America stabbed to death today in Beijing

at 08:02 on August 9th, 2008

Do you need some help with the highlight tool?

at 11:09 on August 9th, 2008

He's a Super Editor, Vinny, so it's surprising if he doesn't understand the Highlight tool.

Robert Scales, in the Newsroom Forums, both Zichi and I have posted very simple ways to use the Highlight Tool by adding your own coding if you don't like the "point and click" tool. Would that work for you?

at 12:50 on August 9th, 2008

I can see why there is some confusion here.

Robert Scales is not a staff member and he is not getting paid for his work on NowPublic. He is reporting for us, and other outlets, from Beijing and Shanghai for the games. The reason he has the super editor crown is because he often works by himself, so if he needs to make any changes to his posts or access certain parts of the website, we have allowed him to do that.

Sorry for the confusion.

at 12:54 on August 9th, 2008

Thanks for the explanation Amy, Guest Editors were told in the past the gold crowns were to show members who is staff confusing isn't it!

at 13:39 on August 9th, 2008

Thanks for clarifying that, Amy. We're very well-trained to see "gold crown" and identify people as Super Editors/staff members and to watch what their leadership models for us.

But I'm puzzled. Many of us work by ourselves. As a member, I have no problem editing my story at any time, adding photos, adding videos, updating, etc. So I'm not quite sure what you meant by he needed the gold crown to be able to make changes to his post.

Of course, I don't know what other parts of the website he needs to access in order to post. Are there other features that would also be helpful to other members who work alone, and who post from various places (vs. in the Vancouver newsroom/area)?

Educate us! Maybe this would make a good Forum topic for you.

at 14:22 on August 9th, 2008

Here.

Robert Scales

at 12:53 on August 9th, 2008

Clarifications: actually the picture posted on the security story where from several months back and not related to the recent story posted...

as far as this story goes, I cross posted the facts that where confirmed on the ground talking to a reuter photographer and someone at the IOC..

I did not witness the incident first hand, this is confirmation from someone who called me from the location several hours before i cross posted this news. I actually waited for the confirmations from the Chinese news agency before i uploaded the news..

This was not original writing but indeed cross posted from several posts including IOC, china new agency, and yahoo..

to be honest I should have complimented the original post on this which came out several hours before, I only saw it after this was submitted.

Last, yes I have recently been made a super editor and I am still learning all the tricks of the tools.. any help you folks wanna past my way to augment your great stories will be appreciated.

at 13:38 on August 9th, 2008

Hi Robert, here's a link to the Newsroom section that discusses the Highlight Tool for copying and pasting in excerpts of material written by others. It's pretty nifty.

One of the things about NP that you may find a wee bit uncomfortable, as you did today, is that people are free to comment on your work, add video/photos, etc. Because the issue of human rights goes hand-in-glove with having the Olympics in China, don't be surprised if you get further comments or material from that viewpoint.

Have fun!

René

flagged this story as Good Stuff

at 15:26 on August 9th, 2008

They should be cheering you on, instead of attacking you. Guess none of them even bothered to check your profile. But that's typical.

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at 15:45 on August 9th, 2008

Where on the profile does it say it's OK to paste material from other sites or give yourself GS flags, as always Rene you miss the point of members concerns.

René

at 16:15 on August 9th, 2008

That's not the point, Vinny. I didn't miss your points. If you had looked, you might have seen his Twitter posts. Obviously you still haven't looked. And GS flags should be disabled for Editors etc. own posts. Not the newbie's fault it's not. Nor ours. It's the NP tech people you should complain to about that. They certainly are disabled for us lowly peons.

Try GSing one of your own posts. You can't. and that should be the same for everyone!

As always, Vinny? (Sorry, Robert, but others have already taken this off topic)

René

at 16:21 on August 9th, 2008

Robert, could you dig around and see if maybe this guy or his family were effected by the huge displacements to build the Olympic facilities? It certainly seems a big mystery why he would do this, and then kill himself.

Christina 123

at 17:13 on August 9th, 2008

Hi Amyjudd, I gave out this information several hours ago here:

at 17:17 on August 9th, 2008

Ok, I took down my comment as it was redundant.

Christina 123

at 17:22 on August 9th, 2008

Thanks Amyjudd, you didn't need to, as I was just pointing out that information does get duplicated soemtimes, quite inadvertently.

at 17:43 on August 9th, 2008

I agree - so I didn't want to add to that. Thanks for pointing out you had already posted that.

at 17:55 on August 9th, 2008

Please move any discussion that is not related to the subject of the story to the forum here.

at 17:59 on August 9th, 2008

I agree lets bury it in the darkest recesses of the forum even though the comments are directly connected to the integrity of the post!