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.
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.
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.
If we're considering the preferences of newcomers, how many new people have registered in the last, say, three months?
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?
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.
I'd put Tech in community as a community service thread.
They're all sorta that, though, aren't they? I'm not feeling a need (or seeing the pros) to categorising everything. Media and not-media works for me, with not-media on the front page.
Bon, let me check on that for you.
They're all sorta that, though, aren't they?
Yeah, but Tech gets far more posts that start out "Can someone help me?" than probably any other thread except When Come Back.
I'm not feeling a need (or seeing the pros) to categorising everything.
I think it will be sloppy if we don't, and if we still have a huge list, and just separate out the few TV threads we have, it's not going to make anything that much easier to find on the main page, imo.
