time here looking at something that we are interested in.

As it is right now, I'm like many of the others posting here - I've given up bothering to open news and reviews threads with nonsensical, "whimsical" and uninformative titles. If the intent is to inform and advertise new releases, then the current method is, as far as I'm concerned, ineffective and counter-productive.

And, yes, this topic has been raised SEVERAL times in the past. That should tell the site managers something if they care to listen.

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Yes every newspaper, magazine and online publication should adopt this form of bland title management to suit those who prefer to get all the information in 128 characters. Oh wait... they aren't doing it that way. And neither shall we.

Jim

Also, please keep in mind that many of your more frequent users likely use the "Latest Posts" button instead of clicking on each tab. That doesn't provide the additional information that the staff members are harping about.

Like others, at this point, I just ignore ALL the news and reviews titles.

IN ARMOR/AFV | EDITOR: KEVIN BRANT Ausf.B Coming Soon
News in from MiniArt has some details on the Pz.III Ausf.B that is coming soon.
>> READ MORE

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Yes every newspaper, magazine and online publication should adopt this form of bland title management to suit those who prefer to get all the information in 128 characters. Oh wait... they aren't doing it that way. And neither shall we.

Jim

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That's nonsense.

Nobody wants "all" the information in the title. How is having a scale or manufacturer "all" of the information?

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IN ARMOR/AFV | EDITOR: KEVIN BRANT Ausf.B Coming Soon
News in from MiniArt has some details on the Pz.III Ausf.B that is coming soon.
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Just for peoples information, the post that started all this, if you look on the What's new, it has all the information you need, well other then the scale, but I will talk to Jim about that.

Andrew

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And just think of the number of posts you could have read in the amount of time you have spend trolling this one post.

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And just think of the number of posts you could have read in the amount of time you have spend trolling this one post.

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I can't believe that you just characterized the original poster as a "troll" for his constructive criticism.

That attitude says a lot to me.

As for the titles, we have moved away from the more entertaining vague titles that was experimented with, to something more informative, but as I have mentioned before, I am not going to give away the story in the news title.

Funny how the members can post good subject headers in the forum maybe we should jump on the band wagon, next post header 'tank'

As the topic says I'm getting sick wasting my time checking out posts about something I'm not interested in because the Armorama staffer who posted it was either phishing for more views or just ignorant.

Eg, there has been a few threads of late where the staffer has just posted Ausf X coming soon or ausf x that. Given the wide range of german vehicles that used ausf lettering to have to go into a thread to actually find something basic that should be in the Topic is basically is phishing for page views. If I'm not interested in the item I'm not going to follow the link (even if I did have to go the thread to check out the panzer type being posted about).