'Your Stories' needs editorial control

Anyone about to post an interesting, amusing, well-crafted story, complete with photographs, which they don't want to see swept off the front page in no time at all, should wait a while. 16 sites to go!

Yes, I agree as David Klyne's interesting post has now gone from view with a repeat of a previous story. I presume the repeat is to add photos but it might be better if some of these lengthy travelogues from the same family just had a link and a brief story.

I am not sure I fully understand what the Club wants to achieve from from the Story Section. It is clearly not part of the forum. Firstly we have no idea how popular it is as unlike forum threads there is no means to see how many views each story has. This information must be available as there is a list of the most popular stories listed by views although this does not seem to have been updated. If stories are shown a minimal interest from members it would be good to know as it might influence us regulars on whether there is any point in spending ages putting stories together with photographs. It would be useful if more than three stories could be viewed automatically on the main page rather than just three. It seems that the Meeks are employed by the Club to write stories of their travels and as they are always on the road I suppose they contribute as and when which might mean adding more than one story at a time. Recently the Club have encouraged wardens to make contributions to the story section about biodiversity on Club sites but it seems did not really give them any help in how this could be achieved. We continue to have discussion topics posted in the story section but as mods we can't move them which I thought would be an essential part of the tool kit if we want the Story Section to be meaningful. 

David

You prompted me too look at the story section a while ago, David. Aren't the Meeks tiresome? 

I have wondered previously if there was a way of separating out the commercially based stories from our non commercial ones. I think all the stories are valid in their different ways but if they have any sort of financial or publicity gain the CC should acknowledge an involvement. I may be well off the beam with this but it would be good to see a clarification..

i don't have any trouble posting a story because it is simply a copy of what I publish on my >website< The stories section of CT is so badly controlled, I wouldn't bother with the effort if there wasn't another reason to do so. It does put me off reading that section which is a shame.

peedee

The only way of knowing how successful any particular story is depends on any comments or likes it gets and given that some of the non stories seem to get more attention than stories that people have spent some time compiling it does make you wonder if its not all a waste of time? I tend not to cut and paste complete blogs from my website because unless you can include all the photos it could lack a bit of interest so I write a shorter version for CT.

David

You prompted me too look at the story section a while ago, David. Aren't the Meeks tiresome? 

I rarely visit the story section nowadays for this reason.

A section in the magazine and effectively a section of the website because they won a competition?  They sell copy to other magazines as well.  Enough please or give us an ignore member button

I've no objection to their stories as long as they aren't en masse which they are at the moment and any commercial aspects are ackowledged eg the CC and Elddis. Unfortunately they seem to be cobbled together using different fonts and sizes so they aren't at all easy to read, this gives a "flung" together appearance, maybe pasted from elsewhere and by different family members? 

I've stopped reading them brue.  Just too much and not especially engagingly written

Such a same when other authors get pushed off the page