Hx News

[Samantha]

The role of editor wouldn't be good in my opinion, it's only a small job, Charlie and Laura are very capable of handling it.

My articles/news reports aren't perfect, however, I try to make them as grammaticallly correct and have the correct spellings, if I forget I can always go back. I'm just saying to anyone in the news really we do have a spell checker and google has great grammar checkers, we can all use them too and make an even more smaller job for Charlie and Laura.

[e5]

As News Manager I do edit things and the Senior Writers are also there to assist me in this, however yesterday I wasn't around until late and then a member of staff directed me to this thread.

Also, to update you all on this, I made some changes to this reporters article and I removed some of the bolds so that only key and important information is in bold! Sorry if any of this sounds unclear, I am writing this on my iPhone!

I know you do a very good job at this, Charlie You pm'd me within half an hour of me posting my news report without an image - RAPIDO .

News is coming on in leaps and bounds since my return - I am now happily writing news reports whereas at other times I wasn't so...

I do like to take my chances to read through every news report written and do spot little erros which i'd love to correct, just need that little edit button there !

[Chippiewill]

I do like to take my chances to read through every news report written and do spot little erros which i'd love to correct, just need that little edit button there !

Perhaps a little comments feature or notify feature for News Reporters to point out these things would be good. Or even just news reporters having a way to email/PM another news reporter and know that they'll get it quickly.

These little things, if they weren't there would speak tons about the quality of Habbox News, whenever I read an article I judge it by it's grammar, not it's content. Tiny things like they're/there/their or capitalisation after commas are just a couple of things I have seen that would be great if news reporters would check a list to see if they've made any of those little mistakes.

Edit: Perhaps a form for notifying by users could be good, it might sound like an acceptance that you make tons of errors but label it like "We rarely make errors, but it does happen, if you do spot a Grammatical or factual error in this article please send us a message"

[Grig]

I've always hammered home the importance of spelling and grammar. It is no major issue because the manager will always pick up upon it and send a quick feedback PM for the reporter to improve. Any other mistakes should be fed through a spell check before posting.

[RyRy]

I've always hammered home the importance of spelling and grammar. It is no major issue because the manager will always pick up upon it and send a quick feedback PM for the reporter to improve. Any other mistakes should be fed through a spell check before posting.

Easiest way to solve that for Habbox is, before submitting through to the site you're required to spellcheck the whole article on the Habbox site. If people don't let by that way, it's kinda hopeless.

[lawrawrrr]

Perhaps a little comments feature or notify feature for News Reporters to point out these things would be good. Or even just news reporters having a way to email/PM another news reporter and know that they'll get it quickly.

These little things, if they weren't there would speak tons about the quality of Habbox News, whenever I read an article I judge it by it's grammar, not it's content. Tiny things like they're/there/their or capitalisation after commas are just a couple of things I have seen that would be great if news reporters would check a list to see if they've made any of those little mistakes.

Edit: Perhaps a form for notifying by users could be good, it might sound like an acceptance that you make tons of errors but label it like "We rarely make errors, but it does happen, if you do spot a Grammatical or factual error in this article please send us a message"

I always change bad spelling or grammar as soon as possible when I'm online. If another reporter was to notice something - and I've said this to them before, I'd be happy to change it if they PM'ed me or something... but we can't in all honesty give the editing powers to all news staff - because there's a balance between personal taste and phrasing it semi-professionally.

But I do still think that sometimes a spell checker does a world of good, google chrome auto spell checker 4 LYF

[Grig]

I always change bad spelling or grammar as soon as possible when I'm online. If another reporter was to notice something - and I've said this to them before, I'd be happy to change it if they PM'ed me or something... but we can't in all honesty give the editing powers to all news staff - because there's a balance between personal taste and phrasing it semi-professionally.

But I do still think that sometimes a spell checker does a world of good, google chrome auto spell checker 4 LYF

A spell checker should be the procedure always, unless you are a robot !

[lawrawrrr]

A spell checker should be the procedure always, unless you are a robot !

You would think... yet I always find one or two little spelling mistakes on the front page...

[RyRy]

You would think... yet I always find one or two little spelling mistakes on the front page...

It's really easy to make spelling mistakes for words like receive (ALWAYS FORGET I BEFORE E EXCEPT AFTER C :3) but yeah it's not hard to do a spellcheck, obv can't force all articles to be written in google chrome (no matter how great that would be). Just best to make sure that they all have spell checkers installed, but my idea was to put a spellchecker on the Habbox Staff Panel. Dunno how hard that'd be, but I think it would solve alot of spellcheck problems!

*stares at hoteluser baha*

[lawrawrrr]

It's really easy to make spelling mistakes for words like receive (ALWAYS FORGET I BEFORE E EXCEPT AFTER C :3) but yeah it's not hard to do a spellcheck, obv can't force all articles to be written in google chrome (no matter how great that would be). Just best to make sure that they all have spell checkers installed, but my idea was to put a spellchecker on the Habbox Staff Panel. Dunno how hard that'd be, but I think it would solve alot of spellcheck problems!

*stares at hoteluser baha*

Would actually be a good idea! OMG CAN WE HAVE LIKE THE ANNOYING PAPERCLIP in MS word, but using Oli instead of the annoying paperclip?