Where have all the Editorials Gone? (Can we bring them back please?)

 DramaHeroine:

One last comment for the day. I want to make a request to everyone responding to this post that we all do our best to be civil towards the news writers.

Absolutely agree. I never attacked them personally nor will I ever do that. I just dislike their "work" and speak out about that. 

 DramaHeroine:

We also don’t know how news articles are handled on the backend, who is responsible for what decisions, and at the end of the day, they are still people like us.

We know a bit. News articles are NOT checked by editors. They go directly to the admins and get published. That has been clarified by the editors themselves. 

 SelmaS:

I remember those monthly Noodle Cart articles featuring all these daily news in one place: eaach news took one line! It was perfecly sufficient to keep up with these kinds of news: castings, ratings, births, marriages and deaths..... They should bring that back!

I wish they would do news like this again. One long article per month or twice a month will all relevant news collected. One for each country that is featured on MDL. It would not flood the page and make editorials disappear. Win-win in my opinion. 

 DramaHeroine:

If you mean the section at the very top of the main page where three articles get specifically featured, I can't verify this, but I don't think that that is true, at least not for all of the editorials that get featured there. I definitely remember seeing a couple of the editorials move onto and off of that section multiple times.

I'm speaking from experience. My last realeased article was gone on that featured page after a couple hours and the same happened to other writers who talked about this on their feeds. Cho Na mentioned once that an article of her disappeared once it was published and was not featured at all. Maybe we are talking about different times because I don't mean now as in today but the time before editorials disappeared completely and most writers stopped writing editorials. 

 DramaHeroine:

There's currently an editorial up that was posted 9 days ago and has stayed in the featured list the whole time.

Again, I'm not talking about right now. But maybe that's the whole problem. I don't consider the editorials "back" just because a bunch that has been waiting in limbo, for who knows how long, has been released lately. Also it would be nice if we get an official explanation why editorials "vanished" just like that. We can only assume and guess about reasons since the admins don't say anything about it.  

Another thing that I found was, if you go to the drama page of Guardian (2018) there was always my Fan Guide about one of the main lead actors Zhu Yi Long featured there. The last time I checked it was news articles completely unrelated to the drama. Now it's editorials again. 

 JulyMoon:

I'm speaking from experience. My last realeased article was gone on that featured page after a couple hours and the same happened to other writers who talked about this on their feeds. Cho Na mentioned once that an article of her disappeared once it was published and was not featured at all. Maybe we are talking about different times because I don't mean now as in today but the time before editorials disappeared completely and most writers stopped writing editorials. 

Ah, okay. I was talking about since I posted this suggestion, and they started putting editorials in the featured section.

 JulyMoon:

Again, I'm not talking about right now. But maybe that's the whole problem. I don't consider the editorials "back" just because a bunch that has been waiting in limbo, for who knows how long, has been released lately. Also it would be nice if we get an official explanation why editorials "vanished" just like that. We can only assume and guess about reasons since the admins don't say anything about it.  

That's fair, and I totally agree. The fact that they won't actually address it at all and explain what is going on is a problem, and it definitely makes me suspicious. 

 DramaHeroine:

That's fair, and I totally agree. The fact that they won't actually address it at all and explain what is going on is a problem, and it definitely makes me suspicious. 

Same and it annoys me to be honest. I mean admins are online and reading our comments here and there. For example they immediately reacted to this user here: https://mydramalist.com/discussions/support/122509-account-under-review

But they don't reply to an issue that is going on for 2-3 years?! What else can we think that they don't react to this on purpose? It's the same with the endless discussion why LGTBQ+ themed articles don't get published. If a LGTBQ+ drama is mentioned along with straight romance dramas it's fine, but if an article is entirely about gay romance it doesn't get published and is "against the rules". People blamed editors for this, but again it's higher ups who made those rules and never told us why. 

I wish I knew what's going on, because I don't understand their motives. 

 DramaHeroine:

Oh, I was under the impression that the news writers were paid. Could have sworn I read it somewhere from an editor or admin or someone.

If that's true, then it's even worse. Like you said, if they get paid we can expect quality and sorry, but news articles are everything but not of high quality. xD

 DramaHeroine:

the constant articles about such-and-such considering/accepting/turning down roles, the endless scandal/gossip articles, etc. These articles seem to make up the bulk of news that gets published.

Yeah, that's the issue I have with them. I'm not against relevant news articles but this stupid gossip and rumor spreading or actors considering/turning down/accepting roles and new poster for dramas is so pointless. 

 DramaHeroine:

I could be totally wrong and pulling that out of nowhere. I just could have sworn that was the case.

I never heard of it. I just read somewhere that the news writers got chosen by admins, as in you could apply and admins choose and give them the okay. 

 SelmaS:

So I contacted, about 4 months ago via DM the three news writers lo_ve, Hazel and Lily Alice who was the only one kind enough to answer telling me she was just doing her job writing these articles and if we were not happy we should contact Moderators!

If it is a job she is most certainly getting paid for it!

This feels like an insult to me. I don't care if I'm being paid for writing editorials because I like writing, but if people like lo_ve who was super rude to editorials writers gets paid for doing such a sh**** job, it's just making me feel sick. 

On a side note, I have nothing against Lily Alice. Her news articles are the best in quality among them in my opinion.