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
Should we be announcing some of this "how to conserve board resources" over in Press? Because I had no idea until today that leaving the message center up was a problem, nor that it would be better if I meara'ed, nor that I should set my posts per page count higher.
I don't think these things don't make a lot of difference. They're like writing on both sides of your Post-It notes to conserve resources, while some bug is causing your printer to print 24-7. I wouldn't want people to feel guilty for not doing them. As with conservation, what will work is changing the system, not asking people to go against the flow.
Dare you.
Triple dog dare?
At the Bronze, to conserve bandwidth for people with slow connections, there was a huge effort put forth to stamp out wasteful posts. A post with just a shout out, put on the board five or six times, was contentless. Numberslutting was a waste of valuable board space. Four posts per hour was the rule (which wouldn't work in a non-linear format, but hey, if you've got nothing funny to say, go pitch to Leno).
Some of these things, "Timelies all! I'm here to poke the thread!" can be discouraged. Getting the word out? Hard. We'd need to put a bigass banner on the page explaining the sitch, and asking folks to curb their refreshes, at the least.
Go ahead and toss, ita. We won't mind. We can slog and you can slog and we can all slog together.
there was a huge effort put forth to stamp out wasteful posts. A post with just a shout out, put on the board five or six times, was contentless. Numberslutting was a waste of valuable board space.
I would guess that changing the
system
to allow only four posts per hour had a much greater effect than encouraging people not to do these things.
Well, we tend to have good manners.
I think if we asked (prominently) to eliminate certain things people would do so readily. It would be like spoiler policy-- everyone knows it and newbies occasionally need to be told.
I agree with Trudy on this. I think Buffistas value the board enough that they would be willing to think harder before posting and give up or consolidate some threads.
How about adding a note where Autorefresh was?
"We're sorry, autorefresh has been disabled for further study. Please move your mouse in an upward direction and select refresh/reload in your browser when a refresh is desired. Thank you - Buffista board admins."
or
"Auto Refresh is currently disabled. Thank you - Buffista board admins."
Nilly can put "please e-mail your congratulations" on her announcements for a while, for example.
Scrappy is Wise and big hugs could go back chanel as well.
I've been thinking about things I do that could be adding to the problem, and I came up with two other suggestions I think might help lighten the load.
a) don't post just to tell people "insent".
b) don't make plans on the board to see people local to you.
I know that there are times when doing one or the other is going to be necessary, but if we encourage people not to do it unless they need to, it would lighten the load.
