'Harm's Way'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
It's just that we've never done it before. I don't think it's needed, myself.
I kind of like it. If a person uses 'Read New' to make their way around this place, they could theoretically never know a new thread's been created. (Less of an issue with continuations, presumably, but we do occasionally get new topics.) Having the announcements in a single thread might be not such a bad idea.
My reflex is that if one navigates by read new exclusively, then one doesn't care (edit: much). Continuations are linked at the ends of threads, new threads are discussed and named and announced here.
I navigate by read new exclusively, and I care quite a bit!
It's just that we've never done it before.
Errr.... I did it last week for the Secret Santa thread: Jon B "Sunnydale Press" Dec 9, 2002 3:11:03 pm EST
I navigate by read new exclusively, and I care quite a bit!
But you read here, so you know when a new thread is created. I assumed that people who cared when new threads come about would read where they're created, or scan the list periodically.
Otherwise it's an inefficient sort of caring, bound for disappointment.
Jon, why don't we pretend we're having this discussion last week, then. I must have skimmed past (and, sue me, I do, sometimes, but I didn't know I'd be missing board-specific announcements by doing so. I thought those were here).
Jon, why don't we pretend we're having this discussion last week, then.
Sorry, that came out snottier than I intended. Like I said, I bow to consensus, but since thread creation is a rare occurence, I think announcements about them might be missed here. In Press, not so much.
But you read here, so you know when a new thread is created.
But someone who comes just for, say, discussion of Buffy, and never reads administrivia threads except SP-- they might think, Hey, it's a LotR thread! I'd like to check that out, and we'd then benefit from their finding about the new thread.
Unless they're a total prat. But whatever.
But someone who comes just for, say, discussion of Buffy, and never reads administrivia threads except SP
Well, yeah, and if they don't read SP? Then what do we do for them? I figured if you wanted to know what's happening with thread creation, you'd come to the thread where it happens.
I guess all I ask is that they're double posted since while they may not not belong there, they do belong here, and on a day with any busyness, I'm not going to notice them there, just here. Moving them from here bothers me more than duplication. Which does bother me, mind.
Well, yeah, and if they don't read SP?
Well, then, they're sunk; but this thread can log a lot of daily posts. I can imagine a situation where someone didn't want to read it, because they decided they wanted to use their Buffista-ing time for less meta-Buffista discussion.
But they might still subscribe to SP, because that way they could get the news if there was anything major to know about (and I'd call thread-creation major, but that's just me), natter-free.
t edit I do think news of thread-creation should be posted both here and in SP, but since any thread creation I can recall to memory right now was accompanied by at least a little bit of discussion here, I can't think of a scenario where an admin would just up and decide to create a new thread, so I can't really see how it's applicable.
But you read here, so you know when a new thread is created. I assumed that people who cared when new threads come about would read where they're created, or scan the list periodically. Otherwise it's an inefficient sort of caring, bound for disappointment.
I don't think that's necessarily true. We have the odd few Buffistas who, due to work pressures or such like, simply don't get to post here as much as they'd like, and when they do they have to make the most efficient use of their postage.
Plus, people who might feel a bit more peripheral (eg only post as a rule in the show threads or certain non-NAFDA discussions or such like) should be reasonably served by the set-up here too.
I guess my basic feeling is that threads don't get created very often, such messages aren't likely to clog the Sunnydale Press, and there may well be certain community subsets for whom it's useful.