'Destiny'
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
The Natter abstract would be very cool. I tend to use a variety of the John H diet myself. Read the page where I left off then the last couple pages. If I am substantially confused about the current topic I use the search function to find the beginning of the discussion.
I try not to skip in the Bitches and NAFDA threads unless I am out of town or something. Natter is impossible for me to not skip. Hours in the day issue.
Heh. See, the only reason I can keep up in natter (long as I have to make my catchups because of the number of posts I read at a time) is because I tend to NOT keep up in the show threads...
It is a shame there is no way to do an automated Natter abstract. But if ita or Jon had an AI algorithm that good, they would be selling it for large amounts of money. As it is, we need a volunteer with lots of spare time.
Didn't we talk about dividing Natter up into blocks of time? One person recaps Natter from noon to 3 on Wednesdays, another has it from seven to ten on Fridays, and so on.
Natter recaps would be too dang labor intensive, wouldn't they?
Natter recaps would be too dang labor intensive, wouldn't they?
Also, I don't want to be recapped. I'm not comfortable with the idea, myself.
Maybe it's just me, but I think that COMM catches most of the highlights. And frankly, if you disagree, it just means you need to post more highlights there yourself!
I agree with Burrell. Though I hate to skip and skim, I find it's a neccessity at times. Between Beep Me, COMM, and the Press thread, I find you don't miss the important personal news, and the really funny bits. If you walked into a party late, you wouldn't make your friends recap everything that passed, you'd just get them to hit the highlights, and we have that. I think you either have to committ to catching up, or make peace with the fact that you're skipping.
I think you are right. Press, Beep Me, Comm and the last 50 posts in natter give a pretty good catchup.
Other thoughts about the FAQ/How-To document:
"How do you do fake HTML?" is rapidly becoming a FAQ, so I think the t quick-edit should be added to that section. But then I think that the rest of the html-y stuff could come out of the FAQ, since it's all in the How-To. I'd also like the How-To include everything that's allowed, not just a sample -- it's a relatively short list, right?
So, here's what I'm thinking to go into the FAQ:
Every time I try to use fake HTML, it disappears! What can I do?
We have only allowed certain HTML tags to be used in posts here, so anything else between carats gets stripped out. For fake HTML tags, use our awesome Quick Edit code: start a new line with "t," then what you want between carats, like this:
. t /obsessive [uh, someone can do the thing so that works as a demo without the period, right?]
becomes this:
t /obsessive
Not that we ever turn off the obsessive tag.
The complete list of what's allowed is here.
(Edited to add that Sheryl's post was what got me started thinking about this anyway, so pretty links should definitely be in the how-to, also. I'm seeing the how-to as incorporating all the technical ins and outs.)