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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
And anybody who says otherwise is WRONG. Wronger than a hot tub full of Henry Kissinger.
Ooo. Plot bunny. OOO! And I can loop it in with my "The Kid Stays in the Picture" idea. Thanks, Betsy!
Ahem.
Sections?
Announcements and Amusements
Administrative Issues
Archive and Quick Links.
T.C. Boyle wrote a funny short story slashing Mamie Eisenhower with Kruschev. I guess that's technically not slash, however. But it was RPS.
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RPS is Real People Slash. RPF is Real People Fic.
We now return you to your regularly-scheduled discussion.
As the person who arranged the threads in the first place, let me explain what the reasoning is.
The top bunch are meant to be urgent matters, the things people will need to know about the running of the community in order to be fully informed members of the community.
The bottom bunch are meant to be pointers to archives, discussions, and things that make accessing some of the content on the board easier. The top bunch are about running the community -- the bottom bunch are about the things that make the community fun.
I do not think COMM is "a must-read." It's cute, it's funny, I read it sometimes, but suggesting that it's more important than Better Board? I'm really, really against that.
Plus, change the name of the Voting Thread to something short (and all the names of the right-column threads were meant to be short) and give it a short slug, and the "problem" goes away.
Wronger than a hot tub full of Henry Kissinger.
I would just like it noted here that once you have the concepts 'hot tub' and 'Henry Kissinger', 'full of' becomes rather redundant. And yes, I am specifically thinking of Bad Girls.
When you call it announcements and amusements I realise I agree with Michele. COMM is great fun, but it's not the same.
When you call it announcements and amusements I realise I agree with Michele. COMM is great fun, but it's not the same
So we tighten things, it comes back above the fold, and all is well.
what do we call the sections?
Why do we have sections? Why do the sections have labels? We all know that those threads are, and the somewhat-arbitrary labels and distinctions between them are just taking up space.
Let's just put them all in one column called "other".
We all know that those threads are
A good UI isn't just about the people who can use it blind. I don't think the distinction *or* the labels are arbitrary. I might make a separate one for announcements and put press and beep into it, but that's all.
A good UI isn't just about the people who can use it blind
OK fair enough, but do you honestly think someone could ever come along and understand it from scratch the way it is?
I was just being a radical, but if the designer of something has to explain it..?