| Frequently Asked Questions about Buzz247 |
The Buzz247 offers introductory answers to frequently asked questions
about registration, and submiting of stories. Click on a subject heading
below to view questions and answers relating to your selection. Should
you have any further questions, please consult our Contact Us page.
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• How do I get started?
• What is the objective of this site?
• When writing for Buzz247, what principles should we keep in mind?
• What is our agreement with Buzz247?
• Why is my article not on the home page?
• Can I edit my articles?
• The headline of my article has changed.
• I put up a story, but it didn't appear on the website.
• I want to run an article I wrote for Buzz247 in another media outlet.
• Can I run an article from another site, as long as I cite the source?
• What about uploading in my own name an article written by another individual?
• I want to delete the Readers' Comments?
• Do we have any writing style guide?
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| Q1: How do I get started? |
In order to keep track of your articles and page views,
Buzz247 requires that you register with us. After you click on
register, you'll be asked for some basic information about
yourself. Please fill out all the fields with your current
information.
After you've submitted your information, your application will be
reviewed by a Buzz247 editor (this process could take up to 24 hours.)
After you've been approved as a citizen reporter, you'll be able to
login to from our main page, and submit stories from there.
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| Q2. What is the objective of this site? |
| Please read Site objective. (Click) |
| Q3. When writing for Buzz247,
what principles should we keep in mind? |
| We would like you to adhere to the following: |
- A contribution should not spread false information.
- An individual should not use abusive, vulgar, or otherwise offensive language constituting a personal attack.
- Any contributions should not damage the reputation of others by composing articles that infringe on personal privacy.
- Individuals do not exaggerate or distort facts on behalf of him/herself or any organization to which he/she belongs.
Please read site objective for more. Click.
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| Q4. What is our agreement with Buzz247? |
| Following are the agreement: |
- I recognize the editorial authority of Buzz247' in-house editing staff.
- I will share all information about each of my articles with the Buzz247 editing staff.
- When an article I submit has or will be simultaneously submitted in another medium, I will clearly state this fact to the editorial staff.
- I will accurately reveal the sources of all quotations of text.
- Individuals who work in the field of public relations or marketing will disclose this fact to their readers.
- Legal responsibility for acts of plagiarism or unauthorized use of material lies entirely with the contributor.
- Legal responsibility for defamation in articles lies entirely with the contributor.
For detail Terms and Conditions, click here.
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| Q5. Why is my article not on the home page? |
| It may not be on the home page because it hasn't been
selected by the Buzz247 editorial staff. Reasons for not selecting articles
for the main page may include: |
- An article that fails to convey its meaning.
- Fails to give any perspective.
- It's entirely one-sided or contains advertising content.
- There are concerns of defamation.
- The article plagiarizes other media reports.
- There are concerns of copyright infringement.
In such cases, we may request additional work,
depending on the content of the article.
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| Q6. Can I edit my articles? |
It is possible for members to edit articles
uploaded onto Buzz247 prior to hitting the "Submit" button.
Once you hit the "Submit" button, you can no longer modify your article.
In this case, you can edit your article by sending inquiries by email
to 
with "Story Edit" mentioned in the subject line and mention the story and the date of posting.
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| Q7. The headline of my article has changed. |
| Articles that have been entered into Buzz247 can
undergo a complete editing process, from basic editing for things
like spelling errors and sentence structure to headlines. In this
process, the editorial staff may change the original headline.
Headlines are changed in order to give readers a better idea of
what the article is about or when the headlines are either too
short or too long. |
| Q8. I put up a story, but it didn't appear on the website. |
| Once an article has been submitted, the article goes
to the editorial staff for reviewing. Once the article has been reviewed
by the editor it will be posted on the website. Additionally your article
may not appear on the Web site at all, depending on the Editor's decision
to do so. |
| Q9. I want to run an
article I wrote for Buzz247 in another media outlet. |
| The copyrights of all articles run by Buzz247 are
jointly owned by Buzz247 and the writer. Feel free to run your articles
in other media outlets. |
| Q10. Can I run an article
from another site, as long as I cite the source? |
| You cannot do this without prior permission from the
person or body that owns the copyright of the article in question. |
| Q11. What about uploading
in my own name an article written by another individual? |
| Buzz247 operates according to a "real name" principle,
and formally adopts only articles written directly by members. |
| Q12. I want to delete
the Readers' Comments? |
| You may ask Buzz247 editors to delete the Readers'
Comments by mailing us at
with "Remove Comment" mentioned in the subject line and mention the story and the date of posting. |
| Q13. Do we have any
writing style guide? |
| You should keep in mind the following: |
- Use only single quotation marks.
- Minimize the use of, and do not capitalize the articles "a," "an" and "the."
- Don't be afraid of short 1-2 sentence paragraphs.
- Each time the topic changes, you need a new paragraph.
- Avoid unnecessary capital letters.
- Generally, only capitalize formal titles of senior, high-profile individuals.
- Use figures for hours of day, ages, sums of money, street numbers, percents, dates, votes and scores.
- Never use "%" instead write "percent".
- Use a.m., p.m. lowercase with periods between letters.
- Abbreviate the month (Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.) when the date is included. Use the commas. Dec. 25, 2001 or in January (no date)
- We should always encourage debate in our writing.
- We should empower people to break away from the existing
shackles of mindset created by the present press.
- We should present our contribution from as many sources and
be as divergent as possible.
- We should not write our contributions as a lecture but as a
daily conversation we have with our friends over a cup of
tea/coffee and cigarettes.
- We must always bear in mind that our contribution should have
the intent, if not the power, to affect the thought-process of
others - it should be original and NOT boring.
- The contribution should not only be the best but also
truthful in principle. Thereafter, we should not rest on our
laurels but take feedback and criticism and make it better.
- We should consider ourselves global citizen and not just
the citizens of the country we reside in. That way anything we
write will be meant for all the like-minded be it from Asia,
Europe or any other part of the globe.
- We should actively seek to look for disagreement between us
and the traditional media and between our opinions with other's
opinion and communicate through writing to give a chance for
others to hear what we think and have to say and what others
have to say.
- We must always try to connect with like-minded people not
through faith or ideology but through our observation and
insight. That means that we should not be writing for people
of our country or religion but for people who may be different
from us in every aspect but in our thoughts.
- We should take care not to deliberately hurt sentiments or
defame others.
- We should keep the articles short and sweet - 400~500 words
is almost always a good length for both writer and reader.
- We should get to the point: tell readers right away what you
plan to write about.
- You should think of your angle and stick with it.
- We should write simply : a short word is always preferable
to a thesaurus inspired one.
- Be positive, specific, and decisive.
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| Buzz247 is a initiative for encouraging everyone to
express their un-censored thoughts - the good, the bad, the ugly and the
nasty, anything that is happening around us, anything that affects the world
and anything that we don't agree with others but cannot express freely in
front of others or do not get the platform to do so. |
| Objective of the website |
- To provide a platform where every individual can become a reporter
either by covering or commenting on events according to his/her
liking.
- To act as an alternative media by writing/questioning issues
that the main stream media have been highlighting as a part of
their daily coverage but have not raised any scathing,
thought-provoking questions.
- To allow readers from all parts of the world to bring
together the divergent cultural and geographical perspective
by publishing even very local stories about individual town
from own countries.
- To spread words of inspiration/experience with others if
experienced or witnessed.
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