Grouping question

• Posted Jul 15, 2008 by ■ Gar Swaffar

  #1

  That woud be a very helpful tool to have. A most excellent idea Sykos!

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• Posted Jul 15, 2008 by ■ Chris Hogg

  #2

  Sykos you can group any stories you like together so long as they are about the same subject. We treat the "group with" feature as though it's a way to group duplicates. We created the feature in the event two people write about the exact same subject (like the iPhone selling 1 million units, for example). Every writer has different perspectives so it's great to see multiple reports on the same subject sometimes. If you have an article that is the same topic as another feel free to use that feature. If you wrote about the same issue more than once it might also be appropriate to Group With. We just ask that it's about the same subject, not a "related" subject.

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• Posted Jul 15, 2008 by ■ Sykos Masters

  #3

  @Gar
  
  I have a goal of one good idea a day. Considering I just woke up again, I hope to have another before the sun sets ... lol
  
  @Chris
  
  Understood completely. But, I'm not able to group my own articles together for some reason. I've tried to do so with the Plaster Rock pieces, but neither has a grouping button when I view them.

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• Posted Jul 15, 2008 by ■ Chris Hogg

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  @■ Sykos Masters
  Understood completely. But, I'm not able to group my own articles together for some reason. I've tried to do so with the Plaster Rock pieces, but neither has a grouping button when I view them.

  
  Looks like there is a small bug Sykos -- you're right. Thanks for the head's up. We'll fix that.
  
  I've grouped your articles together for you in the meantime.

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• Posted Jul 15, 2008 by ■ Sykos Masters

  #5

  @Chris
  
  Thanks !!!

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• Posted Jul 15, 2008 by ■ Chris Hogg

  #6

  Sykos I have to correct myself, as I looked into this further. It's not a bug it's actually a feature and something we designed intentionally.
  
  We don't let writers group new articles with ones that are older than 1 day. The reason being is because this feature is meant to cluster duplicates, so when something happens today it cannot be the same event that happened yesterday so there is no reason to Group With.
  
  If your articles are related, they can be linked to each other in the body of your article with a sentence saying "In previous coverage on DigitalJournal.com...."
  
  But if you want to Group With, you can only group the exact same news event and that is always occurring on the same day.
  
  Make sense?

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• Posted Jul 15, 2008 by ■ Debra Myers

  #7

  Thanks, Chris...even I didn't know that! (I didn't know that articles could only be 1 day old.)

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• Posted Jul 16, 2008 by ■ Sykos Masters

  #8

  @Chris
  
  Makes sense. I was misunderstanding what grouping was for. I'll continue referencing any previous coverage then. I've gotta say, you're the most helpful "boss" I've ever had =D

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