I'm for an update. You could just say something like "we have a helpful FAQ". IME people who will read the FAQ will read it, and people who won't won't, regardless of whether you tell them to. So maybe just letting people know it's there is enough.
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'Lessons'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
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.
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Zenkitty - Jan 19, 2014 1:56:56 am PST #5575 of 6786
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Jesse - Jan 19, 2014 4:23:37 am PST #5576 of 6786
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There is no way that even a wholesale updating of that FAQ would be necessary for someone to do before posting. I have no problem with it as a document, I just don't want to tell people to read it before posting. And updating is a huge task that various people have tried to take on without success.
Beverly - Jan 19, 2014 9:53:04 am PST #5577 of 6786
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
"If you're interested in the history of the community, you might want to take a look at the FAQ."?
Jessica - Jan 19, 2014 9:56:31 am PST #5578 of 6786
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The FAQ was originally useful for letting people decode our show-based lingo - at least half of it is explaining characters' nicknames. Now that we're a general-purpose internet community, I don't feel like that sort of thing comes up as often.
That said, I love the FAQ and read the whole thing last night and then got sucked into the BRQG for like an hour when I should have been sleeping. So I don't want it to go anywhere, but I'm not sure it's a necessary prereq for understanding any of the conversations happening now.
Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2014 11:06:45 am PST #5579 of 6786
brillig
How does the BRQG get updated?
aurelia - Jan 19, 2014 7:19:41 pm PST #5580 of 6786
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Perhaps it should say "Read our site etiquette" instead of FAQ.
SuziQ - Jan 19, 2014 9:00:32 pm PST #5581 of 6786
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Do we need to put this up for a vote? Or can the description be adjusted as described? What is the next step?
Jon B. - Jan 20, 2014 5:51:30 am PST #5582 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I just checked the code and that subheader is hard-coded into the index.php page. I'd rather not change it without ita's go-ahead.
meara - Jan 20, 2014 5:26:16 pm PST #5583 of 6786
Is ita ever coming back? Its so weird without her.
DavidS - Jan 20, 2014 5:36:53 pm PST #5584 of 6786
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is ita ever coming back? Its so weird without her.
Yeah. I mean, I recognize her prerogative in this matter, but I do miss her a lot.