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
I think we'd want to have a "recc'd by Rebecca Lizard", "recced by PMM" , recced by Susan W. sort of thing, because, while we all usually like well-written fanfic, we like divergent fanfic.
Oh yes. I was thinking in terms of also having written a tiny blurb about the piece-- you know, also mentioning the time/place it was set, the pairings unless it's considered a spoiler for the piece, any reservations you may have ("This is one of the best Spike-with-a-soul pieces I've seen in ages-- but the Willow voice almost made me close the window"). That sort of thing.
I do like the idea of a "recommended by (Buffista)" blurb along with a little bit about why the recommender recommended that piece. I would find that a lot more useful than just a link that leads off into the unknown.
Our current links page does do that -- it says who added the link, and there is a blurb. I mean, I guess if people want to do an extensive fanfiction recs page, that could go somewhere different...I dunno.
I just don't want to put the recs on the links page, since it could quickly overwhelm the page (see BBaBB).
I need to email allyson about the present-- is she allyson@fury.net or allyson@davidfury.net?
My reflex is that the recommended fanfiction should point to rec pages or to archives.
I agree. Pointing to the stories themselves isn't really a good idea -- links change, etc. And, yes, the list could become far too long for the purposes of the Buffista Links page.
Y'know, I could maintain a recs page if we wanted to have one.
Snerk. And here I thought I was the one who continually volunteered for insanely huge projects. There's the site design, deciding what content to present and how to present it, chasing down umpteen-bajillion dead links when people move or redesign their site structure...
I'd like to mention that although I will be attempting to learn PHP/MySQL, that doesn't necessarily mean I'll be any good at it. And even if I am, I kind of have way too many website projects to be considered reliable ita-backup. Unless I finally figure out how to get by without sleeping.
