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
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..?
So when we were trying without success to find a quote for the Voting Thread, how'd we miss this from
Serenity?
Wash: Um, can we take a vote on the murdering people?
About the categories, seriously, how about "Special Threads" and just one long category?
I mean, "Site Administration" contains five threads, and I would argue that three of them aren't anything to do with site administration.
"Tools and Archives", well, Michelle's explained her thinking, but is "Meijaville" a site Tool or Archive? Not if you take it to mean "Site Tools and Site Archives" it isn't.
There are Discussion Threads, so marked, and there are other, special threads. Any attempt to further categorise is just taking up space and space is what people are complaining about.
