She's not just a blob of energy, she's also a 14-year-old hormone bomb.

Spike ,'The Killer In Me'


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.


-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.


DXMachina - Aug 19, 2005 11:25:32 am PDT #174 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

how many new people have registered in the last, say, three months?

Around 45.


§ ita § - Aug 19, 2005 11:26:40 am PDT #175 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


DXMachina - Aug 19, 2005 11:29:40 am PDT #176 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

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.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 19, 2005 11:33:07 am PDT #177 of 4671
What is even happening?

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.


§ ita § - Aug 19, 2005 11:37:16 am PDT #178 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

it's not going to make anything that much easier to find on the main page, imo.

If you categorise everything, there's nothing interesting on the front page. I think that doesn't do us much good.

If you categorise for TV, you lose about 5 threads, and prevent new threads from popping up there (I think it's the most likely area for new threads to be created). You can add 4 by including movies, and 8 more by rolling in the written word.

Anything more strikes me as over-organising.


Steph L. - Aug 19, 2005 11:39:54 am PDT #179 of 4671
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

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.

Me, too. Keeping the BTVS/Angel/Firefly threads in the Community folder out of sentimental feeling is not good organization. They're show(/movie) discussion threads, so not putting them in the same folder as the other show threads makes utterly no sense.


Amy - Aug 19, 2005 11:47:10 am PDT #180 of 4671
Because books.

I'm with Cindy and Steph here. But I, too, find a lot easier (and more fun) to cyber-organize than to do it anywhere else.

The front page is overwhelming to me. Especially since they change position all the time. Finding everything in the same place would make sense to me, since then the threads would only change position within their folders. (I think. I could be terribly wrong.)


§ ita § - Aug 19, 2005 11:53:24 am PDT #181 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I worry the organisation will leave you with one of those houses that's all white walls and open space and you're wondering if anyone lives here, and if so do they read or watch TV...

Metaphorically speaking.