Feedback: New Great Commotion Website, Email Account & Peer Review Possibilities

Anyone can comment on this: the website and the proposed structures.

New Website

We have a new website for the Great Commotion. Currently it resides at:

http://greatcommotion.trition.org.uk/

Big thanks to our tech guru! It will move to www.thegreatcommotion.org.uk soon. I think he's done a brilliant job on this, it's a piece of piss to update, and keeps the look and feel of the print edition. So comments on that, if you think anything needs to change or whatever would be good.

Email account

We need someone to be delegated to check the email account and deal with email correspondence. I'm happy to do this.

Peer Review Possibilities

I have a couple of suggested framework for peer reviewing stories before they go up on the website. I'd probably go with suggestion 2 given the ease of editing stuff once it's online (i.e. for typos), or if something is bollocks you can just delete it.

Suggestion One: Peer Reviewing

First we need to set up an internal email list for TGC editors.

When a story comes up, we email it round the list. To go up requires either two replied approvals with none against, or to avoid the thing haemorrhaging in periods when people are away from their computer a period of 24 hours with no disagreement? Then it gets posted up with the approval of the group.

Suggestion Two: Accountability

We trust that people on the editor list are only going to post things which fit with general aims and principles of TGC (which might be worth knocking down to a few principles if anyone feels like it), and let anyone post news at any time, but with the person posting being accountable for what they post. i.e. if I post some utter crap on there, then you can come and get me for it. Once things are up, it is easy enough for someone with the passwords to edit a story when it's up there.

Suggestion for Expansion

When new writers get involved, they submit stories to the site through the group email account, until the rest of us feel that they get the idea and feel of the great commotion enough to do it without our supervision.

The Point
The point of this would be that we can create a decent regular news and comment site, with new stories coming in every week and then take the best ones for the print publication. It isn't a problem if we only produce the amount of news we normally do, but I think this allows for massive expansion if we want it. We can comment on more ephemeral topics, as well as things we think will be relevant for the whole month.