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.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
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.
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
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
DXMachina - Aug 19, 2005 12:09:42 pm PDT #182 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I think we're only talking about two folders, one for stuff we watch and listen to, and one for stuff for stuff we read and write, with everything else staying where it is. That should neaten things up quite a bit.