What about fanfiction?

Liese S. "Buffistas Building a Better Board ++" Aug 19, 2005 8:24:57 am PDT

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This is along the same idea as Liese's suggestion, but I don't know how to do the table things, and the breakdown is a little different... Notes in parentheses wouldn't appear. They're just there to make it clear what's what.

(main page) COMMUNITY THREADS A community founded upon discussions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly, with humor, intelligence and obsessiveness. Read our FAQ, then join the fun.

• Natter
  
• UnAmerican
• Spike's Bitches
  
• Buffy and Angel
  
• Firefly
  
• The Minearverse
  
• F2F
  
• Sang Sacré
  

FOLDERS
We began as a single Buffy the Vampire Slayer discussion thread at Salon's Table Talk forum. When Salon went pay-for-play, we fled to World Crossing, while our resident techno-stars built the Phoenix. Not only have we risen from the ashes, we've grown exponentially, so we've added some organization, to help you if you're looking for Buffista discussion on other topics, as well. Take a look.

(folder) READIN’ and ‘RITIN’ and ‘RITHMATIC
If you read it, write it, or program it, look here for discussion.

• We're Literary
  
• The Buffista Book Club
  
• The Jossverse in Other
  
• The Great Write Way
  
• Buffista Fic
  
• Fan Fiction
  
• Buffistechnology
  

(folder) ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
If you hear it or watch it, look here for discussion.

• Buffista Music
  

(A&E subfolder) FILM

*Buffista Movies
*LotR
*Firefly Spoilers

(A&E subfolder) TV

*Boxed Set
*Lost
*Spoilers
*Spoilage Lite

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I like Liese's categories. I thought ita was still advocating a purely TV folder.

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I like Liese's categries, too. I will point out that Buffy and Angel were in a different folder from Natter at WX (and TT, for that matter, although for different reasons).

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I thought ita was still advocating a purely TV folder.

I only feel a need to organise the TV threads. They're the ones that grow (randomly to me -- I don't think it's so much "VM's like Buffy!" as much as "Buffistas like VM!" -- that's fine, but it's a bolt-on or modification to our original thesis, not a growth like Minearverse of Firefly (IMO, natch)). I don't see there being too many more movie or fiction related threads, so large with the not caring.

I don't see any logic behind putting Tech with the literary arts, Cindy. PDAs have nothing much to do with arithmetic, for most of their users.

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Oh, and the second part of my last post should have been, so I was thinking about categories from scratch and more broadly.

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I don't see any logic behind putting Tech with the literary arts, Cindy. PDAs have nothing much to do with arithmetic, for most of their users.

Me neither honestly, but I didn't see it as the essence of our community, and I was trying to organize the whole board, rather than just the TV. So, I figured it, like reading and writing, is something at which certain of our number are particularly adept.

Mostly, I was just tossing out another slant on the breakdown, to see if it either caught on, or spawned other ideas. I'll be so happy to find things more easily, I don't care how we folderize. I keep my subscriptions to a minimum, but I go outside them often, and the main page isn't my friend.

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The other thing about folders is that putting Buffy/Angel in a TV/Media folder is not an admission it's no longer important to us. The folders are primarily a table of contents, organized to include similar topics, to make it easier for folks who may not be familiar with the way the site works to find stuff. We know that the Buffy thread was a major factor in the community. Newcomers interested in Buffy may not. If they come here looking for Buffy and Firefly threads, I think their first inclination would be to look in the TV/Media folder, as opposed to the community folder.

For the folks who use the site all the time, the message center will still work exactly the same way. If you're still sibscribed, Buffy/Angel will be in exactly the same place.

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If they come here looking for Buffy and Firefly threads, I think their first inclination would be to look in the TV/Media folder, as opposed to the community folder.

I thought the idea was to have the community threads on a main page, and with folders for other discussions linked below. Maybe I got confused, somewhere.

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If we're considering the preferences of newcomers, how many new people have registered in the last, say, three months?

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