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.
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
'Heart Of Gold'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
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
Michele T. - Mar 21, 2003 8:11:52 pm PST #8718 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
billytea - Mar 21, 2003 9:06:53 pm PST #8719 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2003 9:12:52 pm PST #8720 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When you call it announcements and amusements I realise I agree with Michele. COMM is great fun, but it's not the same.
P.M. Marc - Mar 21, 2003 9:14:23 pm PST #8721 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
John H - Mar 21, 2003 9:37:05 pm PST #8722 of 10001
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".
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2003 9:40:28 pm PST #8723 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
John H - Mar 21, 2003 9:42:22 pm PST #8724 of 10001
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..?
brenda m - Mar 21, 2003 10:01:22 pm PST #8725 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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?
John H - Mar 21, 2003 10:08:48 pm PST #8726 of 10001
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.
Liese S. - Mar 21, 2003 10:09:29 pm PST #8727 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I'm with Michele. I like the sidebar thread order as is. It appeals to my sense of order and urgency. I wouldn't mind if we shortened slugs to make Jen and others happy.