Rules For Posting Articles From Other Sites Have Changed

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• Never copy and paste a complete article to the forums.

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roger

 

:hw:

 

10-4

 

BTW Steve, the five sentence rule: very, very cool. :icon_cool:

 

Reporters need to also remember that you must at least post enough to fill 2 full lines so that the stories look right on the RSS feed. You can also add things like the previous teams the players were on or their accolades in college that fit into the story.

 

So almost the same as before, except now we are up to 5 sentences?

 

Yes

 

Awesome. Now I won't have to wrack my brain figuring out how to make 3 sentences define an entire story.

 

5's better than 3, good change.