madmanz123 t1_ithcgo7 wrote on October 23, 2022 at 5:36 PM

Reply to comment by ThunderySleep in Bucks County Doubles Down on LGBTQ+ Youth Support with Announcement of Second Rainbow Room by Open_Veins_8

>WYSIWYG

Yeah.. that's not how you determine if a site is legit or not. Lots of both locally run news org and even larger sites use a WP backend and also often use a RTE editor (no one uses the term WYSIWYG anymore, that's like 2000s lingo).

You don't need a print copy of a news org to be "legit" Also, what is legit these days? I lived in west philly, this site iss WP powered and not fancy, but it's also a legit news site: http://www.westphillylocal.com/ that was run by locals.

From the Beacon support page
"Your support of the Beacon is an investment in a progressive future for Bucks County – a future where we as a community continue to make strides in achieving social, economic, and racial justice with an environmentally sustainable future. "

Now you may not like the news it features and that's fine. But please stop spreading bullshit. Someone put it up, that someone is progressive/liberal. The fact they used a traditional newspaper name is not exactly a conspiracy theory as it is just something commonly done to look more pro. If you have a gripe to pick with an article and want to fact-check it fine, but jesus stop whining.

ThunderySleep t1_itknq6g wrote on October 24, 2022 at 10:47 AM

You're saying WP as though wordpress is the criticism.

Nobody is criticizing the use of wordpress. I'm pointing to the use of a WYSIWYG extension because wordpress is too complicated. And yes, this is a solid measure of legitimacy and professionalism.

Legit organizations with dozens and dozens of employees as this site's claiming to have don't operate on essentially a wix site with a broken homepage.

Furthermore, I didn't discover the WYSIWYG usage until deep into a discussion with OP trying to defend this scam site, when he linked his about page with a messy URL featuring the plug-in name.

The site was created this election cycle and is named and designed to suggest it's some long established regular local newspaper, despite being an activist site with 95% political content.

"bucks county beacon"? That's chosen to deceive readers into believing this is some regular long established local newspaper. Same with their logo designed like it's from 2002.

> If you have a gripe to pick with an article and want to fact-check it fine, but jesus stop whining.

Bud, you're chiming in trying to derail the discussion by pretending the critcism is the use of wordpress.

No one is criticising the use of wordpress. This site has a barely-functioning homepage with images that don't consistently load, a mess of broken carousels, built using a WYSIWYG. The site doesn't even appear in the top three SERPs for "local news bucks county". Buckscountybeacon is a misleading site, disguised as an established local newspaper. The very first article I clicked on turned out to be republished content from elsewhere.

It's a scam site. One that you're being disingenuous in defending, by trying to pretend the criticism is over the use of WP. The first time someone pointed to it might have been from skimming. The second time after I explained this says you're not being honest here.