Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.

Xander ,'Lessons'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


Jesse - Aug 19, 2005 10:57:08 am PDT #164 of 4671
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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


DXMachina - Aug 19, 2005 11:01:52 am PDT #165 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

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).


§ ita § - Aug 19, 2005 11:06:16 am PDT #166 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Jesse - Aug 19, 2005 11:06:17 am PDT #167 of 4671
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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


Topic!Cindy - Aug 19, 2005 11:13:04 am PDT #168 of 4671
What is even happening?

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.


DXMachina - Aug 19, 2005 11:14:29 am PDT #169 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

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.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 19, 2005 11:17:31 am PDT #170 of 4671
What is even happening?

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.


bon bon - Aug 19, 2005 11:20:47 am PDT #171 of 4671
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

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


-t - Aug 19, 2005 11:21:08 am PDT #172 of 4671
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That makes perfect sense, DX. And yet, my twitch remains.

This TV folder idea is going to turn me into an anti-proliferationist, isn't it?

Oh, wait, I just thought of something that makes me feel better. Could we call it "Show Threads" rather than TV?


DXMachina - Aug 19, 2005 11:23:05 am PDT #173 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

The community threads would be on the front page, but I think I'd still skim past them and click on TV if I was looking for Buffy talk.

I'd put Tech in community as a community service thread.