Authors of reviews/editorials are not credited properly

[Goral]

I would like to point out that reviews, editorials, interviews and other articles do not give proper credit to its authors. Instead first thing we see is:

"Review/article/interview - posted by (((Infinitron)))" or "Review/article/interview - posted by (((Crooked Bee)))" suggesting it's their work. Technically it is correct that they were the ones who posted it to the public but that information shouldn't be that exposed IMO and the roles should be swapped (so written/interviewed by Ludo Lense/Darth Roxor/Bubbles, and maybe at the end "posted by CB/Tron") or the author should be in the title (like in DR's editorial). I wanted to skim through some articles of certain authors for certain reasons but because author's name is always in different places and there are often more bolded words it's not as convenient as it could be (and yes, I know CTRL+F and google). What's funny is that often users will write:

Shadow Tactics is great

instead of

Shadow Tactics is great

because they're either too stupid or too lazy.

I'm not sure if authors even care about it (although seeing how Ludo Lense reacted I think some do at least) but it is Site feedback after all.

 

[racofer]

I don't see you crediting the author of your avatar.

 

[an Administrator]

Follow the brofist....

 

[A horse of course]

Spoiler

 

[Valky]

I would like to point out that reviews, editorials, interviews and other articles do not give proper credit to its authors.

I completely agree.

 

[Infinitron]

This is why we add [Review by X] at the beginning of the article. Not much else we can do other than encourage you to brofist the author when he shows up in the thread.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Yeah, it's a flaw in the system. I'll remind myself that it's in my list of things to correct.

Also fixing search.

 

[Goral]

Also fixing search.

What's wrong with search?

 

[Jaesun]

What's wrong with search?

How long have you been here?

 

[Darth Roxor]

if anything they arent rewarded properly

 

[Goral]

How long have you been here?

It works very well for me, I always find what I want (in very rare cases I use google).

 

[Cadmus]

The format of the newsposts containing reviews is fucked. Shitty blurp followed by text followed by a link to the actual article, making the article unclickable straight away. There should be the review article on the front page instead of an announcement of review that you have to read though and click through.

 

[Infinitron]

if anything they arent rewarded properly

You could use your own camera fundraiser, eh?

We should probably do that someday.

 

[Haba]

Ratings should also be disabled for news posts.

 

[A horse of course]

Ratings should also be disabled for news posts.

Why? Ratings are a reminder of just how seriously we should take content produced by the sort of individual who posts on RPGCodex.

 

[Severian Silk]

Ratings should also be disabled for news posts.

Why? Ratings are a reminder of just how seriously we should take content produced by the sort of individual who posts on RPGCodex.

Which brings us right back around to the OP again. What content is produced? And by whom?

 

[Valky]

Ratings should also be disabled for news posts.

Why? Ratings are a reminder of just how seriously we should take content produced by the sort of individual who posts on RPGCodex.

Which brings us right back around to the OP. What content is produced? And by whom?

Something about Infinitron writing all of the articles and OP got jealous.

 

[Goral]

OK, I think this review takes the cake: http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=9923

Author (felipepepe ) is only mentioned in tags (but it's just his name, you can't tell he's the author) and everything seems to indicate that Infinitron has written it :D. Wonder how many more reviews/articles are like this.

 

[felipepepe]

It was brave Gamasutra warrior Felipepepe who volunteered to review this worthy title

 

[Goral]

It was brave Gamasutra warrior Felipepepe who volunteered to review this worthy title

There is no such information there, check the link. If that doesn't bother you that's your prerogative but it's funny to me and IMO it discourages others from posting articles on the Codex. BTW, for some time now you've been posting more on Gamasutra and not RPG Codex, why is that?

 

[Charles Eli Cheese]

If (((Einstein))) can take credit for a formula he found in the patent office working as a clerk and become the most famous man in the world then you will be waiting a long time before the (((establishment))) corrects this situation.

 

[Goral]

Infinitron has changed it now and added "review by felipepepe".

 

[Darth Roxor]

if anything they arent rewarded properly

You could use your own camera fundraiser, eh?

We should probably do that someday.

You can't buy me, hot dog man!

 

[Charles Eli Cheese]

1879 -1955), Time Magazine's "Person of the Century", wrote a long treatise on special relativity theory (it was actually called "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", 1905a), without listing any references. Many of the key ideas it presented were known to Lorentz (for example, the Lorentz transformation) and Poincaré before Einstein wrote the famous 1905 paper.

As was typical of Einstein, he did not discover theories; he merely commandeered them. He took an existing body of knowledge, picked and chose the ideas he liked, then wove them into a tale about his contribution to special relativity. This was done with the full knowledge and consent of many of his peers, such as the editors at Annalen der Physik.

The most recognizable equation of all time is E = mc2

It is attributed by convention to be the sole province of Albert Einstein (1905).



However, the conversion of matter into energy and energy into matter was known to Sir Isaac Newton ("Gross bodies and light are convertible into one another...", 1704). The equation can be attributed to S. Tolver Preston (1875), to Jules Henri Poincaré (1900; according to Brown, 1967) and to Olinto De Pretto (1904) before Einstein. Since Einstein never correctly derived E = mc2 (Ives, 1952), there appears nothing to connect the equation with anything original by Einstein.

Arthur Eddington's selective presentation of data from the 1919 Eclipse so that it supposedly supported "Einstein's" general relativity theory is surely one of the biggest scientific hoaxes of the 20th century. His lavish support of Einstein corrupted the course of history. Eddington was less interested in testing a theory than he was in crowning Einstein the king of science.

The physics community, unwittingly perhaps, has engaged in a kind of fraud and silent conspiracy; this is the byproduct of simply being bystanders as the hyperinflation of Einstein's record and reputation took place.


This silence benefited anyone supporting Einstein.

Einstein processed a patent by Olinto De Pretto that used "his" famous equation.