09-01-2010, 11:43 AM
[quote name='joachim' timestamp='1283339863' post='2405']
Klaus,
Is this "News Generator" paying for photozone in some way? If not I would kill it. I always thought it was a special feature of this very place, that forum members reported the news in a fashion they liked it. Sometimes just sharing a link, sometimes commenting on it as well.
If the New Generator is needed to pay for photozone, I can ignore it (which is what I do, after having reported it several times as spam and never seen any action/reply on my reports).
Ta
Joachim
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There's no financial benefit for Photozone. These are just the official press releases by the primary manufacturers. No sales offers, no trojans, no fraud. Just the "press releases". So what's the problem ? That's exactly what the headline of the "News" forum is saying after all. :-)
Here's the techical background:
I checked the manufacturer sites for RSS feeds. These feeds are filtered for DSLR/EVIL related content and mashed up to a single newsfeed which covers all manufacturers but Sigma, Tamron, Tokina - these 3 offer no RSS news feeds. The "News Generator" is a feature in the forum engine - it translates RSS feeds to forum messages. It's no external supplier or whatever.
Alternatively I could also post a message here pointing to the press release of a new product but why should I do that if this RSS feed does just that for me.
The value-add is pretty obvious - it saves (my) time.
There's of course the downside that you sometimes get those colorful, nonsense "news" messages where the manufacturers try to promote something. I don't consider this to be disaster though.
Klaus,
Is this "News Generator" paying for photozone in some way? If not I would kill it. I always thought it was a special feature of this very place, that forum members reported the news in a fashion they liked it. Sometimes just sharing a link, sometimes commenting on it as well.
If the New Generator is needed to pay for photozone, I can ignore it (which is what I do, after having reported it several times as spam and never seen any action/reply on my reports).
Ta
Joachim
[/quote]
There's no financial benefit for Photozone. These are just the official press releases by the primary manufacturers. No sales offers, no trojans, no fraud. Just the "press releases". So what's the problem ? That's exactly what the headline of the "News" forum is saying after all. :-)
Here's the techical background:
I checked the manufacturer sites for RSS feeds. These feeds are filtered for DSLR/EVIL related content and mashed up to a single newsfeed which covers all manufacturers but Sigma, Tamron, Tokina - these 3 offer no RSS news feeds. The "News Generator" is a feature in the forum engine - it translates RSS feeds to forum messages. It's no external supplier or whatever.
Alternatively I could also post a message here pointing to the press release of a new product but why should I do that if this RSS feed does just that for me.
The value-add is pretty obvious - it saves (my) time.
There's of course the downside that you sometimes get those colorful, nonsense "news" messages where the manufacturers try to promote something. I don't consider this to be disaster though.