Nova Knife
Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.01.17 22:53:00 -
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While I'm flattered you included me in your article, I do find it hard to be supportive. Don't get me wrong. I'm in favor of any initiative that makes a positive impact on Dust and its community as a whole.
However...
I struggle to find myself willing to support a website which I feel is counterproductive to the very spirit of the goal it's trying to accomplish, however good that goal may be.
To be more precise: I believe that all media should have some measure of accountability. Blog or major news site, there's no difference in the core of what media is, other than the amount of viewers. (Which is irrelevant) There has been endless streams of drama originating from Dustmercs, because no one really knows who is writing the articles in question. There is no accountability. This sense of anonymity has led to the pushing forward of many articles by unknown writer(s) that have been filled with incorrect information, NDA breaches and the like. While Dustmercs has clearly attempted to be a conflict driver in the dust community (Conflict is good) and has admittedly done just that in more than one occasion... The methods for doing so with blatantly false information just leave a sour taste.
But, I digress. Dustmercs, or "GNN" seems to be wanting to take up a similar mantle to EN24. (Eve News 24) But the main difference between the two, is accountability. Everyone knows EN24 is Riverini's baby. Everyone knows who writes which article, even if some people use an alias to post... There is a name attached to each article. There is accountability. When one article is poorly written or has information that is false, people know exactly who to talk to for corrections or who to aim their anger at. (Thus creating conflict, which is good.) When the writers are accountable, they (usually) tend to hold themselves to a higher standard of writing, taking extra care to make sure their facts are true or their propaganda is believable.
As it stands now, I personally feel that dustmercs has likely done more harm than good in the Dust community, however noble their intentions may or may not have been.
While I very much support the effort to bring news to a community and as a fellow blogger wish you the very best... As long as your current structure of anonymity and non-accountability is in place I'm afraid I cannot offer any support personally. Nor can I in good conscience promote your endeavors, and for that I apologize. Should this ever change, I would be more than happy to promote both your website, your writers, and your activities as I have had high hopes for GNN since it's inception.
-Nova Knife
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