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Time for the third installment of Newsvine Guilds Thoughts. This is going to be it until monday as far as this series goes, so I'm going to ask a very broad question which I hope will generate a lot of feedback. No votes or polls this time - I just want ideas, hundreds of them, so many it gives me a headache when I have to sift through them.
The question is, if you could form a guild, what would be the nature of your guild? What would distinguish your little corner of the vine from the rest of it? Content distinctions are going to be the most common response - I, for one, want to see a science guild. But in light of recent discussion, it has become apparent that we are not limited to content distinctions. For instance, theannalog has suggested a guild based around principles of civil discussion. All content is welcome, maybe, provided the discussion is civil? This would require some creative implementation - we don't want to censor people, so we'd have to simply reward good comments and hope that positive reinforcement over time creates more good comments.
Or, perhaps there could be a guild devoted to providing a special service - for instance, a debate guild, which could organize a weekly debate event. The newsvine team has toyed around with the idea of creating special rules and special tools for guilds, so we can be pretty flexible.
So with all of that in mind, please comment on this post. Tell me what the focus of your guild is, and tell me why you think that would be a good idea. If your idea requires some special feature, talk a little bit about that. This is where we just get a billion ideas to expand the way we think about guilds.
Thanks a lot!
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